AI sales startup Clay launches its second employee tender offer in under nine months, valuing it at $5B, up from $3.1B in August and $1.5B in its May 2025 offer
Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $11.27B, vs. $10.79B est., handsets revenue up 14% YoY to $6.96B, a $3.1B net loss, and projects Q1 revenue above est.
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Microsoft's OpenAI investment resulted in a $3.1B hit to Q1 net income; Productivity and Business Processes revenue, with Office and LinkedIn, grew 17% to $33B
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/ m... Robert Evans / @iwriteok : silicon valley investors: for the low one-time price of $5 billion i promise to lose you significantly less than $11.5 billion a quarter...
Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank
Bloomberg :
Microsoft says it is giving the US GSA $6B+ in potential savings on Office, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more over three years, including $3.1B in the first year
Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year …
Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech to cloud providers and AI companies, raised a $100M Series B at a $3.1B valuation
and the future of real-time creative AI just got a whole lot closer. … Decart : We've raised $100M to scale real-time, interactive AI. — Our Live Stream Diffusion is proof of what's possible - a new...
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., net income up 16% YoY to $642M, and warns revenue growth may moderate in H2 2025; ABNB drops 6%+
Airbnb Inc. shares slid in Thursday trading after the short-term rental company warned that sales growth may moderate in the second half of the year.
NYC-based sales automation startup Clay raised $100M led by CapitalG at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025, and expects $100M in revenue in 2025
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times :
Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024
Paige Smith / Bloomberg :
CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, vs. $2.7B in Q1 2024, $1.4B in Q1 2023, and $5.7B in Q1 2022
Funding is expanding beyond AI showing diverse innovation — What sectors do you think will lead this growth …