General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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Ithaca Holdings agreed to buy Bumble for $1.3bn, and directors Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will replace founder Whitney Wolfe Herd as co-CEOs. Wolfe Herd says she will stay involved, though the BBC reports her role is unclear.
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Blackstone-backed AirTrunk has delayed a Singapore REIT IPO of about $1.5 billion until next year, according to people familiar with the matter. One account blames a chip rout, the other US rate rises; the yield points to rates.
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Huskeys' new Profiling beta maps the web endpoints a business depends on
Huskeys, an edge security startup that has raised $35 million, put Profiling into beta to map the web endpoints a business depends on. It says results show up within hours, but the promise of fewer blocked customers is so far its own argument.
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Ithaca Holdings is in advanced talks to take Bumble private at roughly $1 billion, a source told Reuters on Oct. 12. The stock jumped about 52% to $3.86 and still values the company at only 59% of that price, by our math.
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Nvidia-backed data centre operator Firmus has withdrawn its Australian stock market listing, citing market volatility, and will seek private capital instead. The offer was meant to raise up to US$5.5 billion for GPUs at an Indonesian site, the Straits Times reported, so that capacity now depends on a private round still in talks.
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Firmus Grid scrapped its Australian IPO after investors balked at a $30 billion valuation, Mint reported. Listed rival CoreWeave is still worth $37 billion, so the sources show a failed price more clearly than a failed sector.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan, its first debt financing, with Goldman Sachs as sole lead bookrunner. Waymo said proceeds will fund expansion in the US and abroad. The rate, maturity and collateral were not published.
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SpaceX is seeking $40 billion from Apollo and banks for Nvidia GPUs through private credit, after its $25 billion June bond slid to a junk spread. Demand for AI paper is still deep, but the collapse of the Firmus IPO shows the appetite has limits.
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Waymo closed a $5bn loan from Pimco, Blackstone and Sixth Street, the first debt the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company has taken on. The money pays for more cars in cities it already serves and for launches abroad, and as a term loan it has to be repaid whatever the ride numbers turn out to be.
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Blackstone's data center REIT loses 16% from its IPO price before buying its first building
Blackstone's Digital Infrastructure Trust trades about 16% below its $20 May IPO price, CNBC reported. The REIT has yet to invest its proceeds, so the loss so far reflects interest rates and the market's view of Blackstone's buying plan, before any moratorium or tenant has touched an asset it owns.
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Samsung's 110 trillion won payout ceiling equals about one quarter's chip-led operating profit
Samsung Electronics plans up to 110 trillion won in shareholder returns this year after quarterly operating profit topped 100 trillion won for the first time. Most of that sum is still a range, and its final size depends on a memory business that earned nearly all of the quarter's profit.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for OpenAI's Jalapeno chip, according to Bloomberg. The talks have not settled a borrower or security, so the risk of a chip still in development could sit with OpenAI, Broadcom or the lenders.
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Blue Owl's co-CEOs rule out taking the firm private after a 70% share fall
Blue Owl's co-CEOs ruled out a management buyout even after private-credit redemptions sent the shares down 70%. Semafor argued lending is unlikely to power growth again, so public holders are relying on the firm's business as a landlord to AI data centers.
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buildOne report1 publisher Blackstone and Coatue reportedly lead Lambda's bid for up to $4B before its 2027 IPO
Lambda is seeking up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation in a round led by Blackstone and Coatue, the Wall Street Journal reports. For teams renting its Nvidia GPUs, the round says more about investor appetite than about how long Lambda can keep financing new capacity.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers The MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR let borrowers pledge GPUs. What keeps those GPUs pledgeable is CUDA support, and no term has been stated.
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Memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman and KKR carry no terms or timetable, and NVIDIA has reserved an option to backstop up to $125 billion of the deals.
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buildOne report1 publisher AirTrunk borrows $1 billion to add liquid cooling to a Tokyo campus built for cloud
AirTrunk took a $1 billion green loan to install liquid cooling at TOK1, its Inzai campus serving Tokyo, with first capacity due in January 2028. The money goes into a campus AirTrunk opened in 2021 for cloud demand. TOK1 is where the company tests converting a running site for denser AI workloads.
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Nvidia's $500 billion GPU financing plan depends on chips holding value as long as the loans run
Nvidia is lining up Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to raise over $500 billion with its GPUs as collateral. The plan works only if that hardware keeps its value for as long as the debt it secures stays outstanding.
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Blackstone is taking $9 billion of the $18 billion junior debt in a $60 billion package funding Broadcom chips that Anthropic will lease. How fast it sells the other $9 billion will show whether lenders still want hardware whose rent rests largely on one tenant.
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Earlier coverage
- Informa's £2.24bn Clarion deal brings the DSEI arms fair into a FTSE 100 events group
Leadership · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Broadcom reportedly guarantees about $30 billion of the debt that leases TPUs to Anthropic
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed10 publishers
- JERA puts a $15 billion-plus AI campus behind the meter at its Chiba gas plant
Invest · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Tasmanian backlash over a fast-tracked datacentre follows Firmus to its $7bn ASX float
Leadership · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Nvidia wants compute to be collateral, which moves the supply constraint from fabs to credit desks
Product · August 14, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Broadcom's reported $100B debt raise turns a chip vendor into its customers' financier
Product · August 20, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Apollo's California filing puts Social Security numbers into the private equity attack wave
Security · August 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Blackstone bets one part in 48,000 of its assets on a startup founded in 2025
Invest · September 2, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Factory's $5B lands at about a tenth of Cognition's mark from seven days earlier
Invest · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Google Cloud puts 1,000 Accenture engineers between Gemini Enterprise and its buyers
Product · September 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Anthropic's prospectus waits on a $15bn revolving credit line
Product · September 6, 2026 · One report1 publisher