AI wrappers—thin layers over models like GPT-4—are dying as margins collapse, users shift to native tools, and enterprises demand integrated AI. Survivors fall into three categories: vertical AI agent…
Alphabet's $124 billion stake in Anthropic distorted its Q2 2026 earnings, with net income of $112.11 billion inflated by $98 billion in unrealized gains from equity securities including Anthropic and…
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Se…
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup, raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10.3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, to scale production of its Sohu transformer-specific ASIC that c…
Khosla Ventures is in talks to raise $5.5 billion across new funds, nearly double the $3.5 billion it sought in February 2025, according to Bloomberg. The Menlo Park firm, led by Vinod Khosla, is doub…
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has raised $160 million at a …
A startup called Cathedral, founded by former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has raised a $160 million funding round led by…
Glow emerged from stealth on July 22, 2026, with $180 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation, claiming that endpoint security tools like CrowdStrike were built for human users and cannot secu…
Glow emerged from stealth on July 22 with a $180 million all-equity Series A and a $1.2 billion valuation, backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint Ventures, Index Ventures, Swish V…
Israeli cybersecurity startup Glow emerged from stealth in July 2026 with $180 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint at a $1 billion valuation, …
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $180 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, C…
Block is launching Buzz, an open-source workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting, CEO Jack Dorsey announced on X on July 21st. The platform, built around a self-hostable Nostr rela…
Chai Discovery Inc. has raised $400 million in Series C funding, nearly tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion, as the AI drug discovery company signs licensing agreements with Pfizer Inc., Eli Lilly …
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build Aidan, an AI system that runs live product demonstrations and replaces sales development workflows. The less-than-year-old startup trains…
Anthropic and Blackstone on July 15 launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services company that embeds applied engineers inside large organizations to build and deploy systems powe…
Fireworks AI has reached a $17.5 billion valuation as enterprises increasingly seek cheaper alternatives to proprietary AI models, the company announced. The inference startup, which operates a pay-pe…
Sable has closed a $45 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital after Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire watched the startup's AI sales rep fluidly switch between English, Mandarin, and Spanish in a si…
Sequoia Capital led a $45 million investment into Sable, a San Francisco startup whose product Aidan is marketed as the first AI employee that can perform sales tasks such as running product demos and…
Sable, a startup less than a year old, has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC for its AI employee named Aiden, which can run live product walk-throughs and switch languages mid-conversati…
Parallel Web Systems, the AI search startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has integrated its web search API into Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a preview grounding o…