Cory Weinberg

OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...

Sierra Space reached for the stars but never got off the ground. The privately held company burned through much of the $1.7 billion it raised in large part to build a space plane for NASA called Dream Chaser that has never flown into orbit. Now Sierra is seeking about $300 million in fresh ...

Palantir’s sales to U.S. businesses hit $397 million in the third quarter, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations and growing 121% compared to the previous year,  the company reported Monday. The U.S. commercial growth was a highlight of continued breakneck growth for Palantir, which has been the stock market’s best-performing software company and neared a $500 billion market capitalization

Brazilian fintech CloudWalk, a business payments startup, passed $1.2 billion in annualized revenue in September, about double the revenue pace from the same time last year, a person familiar with the matter said. The company, backed by DST Global and Coatue Management, recently completed a tender offer valuing it at $3 billion, another person said.  Investors included Marathon Management

SoftBank Group said Wednesday it had purchased the robotics division of Swiss industrial conglomerate ABB for $5.4 billion, the latest big push for the Japanese firm into robotics. SoftBank will have to turn around the division. ABB said last quarter it generated about $813 million in revenue from “robotics and discrete automation” last quarter, down about 2% a year due to tariff uncertainty

Greetings from Los Angeles, where I’ve taken up a new residence after a cross-country road trip from New York.During a tour of a defunct U.S. Steel mill in Pittsburgh and a visit to the uranium boom-and-bust town of Moab, Utah, I spent time thinking about the technology that has reshaped ...

In recent weeks, Meta Platforms made a change to its Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research lab that rubbed members of the group the wrong way: FAIR, as the group is known, would have to undergo additional review of its research before publishing it, according to two people familiar with ...

How do early-stage venture capitalists pick which unproven founders to back? Most don’t overcomplicate things. Backing a Stanford University computer science grad or an early OpenAI employee often seems like a good bet. Some VCs even use AI to score early startups based on their technical ...

The biggest stars of MLB, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, are taking the field on day one of the playoffs this evening. The league’s attendance and TV ratings are up. America’s pastime, often left for dead, has proven to be good business for its ...

This week’s biggest business headlines should convince you: One of the most interesting non-founders in tech or finance is Silver Lake’s Egon Durban.First, the under-the-radar tech investor squeezed into the middle of the Trump administration’s deal to split TikTok from its Chinese parent ...

Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn’t expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The ...

You’ll sometimes find signs of the times buried in companies’ bland corporate charters. The latest example: A growing number of startups that raised venture capital this year have issued a type of stock designed to make it easier for founders to sell some of their stakes.Nearly 11% of companies ...

Silicon Valley royalty are set to be the big winners from Figma’s initial public offering this week. Former Meta and Google executive Sheryl Sandberg, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins are all turning modest investments into ...

Ramp, a six-year-old corporate card and expense management startup, is in discussions with investors to raise $350 million at a valuation of about $21 billion with the investment, according to three people with direct knowledge of the fundraising, just a month after raising at a $16 billion ...

Figure Technology Solutions, a startup that makes home loans on its blockchain and runs a crypto exchange, is planning to go public this fall, Figure co-founder Mike Cagney said. Figure is part of a wave of crypto companies taking advantage of a more crypto-friendly White House and surging ...

The artificial intelligence dealmaking frenzy over the past few weeks is shifting Silicon Valley norms and creating wealth at a pace and scale we’ve never seen before. One theme is becoming clear: These AI deals are all about speed, and speed can make things messy.The latest example was Google ...

The investment bankers in the middle of the trillion-dollar data center boom are working on their next play: capital recycling.Private equity firms and real estate funds that invest in new artificial intelligence data centers will eventually need cash returns from their investments. Some of the ...

Meta Platforms is in advanced talks to hire the prominent artificial intelligence investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to help lead its AI efforts, according to a person familiar with the discussions. As part of those talks, Meta is in discussions about partially buying out Friedman and Gross ...

Liquid Death has been looking to raise up to $20 million in fresh cash, as the longtime initial public offering hopeful looks to expand its production capacity and keep its drink lineup stocked in stores. The canned water and tea startup has been pitching the fundraise in the form of a ...

The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...