{"id":1016543,"date":"2026-06-24T08:07:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016543"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:40:03","slug":"ai-startup-baseten-hits-13-billion-valuation-as-australias-blackbird-makes-record-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-startup-baseten-hits-13-billion-valuation-as-australias-blackbird-makes-record-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Baseten hits $13 billion valuation as Australia&#8217;s Blackbird makes record bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseten, a California-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Australians, said it raised $1.5 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $13 billion, underscoring the surge of capital flowing into AI firms. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by U.S.-based investors \u200cSands Capital \u2060and \u2060Wellington Management, Baseten said late on Monday. Top Australian venture capital \u200bfirm Blackbird VC said it contributed the firm&#8217;s biggest-ever investment, without \u200bspecifying an amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseten, a California-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Australians, said it raised $1.5 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $13 billion, underscoring the surge of capital flowing into AI firms. The round was led by U.S.-based investors \u200cSands Capital \u2060and \u2060Wellington Management, Baseten said late on Monday. Top Australian venture capital \u200bfirm Blackbird VC said it contributed the firm&#8217;s biggest-ever investment, without \u200bspecifying an amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016566,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016543\/revisions\/1016566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}