San Francisco-based Reactor, co-founded by former Apple Vision Pro technical leads Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, has raised $59 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, …
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which proc…
Lightspeed Venture Partners has hired a new partner, Zau, who will serve a dual role as both a seed investor and an in-house creator, leveraging her social media following of over 350,000 to shape the…
Shay Shwartz, a former teen hacker turned cybersecurity expert who worked on Israel's Iron Dome project, has raised $28 million for his startup Ocean, an agentic email security platform designed to co…
Anthropic is in talks to raise up to $50 billion at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, with Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners at the table. The company has projected $45 b…