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TwinMind Aims to Be Your “Second Brain” — Raises $5.7M and Announces Breakthrough Speech Model

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Chris McKay• September 10, 2025 • 2 min read

Three former Google X scientists have raised $5.7 million to build TwinMind, an AI assistant that runs constantly in the background, capturing everything you say to create a personal knowledge graph.

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Cognition AI Raises $400 Million at a $10.2 Billion Valuation

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Chris McKay• September 8, 2025 • 2 min read

Cognition AI, creator of the AI coding agent Devin, has raised $400 million at a $10.2 billion valuation, marking explosive growth for the two-year-old startup that's racing against tech giants to define the future of AI-powered software development.

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B Seed Round

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Chris McKay• July 15, 2025 • 2 min read

Mira Murati's six-month-old AI startup Thinking Machines Lab closed a historic $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, setting a new record for early-stage funding despite having no product or revenue.

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Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google's Talent Raid Left it Gutted

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Chris McKay• July 14, 2025 • 2 min read

Cognition, maker of AI coding agent Devin, is acquiring Windsurf after Google hired away the startup's CEO and co-founder in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire deal.

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Abridge Raises $300M Series E at $5.3B Valuation

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Chris McKay• June 25, 2025 • 3 min read

The Pittsburgh startup that's gunning for Microsoft's crown in AI medical note-taking just raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly doubling its worth in just four months.

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Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation

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Chris McKay• June 24, 2025 • 2 min read

Harvey AI raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation just four months after its previous $300 million round, marking the highest valuation for any legal AI startup as the company plans global expansion and moves beyond legal services.

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Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million

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Chris McKay• June 24, 2025 • 2 min read

Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski is putting $100 million of personal funds behind Laude Institute, a grant-style venture that’s kicking off with a five-year, $15 million commitment to an AI Systems Lab at UC Berkeley.

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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises $2B for Thinking Machines at $10B valuation

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Chris McKay• June 20, 2025 • 2 min read

Andreessen Horowitz is leading a jaw-dropping $2 billion seed round that values Mira Murati’s stealthy Thinking Machines Lab at $10 billion.

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This 6-month-old AI startup just sold to Wix for $80 million

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Chris McKay• June 19, 2025 • 3 min read

Wix acquired six-month-old AI coding platform Base44 for $80 million, highlighting how AI tools are enabling tiny teams to build valuable companies faster than ever.

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Glean Doubles Down on AI Agents with $150M Raise as Enterprise Adoption Explodes

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Chris McKay• June 10, 2025 • 1 min read

Glean secures $150 million in Series F funding, raising its valuation to $7.2 billion, as it accelerates the integration of AI agents across enterprise workflows.

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Salesforce Snaps Up Moonhub's AI Team as Startup Winds Down

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Chris McKay• June 2, 2025 • 2 min read

Salesforce hired most of Moonhub's team as the AI recruiting startup shuts down, bringing crucial talent to its Agentforce platform in the heated race for enterprise AI agents.

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Synthesia Co-Founder Raises $13M to Build the "Holy Grail" of AI: Interactive 3D Worlds from Text

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Chris McKay• May 27, 2025 • 3 min read

Munich-based SpAItial has raised $13 million in seed funding to develop spatial foundation models that generate interactive, photorealistic 3D environments from text prompts or images, positioning itself as a European challenger in the rapidly growing spatial AI market.

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Google Launches AI Futures Fund to Back Startups Using DeepMind Technology

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Chris McKay• May 12, 2025 • 1 min read

Google has established a new investment fund specifically to back startups building with its DeepMind AI models, offering both financial support and privileged access to its technology.

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Supio Raises $60M to Make AI the New Legal Powerhouse in Personal Injury Cases

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Chris McKay• May 1, 2025 • 2 min read

Personal injury firms are reporting 20-30% higher settlements with the startup's specialized legal AI platform

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Lightrun Raises $70M as Enterprises Bet Big on its AI-Driven Debugging Platform

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Chris McKay• April 28, 2025 • 2 min read

Lightrun secures $70M Series B to accelerate AI-driven autonomous remediation, addressing the critical need for real-time code resilience in the AI-fueled era of software development.

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Endor Labs Raises $93M Series B to Safeguard AI-Generated Code

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Chris McKay• April 23, 2025 • 1 min read

Endor Labs has raised $93 million in a Series B funding round led by DFJ Growth to enhance its platform that secures AI-generated code, addressing the growing need for robust application security in the era of AI-driven software development.

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Chatbot Arena Rebrands as LMArena, Becomes a Company

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Chris McKay• April 17, 2025 • 2 min read

Popular AI testing platform Chatbot Arena is transforming into a company called Arena Intelligence Inc. to expand its widely-used model comparison service.

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Former YC President, Geoff Ralston, Launches Fund for "Safe AI" Startups

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Chris McKay• April 17, 2025 • 2 min read

Geoff Ralston, ex-president of Y Combinator, has launched the Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund (SAIF) to invest in early-stage startups focused on AI safety, security, and responsible deployment.

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Capsule Secures $12M to Scale AI-Powered Video Editing for Enterprise Teams

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Chris McKay• April 16, 2025 • 2 min read

Video editing platform Capsule has raised $12 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered tools that help non-creative teams produce brand-compliant videos at scale.

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OpenAI Acqui-hires Context.ai Team to Boost Model Evaluation Efforts

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Chris McKay• April 15, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has acquihired the team behind Context.ai, a GV-backed startup known for its analytics tools that help developers understand how AI models perform in the real world.

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Adobe Invests in Synthesia as the AI Video Startup Hits $100M Revenue Milestone

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Chris McKay• April 15, 2025 • 2 min read

Synthesia has received a strategic investment from Adobe after surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, signaling growing enterprise demand for AI-generated video.

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Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Raises Another $2B at $32B Valuation

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Chris McKay• April 12, 2025 • 2 min read

Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $2 billion at a $32 billion valuation—without a product on the market.

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Ex-OpenAI CTO's Stealth Startup Targets Record-Breaking $2B Seed Round

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Chris McKay• April 10, 2025 • 2 min read

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking a $2 billion seed round that would value the nascent AI company at $10+ billion despite having no product yet.

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Incident.io Raises $62M to Build AI Agents That Keep Systems Running

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Chris McKay• April 10, 2025 • 1 min read

London-based incident.io has raised $62 million in Series B funding to develop AI agents that can investigate and resolve software outages alongside human engineers.

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Adaptive Security Raises $43M to Combat AI Cyber Threats

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Chris McKay• April 3, 2025 • 2 min read

New York-based Adaptive Security has raised $43 million in a Series A co-led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, marking OpenAI’s first investment in a cybersecurity firm.