{"version":"1.0","type":"stack","id":"0646d51e-dad0-4c1e-a033-869814d86f1c","url":"https://stacklist.com/c/finance/stack/0646d51e-dad0-4c1e-a033-869814d86f1c","title":"Signals Served #029 — The Cost of Capital Moved Somewhere Else","description":"Every source behind Signals Served #029 (week of September 15–21, 2026). The Fed raised rates for the first time in 37 months and the 10-year printed 5.01% — but whether that reached a seed round is a question nobody can currently answer. The one measurement anyone made of founders was about completion, not price. Primary sources: Federal Reserve, FRED, SEC EDGAR, AngelList, Goldman Sachs, PitchBook.","privacy":"public","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:43:59.585Z","updated_at":"2026-09-21T22:43:59.585Z","author":{"username":"jdaudena","name":"JD Audena","url":"https://stacklist.com/jdaudena","type":"person"},"category":{"id":"finance","name":"finance","url":"https://stacklist.com/c/finance"},"items":[{"id":"00685b94-f3f4-419b-8ee0-981be03eef75","position":1,"title":"Signals Served #029 — The Cost of Capital Moved Somewhere Else","url":"https://www.thevcconcierge.com/insights/signals-served-029","note":"Issue #029 of Signals Served — The Cost of Capital Moved Somewhere Else. Week of September 15–21, 2026. 13 signals with a Founder Signal for each. The repricing of long-duration capital is visible in public markets and unobserved near a seed round; the only early-stage measurement anyone published was about whether rounds finish, not what they cost.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/f4695af0-9df6-492a-b90e-471488a6d005/","alt":"Signals Served #029 — The Cost of Capital Moved Somewhere Else","width":1280,"height":800},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/00685b94-f3f4-419b-8ee0-981be03eef75","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:15.290Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Signals Served #029 analyzes how the Federal Reserve's rate increase and rising 10-year Treasury yields to 5.01% have repriced long-duration capital differently across public and private markets. While public markets show immediate repricing effects, private equity and seed-stage funding remain largely insulated from these changes, suggesting founders should trace specific channels before adjusting their capital strategies.","tags":["venture-capital","interest-rates","capital-markets","fundraising","fed-policy","long-duration-capital","seed-rounds"],"key_entities":[{"name":"Federal Reserve","type":"organization","confidence":0.99},{"name":"Kevin Warsh","type":"person","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Goldman Sachs","type":"organization","confidence":0.98},{"name":"SoftBank","type":"organization","confidence":0.98},{"name":"Nscale","type":"organization","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Crusoe","type":"organization","confidence":0.9},{"name":"AngelList","type":"organization","confidence":0.98},{"name":"Hang Ten Systems","type":"organization","confidence":0.9},{"name":"FOMC Rate Increase September 16 2026","type":"event","confidence":0.97},{"name":"long-duration capital repricing","type":"concept","confidence":0.92}],"classification":"analysis","language":"en","confidence":0.85,"provenance":{"model":"claude-haiku-4-5","tool":"@stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0","confidence":0.85,"timestamp":"2026-09-21T22:44:24.808Z"},"token_counts":{"approximate":6620,"cl100k":5917},"content_hash":"sha256:5194c2dcb67d3af59cf9c8a8b650d7913e100a34c4f22519310ca9cf1beec0fd","acp_version":"0.2","body_available":true,"body_tokens":6620,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"}},{"id":"688a7223-acfc-4c5e-9960-83c9243c395e","position":2,"title":"Federal Reserve — FOMC Calendar and Statements","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm","note":"Primary source for the September 16 decision: a unanimous 25bp rise to 3.75–4.00%, the first increase since July 2023 — a gap of thirty-seven months.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/5452dc17-193b-4129-befc-e3df8ba6d40f/","alt":"Federal Reserve — FOMC Calendar and Statements","width":188,"height":60},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/688a7223-acfc-4c5e-9960-83c9243c395e","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:20.717Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Federal Reserve FOMC Calendar and Statements provides the official schedule of Federal Open Market Committee meetings for 2025-2027, including dates, policy statements, minutes, and economic projection materials. 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The October 2023 peak was 4.98% and never crossed five.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/1f3a4d22-1389-4dd1-a212-ff6b0205bca1/","alt":"FRED — 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate (DGS10)","width":880,"height":463},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/1afe220b-8e84-4538-9eb2-cdfe305ecff9","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:23.037Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"FRED provides daily market yield data on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity (DGS10), with the most recent observation at 5.01 percent as of September 18, 2026. The data is sourced from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and released through the H.15 Selected Interest Rates report.","tags":["treasury-yield","10-year-maturity","interest-rates","economic-data","federal-reserve","dgs10"],"key_entities":[{"name":"Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System","type":"organization","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis","type":"organization","confidence":0.95},{"name":"FRED","type":"technology","confidence":0.9},{"name":"10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate","type":"concept","confidence":0.95},{"name":"DGS10","type":"concept","confidence":0.9},{"name":"United States of America","type":"location","confidence":0.95}],"classification":"reference","language":"en","confidence":0.85,"provenance":{"model":"claude-haiku-4-5","tool":"@stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0","confidence":0.85,"timestamp":"2026-09-21T22:44:28.038Z"},"token_counts":{"approximate":1027,"cl100k":939},"content_hash":"sha256:2bb53183928b24b7644fcd837122825d91ddc6325ea73282b66be1bae7b30e8c","acp_version":"0.2","body_available":true,"body_tokens":1027,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"}},{"id":"62617dc5-b083-4910-b369-905025010e47","position":4,"title":"Federal Reserve — H.15 Selected Interest Rates","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/","note":"Used to measure the steepening rather than the level: policy down 50bp over twelve months against the long end up 88, a 138 basis point widening between the fed funds upper bound and the 10-year.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/6cc12670-a0f1-43de-aad3-128d9ed3868b/","alt":"Federal Reserve — H.15 Selected Interest Rates","width":188,"height":60},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/62617dc5-b083-4910-b369-905025010e47","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:25.217Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"The Federal Reserve H.15 Selected Interest Rates report provides daily yields on various financial instruments including federal funds, commercial paper, Treasury bills, and bank prime loan rates. The data is released Monday through Friday at 4:15pm and includes rates for multiple maturities ranging from 1-month to 1-year instruments.","tags":["federal-reserve","interest-rates","h.15","treasury","monetary-policy"],"key_entities":[{"name":"Federal Reserve","type":"organization","confidence":0.99},{"name":"Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System","type":"organization","confidence":0.98},{"name":"Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis","type":"organization","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)","type":"technology","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Data Download Program (DDP)","type":"technology","confidence":0.93},{"name":"federal funds rate","type":"concept","confidence":0.97},{"name":"Treasury bills","type":"concept","confidence":0.96},{"name":"commercial paper","type":"concept","confidence":0.95}],"classification":"reference","language":"en","confidence":0.85,"provenance":{"model":"claude-haiku-4-5","tool":"@stacklist/be@0.1.0","confidence":0.85,"timestamp":"2026-09-21T22:44:35.326Z"},"token_counts":{"approximate":2532,"cl100k":2966},"content_hash":"sha256:7d274e24915c013e879c1f3fff6b401418fc2c8507fd9e6bb61e292677270ef4","acp_version":"0.2","body_available":true,"body_tokens":2532,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"}},{"id":"57bee22a-5279-4ce0-abfd-3e12fbb2b346","position":5,"title":"AngelList — The Impossibility of Indexing Seed","url":"https://www.angellist.com/blog/the-impossibility-of-indexing-seed","note":"The week's only measurement of founders. Of 2025 seed rounds a founder started, 26% ever wired; rounds a third-party deal lead brought, 65%. Both converged on the same $25M median pre-money. AngelList is explicit that the lead is a marker of investor support, not a demonstrated cause of it.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/98e8ff98-25bc-4763-b8b2-eb8ecb69efb6/","alt":"AngelList — The Impossibility of Indexing Seed","width":1200,"height":627},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/57bee22a-5279-4ce0-abfd-3e12fbb2b346","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:39.014Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"The article argues that indexing into seed-stage startups is impossible because the set of \"credible deals\" is not independent but created by investor decisions, creating a gap between all startups and those the market funds. Analysis of AngelList's Roll-Up Vehicles (RUVs) versus third-party SPVs reveals that while wired RUVs show comparable returns to lead-driven deals, most RUVs fail to wire, indicating substantial selection occurs during fundraising based on information beyond materials.","tags":["seed-funding","venture-capital","indexing","ruvs","startup-valuation","investor-behavior","credible-deals"],"key_entities":[{"name":"Abe Othman","type":"person","confidence":0.95},{"name":"AngelList","type":"organization","confidence":0.98},{"name":"Roll-Up Vehicles (RUVs)","type":"technology","confidence":0.92},{"name":"rollups.com/ruv","type":"technology","confidence":0.88},{"name":"credible deal gap","type":"concept","confidence":0.85},{"name":"seed-stage indexing","type":"concept","confidence":0.87},{"name":"Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)","type":"concept","confidence":0.9}],"classification":"analysis","language":"en","confidence":0.85,"provenance":{"model":"claude-haiku-4-5","tool":"@stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0","confidence":0.85,"timestamp":"2026-09-21T22:44:44.683Z"},"token_counts":{"approximate":3169,"cl100k":2599},"content_hash":"sha256:d97187aa5d08350d952c7c7b134c7989d839fdb5a06925d222799f27b75672ec","acp_version":"0.2","body_available":true,"body_tokens":3169,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"}},{"id":"12dcccfe-a16c-4a02-9c49-954b75f26c53","position":6,"title":"Nscale — Form S-1 (SEC EDGAR, September 18 2026)","url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0002110365/000119312526395475/ck0002110365-20260918.htm","note":"The one company this week with no say over which number it published: a $1.02B net loss against $140.6M of revenue, alongside a company-defined ~$103B order book and $56.4B of booked obligations.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/15994124-1dc1-4884-a9bd-064ea110de30/","alt":"Nscale — Form S-1 (SEC EDGAR, September 18 2026)","width":1280,"height":800},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/12dcccfe-a16c-4a02-9c49-954b75f26c53","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:41.176Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Nscale Limited filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the SEC on September 18, 2026, seeking to register securities for a public offering. 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He names the mechanism and pointedly declines to size AI's share of the move — a discipline worth copying.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/62cebe45-e16e-4a09-9dd6-4d1ecc4d783c/","alt":"Goldman Sachs — What the Capex Boom Means for Stock Investors","width":1500,"height":1000},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/3d2a7adc-f558-4e91-9860-a7d7561b1f90","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:43.192Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Goldman Sachs Research analyzes how rising capital expenditures and higher interest rates are driving investors toward capital-intensive companies with physical assets and away from asset-light technology models. 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Read alongside the primary: it is a sell-side argument from a bank that underwrites the issuance it is counting.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/72501505-ecce-46cd-8d88-999b596660f1/","alt":"Fortune — Goldman's Oppenheimer on Earnings, Bubbles and Hard Data","width":1280,"height":800},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/a7854042-911f-4da0-82f5-f2c810f2c1fc","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:44:45.229Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Peter Oppenheimer from Goldman Sachs argues that technology stocks face an earnings bubble rather than a valuation problem, driven by competition between AI infrastructure spending and government borrowing for the same pool of capital. 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Two weeks after the press reported a smaller number in progress. That is what an upsizing round looks like, and it means $30.9B is not a settled post-money either.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/6bfa2508-721c-4e09-9150-53ab06d3812f/","alt":"Crusoe — $3.9B Series F at $30.9B (company release, September 17)","width":1131,"height":271},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/9df26ce8-c501-4e0e-9954-c96e344ce6e8","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:45:03.467Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Crusoe, an AI infrastructure provider, raised $3.9 billion in Series F funding at a $30.9 billion valuation to scale its vertically-integrated platform combining energy generation and AI cloud services. 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Also: a former Infosys chief executive raising from the chief executives of Intel and Micron — access at the top of the distribution, not a reading of the median.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/08215f72-3c02-447f-8070-bbf6a3e30602/","alt":"TechCrunch — Hang Ten Systems Adds $53M Five Weeks After a $32M Seed","width":1200,"height":800},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/80fd4e01-0107-4469-8991-8ac734d056f6","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:45:05.672Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, raised $53 million in seed funding just five weeks after its initial $32 million round, bringing total funding to $85 million. 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A company that wanted $10B for an equity position went to the bond market in the same week the long end hit a nineteen-year high. The coupon prints September 24.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/ea97b42a-ab22-4953-846c-cd819c60b299/","alt":"Japan Times — SoftBank Launches $10B of Notes Plus €1B to Fund an OpenAI Tranche","width":1500,"height":999},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/4df5dfde-8156-4d07-b8a4-be7dba417e6f","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:45:07.827Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"SoftBank Group is seeking over $11 billion in junk bonds, including $10 billion in dollar securities and 1 billion euros in euro notes, to fund a follow-on investment in OpenAI. 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Check the basket before repeating the number — swap Oracle out and the signal looks materially different — and note Apollo is a private-credit manager whose book benefits from caution about public AI credit.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/42974671-a022-41dd-b2a6-e6292d5a2266/","alt":"Apollo — Hyperscaler CDS Widening Is Not a Dealer Inventory Story","width":666,"height":375},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/5548065b-6696-4c56-9d40-37d7521c9854","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:45:10.031Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Hyperscaler CDS widening is driven by deteriorating credit fundamentals from debt-financed AI capital expenditure cycles, not dealer inventory hedging. 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At least one outlet reported the CDS basket wrong this week — use the argument, and attribute the number to whoever actually said it.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/385c3eb0-a337-48ba-8d06-d567052ccc9a/","alt":"CNBC — Hyperscaler Debt Signals a Warning Sign, Apollo Cautions","width":1920,"height":1080},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/fffd3112-a858-4139-a094-073347c035f3","created_at":"2026-09-21T22:45:24.938Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"Apollo Global Management warns that credit default swaps for hyperscaler debt have become riskier due to debt-financed AI capital expenditure cycles with rising leverage and negative free cash flow. 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