Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-05-04

Impact Vector: Technology · May 4, 2026 · 6m

## Short Segments OpenAI's $10 billion enterprise AI venture with TPG is now official, marking a major shift in how AI products reach private equity portfolios. Coming up, Anthropic partners with Wall Street for a $1.5 billion AI pipeline, Smartness raises €47 million in Italy's largest vertical SaaS round, Blackstone targets $1.75 billion for an AI-era data-center REIT, and Cerebras updates its IPO terms for a $3.5 billion raise. Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5 billion pipeline into private equity. Anthropic has teamed up with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and…