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The internet is dead. We’ve raised $35M total funding led by Khosla and Hanabi to bring it to life. @coframe is a growth engine for your website/ads/more which tests, personalizes, & learns 24/7. It’s working. Dropbox increased conversion by 158%. Replit, 410%. Cash App, 60%.↗

Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you. Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When y…↗

·@quintendf·Oct 19, 2026·launch·funding·startup·tolan

We want to support the mathematics community in turning progress in AI into deeper human understanding and new discoveries. To support that goal, we are contributing $5 million to a new Simons Foundation initiative to help mathematicians examine, understand, and build on results…↗

launched a model accidentally served trillions of tokens a day 29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up raised a really big series A from @a16z it's been 3 weeks we would like to sleep now↗

·@CompleteSkeptic·Oct 9, 2026·news·a16z·fortune-500·funding·model

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…↗

·@cognition·Sep 8, 2026·business·a16z·cognition·funding·run-rate-revenue

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.↗

·@Etched·Aug 18, 2026·business·blackstone·funding·jane-street·kbcv

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.↗

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…↗

·@rauchg·Feb 5, 2026·launch·credits·founders·funding·startup

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.↗

·@flappyairplanes·Jan 28, 2026·launch·ai·flapping-airplanes·funding·gv

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…↗

·@swyx·Sep 8, 2025·launch·agent-labs·ai·cognition·funding

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**↗

·@gaganbiyani·Jan 22, 2021·essay·funding·growth·startup·udemy

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*↗