BAIN CAPITAL RAISES $1.6B TO FUND COMPANIES THAT DON'T EXIST YETCOMP AI RAISES $34M TO BE 'CONTINUOUSLY AGENTIC' ABOUT COMPLIANCECONGRESS DISCOVERS ELECTRICITY BILLS EXIST, ACTS SHOCKEDCRUSOE'S $30.9B VALUATION: INFRASTRUCTURE THEATER MEETS AI EUPHORIAVALOR CAN'T CASH OUT SPACEX, SO IT CASHES IN INVESTORSEVVY RAISES $40M TO MONETIZE YOUR MICROBIOMEGLENCORE DISCOVERS ITS $2B FRIENDSHIP WAS ACTUALLY FRAUDINSIGHT PARTNERS DISCOVERS DIVERSIFICATION WHILE INDUSTRY SLEEPWALKS INTO AIBAIN CAPITAL RAISES $1.6B TO FUND COMPANIES THAT DON'T EXIST YETCOMP AI RAISES $34M TO BE 'CONTINUOUSLY AGENTIC' ABOUT COMPLIANCECONGRESS DISCOVERS ELECTRICITY BILLS EXIST, ACTS SHOCKEDCRUSOE'S $30.9B VALUATION: INFRASTRUCTURE THEATER MEETS AI EUPHORIAVALOR CAN'T CASH OUT SPACEX, SO IT CASHES IN INVESTORSEVVY RAISES $40M TO MONETIZE YOUR MICROBIOMEGLENCORE DISCOVERS ITS $2B FRIENDSHIP WAS ACTUALLY FRAUDINSIGHT PARTNERS DISCOVERS DIVERSIFICATION WHILE INDUSTRY SLEEPWALKS INTO AI
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Mergers, acquisitions, and the synergies nobody can define. Deals that made sense in the boardroom.

M&A

Devon Energy Rebrands Asset Dump as 'Portfolio Streamlining'

Major oil company explores $4 billion sale of shale holdings while insisting this is definitely not panic.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Cosmetically Optimistic
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M&A

Helium Evolution Raises $25M; Markets Remain Unimpressed

Canadian explorer with largest North American helium position somehow still needs venture capital to prove helium exists where it says it does.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Aggressively Premature
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Opinion

Power Official Exits After Grid Dreams Collide With Reality

Peter Lake departs the White House energy council, leaving his transformational infrastructure vision behind—like all the others.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Infrastructure Theatre
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M&A

SPAC Hires Itself to Find Itself Deals

NorthStrive Companies will advise NorthStrive Acquisition Corp on deal sourcing—a financial ouroboros eating its own tail for $100 million.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Beautifully Recursive
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VC

Will.i.am-Backed Edtech Raises $4.5M to Monetize Vibes

When a celebrity investor and two venture firms collectively decide that 'vibe coding' is a defensible market category.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Vibes Over Fundamentals
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Unicorn

OpenAI Researcher Launches $2B Drug Company Via PowerPoint

Miles Wang hasn't founded anything yet, but investors are already pricing his future regrets.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Frontier Fantasy Valuation
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VC

Fizz Sues VC Over Leak While Still Asking for Money

Nothing says 'trust us with your capital' like alleging your supposed partners are corporate spies.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Litigiously Optimistic
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Unicorn

Mercor Doubles Valuation to $20B in Six Months, Details TBA

A company whose business model remains a mystery has mysteriously become twice as valuable.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Euphoria Pricing
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M&A

Musk Rebrands Cursor Acquisition as 'Product Innovation'

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 launch is really just Cursor with a new logo and a press release.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Acquisition Theater
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M&A

Billion-Person Company No One's Heard Of Now Trades Publicly

Bending Spoons owns AOL and Vimeo but remains a mystery—the M&A equivalent of a sound without a listener.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Invisibly Acquisitive
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