We've raised $200M at a $5B valuation to scale self-improving software development in the enterprise. The round brings our total funding to over $400M and more than triples our $1.5B valuation from April.↗

The world needs far more software than it can build. Cognition exists to change that. We’ve just raised over $2B at a $48B valuation, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Since our round in May, run-rate revenue has grown from $492 M to almost $900 M…↗

Today marks a major step for Mistral: we’re announcing a €3B Series D, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.↗

AI data labeling company @AfterQuery is now valued at $3.2 billion, sources say, 10xing its valuation since April. That would make it the fastest YC company to go from inception -> unicorn. Oh, and its founders are 22 and 23 years old. forbes.com/sites/annatong…↗

We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone. We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.↗

We raised $136M to kill Slack. Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack. Here’s how it works:↗

We just raised $7.2M USD to make insurance feel magical. Nobody has ever said "my insurer was so easy to deal with." We're changing that. @generalmagic_ai builds AI agents that text your customers and complete insurance workflows end to end. 30 minute quotes now take 3.↗

Introducing Simile. Simulating human behavior is one of the most consequential and technically difficult problems of our time. We raised $100M from Index, Hanabi, A* BCV, @karpathy @drfeifei @adamdangelo @rauchg @scottbelsky among others.↗

There’s never been a better time to start a company. If you’re a founder, this is an opportunity to have access to the Vercel team, investors and $6M in credits. A new class of companies is emerging. Smaller, flatter, faster growing, autonomous. Agentic. I encourage you to appl…↗

Announcing Flapping Airplanes! We’ve raised $180M from GV, Sequoia, and Index to assemble a new guard in AI: one that imagines a world where models can think at human level without ingesting half the internet.↗

ok life update: i'll be joining @Cognition! • Cog just went from 0 to $10b in 2 years • Net burn $20m in company history • Avg successful Devin impl sees >5x growth, $1.5m/yr customer expanded >10x in 8 months (not typo) • Windsurf x Cog cross sell going great, looking fwd to cr…↗

@synthesischool has raised a Series A! $5M at $50M post from @APompliano and a syndicate of ~50 angels, founders, and influencers. Here's the story of how the synthesis approach was born at SpaceX, how I got involved, and how we got to here... x.com/APompliano/sta…↗

😃 I'm excited to announce @reforge has raised $21M from @andrewchen and @illscience at @a16z along with a group of product, eng, marketing, data, and design leaders... Full Story -> reforge.com/blog/weve-rais… 🧵 On where we've been and what is next 👇↗

Before Udemy could succeed, we had to solve a chicken and egg problem. These problems are a constant dilemma for founders. (ie. Funding is needed to scale but scale is needed for funding.) Here's how we bumbled to a solution that kicked off our $3B business. **Read On**↗

I’m biased but @udemy is a true underdog story + thought I’d share details we’ve never shared before. ICYMI, we announced a $50M raise at $2B valuation. Udemy almost died at least 5x. We got rejected by everyone in the Valley. Startups are never a straight line. *Read on*↗