Valida Pau

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Valida Pau is a reporter at The Information covering tech M&A and IPOs. She previously worked at Bloomberg on the deals team. She studied Economics and History at Wellesley College and served as the editor-in-chief of the college newspaper. Based in New York, Valida can be reached at [email protected], Signal @validapau.59, and on X @PauValida.

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CoreWeave to Buy Core Scientific in $9 Billion Deal

CoreWeave has agreed to buy Core Scientific in an all-stock deal worth about $9 billion, in a push to expand its artificial intelligence data center capacity.

Thoma Bravo Takes Restaurant Software Olo Private in $2 billion deal

The take-private deal comes just four years after Olo went public in 2021. The company’s shares have fallen more than 60% from its IPO price of $25.

Grammarly Acquires Email App Superhuman

The startup has been on an acquisition spree to expand its business beyond writing assistant software that checks grammar and syntax

Cato Networks Raises $359 million at $4.8 Billion Valuation

Israel-based Cato Networks raised $359 million in funding at a valuation of more than $4.8 billion as IPO plan stalled.

CoreWeave in Talks to Buy Core Scientific

CoreWeave is in fresh talks to buy Core Scientific after the AI cloud provider unsuccessfully bid for the data infrastructure company a year ago.