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Quarterly report from the Defender Global Fund flagging an 84.7% portfolio return, profits taken on SharonAI following its February Nasdaq uplisting, SharonAI's GPU collaboration with NVIDIA, and fresh investor subscriptions.
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Defender's quarterly newsletter reports an exceptional quarter for its global fund, headlined by portfolio holding SharonAI, which surged after a February Nasdaq uplisting and an NVIDIA GPU deployment partnership.
Defender's quarterly fund letter reports Q2 performance, AI-themed listed positions, Lyka Pet Food's latest capital raise, and the fund's profitable partial sell-down of its Lyka stake.
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Defender AM's quarterly letter reports the Defender Global Fund's Q2 2024 performance, a fresh Lyka Pet Food raise at a higher valuation, and the fund's profitable part-sale of its Lyka holding.
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Defender's quarterly investor letter reports its global fund's Q1 2024 performance and public-market moves, and revisits its Series A backing of Lyka Pet Food, an Australian fresh pet food maker building a Victorian facility.
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Defender's fund letter reports a 2% quarterly return, discusses listed trades including a semiconductor ETF position, and revisits its Series A investment in Australian pet-food maker Lyka Pet Food.
Defender's quarterly fund letter reports Q2 returns, AI and resources holdings, and portfolio company Lyka's second up-round at a stated US$150 million valuation.
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Deals recorded from Defender AM portfolio's coverage. A round is listed once, however many of their articles mention it.
Companies named in Defender AM portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Company | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Van Eck Semiconductor ETF | 4 | |
| Texas Instruments | 4 | |
| Tesla | 5 | |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company | 4 | |
| SharonAI Holdings | Self-described 'neocloud' managing over 300MW of high-performance compute capacity in dat… | 2 |
| Resolute Mining Limited | 2 | |
| Qualcomm Inc | 3 | |
| Qualcomm | 1 | |
| Propel Funeral Partners | 2 | |
| Pershing Square | 2 | |
| OpenAI | AI company | 1 |
| Nvidia Corp | 4 | |
| Nvidia | Technology company developing platforms for AI computing including orbital compute. | 3 |
| Northern Star Resources | One of Australia's biggest gold producers, whose KCGM operations will take the project's … | 4 |
| Mineral Resources Limited | 1 | |
| Microsoft | 7 | |
| Micron Technology Inc | 4 | |
| Meteoric Resources | 2 | |
| Meta (Facebook) | 2 | |
| Meta | 5 | |
| Lyka | Subscription fresh dog food maker selling direct to consumers | 5 |
| Lam Research Corp | 4 | |
| Intel Corp | 4 | |
| Technology company operator of Firebase, referenced as comparison | 3 | |
| Federal Reserve | 1 | |
| US tech giant | 1 | |
| Defender Global Fund | 4 | |
| Defender Capital Pty Ltd | 5 | |
| Defender Asset Management Limited | 4 | |
| Broadcom | US semiconductor giant | 4 |
| Brazilian Rare Earths | 2 | |
| BHP | Mining company | 1 |
| Betashares Global Uranium ETF | 2 | |
| ASML | 4 | |
| Applied Materials | The world's largest semiconductor company | 4 |
| Apple | 5 | |
| AMD | Technology giant and rival to Nvidia | 1 |
| Amazon | Global e-commerce and technology company | 7 |
| Alphabet | owner of the world’s dominant search engine and AI platform Gemini | 4 |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 4 |
Investors named in Defender AM portfolio's articles, most-covered first.
| Investor | What it does | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| Defender AM | Investment management across global, credit, tourism and AI funds | 3 |