FUNDING$500M valuationEx-DeepMind Poker AI Trio's Trading Startup EquiLibre Hits $500M ValuationEquiLibre Technologies, founded by three former DeepMind researchers who built DeepStack -- the first AI to beat professional players at no-limit poker -- raised a Series A led by Creandum that Creandum called the largest single check the firm has ever written, valuing the Prague-based company at $500 million. EquiLibre applies the same reinforcement-learning techniques that mastered poker to trading stocks and crypto for quantitative hedge funds including Tower Research Capital.Jun 30, 2026
