Goodfin Wire - Vol. 14

It's Tax Day. We are honoring this day by introducing Goodfin's take on QSBS. But first…

SpaceX is targeting a June roadshow at $1.75T. Anthropic crossed $30B in annualized revenue in under five months. OpenAI is rewriting the IPO playbook by carving out retail allocations that would have been unthinkable two years ago. The pattern is the same across every deal flow we're tracking: capital is concentrating into the companies building infrastructure — compute, defense, space, autonomous systems.

This edition puts you inside the signal, from our HumanX takeaways and QSBS tax solution to three companies the community is actively breaking down. Let's go 🚀

→ SpaceX targets a June roadshow at $1.75T—Mic drop.
→ Supper Club: New York City—Private dinner for Premium and Reserve members. April 29th. 2 seats left.
→ FinovateSpring—Goodfin demos live on the main stage in San Diego. Top U.S. banks in the room.
→ HumanX Takeaways—We are early in the AI shift. World models are coming. Signals from three companies, three positions on the private-to-public spectrum.
→ The Goodfin QSBS Fund—Learn about QSBS and one of the most powerful (and underutilized) tools in private markets.
→ From Goodfin Community—Members break down Citra, Saronic, and Dyme on the Community Investor Ticker.
→ Member Poll—Frontier industries are heating up. Where are you allocating?

We’re hosting a curated evening with Goodfin members in New York City at Casa Tua - a gathering around a private table for dinner, conversation, and exchange of signals. The format is simple: good food, the right people, and conviction. Goodfin CEO & Founder Anna will also share updates on Goodfin. Limited spaces available. This is exclusively for Premium and Reserve members only.

Goodfin will be demoing live on the main stage at FinovateSpring 2026, drawing 1,200+ senior-level attendees, with all ten of the top U.S. banks confirmed and 150+ credit unions and community banks in the room. This year's agenda is anchored around agentic AI in financial services, embedded finance, and wealth management, with speakers from JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, SVB, and Stripe. Goodfin will be showing the platform to the institutional audience actively evaluating how AI-native tools fit into alternative asset distribution. If you're attending, reach out or come find us on the floor.

Goodfin was on the ground at HumanX in San Francisco as a sponsor, where the throughline was clear: the pace of AI development has outrun most people's ability to track it. OpenAI's CTO of B2B applications, Srinivas Narayanan, put a finer point on it during a conversation with Bloomberg's Rachel Metz — noting that agentic coding has reshaped the entire field of software engineering in a matter of months, not years. The signal from the floor: infrastructure is moving faster than adoption, and the companies building for that gap are the ones worth watching. 

A few highlights from three companies offering three different positions on the private-to-public spectrum — all sitting on the infrastructure layer where the capital cycle is playing out: 

→ Vercel — CEO Guillermo Rauch signaled IPO readiness onstage, noting the company is operating with public-company discipline. ARR surged from $100M in early 2024 to a $340M run rate by February 2026, with 30% of apps on the platform now generated by AI agents. $9.3B valuation. No timeline given, but the signal was clear.

→ Databricks — CEO Ali Ghodsi is playing a longer game. $5.4B in annualized revenue, growing 65% YoY with positive free cash flow. AI products alone generate $1.4B. Ghodsi said that the company is prepared to go public when the time is right. Ghodsi argued that while AI models are "pretty smart," they fail in corporate settings because they lack specific enterprise context. He emphasized that companies must move beyond the hype and focus on grounding models in their own data to ensure reliability. Just weeks before HumanX, Databricks launched Lakewatch — an agentic SIEM product powered by Anthropic's Claude — with Adobe, Dropbox, and National Australia Bank as early customers. $134B valuation. TAM expanding well beyond data analytics.

→ CoreWeave — CTO Peter Salanki spoke about how chip design, GPU scaling, and real-time orchestration are evolving to support the next generation of AI. The stock has more than doubled from its $40/share IPO in March 2025. During the last day of the conference, CoreWeave and Meta announced a $21B expanded AI infrastructure agreement, and most recently announced a multi-year deal with Anthropic to power Claude, making it the infrastructure partner of nine of the ten leading AI model providers. Revenue backlog exceeds $66.8B. 2026 guidance: $12-13B in revenue, up 168% from 2025.

Any signal resonate with you? Let us know. We definitely look forward to being back to HumanX next year. 

We announced our “AI chip” at HumanX and held a giveaway with calls on which pre-IPO tech company will IPO first. Attendees found our chips in their welcome bags and scanned our AI poker chip for entry into the $1000 cash giveaway and bonus prize round that kicks off when the liquidity event happens.

Breakdown of first-to-IPO calls as follows:

SpaceX 37.76%
OpenAI 13.27%
Anthropic 12.24%
Databricks 10.20%
Stripe 9.18%
Cerebras 8.16%
Discord 7.14%
Anduril 2.04%

Entries are locked and a winner for the $1000 cash prize will be selected on April 20, 2026, with a follow-on round of $100 gift cards from the pool of correct IPO guesses. For those who participated, be on the lookout for the status of your entry. Good luck!

In honor of tax day, we’re excited to announce that we've launched a new way for our members to access one of the most powerful (and underutilized) tools in private markets: QSBS. Because we believe the key is to invest not just for returns, but after-tax returns.

QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) offers the potential to exclude up to 100% of capital gains from federal taxes on eligible early-stage tech investments, with exclusions of up to $15M or 10x your investment.

This is part of a broader shift we’re building toward at Goodfin: turning sophisticated tax and investment strategies into AI-enabled products.

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The signal that matters surfaced for you. Here's what our AI pulled from the noise this week:

→ Citra Space closed a $15M Series A to build persistent behavioral fingerprints of orbital objects — solving the identification gap where roughly 10,000 of the 35,000 objects in orbit lack meaningful context on identity or intent. Founded by former U.S. Space Force officers, Citra is positioning at the intersection of space domain awareness and national security as orbital congestion turns object characterization into a procurement priority. Read More

→ SpaceX targets June 8 roadshow, plans largest retail allocation in IPO history. SpaceX outlined its IPO details at a banker meeting on April 7, confirming plans to launch the roadshow the week of June 8, with 21 banks on the deal and a June 11 event for 1,500 retail investors. CNBC CFO Bret Johnsen told the syndicate that retail will be "a bigger part than any IPO in history." The company is targeting up to $75B at a valuation approaching $1.75T. Read More 

→ Anthropic's annualized revenue tops $30B as Claude Cowork drives acceleration. In April 2026, Anthropic's annual revenue run rate topped $30B, up more than 200% from $9B at the end of 2025, driven by the January launch of Claude Cowork — a digital assistant automating tasks across sales, marketing, data analytics, and product management. The company is reportedly targeting an October 2026 Nasdaq listing at a $400B–$500B valuation. Read More 

→ OpenAI signals retail-friendly IPO structure, breaking from traditional playbook. OpenAI plans to reserve part of its eventual IPO for individual investors, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC — a notable break from the usual offering script where institutions dominate allocations.The move adds another signal that the AI IPO wave may fundamentally reshape who gets access to pre-IPO upside. Read More

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Our members aren't just watching the market—they're breaking it down in real time on the Investor Ticker. Here's what the community is saying about three innovative companies trending now:

Saronic - Members view Saronic as a pure-play on autonomous naval systems — a category where the U.S. is actively accelerating spending as the economics of attrition warfare reshape procurement logic. Contracts span all service branches, Port Alpha and the Louisiana expansion signal real infrastructure commitment. The thesis here is straightforward: autonomous weapons platforms are moving from concept to fleet-level deployment, and Saronic is building the manufacturing base to meet that demand. The watch item is execution speed — defense manufacturing is capital-intensive, and delivery timelines will be the next test of whether the production capacity matches the contract pipeline.

Citra Space - The overall sentiment is bullish. Key themes include the potential for enhanced world and space safety and the strategic advantage of building an intelligence layer for space warfare. There is notable consensus on the team's proven experience and unique capabilities, with members expressing confidence in the investment's asymmetric upside and controlled downside.

Dyme — Dyme is the medtech name that turned heads in our Deal Room. The foundation of the bull case is the team — these are the operators who built Omnipod, and that pedigree is nearly impossible to replicate at this stage. When the prototype hit the camera, it settled the product debate: the form factor is a generational leap, and no competitor has gotten close. Diabetes care still remains to be one of the most underpenetrated opportunities in digital health, and founders who literally invented the category leader know exactly where the gaps are.

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