Edith’s Weekly

18 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $599.4M - Week of November 10, 2025

🦠 How AI Will Cure All Disease 🪨 America Wants In on Minerals 🍎 Apple to Pay $1B Per Year for Google AI in Siri 💸 Wall Street Wants In & Buying Up…

Nov 10 • 

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15 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $894.6M - Week of November 3, 2025

🎂 Happy 25th Birthday Qualcomm Ventures 💰 DATs is the New SPAC 🇨🇳 China Has Overtaken U.S. in Open-Source AI 🚀 How to Maximize Returns from…

Nov 3 • 

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October 2025

23 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $881.4 Million - Week of October 27, 2025

📈 NYSE International Day 2025 🇺🇸 America Is Losing the AI Hardware War to China 🕶️ AR Glasses Are Back 🤖 The AI Boom for the Senior Market

Oct 27 • 

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24 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $871.4 Million - Week of October 20, 2025

📘 Will 1929 Repeat Itself? 📉 GDP Grew Just 0.1% Without AI 🪳 Are Tricolor Really Just Idiosyncratic Dimon’s Cockroaches? 🎭 $7B Micro Drama Industry…

Oct 20 • 

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22 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $466.8 Million - Week of October 13, 2025

🌀 OpenAI Halo Effect 💡 Thomas Peterffy: Founder of Interactive Brokers 💸 Where and How Startups Spend Money 💼 a16z Speedrun AI Faire Companies

Oct 13 • 

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22 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $1.1 Billion - Week of October 6, 2025

💰 Sam’s $1 Trillion Ambition 💰 Crypto Treasury Companies: First Borrow, Then Sorrow 🥧 Should Founder Vesting Start at 6 years, not 4? 🎮 The $55B…

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

22 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $1.25 Billion - Week of September 29, 2025

💰 AI Spend is the New Magic Word for Wall Street 🇨🇳 China's New K Visa 🥊 Fight for Your Reputation with Palmer 💰 VCs to AI Startups: Take Our Money…

Sep 29 • 

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20 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $1.6 Billion - Week of September 22, 2025

💰 6 Ways To Get A Early Stage VC Job 🧠 Sam Altman’s Advice to LPs 🏯 Larry Ellison: The Billionaire Samurai of Silicon Valley 🇺🇸💣 Trump Torpedoes…

Sep 22 • 

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19 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $652.5M - Week of September 15, 2025

🤖 Meet Alibaba’s First Humanoid Robot 🧠✨ AI Search / GEO Workshop on Oct 6 📱 Robinhood’s New Social Network is Copying China 🇺🇸 Bo Hines Named…

Sep 15 • 

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18 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $14.2B - Week of September 8, 2025

🔎 Google Dodges Its Worst Bullet—Thanks to AI 🤝 OpenAI’s M&A Buying Spree Continues 🎧 Trading Places: Databricks vs. Snowflake 🎯 Polymarket’s U.S…

Sep 8 • 

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8 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $202.6M - Week of September 1, 2025

🌵🔥 Who Really Goes to Burning Man? 📱 ByteDance Hits $330B Valuation 🧬 GPT-4b Micro: A Protein Engineering Breakthrough 🇺🇸 America’s GDP on the…

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

14 Silicon Valley Startups Raised $253M - Week of August 25, 2025

🇺🇸 Intel Is Now an Official U.S. State-Owned Enterprise 📉 The Hidden Costs of Firing a CEO 💡 Fundraising Institutional LPs 101 💰 Tether Hires Bo…

Aug 25 • 

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