# Patrick Collison

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-19**: Stripe announces plan to acquire OpenRouter — Stripe says it will acquire OpenRouter; The New York Times reports a ~$7.5B price with ~$1.5B allocated to founders.
- **2026-06-15**: Stealth Exit and $50M Seed Round — Radical Numerics emerges from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, marking the official launch of the company aiming to reinvent biology through AI-generated DNA.
- **2026**: OpenRouter raises $113M at $1.3B valuation — OpenRouter's latest funding round values the AI model router at about $1.3 billion, less than three months before the Stripe deal is announced.
- **2025-09**: First AI-Designed Functional Virus — Researchers using open-source Evo weights create the world's first fully AI-designed functional virus, harmless to humans, demonstrating the viability of generative genomics and prompting the team to form Radical Numerics.
- **2025**: Stripe acquires Bridge for $1.1B — Stripe deepens its crypto exposure by acquiring stablecoin platform Bridge, its largest recent M&A move before OpenRouter.

## Recent coverage (3 stories)

### OpenRouter founders land $1.5B after a $113M round 3 months ago
2026-08-20 01:21:18 · Sentiment: Positive · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

OpenRouter's founders are set to receive about $1.5 billion of Stripe's reported $7.5 billion acquisition — a windfall arriving roughly three months after a $113 million round valued the company at $1.3 billion. It's the AI-era exit playbook in fast-forward.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/openrouter-founders-1-5b-payout-stripe-acquisition

### VCs Bet $45B on a 24-Year-Old Fund Manager—Then It Nosedived
2026-08-06 01:04:59 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Venture investors including Greenoaks and D1 Capital poured money into a first-time fund manager with a $45B AI-only strategy, ignoring red flags like lack of experience and poor communication. The subsequent blowup is a wake-up call for the startup world about fund manager due diligence.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/vc-backed-45b-ai-fund-manager-collapse

### From PhD Purpose Search to $50M Seed: Radical Numerics’ AI DNA Bet
2026-06-16 00:20:57 · Sentiment: Strongly positive · Impact: 8/10 · Sources: 2

Eric Nguyen’s quest for purpose led to Radical Numerics, a startup that just raised $50 million in seed funding to commercialize AI-generated DNA. The founding team, creators of Evo models, navigates the venture landscape with a deeptech platform that could reshape biology.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/radical-numerics-50m-seed-ai-dna-startups

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