Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation
The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools …LinkedIn:Alfred Wahlforss,Listen Labs,Florian Juengermann,Romani Patel,Florian Jueng...
Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022
Dragoneer has raised $4.3 billion for its seventh venture capital fund, Axios has learned. … - The San Francisco-based firm raised $3.8 billion …
Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ
Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent's holding in US pivot — A Singapore fintech that was labelled a …
Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M+ at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024
Human Interest, a San Francisco-based 401(k) platform, tells Axios that it's raised over $100 million at a $3 billion post-money valuation.
Salesforce plans to invest $15B in San Francisco over the next five years, including for an AI Incubator Hub and workforce programs; CRM is down 25%+ in 2025
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Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand
OpenAI's $500B valuation, Meta's privacy backlash and more Ankush Das / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI Hits $500 Billion, Surpasses SpaceX as World's Most Valuable Startup MarketWatch : OpenAI join...
Wag, the pet care tech company reportedly valued at ~$650M after a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in January 2018, filed for bankruptcy on July 21
It's a huge $300M miss for Softbank, but I guess when you count Alibaba, ARM, Uber, DoorDash, and ByteDance among your hits you can afford to look silly when the dog-walking one flops Mastodon: Dare O...
Paraform, which operates a hiring marketplace with AI-powered candidate relationship management and other tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures
Paraform, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace built for elite recruiters, raised $20M in Series A funding.
Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures
Vivodyne, a San Francisco-based startup using lab-grown human tissues to discover and develop drugs, raised $40 million in a Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund
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