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.
Context: Lightspeed led and Insight co-led; TechCrunch notes Nominal claims Anduril as a major customer and that the valuation tripled in eight months.
From The Next Web: Nominal, whose software helps engineers test and analyse hardware such as aircraft, satellites and robots, has raised $240M in a Series C round at a $3B valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round and Insight Partners co-led it, Nominal announced on Monday.
Nominal · Series C · $240M · with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight PartnersAs stated by The Next Web.
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
a16z's own announcement that it is leading General Translation's Series A.
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.
Crunchbase's weekly roundup of the largest rounds; Shield AI's $2B led the week.
US commercial revenue rose 148% to $984M and topped US government revenue ($953M) for the first time.
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.