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Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/insurance-platform-nirvana-val…

Exclusive: AI Insurance Startup Nirvana Nearly Doubles Valuation To $1.5B with $100M Series D
Nirvana Insurance, an AI-based commercial insurance platform for the trucking industry, has raised a $100 million Series D round at a $1.5 billion valuation, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The raise comes just over nine months after the startup raised $80 million in a Series C round of funding at an $830 million valuation.

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion
OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks ...

Zelenskyy urges Trump to get tougher with Putin, says he's ready to meet in Budapest (Freddie Clayton/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/volodymyr-zelenskyy-meet-the-press-interview-vladimir-putin-hamas-rcna238324
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p18#a251019p18

"Web Hosting Talk", a forum, running on a very old version of #vbulletin from 2015(!) has been compromised, and the details are on HIBP. #websites #forum

Have I Been Pwned: Web Hosting Talk Data Breach
In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M valuation, up from $205M in May (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/exclusi

Exclusive: Doppel raises $70 million Series C at more than $600 million valuation to fight AI-powered social engineering attacks
Bessemer-backed Doppel has raised its $70 million Series C, valuing the company at $600 million, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/18/kraken-citadel-securities-ken-griffin-…

Exclusive: Crypto exchange Kraken raises $200 million from Ken Griffin’s Citadel to notch $20 billion valuation
Once skittish about digital assets, Citadel has warmed towards the crypto business in 2025.

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push its valuation to the range of $350B, up from its $183B valuation after raising $13B in September (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html

Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia
Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.

Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musks-xai

Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20