{"id":647976,"date":"2026-05-04T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:57:13","slug":"this-fundie-sold-his-early-stake-in-the-ai-start-up-and-isnt-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647976\/","title":{"rendered":"This fundie sold his early stake in the AI start up \u2013 and isn\u2019t going back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firmus is the one that got away for Hayden Beamish. He was an early backer of the artificial intelligence infrastructure start-up, which has fast become the most hotly anticipated debut on the ASX in years.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the world\u2019s most valuable company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/company\/Nvidia-6gk0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest private equity firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/chanticleer\/we-won-t-hide-blackstone-s-aussie-push-amid-private-credit-pain-20260306-p5o81q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackstone<\/a>, and Temasek, an investment giant owned by the Singapore government, it is now worth about $8 billion on paper. Its extraordinary rise has reaped a fortune for its early investors.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firmus is the one that got away for Hayden Beamish. He was an early backer of the artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-647976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}