Sequoia Capital told 80 portfolio founders that owning AI models down to the weights is now a performance edge, not a sacrifice, according to a talk by partner Sonya Huang titled 'Own Your Intelligenc…
AIR Security raised $50 million in two seed rounds—$10 million led by Sequoia Capital and $40 million led by Greenoaks Capital—to secure the tools and add-ons used by AI agents in enterprises. The sta…
Empirik, an AI-powered infrastructure observability startup incubated by Sequoia Capital, launched Tuesday with $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The company, led …
AIR Security emerged from stealth on September 1 with a $50 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks to build a real-time firewall for AI agents, aiming to discover, vet, and block m…
A technology executive warns that CIOs are making a costly mistake by choosing cloud AI providers based on current model performance, citing a meeting where leaders nearly signed a multi-year, multi-m…
Sequoia Capital, in a new guide, urges enterprises to consider owning their AI models rather than renting frontier APIs, citing the rapid advancement of open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 and…
Parallel, founded in 2023 by Parag Agrawal, launched Index, a platform that pays content creators when AI agents use their work, with compensation based on the Shapley value of contribution. The servi…
San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, backed by OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on Moonshot AI's open-…
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, 2026, toward a possible IPO with secondary-market investors pricing the company near $2 trillion, based on a $47 billion revenue ru…
Ode, the Anthropic-backed joint venture valued at roughly $1.5 billion, has acquired AI consultancy Casper Studios, adding capabilities in custom AI solutions, UX/UI design, and large language model d…
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup founded by three 24-year-old Harvard dropouts, has raised its valuation to $21 billion after a $700 million funding round led by Jane Street, and has attracted…
U.S. semiconductor startup Etched has raised $700 million at a valuation of $21 billion, more than double its previous valuation of $10.3 billion from a $300 million Series C round in July. Jane Stree…
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a pre-money valuation of at least $12 billion, according to Bloomberg, just six months after its $5 billion valuation from a $3…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded b…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to over $200 million. The round was led by ICONIQ wit…
Rillet, a two-year-old AI-native accounting startup, has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Oak HC/FT…
Etched, a San Jose AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, has seen its valuation double to $21 billion in under a month after raising $700 million in a new round led by Jane Street, which …
Etched announced Tuesday it raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street, doubling its valuation from $10.3 billion in July and up from $5 billion in December. The startup design…
Etched, an AI inference systems startup founded by Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, which tested Etched's hardw…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources familiar with the company's fina…