How Is $50B In Fresh AI Capital Moving? 💸🤖📊

TL;DR

• Bridgepoint backs Skello with €200M, signals PE’s AI conviction
• Repello AI raises $1.2M seed for GenAI security guardrails
• UAE-backed MGX Fund I closes near $49B, targets global AI deals
• Nvidia pilots GPU token-credits for startups, reshaping compute economics

HEADLINES

Repello AI raises $1.2M for GenAI security 🛡️🔗

AI HR startup Skello lands €200M from Bridgepoint 📅🔗

Venice faces token drop after $65M Series A 📉🔗

SK Hynix plans $28B US listing to ride AI 💾🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Bridgepoint invested €200M in Skello 🤝🔗

MGX closed $49B AI-focused MGX Fund I 🏦🔗

SK Hynix targeted $28B US share sale for AI 📈🔗

RAISES

Repello AI raised $1.2M in a seed round from Venture Highway, pi Ventures, EF 🧱🔗

Venice raised $65M in a Series A from equity investors 🪙🔗

Colossus 2 ecosystem secured $80B+ committed AI compute revenues 🏗️🔗

RAISING

Unitree Robotics is preparing a pre-IPO raise for humanoid AI robots 🤖🔗

Anthropic is reported exploring a future IPO near $1T valuation 📊🔗

Moonshot AI is weighing a Hong Kong IPO after $10B round 🌕🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Nvidia launched token-credit GPU access program for AI startups 🚀🔗

OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.5‑Cyber for critical infrastructure defenders 🛡️🔗

Ashby announced Ashby AI Interviewer for automated candidate screening 💼🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Phosphor LLM-graded learning boosting exam performance 📚🔗

CMC Agent Hub AI agents surfacing on-chain funding narratives 🤖🔗

Build Fast with AI daily feed tracking frontier AI deals 📰🔗

METRICS

Xiaomi MiMo‑V2‑Pro hit 4.21T weekly tokens, 21.1% OpenRouter share 📊🔗

Chinese AI models reached 45% of OpenRouter traffic 🌏🔗

Phosphor adoption hit 90.2% in Dartmouth stats course 📈🔗

Venice Token (VVV) dropped 4.03% post‑Series A structure debate 📉🔗

BENCHMARKS

TechStackIPO ranked Figure AI at $39B Series A 🏷️🔗

Perplexity AI listed among top pre‑IPO AI companies 📘🔗

Build Fast with AI highlighted Colossus 2 with $80B+ compute commitments 📡🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Nvidia offers GPUs via token credits plus revenue share 🖥️🔗

Colossus 2 locked in $80B+ external AI compute revenues ⚙️🔗

Amazon Mechanical Turk will stop new customers July 30, shifting AI training labor 🛠️🔗

VALUATIONS

Figure AI valued at $39B with $754M raised 🏷️🔗

Perplexity AI tracked at $32B pre‑IPO valuation 💡🔗

Safe Superintelligence listed at $30B with $4.2B raised 📌🔗

POLICY

China’s AI companion law will force shutdown of 345M Doubao agents ⚖️🔗

White House is negotiating voluntary US frontier model standards 🏛️🔗

EU AI Act compliance reset highlighted alongside Skello’s raise 📜🔗

SOVEREIGN

MGX Fund I UAE-backed AI fund closed near $49B 🏛️🔗

China regulators mandated data deletion for AI companions by July 15 🧾🔗

US government in talks with AI firms on safety standards 🦅🔗

SECTORS

Transportation expanded Tesla Robotaxi to fifth US city 🚗🔗

Workforce management scaled AI scheduling across 8,000+ Skello customers 🧑‍💼🔗

Education deployed Phosphor LLM tutor in university statistics 🎓🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Aryaman Behera co‑founded Repello AI and shipped GenAI red‑teaming stack 🛡️🔗