Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you
Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia.
Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation
The five-year-old-startup powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode and raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures.
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM
The seed round values the newly formed startup at $800 million.
Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes
SGLang, which originated as an open source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC Berkeley lab, has raised capital from Accel.
Snowflake, Databricks challenger Clickhouse hits $15B valuation
The $400 million round was led by Dragoneer.
Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months to $3B with $350M raise
The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers.
Discord and Mercor investor Niko Bonatsos departs General Catalyst, plans new VC firm
Bonatsos spent 15 years at GC, and until last year led the firm’s seed investing strategy.
Lux Capital lands $1.5 billion for its largest fund ever
The 25-year-old firm is an early investor in Anduril, Applied Intuition and Runway AI.
McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over
Calacanis, General Catalyst’s Taneja, and McKinsey’s Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.
‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential
AI founders are increasingly using their “dropout” status as a credential during YC pitches.