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Leni, a finance-grade agentic AI analyst founded around 2021 by Arunabh Dastidar (CEO), Gaurav Madani, and Zain Nathoo, has raised roughly $6.6M, including a March 2024 seed led by York IE with Second Century Ventures an…
Fundraisly, an AI-driven guided fundraising service, claims to have helped more than 200 startups raise over $1.1 billion and booked over 3,000 investor meetings, with an 8.7-out-of-10 founder rating, though these figure…
Ellis, an AI-native operations platform for private credit funds, launched out of stealth on July 30, 2026, with over $10 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, alongside 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla…
Passionfroot, an AI-powered B2B creator-marketing platform founded in 2021 in Berlin by CEO Jen Phan and Patricia Wehner, has raised roughly $22.2M across three rounds, including a $15M Series A led by Insight Partners a…
Bluefish AI, a generative engine optimization platform founded in 2024, has raised roughly $68M to help Fortune 500 brands monitor and optimize their visibility in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, and Perpl…
Fazeshift, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2023 in San Francisco, deploys AI agents that automate accounts-receivable workflows on top of existing ERPs, and has raised $22M total including a $17M Series A announ…
LinqAlpha, an AI research platform founded in 2022, raised a $22 million Series A led by AVP with participation from Atinum Investment and GFT Ventures, bringing total funding to approximately $28.6 million. The platform…
Naive, co-founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, has raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, announced August 2026, to provide a single API that packages company formation, payments, communications, and co…
Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, which is valued at $49.5 billion, said on the 20VC podcast that it is 'mind-boggling' to think people can achieve greatness by working 38 hours a week with w…
Sequoia Capital is targeting approximately $10 billion in dedicated AI investments, its largest concentrated wager in over five decades, under new co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady. The firm has reinvested in OpenAI a…
Firmus Technologies, a Tasmanian company that began as a Bitcoin miner in 2019, has raised $2 billion at a valuation of over $10.5 billion to become an AI infrastructure builder, nearly doubling its valuation from $5.5 b…
Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor, shared his three-step playbook for building high-talent-density teams—scoping, mapping, and relentless pursuit—in a podcast interview, warning that the traditional recruiting funnel l…
Moore Threads Technology, a Beijing-based AI chip designer founded in 2020 by former Nvidia executive Zhang Jianzhong, plans a secondary listing in Hong Kong to deepen international expansion and attract talent, accordin…
David Silver, founder of AI lab Ineffable Intelligence, has pledged to donate all proceeds from any future sale of his company to charity, following a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver, who led …
Runware, the AI inference startup founded by Flaviu Radulescu and Ioana Hreninciuc, launched Sonic Inference Pods, modular data centers in 20-foot shipping containers that pack about 1,200 GPUs and one megawatt of comput…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into editable slide decks, and has folded its entire team into ChatGPT's development. The deal closed earlier th…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which reportedly did the work …
Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, made a US$400 million investment in chip manufacturing startup Source Foundry, backed by Sequoia Capital, days after the fu…
AI companies Harvey, Sierra, and Legora each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue within nine months of each other, with valuations ranging from 25x to 125x current ARR, according to an analysis by Tom Tunguz…
In episode 25 of God Mode Podcast, hosts Rik and Ben graded their past AI predictions, noting a developer generated $50,000 in AI coding value from just $800 in subscriptions. SpaceX stock fell 35% from its IPO as Rik pr…