A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI
This week I co-wrote Redpoint's 2026 Market Update for our Limited Partners with my colleagues @AdilBhatia and @lydianday.
Irregular, which helps AI labs test their models' for misuse, raised $80M across seed and Series A rounds led by Sequoia and Redpoint at a $450M valuation
Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed
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Collate, which is developing tech to automate paperwork for life science companies, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed led by Redpoint at a $100M+ valuation
Surbhi Sarna sold her last startup, nVision Medical, for $275 million. Now she's leaving a partner role at Y Combinator to launch Collate … Bluesky: @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Josh Kopelman , Alex Konr...
Levelpath, which provides enterprise procurement services, raised a $30M Series A led by Redpoint, following an unannounced $14.5M seed led by Benchmark
CRM startup Attio, which claims better performance than Salesforce and its rivals, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Redpoint and crossed $1M ARR in December 2022
While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm.
At Snowflake's IPO price, Sutter Hill Ventures' stake was worth $5.9B, Altimeter Capital's ~$4.4B, ICONIQ Capital's $4B+, Redpoint's $2.6B, and Sequoia's ~$2.5B
Data warehousing company Snowflake went public on Wednesday in the largest software IPO ever, raising nearly $3.4 billion and valuing the company at $33.2 billion. Tweets: @madhavchanchani and @crunch...
Descript, which offers tools for creating podcasts, raises $15M Series A from a16z and Redpoint, and acquires Lyrebird, which built audio transcription tools
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.
Chorus.ai raises $16M Series A led by Redpoint for its sales calls analysis software
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Chorus.ai raises $16M Series A led by Redpoint for its sales calls analysis software
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