Blackstone Inc. News
Latest Blackstone Inc. news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 18 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative asset management firm that invests on behalf of institutional and individual clients across private equity, real estate, credit, insurance, and hedge fund solutions.
The firm was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman as a mergers-and-acquisitions boutique and grew into one of the largest leveraged buyout investors, later expanding into real estate, credit, and infrastructure. It completed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007.
Blackstone manages assets across funds and vehicles including Blackstone Real Estate, Blackstone Private Equity, Blackstone Credit & Insurance, and Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, and had approximately $1.27 trillion in assets under management at the end of 2025.
Key facts
- Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1985
- Employees: 5,001-10,000
- Ownership: Publicly traded (NYSE: BX)
- Sectors: AI Infrastructure
- Website: https://www.blackstone.com
Latest Blackstone Inc. news
- Shield AI's $5.3 Billion Echodyne Buy Turns a Drone-Autonomy Startup Into a Radar Maker — Shield AI is acquiring counter-drone radar maker Echodyne for up to $5.3 billion and raising $2.5 billion to fund it, pushing its own valuation to $28...
- Firmus Kicks Off Roadshow For A$7B ASX IPO, Backed By Nvidia And Blackstone — Firmus Technologies has kicked off a $5 billion roadshow for what would be Australia's largest AI-infrastructure IPO, with Nvidia and Blackstone ancho...
- Factory Raises $200M Series C At $5B Valuation For AI Coding Droids — AI coding-agent startup Factory closes a $200M round led by Blackstone at a $5B valuation, tripling its April mark and shipping Factory 2.0 with auton...
- Blackstone Leads $27M Series A For Israel's Huskeys To Tame Agentic AI Traffic At The Edge — Tel Aviv-based Huskeys raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments to grow its Network Edge Security Management platform for CDNs...
- India's AM Intelligence Orders 9,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin Systems For Hyderabad AI Factory — AM Intelligence, backed by renewable-energy giant Greenko Group, has placed a binding order for roughly 9,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems for...
- Lancium And NVIDIA Team Up To Deploy Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories — Texas developer Lancium has signed a strategic partnership with NVIDIA that turns its 4 GW leased plus 15+ GW pipeline of clean campuses into deployme...
- Broadcom Seeks $60B+ Debt For AI Chip Financing With Anthropic — Broadcom is arranging $60B+ of senior debt and up to $30B of junior financing for an AI chip package tied to Anthropic and other hyperscale customers.
- Etched Raises $700M at $21B Valuation, Jane Street Leads — AI inference chip startup Etched has closed a fresh $700 million round at a $21 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in a month as Jane Stree...
- Databricks Closes $5B At $190B As Agent Buyers Rewrite The Data Stack — Databricks wrapped a $5 billion strategic round at a $190 billion valuation, pouring the capital into Lakebase, Genie and Unity AI Gateway to court en...
- NVIDIA Rallies $500 Billion Wall Street Alliance to Finance AI Compute — NVIDIA on August 11 named Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR as founding partners in AI Compute Infrastructure Financing...
- NVIDIA Enlists Six Wall Street Giants To Mobilize $500B For AI Factories — NVIDIA signs MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500B for AI infrastructure, with compute as...
- Brookfield To Acquire Aypa Power In $7B Battery Storage Deal — Brookfield Asset Management will pay approximately $7 billion for Aypa Power, buying North America's largest standalone battery storage platform from...
- Blackstone Buys Controlling Stake In Korea's Futronic To Ride Humanoid Boom — Blackstone agreed to take a controlling stake in Korean actuator specialist Futronic in a deal valuing the 33-year-old company at ~$676M. Founder Ko J...
- Anthropic, Blackstone And H&F Launch Ode, A $1.5B Claude-First Enterprise AI Firm — Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman unveiled Ode with Anthropic — a $1.5B, Claude-first enterprise AI services firm led by ex-Fractional AI C...
- Blackstone Leads $5.34B Bet On Williams' Behind-The-Meter Power For AI — Williams has signed a $5.34 billion joint-venture deal led by Blackstone Credit & Insurance, with Apollo and KKR, to fund five behind-the-meter Power...
- Blackstone's QTS Terminates 2,100-Acre Virginia Data Center Project — QTS withdrew its final appeal and terminated the Digital Gateway data center project in Prince William County after four years of litigation over a pu...
- Quantum Systems Raises $1.2B Series D at $8B Valuation — Munich drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2 billion Series D co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus and Advent, doubling its valuation to $8 billio...
- Apollo Leads $35B Broadcom AI XPV Platform To Fund Anthropic Compute — Apollo and Blackstone lead a $35B financing for Broadcom's new AI XPV Platform, aimed at funding more than 20GW of AI compute by 2028 — starting with...