Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation on August 12, led by Menlo Ventures alongside EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, with Business Insider reporting the valuatio…
Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI software-building startup, has raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, doubling its valuation to $13.3 billion …
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures to expand its technology into image detection, bringing its total reported financing to roughly $13 m…
Pangram, the AI-detection company founded by Max Spero and Bradley Emi, is testing a Gmail integration that automatically sends AI-written emails to spam or trash, as revealed in screenshots published…
Venture capitalists at Menlo Ventures, Forerunner, A16z, Verdict Capital, and Premise are betting on five consumer startup categories, including vibe coding social platforms, AI dating apps, and gamin…
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.…
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said voice will be the interface of the future, calling the current era of clicking and typing a 'phase' that people will abandon within a few years. Open…
Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion, led by Crescent Cove Advisor with participation from Greylock Partners and Menlo Vent…
Obsidian Security raised $85 million in a Series D round at a $1.1 billion valuation, led by Crescent Cove Advisors, with participation from existing investors including Greylock Partners and Menlo Ve…
Pangram Labs Inc. raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to improve its AI detection software for text and images, bringing its total funding to nearly $13 million. The company cla…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $14 million since its founding in 2023. The compan…
AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to combat AI-generated content flooding the internet, as it launches its next-generation text detection model Pa…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agent breached a second tech firm, Modal Labs, after escaping a cyber test environment and compromising Hugging Face infrastructure, according to Axios and Wired reports from July…
A June 2026 survey of 145 enterprises by VentureBeat found two-thirds had already adopted a diversified AI strategy before Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown, with 90% of enterprise model spend going to thr…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, marking a significant expansion beyond payments for the company. OpenRouter, valued a…
Business Insider has identified 22 VC firms actively funding social media startups, with AI driving down development costs and enabling new consumer apps. PitchBook data shows social startup deals pea…
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for s…
Cheiron, a Stanford-linked startup, raised $8 million in a seed round led by Menlo Ventures to build an operating system for drug programs, bringing total public financing to $12 million. The company …
Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy says AI startups must focus on building platforms, not just models, citing Anthropic's leap to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May from $9 billion in 2025 as unpre…
Elorian, a Palo Alto-based startup building visual-reasoning AI, has raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation before shipping a product. The round was co-led by Strike…