Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup, raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10.3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, to scale production of its Sohu transformer-specific ASIC that c…
Andreessen Horowitz argues that AI inference is becoming the largest workload in computing history, with demand for inference tokens surging 300x in two years at Google to 3.2 quadrillion tokens per m…
AI chip startup Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in seven months, co-founder and…
Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics company Atoms raised $1.7 billion in equity funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, K5 Global, SV Angel, Alpha Square Group,…
Khosla Ventures is in talks to raise $5.5 billion across new funds, nearly double the $3.5 billion it sought in February 2025, according to Bloomberg. The Menlo Park firm, led by Vinod Khosla, is doub…
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has raised $160 million at a …
Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms is betting on specialized industrial robots rather than humanoids, with divisions in food, mining, and transport built on the existing CloudKitchens infrastruc…
A startup called Cathedral, founded by former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has raised a $160 million funding round led by…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the inaugural cohort of 65 Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows, an 8-week program for engineers deploying AI in enterprises, with fellows from companies including Op…
Forward-deployed engineering is the fastest-growing AI job category, with LinkedIn reporting 42-fold growth from 2023 to 2025 and Indeed showing a 729% increase in postings from April 2025 to April 20…
Neo emerged from stealth on July 20, 2026 with $100 million in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures to build a control laye…
Cascade, an AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering and construction firms, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun programme, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico…
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners to build a real-time control layer for agentic AI software in enterprises. Founde…
Neo, a Boston-based cybersecurity startup founded by former SentinelOne executives Nick Warner and Shlomi Salem, emerged from stealth on July 20 with $100 million in cumulative seed and Series A fundi…
A HarrisX poll commissioned by Build American AI found that 56% of American voters have a favorable view of artificial intelligence, with 72% agreeing AI could reduce time on repetitive tasks and 71% …
Neo Security Inc. has raised $100 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners to build a secure control layer for enterprise AI agents. The startup, founded by former e…
OpenAI proposed a new AI scorecard called 'Useful Intelligence per Dollar' on July 17, 2026, designed to help enterprises measure AI value through four lenses: useful work produced, cost per successfu…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $20 million funding round for Runta, a startup that helps businesses 'parent' AI agents by wrapping them in isolated environments and guardrails to prevent damage, val…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full open weights under an Apache 2.0…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading the seed round for Runta, a startup rebuilding the execution layer for AI agents to provide efficient, secure, and stateful compute that can run locally or in the…