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DST Global is a venture capital firm investing in internet and technology companies worldwide, known for early backing of major tech and AI startups.
Kurly is reviving its IPO plan after a 51.6 billion won first-half operating profit, nearly four times its 13.1 billion won for 2025. Annualized, that puts Naver's 2.8 trillion won May valuation at about 27 times operating profit.
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Alec Tarashansky, lead engineer on Anthropic's Claude Science, has joined OpenEvidence, the physician search company valued at $12 billion in January. The part of Claude Science's design that fits most directly into a doctor's search tool is its citation-checking agent.
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Nearly ninety percent of the money this company has ever raised arrived in one round. What the syndicate got to underwrite was a customer list rather than a disclosed revenue line.
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The agent returns layers, keyframes and timing that a designer can revise inside Adobe. Running it means paying for Higgsfield credits, a ChatGPT plan and After Effects at the same time. The runtime figures are Higgsfield's own.
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Venture funding for robots, drones and sensors in H1 2026 beat the entire 2022-24 total, but deal count rose only 11 percent. The dollars are concentrating, not spreading.
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A DST Global-led Series B quadruples the company's valuation since January. The interesting part is what the money is for: compute contracts that decide who is still shipping at renewal.
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Goldman Sachs and Intel are funding a company whose founder says broadcast-quality video fell from $100,000 to $500 a minute. The enterprise revenue mix is the part to read closely.
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