
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN Valuation and The Race for AI Assistants | Cognition Raises at $46BN, Linear $2.5BN and Clay $7BN
Donnerstag, 3. September 2026 · 1 h 18
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AGENDA:
Nvidia crushes $96.2B quarter and nears $12.9B Hugging Face deal OpenAI cuts off Cursor as the Altman–Musk feud escalates OpenAI's 1,000-agent cyberattack triggers an industry wake-up call Instinct hits $2.5B valuation as AI assistants gain spending power Cognition targets $1.6B ARR as the coding-agent market explodes AI forces every startup to become a compound company—or get left behind Salesforce embraces Claude and outcome-based pricing in major AI reset Stripe–PayPal deal collapses as both sides clash over price Clay hits $7B and Linear reaches $100M ARR as agents choose their tools Texas pauses Flock cameras as police-surveillance backlash grows