Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. Halluminate benchmarks AI models on financial tasks to find where they fall short and builds simulated training environments aimed at those gaps. Founded in
EliseAI, the artificial intelligence company that automates back-office work for landlords and health systems, has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, the company told Fortune, nearly doubling its valuation from just over a year ago. The funding round was co-led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as
Since prediction markets exploded in popularity in 2024, the industry’s two leading players, Kalshi and Polymarket, have been raising staggering amounts of money. In the case of Kalshi, the startup notched a $1 billion Series F in May that valued it at $22 billion, and investors are eyeing an initial public offering as soon as
For elite students, college has never looked like a worse deal. Tuition is nearly half a million dollars, AI is threatening to destroy the entry-level jobs a degree used to guarantee, and now in the hottest industry—tech—it’s cool to skip school entirely. So on Tuesday, Andreessen Horowitz became the first venture capital firm to sell
After years of captivating users with endless swipes, dating apps are now trying to get people to put their phones down and find connection in the real world. Tinder, the pioneer of the dating swipe, is now one of the companies leading this expansion of IRL events. In March, the company introduced an Events feature
Good advice may be hard to come by, but one website offering guidance from business experts for tens of thousands dollars says you’ll be satisfied, or your money back. Intro, a website that offers pricey video call advice from leading business experts, became the talk of X this week after users discovered Nikita Bier, the
