Tiger Global's early OpenAI stake carries about $5 billion in paper gains, two outlets reported. Crypto Briefing values the stake with OpenAI at $500 billion, about a third of the $1.4 trillion now in talks, and at that price the gain offsets about 28% of Tiger's $18 billion loss in 2022.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
A reported $500mn round at $12bn pre-money values the workflow engine at roughly seven times its March 2025 mark. The revenue figure behind it is nine months old.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.
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- Investor 51%
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- Evidence55
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
An existing Zipline backer is negotiating to lead the round that reprices it at $20bn
Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Temporal closed a $550 million round at a $12.55 billion valuation, roughly 50 times the revenue it reports. The product it sells exists to remember which step of a crashed job already ran.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives70
- Confidence61
buildOne report1 publisher Temporal's $550M round values durable execution at 2.5x its February price
Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
SoftBank's reported $6B for 1X prices a home robot at 44 times the money it has raised
The Information puts SoftBank in talks for a majority stake in 1X. The shipment boom cited as context belongs mostly to two Chinese firms, and 1X is not one of them.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+44
- Incentives63
- Confidence48
Flock's $8.3B rests on data rights its biggest customers are now redlining
The company says it is past $500 million in recurring revenue at roughly 16.6 times that figure. What the multiple buys is written into contracts cities have started reopening.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption79
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence56
Flock's $8.3B asset is a searchable national archive. Its liability is the same archive
One officer logged more than 700 unauthorized searches on his estranged wife's car. The feature that made that possible is the one a16z and Tiger paid about 16 times revenue for.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption86
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
- Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher Temporal talks $12B six months after $5B: durable execution is now agent infrastructure
A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives70
- Confidence54