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Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·

Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others

Dropbox announced Thursday plans to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million in a transaction the company told Crunchbase News would mark …

John Werner / Forbes ·

Tutor Intelligence, which trains robot foundation models and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking its total funding to $117M

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …

Margaux MacColl / Resilience Media ·

Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others

Salesforce is acquiring defence tech startup Rune Technologies for $375 million in a combination of shares and cash, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch ·

Dream, which is training AI world models on US building data to automate construction design and engineering, emerges from stealth with a $17M seed led by a16z

Andy Alder and Arjun Mather were Stanford roommates who both studied computer science before spending a decade at Palantir.

Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune ·

A16z rebrands "a16z Crypto" as "a16z Frontier" and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies

In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.

Leo Schwartz / The Information ·

A16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto

Andreessen Horowitz, which made one of the boldest bets on blockchain investments in the venture world …

Jess Jones / The Times ·

Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022

A British financial technology business has been acquired by Intuit, the American software company, in a sale estimated to be worth around $200m …

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare ·

General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z

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Bloomberg ·

Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev

TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago …

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch ·

Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one.

Zoya Hasan / Forbes ·

Valon, which makes software to help US mortgage companies cut red tape and costs, raised a $150M Series D from Ribbit, a16z, and others at a $2.3B valuation

The U.S. mortgage market is massive, but its payment systems are antiquated and often analog. Valon raised a $150 million Series D …

Chris Metinko / Axios ·

Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z

Doxx.net has raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz as its private agentic defined networking platform launches into open beta …

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters ·

Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation

Armadin said on Thursday that it raised $255.5 million in a Series B funding round, which values the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion.

Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg ·

Miami-based Jeeves, which launched stablecoin-based payments earlier this year, raised a $110M Series C led by CoinFund, with participation from a16z and others

Miami-based fintech Jeeves Inc. said it raised $110 million from investors to help expand its offerings, including a stablecoin wallet …

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal ·

A16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz spending $35 million to back two-year academy, with other Bay Area tech giants on board

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media ·

AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z; formerly Tome, it had raised $80M across earlier Series A and B rounds

CEO Keith Peiris took Lightfield from a painful pivot to 5,000 business customers, 400% net dollar retention, and a Series A led by a16z.

Dina Bass / Bloomberg ·

Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A

The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·

Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt

Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …

Andreessen Horowitz ·

A16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B

- Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. … - Consumer AI is barely even a thing yet, aside from ChatGPT's form factor beginning to replace the search engine.

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch ·

A16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI"

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new "Machine Age" fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm's aim with the new fund is to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI."

Bloomberg ·

The US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News ·

SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation

- Vals AI raised $40 million in a Series A round at a $400 million valuation.