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Cerebras raises .5B, then stock pops 8%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026

Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026

Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO on Thursday, pricing shares at $185 Wednesday evening, way higher than its range ($115 to $125, later raised to $150-$160), even as it increased the size of the offering to 30 million shares. It then opened to public trading at $385, more than double (up 108%), as retail investors bid up the price to grab them. The stock cooled only slightly soon after. It is currently trading heavily mid-day at above $330. Even at the IPO price of $185, the company entered its first day of trading at a fully-diluted valuation of $56.4 billion (meaning, accounting for all shares). Co-founder CEO Andrew Feldman’s stake at $185/share is worth nearly $1.9 billion, while co-founder CTO Sean Lie’s stake weighs in at about $1 billion. And obviously, if the above $300 price holds, the company and founders will end the day worth far more than that. A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras. The Nvidia competitor, which designed its giant chip from scratch, …

Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits .5B valuation

Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation

Asia AI data center provider Firmus on Monday announced a fresh $505 million raise led by Coatue at a $5.5 billion post-money valuation. With this round, Firmus has raised $1.35 billion in six months, it says. The Singapore-based data center company previously raised AU$330 million (approximately $215 million) at an AU$1.85 billion ($1.2 billion) valuation from investors, including Nvidia. Firmus is developing an energy-efficient “AI factory” network of data centers in Australia and Tasmania, a project it dubs Project Southgate. It is using Nvidia’s reference designs for building these efficient data centers. These new data centers will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform — the chip giant’s next-gen AI computing system succeeding its Blackwell architecture, expected to ship in the second half of 2026. Firmus originally provided cooling technologies for Bitcoin mining and has become yet another crypto-roots-turned-AI provider company that investors love. Source link