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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, […]
Read full articleInsider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Origin Lab, the technology platform turning licensed game worlds into structured training data for world models and multimodal AI, announced an $8M seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing will accelerate Origin Lab’s software, capture, enrichment, QA, search, and delivery systems, while expanding its applied research work in […]
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 will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
Basata has raised $21 million in a Series A led by Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures, with participation from Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee and Sofeon, to scale its AI-powered referral management platform for specialist medical practices. Total funding stands at $24.5 million. Founded by CEO Kaled Alhanafi, a former Lyft and Cruise executive, president […]
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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 […]
