Week of August 14 – August 20, 2025
Quick Summary
Welcome back to This Week in the Index, where we’ll give a brief overview of what happened this week among Prime Unicorn Index components. Anthropic filed for a new Series F amid rumors it’s raising $10B. Publics faded (CoreWeave led the pullback). Secondaries mixed. The Prime Unicorn 30 Index is +2.4% WoW.
Primary Rounds & Filings
- Anthropic: filed restated COI authorizing a Series F round at ~$140.97/share, up from its Series E price of $56.09
Secondary Transactions
- Databricks: $102.50 → $105.00 (+2.4%)
- MaintainX*: $2.4879 → $2.48 (≈flat, -0.3%)
- Ethos*: $5.59 → $5.76 (+3.0%)
- Gecko Robotics*: $49.27 → $43.00 (-12.7%)
Public Components
Prices as of closing Wednesday, August 20th
- CoreWeave (CRWV): -22.3% to $91.52 — post‑lockup
- Circle (CRCL): -10.0% to $137.81
- Figma (FIG): -9.6% to $74.04
- Hinge Health (HNGE)*: -1.4% to $57.24
Notable News
- Motive* tapped JPMorgan to lead its IPO push.
- Databricks reportedly raising at a ~$100B valuation.
- CoreWeave lockup ended; Jane Street disclosed a 5.4% stake.
- Nuro* raised an additional $97M, including from Nvidia.
- SpaceX: reports tally Starship test explosions.
- Anthropic reportedly raising $10B, up from $5B
Index Performance
The Prime Unicorn 30 closed at 166.82 on Aug 20, up 2.4% vc. 162.84 on Aug 13.
*These companies are components of the Prime Unicorn Composite Index, but are not included in the Prime Unicorn 30 Index.