A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has 100B AUM, with 26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has 100B AUM, with 26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 — Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East.

Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)
Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (Financial Times)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-17

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