Rillet, an AI accounting software maker, raised $100 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1 billion after its annualized revenue rate doubled in one quarter. The company,…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ, bringing total funding above $200 million. The company, which emerged from s…
Relay, a startup that built AI agents capable of operating web interfaces, has been acquired by Google, according to a blog post. The team's technology, which handles dynamic DOMs, shadow roots, and o…
AI pioneer Rich Sutton said on Sequoia's podcast that using synthetic data to train large language models is 'a big mistake,' arguing that manufactured data cannot capture the complexity of the real w…
Etched Inc., an inference chip startup, announced it raised an additional $700 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $21 billion. The round was led by Jane Street and included Kleiner Perkins,…
Etched Inc., an AI inference chip startup, raised $700 million in funding at a $21 billion valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation, in a round led by Jane Street and joined by Kleiner Per…
Etched shipped its first Sohu rack to Jane Street, which led a $700 million Series D at a $21 billion valuation, doubling the company's valuation in a month. The transformer-only chip, built on TSMC's…
AI inference chip startup Etched's valuation has doubled to about $21 billion just one month after its $300 million Series C round led by Sequoia, which valued the firm at $10.3 billion, according to …
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published August 16, 2026. The acquisition marks a 5.4x premium over OpenRouter's $1.3…
Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition…
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, marking Stripe's largest known bet on AI infrastructure. OpenRouter, which …
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which raised a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuatio…
Clay, a New York-based go-to-market platform, is hiring a Software Engineer, Applied AI with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr, to work on AI agents that execute real go-to-market workflows. The company…
Clay, a San Francisco-based company that helps organizations turn growth ideas into reality, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr. The role involves building lear…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Research Engineer for its LangSmith Engine team in New York, NY or S…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVC, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer for its AI observability and evals platform…
Prestige venture firms are increasingly securing better prices than other investors in the same funding round through dual valuation deals, a practice that has become pervasive in the current AI-drive…
Juicebox, an AI recruiting platform founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, raised an $80M Series B at an $850M valuation in March 2026, led by DST Global with participation from Sequoia, Coatue,…
Chai Discovery, a San Francisco-based biotech startup, released Chai-3, a generative AI model for molecular design that doubles the success rate of its predecessor in creating therapeutic antibodies, …