When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy.…
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After Factory's public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests |
12:38 PM PDT · October 5, 2026 Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy and his team announced Monday in a blog post that the firm has…
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) |
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already been life-threatening to some,…
Kevin Mandia's new 'agent swarm' security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 2:55 PM PDT · October 1, 2026 Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant, which sold to Google…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation |
In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50…
Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire |
10:07 AM PDT · September 24, 2026 Databricks announced on Thursday that it has acquired an early-stage spreadsheet startup called Row Zero. The story goes…
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses |
In Brief Posted: 12:00 PM PDT · September 24, 2026 The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion…
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · September 18, 2026 These days, it’s rare to hear of a startup founded in 2019, or one not…
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI |
If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it hasn’t yet, just a…