Reflection AI, a U.S. startup developing open-weight AI models, signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius, formerly the international arm of Yandex, to access Nvi…
Helsing, a German defense AI startup, raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Iconiq, while the U.S. Air Force spends …
Pie, a New York startup, raised $19.5 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses optimize for AI search engines like ChatGPT. The company offers growth too…
Pie, an AI growth platform for small businesses, raised $23.7 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses maintain visibility in AI-driven search results.…
Patronus AI raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Greenfield Partners to build simulated worlds for testing AI agents before real-world deployment, borrowing from Waymo's self-driving car appr…
Ali Hussain, co-founder and CEO of Tabs, an AI-native revenue platform, was interviewed about his experience being backed twice by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Tabs is a New York-based startup buildin…
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an open-source SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with ultra-low late…
Andera, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to automate internal audit using AI. The platform uses large language models …
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…