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Stripe, Databricks And Anduril Top PitchBook's Next Big Secondary Trades

Blockbuster names like OpenAI and Anthropic may still dominate the venture secondary market, while SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) has until recently been another major source of investor demand. But as those companies move closer to the public markets, a new group of private startups is emerging as the next potential drivers of…

Benzinga

OpenAI’s $1 Trillion IPO Ambition Faces New Timing Test as Anthropic Gains Ground

OpenAI may be pushing back its public debut as it weighs whether market conditions can support its reported goal of a $1 trillion valuation. The company confidentially filed draft IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators last month, but subsequent reports suggest it could wait until 2027 before going public.

Benzinga

Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet's business model

Multiple cyber firms agree: bots outnumber humans online, challenging advertising, analytics and security systems designed around human visitors.

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In 2026 so far, U.S. VCs have deployed a record-shattering $412.7 billion. Almost none of it is trickling down.

In the first half of 2026, U.S. VCs deployed $412.7 billion, a record that surpasses the full year of 2025 by 30%, according to PitchBook’s new report.

Fortune

SpaceX’s IPO Hasn’t Solved Venture’s Bigger Problem: Liquidity Beyond The Mega Winners

SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO gave venture investors a rare liquidity win in 2026, but it also exposed what one expert called "the biggest contradiction in the VC market so far this year": value creation is accelerating, yet liquidity remains concentrated among only a handful of companies.

Benzinga

The defense tech boom has become a bubble—or it will be soon

Defense tech was once considered, at best, a fringe area for traditional VCs. Now, there could be a bubble.

Fortune

Why BlackRock, Nvidia, and Temasek are betting billions on quantum computing

Geopolitical competition and meaningful exits are convincing Wall Street the technology may finally be nearing its moment.

Fortune

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Nurseries, vets and shops: the sectors where private equity plays a big role

Private equity has a significant stake in many day-to-day services across the UK – including essentials such as elderly care and funerals

The Guardian - UK

As mega-funds grab 72% of all capital raised, the gap between VC's haves and have-nots keeps widening

PitchBook's midyear data shows an increasingly skewed VC ecosystem.

Fortune

The key disclosures missing from SpaceX’s S-1

PitchBook points out SpaceX’s S-1 doesn’t get as granular as you might hope on some key metrics.

Fortune

StepStone Group Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) reported record fee-related earnings and fundraising in its fiscal fourth quarter 2026, even as GAAP results were weighed down by accounting related to its StepStone Private Wealth profits interests. The private markets investment firm reported a GAAP net loss attribut

MarketBeat

DeepSeek and China’s AI boom are increasingly powered by state money

Government-linked investors in China went from backing fewer than 10 AI deals annually before 2018 to more than 140 in 2025, reshaping who controls the future of AI.

Fortune

War, drones, and the energy reckoning: How the Iran war is reshaping tech investment

The Iran war is turning autonomous systems and energy resilience into key investment themes.

TechRadar

Musk’s path to $1 trillion: SpaceX files for IPO, reports say

Elon Musk’s space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing — a blockbuster offering that would likely rank among the largest ever and could make its founder the world’s first trillionaire.

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Fortune

The ‘death of SaaS’ could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A

While public software multiples compress, private dealmakers are feasting. 2025 was the biggest year for enterprise SaaS M&A since 2021—and the chaos isn't over yet.

Fortune

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could be 3 of the biggest venture-backed IPOs of all time

If all three went public it could “conceivably create more value than all VC-backed IPOs since 2000 have collectively.”

Fortune

AI is reviving tech sectors that VCs had all but forgotten

PitchBook data shows early-stage money surging back into healthtech, cybersecurity, biotech, and SaaS.

Fortune

Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion last year—but Anthropic and Scale AI skewed the data

Two-thirds of every U.S. venture dollar going to female-founded startups last year flowed into AI, Pitchbook finds

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Why the exploding secondaries market is hard to pin down

New PitchBook data estimates that in 2025, somewhere between $62.5 billion to $120.9 billion were traded in U.S. direct secondaries.

Barchart

Deep Discounts: 4 Stocks Screaming ‘Value’ at 52-Week Lows

The bulls have taken over. On Tuesday, 625 stocks on the NYSE and Nasdaq hit new 52-week highs, nearly four times the number of stocks hitting new 52-week lows. Four of the new 52-week lows scream “value.” Here’s why.

Fortune

Private equity exit value surged to almost $730 billion in 2025, per PitchBook

PitchBook data shows private equity exit value surged, even as fundraising struggled.

Fortune

2025 U.S. VC deal value soared to $339.4 billion, says PitchBook. But there’s a catch.

2025 U.S. VC deal value soared to $339.4 billion, not far from 2021 highs of $358.2 billion, PitchBook data shows. But most of that money is going to a handful of deals.

Axios

What to know about the world's great climate collapse

"We've gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it," S&P Global's Dan Yergin says.

Fortune

A SpaceX IPO could be the largest public offering of all time—and Elon Musk's biggest headache

Musk’s space company had avoided much of the scrutiny, criticism, and regulatory burden that comes with going public.

Fortune

How Screendoor became a key signal for emerging VC talent

Screendoor has become a crucial LP amid the difficult emerging manager landscape.

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