Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing, Sacra

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Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

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<li>In a data center, hundreds of thousands of GPUs need constant shared access to training data, checkpoints, embeddings, model outputs, and agent memory, pushing AI labs (xAI), neoclouds (CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe), and hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google) toward VAST Data’s separated compute/shared flash architecture—which maps well to GPU clusters with many machines reading and writing to one data pool—versus high-speed storage systems designed for supercomputing (Weka, DDN) and reliable storage for basic IT (Pure, Dell, NetApp).</li>
<li>As AI shifts from chatbots to agents, massive amounts of unsupervised tool calls, generated code, and persistent agent memory require multimodal filesystems that handle PDFs, audios, and video rather than just structured data, and these compounding amounts of data must be stored and accessible via fast access, driving storage demand up and flash memory prices up 8x, a tailwind behind infrastructure that makes storage more efficient and works with low-cost or retrofitted flash.</li>
<li>The upside opportunity is to serve as the unifying AI software operating system that powers the infrastructure layer of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s AI five-layer cake, abstracting away the GPUs &amp; hardware underneath for the developers building models &amp; applications above, expanding the market from model companies &amp; neoclouds into the long tail of enterprises building their own secure, access-controlled agentic applications.</li>
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In a data center, hundreds of thousands of GPUs need constant shared access to training data, checkpoints, embeddings, model outputs, and agent memory, pushing AI labs (xAI), neoclouds (CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe), and hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google) toward VAST Data’s separated compute/shared flash architecture—which maps well to GPU clusters with many machines reading and writing to one data pool—versus high-speed storage systems designed for supercomputing (Weka, DDN) and reliable storage for basic IT (Pure, Dell, NetApp).
As AI shifts from chatbots to agents, massive amounts of unsupervised tool calls, generated code, and persistent agent memory require multimodal filesystems that handle PDFs, audios, and video rather than just structured data, and these compounding amounts of data must be stored and accessible via fast access, driving storage demand up and flash memory prices up 8x, a tailwind behind infrastructure that makes storage more efficient and works with low-cost or retrofitted flash.
The upside opportunity is to serve as the unifying AI software operating system that powers the infrastructure layer of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s AI five-layer cake, abstracting away the GPUs &amp; hardware underneath for the developers building models &amp; applications above, expanding the market from model companies &amp; neoclouds into the long tail of enterprises building their own secure, access-controlled agentic applications.


Renen Hallak, CEO Of VAST Data, On AI Agents Creating Infinite Storage Demand

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Equity Capital Markets

Cerebras Systems / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Cerebras Systems, founder-led AI infrastructure decacorn that designs and manufactures AI compute platform, has once again filed their S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq.</li>
<li>The AI chipmaker will likely begin trading sometime in May and will be one of the most anticipated IPOs in recent memory given its focus on “red-hot” AI inference market.</li>
<li>Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS are the lead bankers on the IPO. In February, Cerebras closed a $1B Series H financing at a ~$23B post-money valuation, according to Pitchbook.</li>
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Cerebras Systems, founder-led AI infrastructure decacorn that designs and manufactures AI compute platform, has once again filed their S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq.
The AI chipmaker will likely begin trading sometime in May and will be one of the most anticipated IPOs in recent memory given its focus on “red-hot” AI inference market.
Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS are the lead bankers on the IPO. In February, Cerebras closed a $1B Series H financing at a ~$23B post-money valuation, according to Pitchbook.


Cerebras IPO Valuation Update: OpenAI Deal Powers AI Decacorn Toward ~$2.5B Revenue in 2027.

Index Rebalance and Special Situations Coverage, Quiddity Advisors

Anjana Amarasuriya

Index Rebalance and Special Situations Coverage

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Index Rebalance

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<li>The Nasdaq 100 index tracks the 100 largest names listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.</li>
<li>One active M&amp;A deal could trigger an intra-review ADD. Shareholders have already approved the deal.</li>
<li>We expect three changes and around US$5bn one-way flow for Nasdaq 100 in the June index rebal event and another $2bn in one-way flows on the intra-review change.</li>
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The Nasdaq 100 index tracks the 100 largest names listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
One active M&amp;A deal could trigger an intra-review ADD. Shareholders have already approved the deal.
We expect three changes and around US$5bn one-way flow for Nasdaq 100 in the June index rebal event and another $2bn in one-way flows on the intra-review change.


Quiddity Leaderboard Nasdaq100 Jun26 Rebal: Three Regular ADDs/DELs; US$7bn in One-Way Flows

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Fluidstack reached $180M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in December 2024, reflecting 620% year-over-year growth from $25M in 2023.</li><li>The company manages more than 100,000 GPUs across its network and serves AI companies such as Meta, Mistral, Character.AI, Poolside, and Black Forest Labs.</li><li>Fluidstack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation, with Jane Street and Situational Awareness in discussions to co-lead the round and Morgan Stanley advising, as of April 2026.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Fluidstack reached $180M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in December 2024, reflecting 620% year-over-year growth from $25M in 2023.The company manages more than 100,000 GPUs across its network and serves AI companies such as Meta, Mistral, Character.AI, Poolside, and Black Forest Labs.Fluidstack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation, with Jane Street and Situational Awareness in discussions to co-lead the round and Morgan Stanley advising, as of April 2026.

<ul><li>ComfyUI raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation in a round led by Craft Ventures in April 2026, bringing total capital raised to approximately $47.5 million.</li><li>Since launching as open source in early 2023, ComfyUI has grown to over 4 million users and more than 150,000 daily downloads.</li><li>The risk is that these simplified tools continue adding advanced features while maintaining their accessibility advantage, potentially commoditizing ComfyUI's power-user moat.</li></ul>

ComfyUI raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation in a round led by Craft Ventures in April 2026, bringing total capital raised to approximately $47.5 million.Since launching as open source in early 2023, ComfyUI has grown to over 4 million users and more than 150,000 daily downloads.The risk is that these simplified tools continue adding advanced features while maintaining their accessibility advantage, potentially commoditizing ComfyUI's power-user moat.

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CoreWeave, Inc. is a specialized cloud infrastructure company that provides high-performance computing resources optimized for workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, visual effects, and batch processing. The company's CoreWeave Cloud Platform consists of proprietary software and cloud services that deliver the automation and efficiency needed to manage complex AI infrastructure at scale. Its platform supports the development and use of ground-breaking models and the delivery of the next generation of AI applications. CoreWeave operates a GPU-first architecture, optimized for training and inference of generative AI models, and also targets scientific and financial computing, as well as real-time 3D rendering needs. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey.

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CoreWeave (CRWV US)

Renen Hallak, CEO Of VAST Data, On AI Agents Creating Infinite Storage Demand

You founded VAST Data in 2016. What was the founding insight behind the company...

Sacra

Cerebras IPO Valuation Update: OpenAI Deal Powers AI Decacorn Toward ~$2.5B Revenue in 2027.

Cerebras Systems has once again filed their S-1 to go public. Given their $20B contract with OpenAI, hyper-growth profile and solid balance sheet,...

Andrei Zakharov

Quiddity Leaderboard Nasdaq100 Jun26 Rebal: Three Regular ADDs/DELs; US$7bn in One-Way Flows

Three expected changes in the June 2026 Nasdaq 100 rebalance, an active M&A deal in play, and a SpaceX inclusion expected by late July.

Anjana Amarasuriya

Primer: Fluidstack - 27 Apr 2026

GPU rental service connecting AI startups with underutilized data center compute capacity

Sacra

Primer: ComfyUI - 26 Apr 2026

Open-source, node-based application for generating images, videos, and audio using AI

Sacra

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