$100M ARR in 21 months🚀, Unicorns Are Desperate for Cash⚠️, B2B Full-Funnel Strategies That Work 🎯

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In-Depth Insights 🔍

• Silicon Valley Unicorns Are Desperate for Cash ⚠️
  Late-stage startups are in a funding drought, and it’s reshaping the entire VC landscape. Who’s still writing checks—and who’s running on fumes? [Katie Roof]

• The Founder-Led LinkedIn Guide 📢👥
  How the smartest founders use LinkedIn to build their brand, attract investors, and scale faster—without sounding like a corporate drone. [Alexander Estner & Ivan Peric]

  

• An Interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi 🚖
  Uber is playing a long game. In this exclusive interview, Dara Khosrowshahi breaks down where Uber is headed next. [Ben Thompson]

• B2B Marketing: Full-Funnel Strategies That Work 🎯
  Tactics, tools, and battle-tested strategies to turn cold leads into paying customers—and keep them.

  

• The Ultimate Marketing Ideas List 📝
  A high-signal, zero-BS list of marketing plays that work right now—no fluff, no theory, just execution.

  

• How Startups Close Big Deals 🤝
  Early-stage founders on how they landed 7- and 8-figure enterprise contracts—and the mistakes they made along the way.

  

• Making Sense of Revenue Metrics for Startups 📊
  LTV, CAC, ARR, churn—which ones actually matter? A deep dive into the revenue KPIs you should obsess over at every stage of growth.

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Trending News ⚡

• Elon Musk’s xAI in Talks to Raise $10B at a $75B Valuation 💰
  Musk’s AI startup xAI is reportedly raising $10B—positioning itself as a major rival to OpenAI.

• Robotics Startup Figure AI Eyes $39.5B Valuation 💵
  Investors are doubling down on humanoid robotics, with Figure AI leading the charge.

• Meta Plans Major AI Investments in Humanoid Robots 🤖
  Leaked documents reveal Meta’s aggressive AI-powered robotics push—another bold bet from Zuckerberg.

• Cybersecurity Firm SailPoint Raises $13.8B in U.S. IPO 📈
  Identity security is big business, and SailPoint’s IPO proves it. A multibillion-dollar play in a red-hot sector.

• Paris AI Summit Sparks a European Startup Investment Boom 📊
  France is making its move. Major investors are pouring capital into European AI startups after the Paris AI Summit.

• EU Unveils Multibillion-Dollar AI Initiative to Boost Innovation 🚀
  The European Union is launching a massive AI funding initiative—because falling behind OpenAI isn’t an option.

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Social Media Gems 💎

• Small Teams Are the Future 🚀
  AI-powered startups are scaling to massive ARR with shockingly small teams. The new era of lean, high-efficiency startups is here.

  

• The AI You Want vs. The Data You Have 📊💩
  AI might be the future, but garbage data = garbage results. Eduardo Ordax delivers a brutal (but hilarious) reality check.

  

• Netflix’s $50M Offer That Blockbuster Laughed At 🎥
  25 years ago, Netflix offered itself to Blockbuster for just $50M—and got laughed out of the room. Today? Netflix is worth $452 Billion. A masterclass in betting on the future.

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New Funds 💰

• Greenfield Partners closes $400M in new capital to fuel European tech investments.

• NextView Ventures is raising up to $135M for its sixth fund, doubling down on early-stage startups.

• NaturalX Health Ventures secures €100M to back digital health and biotech innovations.

• Antler announces the close of its second Nordic fund at $100M to support early-stage founders.

• Fahraeus Startup & Growth secures €75M to fund high-growth startups in Europe.

• Coatue Management closes approximately $249M for its second ClimateTech fund, pushing sustainability-focused innovation.

• z21 Ventures announces a $20M first close of its $40M Fund II, backed by WestBridge Capital.

• venBio secures $528M to invest in life sciences innovation.

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That’s a wrap for this week.

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