Here’s another early-stage, agent-management startup to watch because of the backgrounds of the founders and the sheer number of big names it has already attracted as investors: Mintive. Mintive has raised $11 million total, including a newly announced $7 million seed led by Cowboy Ventures. Additional investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels
Upwind, a San Francisco startup that uses AI to secure cloud infrastructure, has raised a $400 million Series C round at a $3.8 billion valuation led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Greylock Partners and Craft Ventures. The round comes nine months after Upwind closed its previous $250 million financing at
Many investors stand to win big when Anthropic goes public. Stakes held by firms including Menlo Ventures, Sequoia, Sound Ventures, and Spark Capital are expected to return billions. Yet according to Anthropic’s S-1, none of those VC firms owns 5%, the threshold for being included in the principal stockholders’ table. That’s highly unusual. In a
Re:Build, the Massachusetts-based manufacturing accelerator that spun out EV startup Slate Auto in 2023, has raised $2.1 billion The company said Tuesday that it will use the funding to “expand Re:Build’s capacity to manufacture hard tech products and launch new industrial startups,” which will “ensure the most innovative products can be made in America for
Companies could soon have a new way to find out your shopping habits — by asking your digital clone. Joon Sung Park, Co-Founder & CEO of Simile, an AI startup, told show host Molly O’Shea on the Sourcery podcast released on Monday that the company is building simulations of people that businesses can quiz about
For years, one of the biggest unanswered questions about the artificial intelligence boom has been surprisingly simple: Can the companies building the world’s most powerful AI models actually make money? After spending hours poring over Anthropic’s IPO filing on Monday, we finally have an answer: Yes. And potentially lots of it. A couple of Chinese
