Magentic builds AI agents that perform procurement and supply-chain work end to end for manufacturers, from spend analysis to contract compliance, according to the company's site at magentic.com. The …
Flower Labs launched Endeavor 1.0 on September 1, a general-purpose AI model for reasoning, coding, and long-running agent tasks, available as a managed service or for private deployment. The Cambridg…
Runlayer and Rippling dropped their lawsuits against each other on Wednesday night, with no settlement, money, or lawyers' fees exchanged, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch. Rippling, wh…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Rippling sued AI startup Runlayer for patent infringement on August 10 in Delaware, just 13 days after Runlayer filed its own trade-secret lawsuit in New York, escalating a dispute over technology tha…
Rippling, led by Parker Conrad, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AI infrastructure startup Runlayer on August 10, 2026, alleging that Runlayer infringed three Rippling patents, according to…
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, with terms undisclosed.…
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm known for investments in Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and ro…
Runlayer, a New York AI-security startup backed by Khosla Ventures, sued Rippling on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging trade-secret theft, unfair competition, and breach of contract after R…
Runlayer, a startup offering a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea after a nearly year-long produc…
Runlayer, a New York-based AI security startup backed by billionaire Vinod Khosla, sued Rippling on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, alleging the Silicon Valley software giant stole trade…
Legal startups raised $2.1 billion globally in the first half of 2025, per Crunchbase, as investors race to back AI-driven companies in a sector transformed by ChatGPT. Business Insider asked venture …
Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, to scale Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems build and deploy their own clinical AI agents. The …
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold…
Bunkerhill Health, a startup deploying AI agents to handle hospital tasks such as reducing wait times and paperwork backlogs, has raised $55 million in total funding, including a $25 million Series B …
Simular CEO Ang Li said Korea's hardware manufacturing strength could give it an edge in the AI agent era, where autonomous computers that act on behalf of users are replacing chatbots. The startup, b…
Arena, the UC Berkeley spinout behind the AI model evaluation platform LMArena, reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate eight months after launching its first commercial product, AI Evaluations…
Runlayer raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures participating, to build security and compliance infrastructure for corporate AI agents. The New York-based startup'…
Vinod Khosla pushed to buy every dollar of Runlayer's $30 million Series A, a rare signal of conviction from the influential investor. Runlayer builds governance infrastructure for AI agent workforces…