“Ain’t nothin’ but a gangsta party”… AI-agent orchestration startup Polsia raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation using its AI agent to do much of the investor outreach and screening process, though the founder negotiated terms and met with prospective investors before closing the round.
“I’m on the outside looking in, an’ I wanna be back on the inside with you”… A former SEC staffer allegedly pocketed $200,000 in crypto profits, adding to a growing list of cases involving suspected misuse of nonpublic information.
“The search is over, you were with me all the while”… A Google software engineer has been charged with allegedly using confidential Google search-trend data to place insider bets on Polymarket, generating over $1.2 million in profits, structuring transactions designed to obscure their origin.
Pay attention!!! Marc Rowan of Apollo arguing that private equity funds paid inflated valuations for enterprise software businesses in a pre-AI future and returns on those investments could be disastrous: “If credit is problematic, that means the equity is really problematic.”
“Not so fast, partner”… The SEC has delayed its proposed tokenized-stock innovation exemption after concerns over shareholder rights, ownership records, and third-party tokenized shares – it remains supportive of tokenization, but investor protection and market integrity concerns are pushing adoption toward a narrower, more compliance-focused path.
“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end”… The Roundhill Memory ETF, launched in April to invest in memory semiconductor and related technology companies, became the fastest ETF in history to surpass $10 billion in assets as investors piled in following a gain of over 100% in less than two months.
“We rise by lifting others”??? The gap between corporate profits and worker pay is at record highs, as labor’s share of US economic output fell to its lowest level since records began in 1947, while corporate profits climbed to their highest share since 1950.
“You take the good, you take the bad”… Public SaaS company valuations have undergone a meaningful correction, with HubSpot down 75% from its peak, Workday 60%, and Salesforce 50% – highlighting how dramatically growth-software multiples have compressed. [Minus 40 bonus points if you recognize the lyric]
“Earned all this money, but they never take the country out me”… Blackstone’s $4 billion sale of a 45,000-song catalog to a Sony-GIC venture signals growing institutional confidence in music rights – the catalog included Beyoncé, Leonard Cohen, Lady Gaga, and Mariah Carey.
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