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Weekly FIRGUN Newsletter – March 7 2025

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Anthropic has just raised $3.5bn in a round at a post-money valuation of $61.5bn. and team Grain on coming out of stealth with $50M in funding ($33M series A and previously undisclosed seed) to help any business hedge against FX volatility! NEW APPOINTMENTS Big congrats Iren Reznikov on joining Vintage Investment Partners as a Partner!

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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(Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. credit App Annie. social media.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – December 6 2024

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Despite the war, Israels technology industry presented record figures for mergers and acquisitions according to a new report from Vintage Investment Partners. Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M We must # BRINGTHEMHOME NOW. M&A deals set a new peak this year of $10.5 billion in 2021.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – November 22 2024

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Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! We have to support each other and don’t forget that there’s people that need our help. seed round to accelerate drug discovery and development with AI!

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The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

In the last six months quantum computing companies IonQ , D-Wave and Rigetti went public at valuations close to a billion and half dollars. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution can distribute keys between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel. Quantum Timing.

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – March 14 2025

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Freepik partnered with Google to integrate Veo 2 , and now it supports image-to-video. valuation to complete the acquisition of PayU ! Well done Guy Flechter and team Sola Security on coming out of stealth with $30M in seed funding to offer cybersecurity protection to small and medium businesses! ” Arthur C.

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 21 2025

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The valuation of Safe Superintelligence Inc. ElevenLabs partnered with Spotify to launch AI voice audiobooks, competing with Audible. billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? Perplexity also open sourced DeepSeek R1 version without Chinese censorship.