Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The…
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Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds |
In Brief Posted: 12:39 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in fresh capital across three funds, the firm announced…
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human |
While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of…
Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume |
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Their…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M |
Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus,…
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing |
Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information…
Dimension Capital's $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming |
In Brief Posted: 6:27 PM PDT · July 21, 2026 While many newer VC firms are still struggling to raise fresh capital, Dimension Capital, founded…
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation |
When de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences revealed last year that it was attempting to “resurrect” the dire wolf from genetic material found in fossils, we argued…
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe |
AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices, and messaging the vendor to organizing…