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Playtomic has just lifted one of the largest investment rounds this year in Spain with a peculiar hook: paddle

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Pedro Clavería, Félix Ruiz (CEO) and Pablo Carro, co -founders and maximums responsible for Playtomic, smile in that image. It is not for less: your startup —which is not typical From the Spanish technology sector – it goes like a shot. The surprising thing is not that, but they have achieved it from the hand of the paddle, a sport that has gradually conquered fans in Spain, but now points much higher. Blades everywhere. The popularity of the paddle has grown spectacularly in recent years in our country. Sport is also living a vertiginous professionalization both among players and in the organization of tournaments, sponsors or manufacturers of sportswear or shovels, balls and accessories. In Xataka we continue to miss More support by smart watchesyes indeed. The new tennis. Tennis fans usually also enjoy this sport, which is especially accessible, and the follow -up of professional tournaments is also demonstrating that unique ascending trajectory. After the success of the World Padel Tour now the professional circuit has become called (and be managed by) PREMIER PDELand from an area that focused on Spain, Spain has passed to tournaments that are played in European countries, the Middle East and the entire American continent. The idea: globalize it and become a worldwide phenomenon. Playtomic knew how to arrive at the perfect moment. Playtomic’s emergence in this segment was vertiginous: before each club had its own methods and apps for reservations and the market was much more fragmented. Playtomic emerged as the unified app to review clues in clubs or to organize matches both on those tracks and on private tracks. Little by little more and more clubs have joined, and now in Playtomic there are 6,000 registered clubs and 1.5 million active users a month worldwide. Rounds that drive growth. The startup carries several rounds of accumulated investment, but in recent years the thing has gone more. In 2021 Playtomic he already lifted 56 million euros to continue growing, and now those responsible have just announced a new investment round of 65 million euros. The operation includes 55 million euros in investment and another 10 million in debt financing from Banco Santander. Playtomic’s is one of the largest investment rounds of the year in Spain, although there has been even more striking rounds, like Travelperk’s (200 million dollars). Expansion to the US in sight. This financing round will serve to boost Playtomic’s global presence in European countries, for example, but the focus is clear: to conquer the United States. As Ruiz pointed out Five daysapproximately a third of the money raised will be dedicated to that expansion in the US. There will also be expansion in European countries such as the United Kingdom or Germany. Miami marks the guideline. That American conquest has begun in Miami, where one of the great tournaments of the year is celebrated these days. The American city is being a shop window in that country, and in fact the current number one in the world, Claudio Coello – a part of Agustín Tapia, also number one – has moved there. Possible acquisitions. Those responsible for Playtomic also point to future acquisitions that will further reinforce their relevance in this sector. In 2022 They have already been made With a Finnish competitor, and Ruiz himself pointed to potential operations of this type. Good numbers. The company achieved revenues of 240 million euros in 2024, and it is expected to grow up to 350 million gross billing in 2025. The net net billing results in 2024 were 23 million euros, while the forecast is that it reaches 31 million in 2025. The company has more than 200 employees and the plan is to hire another 15 people throughout 2025. This is going. This investment round confirms the excellent state of health and the projection of the paddle, and here Playtomic has managed to do things very well and take advantage of that popularity to grow (and help to grow) to this sport. Spain is already conquered territory: now it remains to be seen if this new round effectively allows it to become a reference in countries like the US, where by 2026 it is expected that there are already 3,000 paddle tennis courts. Image | Playtomic In Xataka | Swim is fine. I do it with bone driving helmets and the experience is simply fantastic

Applying Jeff Bezos’ investment philosophy

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Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most beloved international athletes by the public thanks to the charism that has demonstrated both on and off the court. His 19 years of sports career contributed the most prestigious trophies and awards, but attributes his great fortune to A advice from Jeff Bezos. The Jeff Bezos effect. According to The American medium Celebrity Net WorthShaquille O’Neal has an estimated assets of 500 million dollars. The popular NBA player, revealed In an interview for The Wall Street Journal How he managed to multiply his fortune by four. The secret of its financial success lies in a significant change in its way of investing. O’Neal decided to adopt the investment philosophy of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. “I heard Jeff Bezos say once he makes his investments based on whether they are going to change people’s lives. Once I began to use that strategy, I think I probably quadrupled my heritage,” explained the former sportsman. Invest in what you think. The change of approach inspired by Bezos led O’Neal to assess the sense of investments and not so much short -term profitability. As explained in the interview, the athlete tries to invest in those proposals that are aligned with their personal values ​​and tastes. “When I do business it is never the economic aspect. It’s about changing people’s lives,” said the former Lakers player. That led him to invest in companies that did products that he liked. Among its investment portfolio we find the Apple technology, the Pope John’s pizzas, the Five Guys hamburgers or Krispy Kreme’s breakfasts. “Krispy Kreme makes fabulous donuts. I met them at the university and I have been in love with their donuts since then and now I have some of their franchises. I will try to get some more. I want to be part of that business, “O’Neal confessed. Google’s miracle. During his interview, O’Neal confessed that one of his best investments by far almost by chance. Someone came to tell him about a new technological company that was taking off. It turned out to be Google. The millionaire did not give details about the amount of investment, but according to data from the Investment portal The Montley Foolan investment of $ 10,000 in Google in 2004, today it would be valued at more than $ 300,000. “I invested in it and completely forgot. After time I read an article about the great success of the first investors,” said the four -time NBA champion. Jeff Bezos took Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ advice made, for the hazards of destiny, Shaquille O’Neal did a good business at the expense of Amazon. O’Neal wanted to improve the safety of his home, so he decided to try some Ring home products. What he saw so much that he not only bought the products, but also invested in the company. In 2018, Amazon bought ring for 1 billion, multiplying the initial investment of O’Neal. Invest in companies, not in benefits. The investment philosophy that has led Shaquille O’Neal to success It is not very different of which the fortune of one of the investors has been holding for six decades more respected from Wall Street: Warren Buffett. According to Buffett, the Secret to hit It is investing in business models, with stable economic characteristics and reliable managers, maintaining their positions for long periods, instead of operating based on short -term price fluctuations. Like O’Neal, Buffett has been investing in products that he personally consumes, as in Coca-Cola, the brand that manufactures Your favorite soda. In Xataka | Jeff Bezos has built a successful empire: six fears have defined his career Image | Flickr (Ukinusa, Techcrunch)

Anthropic lifts another 3.5 billion investment. It is just what they need to survive in an absolutely unleashed segment

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It’s as if money It is not over. At least in the case of AI, a sector in which spectacular investment rounds follow each other continuously. The confidence in startups and companies that work in AI models is extraordinary in the United States, and we have a last example of that AI fever. Anthropic lifts 3.5 billion dollars. The company has announced which has managed to complete a new investment round that will allow you to have 3.5 billion dollars from now on. It is not a figure as high as those they achieved OpenAI either XAI Recently, but it is still colossal. This time the great protagonists have not been Amazon or Google, but Lightspeed Venture Partners and other venture capital firms. It is worth more than Mercedes-Benz. That round makes the current assessment of Anthropic ascend to 61.5 billion dollars, an equally unique figure that would place it ahead of Mercedes-Benz (60,000 million dollars of valuation) if we equate that assessment with the market capitalization of the German automotive giant. But far from OpenAi. The investment round raised was going to be about 2,000 million dollars, but there was more demand than expected and finally raised much more money. Of course, its current assessment is still far from Openai’s, which is estimated to be around 300,000 million dollars. Money to continue working in AI. Those responsible for Anthropic point out how that new capital injection will allow them to continue developing “smarter and most capable AI systems that expand the ability that the human being can achieve.” Income is encouraged, but …. The projected income rate (Revenue Run Rate) of Anthropic was in 2024 of 1,000 million Ded Dolla, but now it is estimated that this rate has grown by 30%, a really fast pace. It is a remarkable figure, but it is probably well below what the company spends over a year to disappoint its models and maintain all its operational infrastructure. It is estimated which in 2024 spent 5.6 billion dollars. Claude 3.7 Sonnet animates things. The recent launch of its new hybrid model, Claude 3.7 Sonnethas once again demonstrated that the company is still a clear reference in this sector. The performance of this model is outstanding, especially in areas such as programming. But his future is complicated. Despite having one of the best generative products in the market, the company It depends absolutely on risk capital And of these investment rounds, at least for now. The competition is fierce And it also comes from companies with many more funds, which further complicates the thing for Anthropic. Investment in AI is unleashed. But for now it does not seem that the rhythm decays. The investment rounds continue to reach both these startups and companies already settled and the new ones that for example created recently Look Murati either Ilya Sutskever. The expectations about AI remain huge, and that continues to make money not stop. That is good news for the segment in general, but above all for Anthropic in particular. In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

The worst nightmare of the Atlantic Alliance is more than an investment issue

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That Donald Trump is not a NATO enthusiast is nothing new. He already showed him during His first mandatewhen he slid the possibility that the US took a step back in the Atlantic Alliance, and has underlined it several times since then, like candidate and elected president. But as the relationship It is tense With Europe and within its own team Voices are raised in favor of Washington to break with the Treaty of 1949a question arises, increasingly stronger: what would happen if the US is detached from NATO? To answer it, you need to review a little recent history, geostrategy … and also mathematics. An NATO without the US? Only the fact that The question this On the table It is already significant. Especially since the clouds that overshadow the future of the US in NATO do not arise from speculation or rumors, but from comments from high positions of Washington, including Trump himself, who in December, still as elected president, He complained that the Atlantic Alliance is “taking advantage of the US.” “They take advantage of us in trade, our cars or our foods are not taken. They do not wear anything. It’s a shame. And we defend them, so the blow is double,” Trump charged during An interview In NBC News. And when the journalist asked him if she would consider excluding NATO US in case she concludes that her treatment towards the US is not “fair,” repliedresounding: “Yes, of course.” The continuity in the alliance, he stressed, is conditioned to the whole of its members “pay their bills.” A background rumor. It was not the first time that there was talk of NATO’s departure. It hasn’t been the last. Six years ago The New York Times public that in 2018 Trump already threatened with the withdrawal of NATO. And that was during his first term. The second has started just a month And it is already marked by distancing between Washington and some of its historical allies, such as Canada or the EU. The clearest (and graphic) test was the negotiating table created by the US and Russia to end the Ukraine War without reserving a seat for Ukraine or the Union. The trend seems to also go in Crescendo, without visos that it will break. In the last days We have seen Europe closing rows Around Ukraine, Trump and Zelenski showing Prime Time Your total lack of harmony Already Elon Musk, Trump’s great ally, Chairing the debate on the output of the US USA. Yesterday the businessman shared a tweet that he said “it’s time to leave NATO and UN” next to the next harvest message: “I Agree”. An NATO without the US? The same question of the principle, but with a different sense, that of viability: Is a NATO with Washington in profile or in which the US directly step back? A few days ago, during An interview In the BBC, the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, asked if the rest of the allies could replace the US hole in case he withdraws his military support from Ukraine, his response was revealing: that scenario is not raised. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A “100%risk”. After insisting that the US “wants to bring Ukraine to a lasting peace”, the high position of NATO slid: “We go beyond this issue. It is crucial that we all remain together in this: USA, Ukraine, Europe, that we take Ukraine to Peace. That is exactly why Trump struggles, so we all fight.” Zelenski, who It has been ambitioning for some time The adhesion of your country to NATO, a perspective that seems farther today, after contacts between Moscow and Washington, is even clearer. In Another talk Recent with journalists, he warned of the consequences that Trump would have to step back in NATO, not only for his country, but for the whole of the continent: “The risk of Russia from occupying Europe is one hundred percent if the United States withdraws from NATO.” Weight question. The key is the weight that Washington has in NATO. The agency’s estimates by 2024 provided that the US be The third country of the alliance that higher percentage of its GDP allocated to defense, 3.4%, only behind Poland and Estonia. Washington’s commitments go beyond the North Atlantic Treaty and given the size of its economy, it is estimated that US defense spending represents near two thirds of NATO total. As for costs, the body applies A cast Based on national income and the US stands out again as one of the greatest taxpayers, with almost 16%, like Germany. The United Kingdom is in third place with 11% and France occupies fourth place, with just over 10%. Of percentages to dollars. World Population Review has created A map in which the contribution of each country attached to NATO in 2023 is even more graphic, both in the percentage of GDP and in funds dedicated to investment in defense. The US stands out with 3.49% and 860,000 million of dollars, well above From the second country, Germany. As a picture is worth a thousand words, it is good to take a look at the graphic prepared in 2024 by Visual Capitalist to understand the weight of US investment in defense compared to the other 31 countries of the Alliance. The other approach. It matters what the United States contributes, but it also matters to what extent the rest of the countries attached to NATO contribute. Trump has already publicly demanded the rest of the nations that raise their contribution until reaching 5% of his GDP, even above what the US himself allocates. And he does not seem willing to change his strategy. “I told the countries ‘I will not protect them unless you pay,’ and they started paying. That amounted to more than 600,000 million dollars,” He presumed In December. The 5% barrier is well above the 2% that NATO itself has been marked, the latter percentage that probably not to … Read more

Indonesia will finally raise the veto of the iPhone 16, according to Bloomberg. The key is in a millionaire investment of Apple

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At the end of last year, Indonesia prohibited sale of the iPhone 16. The surprising measure did not go unnoticed, but what really caught attention was the reason: Apple had not invested enough in the country. Google either had better luck. Shortly after, The authorities vetoed the marketing of the Pixelalthough they never officially sold in Indonesia. Now, everything indicates that the situation is about to take a turn. The return of the sale of the iPhone seems imminent Bloomberg points out that Apple and the Indonesian Ministry of Industry They reached an agreement to lift the smartphone prohibition. The sources indicate that the movement should be formalized this week. The Indonesian government plans to hold a press conference to publicize the details of the commitment. However, the American media points out that Apple’s investment has played a leading role. The firm led by Tim Cook would have committed to invest no less than 1,000 million dollars in Indonesiaa figure ten times higher than the one previously destined for the creation of several Apple Developer Academy. And what will that money be invested? As explained, Apple will allocate it to the construction of an AirTags production plant in collaboration with Luxshare Precision Industry Co., an old Chinese partner of the Cupertino company. Another part of the investment will be directed to a New factory in Bandunga city southeast of Yakarta, which will focus on the production of other accessories. In addition, Apple will continue to finance its programming academies in the country. The prohibition of the iPhone 16 that is now about to disappear has been supported by a regulation that establishes that certain products must have a national component level certificate (TKDN) The TKDN is an index of the percentage of national components used in production. Apple and Google mobile devices They must reach 40% In the mentioned metric, but there are many ways to meet this requirement. Companies that do not manufacture their products in Indonesia usually resort to agreements with local suppliers at some point in their supply chain. Other strategies, such as hiring local labor and investments, also contribute. And if you wonder why Apple is so determined to overcome this prohibition, the answer is simple: it is about The greatest economy of Southeast Asia and The fourth most populous nation in the world . That is, of a large market. Images | Trac vu | Apple In Xataka | Proudly American: Apple will invest more money than ever in the United States in full tariff threat

The largest campus in Europe will arrive with an investment Emiratí multimillionaire

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If they ask us what place in the world concentrates the largest number of companies from Artificial Intelligence (AI) known, the most obvious response would be the United States. The North American country is the home of OpenAi, Microsoft, Google, goal, among others. Europe, on the other hand, does not have such recognizable names in the sector. And it is no accident: if the continent wants to compete from you to you with its main rivals, including the thriving Chinese marketyou need to bet more strongly for this industry. Along these lines, some governments are already implementing certain initiatives. At the community level, Brussels has announced an investment of 52 million eurosSpain has laid the foundations for an “public and open” With a strategic planand France wants to lead with the largest IA campus in Europe From the hand of the United Arab Emirates. The latter has been released recently by both governments and promises to arrive accompanied by a multi -million dollar investment. Betting on artificial intelligence France aspires to play a leading role in the rise of algorithms. This week, Paris was the epicenter of a World Summit on AIwhere experts from around the world entered the threats and promises of this technology. Within the framework of this event, President Emmanuel Macron and Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, leader of the United Arab Emirates, They witnessed the signing of a cooperation agreement between their countriesa pact that promises to enhance the development of joint projects. Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed al Nahyan, leader of the United Arab Emirates (up to the left), Emmanuel Macron, president of France (above right) As the Emirates news agency collectsthe alliance includes an investment by the nation rich in oil in France, as well as “the acquisition of avant -garde chips, the infrastructure of data centers and the talent development, and by establishing virtual data embassies to allow Sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure in both countries. ” The French government, meanwhile, has pointed out that the initiative contemplates the construction of a huge data center. Its exact location has not yet been revealed, but what is known is that it will be a 1 Gigavatio installation within a largest IA campus in Europe. This ambitious project, with an estimated investment of between 30,000 and 50,000 million euroswill be led by a Franco-Emirati consortium, with the MGX investment fund, backed by United Arab Emirates. We will have to wait to see how this initiative develops and if it manages to reinforce the position of the European country, home of companies such as Mistral AI, in an increasingly competitive sector. Images | Emmanuel Macron in X | Zayed al Nahyan in X | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Companies that violate the AI ​​law will have a very fat problem: one called 7% of their income

What is High-Flyer, the Chinese fund that drives Deepseek and has been using AI for years to make investment decisions

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Deepseek is the fashionable artificial intelligence (AI) company. Your most recent language models They have challenged Openai’s leadership and have caused a real earthquake in the technology industry. These days we have known that It was founded in May 2023 and that has developed its products with a fraction of the computing capacity of some of its main western rivals. But what else is known? Let’s see it. The promising present of Deepseek is the result of years of investigation that began long before its official constitution. Its origin is found in High-Flyer, a quantitative investment fund created in 2015 by the Electronic Engineering student Liang Wenfeng with two classmates. As they count on their websitethe idea was that the algorithms became the heart of their business by allowing real -time operations. A company focused on the Chinese stock market High-Flyer completed its first stock market assisted by AI in October 2016, a movement that triggered an unstoppable effort to continue working in that regard. The company formed software and hardware research and development teams. And apparently it was the appropriate decision. In 2017 I already applied AI In almost all its strategies of quantitative investment, but to continue advancing I needed to break some barriers. They discovered that complex models training tasks required a huge calculation power. This did not discourage them and in 2019 they launched a dedicated division called High-Flyer ai to address the challenge. The group built started working with 500 GPU, then built a 1,100 GPU supercomputer A100 of NVIDIA And in 2022 he spent 140 million dollars to raise the number up to 10,000 GPU, before the entry into force of the export controls of the United States. High-Flyer was completely focused on developing its algorithmic trading business. He had his own deep learning training platform and a Outstanding computer infrastructure. Meanwhile, in the United States there was a company called Openai that bet on the generative AI and that He had surprised many with the benefits of his GPT-3 language model. As China Talk collectsLiang wanted to go beyond finance. For a long time he had been convinced that AI would change the world, and had found the opportunity to bring his effort to the next level. In 2023, High-Flyer announced that it would lay the foundations of a new organization to advance the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI). Thus Deepseek was born, with an injection of capital of high-flyer. Deepseek is a product of High-Flyer work and has obviously drunk this company. Both signatures share offices in the same building, although they seem to use different computing resources. The AI ​​startup says it has H20 chips, that are sold as donuts in Chinaand NVIDIA H800, and that has used only 2,048 GPU of this latest model to train its most recent models, an affirmation that some have questioned. Images | High-flyer | Deepseek In Xataka | “They are brilliant researchers under the control of an authoritarian government.” Anthropic’s CEO has spoken about Depseek

Announces a data center almost as large as Manhattan and up to 65,000 million investment

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We are witnessing how the race is accelerated for the development of the artificial intelligence (AI). After Stargate ad, An initiative of 500,000 million dollars that promises to greatly benefit OpenAIthe target movement arrives. The social networks giant plans to invest up to 65,000 million dollars this year to consolidate its role in this strategic area. Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO, has said In a publication in Threads that part of this money will be used in the construction of a data center of more than 2 gigawatts. According to their size, data centers to hyperscala may need from megawatts to gigawatts of power. In this case, we are facing an installation that “could cover a significant part of Manhattan.” A huge effort … and staggered As expected, not the entire planned cluster will start operating at the same time. Goal expects to put online around 1.3 million GPU Specialized for the end of the year, which will require 1 power gigavatio. The works will continue to reach the power stop in the following months with the objective of promoting the main long -term target products and businesses. But the Menlo Park company also has some more immediate purposes: it wants it to call 4, A model of AI that is expected to arrive this yearbecome a latest generation leader. We can interpret this as an online missile for Openai and its most advanced models, such as GPT-4O. Goal also wants to develop an AI Engineer system. An overlap of the Metca Data Center on Manhattan The Meta calls have pleasantly surprised the industry. Yes ok Zuckerberg is stubborn to use the term Open Source incorrectlythese products are available to most users and offer good results. In addition, they give life to the generative functions used by millions of users of Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp through Goal AI. For a while, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud cloud infrastructure have been one of the most outstanding market. Now we are seeing how companies such as Openai and Meta allocate billions of dollars to mount their own hardware. In this reconfiguration Nvidia is presented as one of the great winnersbecause it is the one who supplies most of the specialized GPUs for Ia. Images | Mark Zuckerberg | Goal In Xataka | China is closely monitoring the United States movement with Stargate. And your answer has already prepared

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