Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen |

Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware. Three…

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them |

As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes…

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…

a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere |

As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, aneducational marketplacecalledScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax. “Marketplaces are liable for tax on their entire…

Backed by $21M, Ciroos Emboldens its Extensible, Multi-Agent SRE AI Companion

Jun 3, 2025 By Sydney Blanchard Ciroos, a pioneer in AI-powered operations, is announcing that it has raised $21 million in its latest funding round…