Corma, an AI security startup founded by CEO Alon Pluda, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to close the 'defense gap' in cybersecurity…
Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years at Google, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, according to people familiar with the matter. The c…
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…
Corma Labs Ltd., a defensive cybersecurity startup founded in 2025 with offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital Operations, with Khosla Vent…
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…
Corma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to …
Ellis, an AI-native operations platform for private credit funds, launched out of stealth on July 30, 2026, with over $10 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, alongside 645 Ventures, Ha…
Jeff Dean, Google's former Senior Fellow and co-founder of Google Brain, left Alphabet on August 5 with three other top researchers—Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals—to launch Discovery Loop…
Jeff Dean, Google's longest-serving executive and chief scientist, is leaving the company to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on using AI to accelerate scientific research, …
Sekai, a platform founded in 2024 by former ByteDance executive Lucky Zhang, has seen users create over 20 million AI-generated mini-apps since its late 2025 launch, with about 250,000 new apps added …
WindBorne Systems, a startup using the world's longest-flying weather balloons and AI forecasting models, has raised a $37 million Series B round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, valuing the c…
Investors are shifting AI funding toward infrastructure companies, with Valar Atomics, a builder of small-modular nuclear reactors, announcing a $1 billion Series B at a $6 billion valuation led by Se…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark F…
Mariana Minerals, a San Francisco-based mining startup cofounded by CEO Turner Caldwell, has raised $310 million in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $400 million …
Dili raised $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz and other enterprise backers, to develop compliance solutions for AI infrastructure deployment. Th…
Dili disclosed a $15 million Series A on July 30, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Brick & Mortar Ventures and Allianz, for its AI-powered labor-compliance software targeti…
Dili, an AI-driven compliance automation platform founded by three former Coinbase employees, raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to automate prevailing wage and apprenticesh…
Dili, an AI compliance startup targeting U.S. infrastructure projects, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total capital to $21.7 million. The company's software, a…
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…