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GUIDES How to Value a Pre-Revenue Startup When There Is No Revenue
There's no line of revenue to multiply, so investors and founders fall back on a handful of proven frameworks, Berkus, scorecard, VC method, and comparables, to put a number on a company that only exists as a pitch deck and a team.Every founder raising a pre-seed round eventually hits the same wall. A buyer will pay a multiple of revenue or EBITDA for an established business. A pre-revenue startup...
Julian Lim
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How to Value a Pre-Revenue Startup When There Is No Revenue
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AI Trump Administration Weighs a Ban on Chinese AI Models Like Kimi K3
Axios reports the Trump administration is weighing new restrictions on Chinese open-source AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, pursuing Entity List designations and procurement rules rather than an outright ban. White House adviser David Sacks has publicly pushed back, warning the approach could make American AI less competitive.
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Trump Administration Weighs a Ban on Chinese AI Models Like Kimi K3
Nvidia Pushes AI Agents Deeper Into 3D Design Tools at SIGGRAPH 2026
Nvidia expanded its Agent Toolkit at SIGGRAPH 2026 with new Omniverse libraries that let AI agents build and inspect simulation-ready 3D worlds on their own. The move, paired with a new Cosmos Reason model for robotics, signals Nvidia climbing the software stack as cheap open-weight models pressure the chip layer below it.
Moonshot's Bet on a Bigger Kimi K3 Is Paying Off in China's AI Race
Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 topped a coding leaderboard ahead of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, then forced the company to pause new...
5 min 575 views Elroy Fernandes
Moonshot's Bet on a Bigger Kimi K3 Is Paying Off in China's AI Race
Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on CuspAI
CuspAI, a Cambridge AI-for-materials-discovery startup, raised a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, with Jeff Bezos's family office an...
5 min 607 views Walter Schulze
Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on CuspAI
Google Shares Rise After Report of a Chip Designed Around Gemini
Alphabet shares rose as much as 2% after The Information reported Google is developing Frozen V2, a chip that embeds Gemini's architecture directly in...
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Google Shares Rise After Report of a Chip Designed Around Gemini
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