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Elon Musk’s XAI Holdings In Talks To Raise $20 Billion Valuing Company At $120 Billion
Elon Musk’s XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity merging his AI startup xAI and social media platform X (formerly Twitter), is in early talks to raise about $20 billion, potentially valuing the company at over $120 billion. If completed, this would mark the second-largest startup funding round ever, behind only OpenAI’s $40 billion raise earlier this year. The funding could help reduce the significant debt Musk incurred when taking Twitter private. Investors’ strong interest highlights both the booming AI market and Musk’s continued influence across tech and politics.
AMOUNT: $20,000,000,000+
VALUATION: $120,000,000,000+
HQ: #SanFrancisco #California
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View AllPuppy Sphere Secures Seed Round Of $24 Million From Strategic Investors Including The School Of Hard KnocksPuppy Sphere (@ThePuppySphere), a New York-based wellness brand centered on the human-animal bond, has raised a Seed round from a group of strategic investors including The School of Hard Knocks, Tobi Oluwole, Jake Fleshner, Torch Collective, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, and other founders and operators. Founded by Francesca Albo and Lea Burbidge Izquierdo, Puppy Sphere has scaled its puppy yoga concept into a broader experiential wellness platform with 13 studios, corporate wellness programs, brand partnerships, and live activations, serving more than 450,000 customers and partnering with companies including Google, Amazon, Netflix, TikTok, and the NBA.
FUN FACT: Puppy Sphere was born from two Canadian founders’ own mental health journeys and has since grown into 13 studios across North America, $14M+ in cumulative revenue, and 450,000+ customers, all without outside capital. Along the way, the brand has welcomed names like Sabrina Carpenter, Simu Liu, Trevor Noah and Alessia Cara, while building a broader wellness platform around the gentle power of puppy therapy. Now Puppy Sphere is opening its cap table for the first time through a strategic angel round, bringing together leaders across media, consumer growth and wellness, including The School of Hard Knocks, former Massage Envy CEO David Humphrey, growth entrepreneur Tobi Oluwole, and Nucleus Network co-founder Jake Fleshner, alongside a broader group of strategic founders and operators. The vision: bring the gentle power of puppy therapy across the globe.
FOUNDERS: Francesca Albo (@FrancescaaAlbo), Lea Burbidge Izquierdo (@LeaburbIz)
INVESTORS: The School of Hard Knocks (@TheSchoolofHardKnockz), Tobi Oluwole (@TheTobiOluwole), Jake Fleshner (@JakeFleshner) Torch Collective, Heather Stark, Will Bodewes, Craig Zingerline & more
ROUND: Seed
VALUATION CAP: $24,000,000
HQ: New York, New York
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