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Industrial automation startup Path Robotics raises $300M in funding (opens siliconangle.com)
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
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$30M Raised to Redo the CPU (opens tendrils.co)
Tendrils announces a $30M raise on its own blog to rethink the CPU.
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Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises (opens siliconangle.com)
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
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Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M (opens businessinsider.com)
Vinod Khosla is doubling down on the bet that one-size-fits-all websites are numbered.
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Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development (opens techcrunch.com)
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof's first fund targets AI in pharma.
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Dreeze launches with $33M to recover entire cloud applications, not just their data (opens siliconangle.com)
Dreeze's 'Application Revival' restores whole cloud applications after an outage, not only their data.
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AI-driven managed security startup Daylight raises $80M on 40-fold revenue growth (opens siliconangle.com)
The WSJ says Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Series B at a ~$400M valuation; Daylight says revenue grew more than 40-fold in a year.
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Investing in General Translation (opens a16z.news)
a16z's own announcement that it is leading General Translation's Series A.
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Staera launches with $4.6M to develop an optical interconnect for chiplets (opens siliconangle.com)
Optical interconnects for chiplets; Singapore's Openspace Capital led the pre-seed.
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Graphon Labs raises $35m to give AI agents a memory that lasts (opens thenextweb.com)
Graphon builds memory for AI agents by mapping connections across docs, videos and images; RRE led.
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AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months (opens techcrunch.com)
Nominal sells an AI platform for hardware engineering and names Anduril as a major customer; the round triples its valuation to $3B in 8 months.
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AI security startup Bay launches with $50M to vet agent actions before they run (opens siliconangle.com)
Bay lets enterprises vet each action an AI agent tries to take before it runs.
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