Insider Brief Industrial robotics startup Mind Robotics has raised $400 million in new funding led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total investment in the company to more than $1 billion. According to Mind Robotics, the round included new investors Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Incharge Capital, A-Star Capital and Garuda Ventures, alongside existing backers Accel, […]
Origin Lab, a startup building a licensed data marketplace between the video game industry and AI labs developing world models, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, and FPV. Angel investors include Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Cruise founder Kyle Vogt. The company, […]
Insider Brief London-based AI chip startup Fractile announced in a company blog post it raised $220 million in a funding round led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund as investors continue pouring capital into hardware designed to support the growing computational demands of artificial intelligence. The company said the funding will be used to […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Ciridae, the AI transformation firm building operating systems for real economy businesses, has announced it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Sunflower Capital, and Backcountry Ventures. Founded by CEO Jack Soslow, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and data scientist at Meta, […]
Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent research platform founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Sequoia. Existing backers including Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital also participated, bringing total capital raised to $230 million. The round arrives […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Avoca, the leading AI platform for America’s services economy, announced it has raised more than $125 million across Seed, Series A, and Series B funding at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B funding was led by Meritech and General Catalyst, and the Series A was led by Kleiner Perkins. While most […]
NewMod Manifest OS has announced a $60m Series A funding round at a $750m valuation, with Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and First Round Capital, taking ...
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Omni, the AI Analytics platform, announced its Series C funding round raising $120M at a $1.5B valuation, led by ICONIQ with participation from existing investors Theory Ventures, First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and GV. The round includes a $30M employee tender offer. The round marks a significant step-up from Omni’s previous $650M […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — OpenGradient, the compute layer for verifiable AI, announced $9.5 million in total funding raised to scale its network for open, auditable model execution. Major investors include a16z crypto, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon, NEAR, Celestia, and Thanefield Capital. Angel investors […]