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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm investing across stages in software, fintech, health, and defense, with offices in the US and Europe.
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Modal made multi-node GPU clusters generally available on October 1st, requested through one Python decorator and billed by the second. Dropping a reserved cluster for it means trusting a gang scheduler to place every node at once on one network.
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The $100m Series C doubles Heidi's valuation to $900m. The larger $240m tranche comes from a General Catalyst fund that can only pay for sales and marketing, and that holds no stock and no warrants in the company.
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The Australian AI scribe company reached a $1.26 billion valuation with only US$100 million of new equity. The rest is a General Catalyst facility restricted to sales and marketing and repaid out of the revenue it buys.
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The New York fintech launched Thursday having committed more than $125 million of sales and marketing spending across seven technology companies, repayable only out of the revenue those customers produce.
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Complir's seed was oversubscribed on the third day of a fourteen-day raise, taking the Copenhagen compliance startup to about $13m in a year, in a category where Ottawa's Assent has already raised close to $500m.
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Crunchbase counts $7.5 billion across 830 sales, marketing and CRM rounds so far in 2026. The six biggest disclosed deals hold about $2.3 billion of that, leaving roughly $6.3 million apiece for the other 824.
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Crunchbase put the chipmaker among August's highest-spending lead investors on $1.3 billion of led rounds, a total built from Poolside's $1 billion and Volta's $300 million, and Andreessen Horowitz is credited with that same Volta round.
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Insight Partners manages more than $90 billion and holds late-stage co-investment exposure to both OpenAI and Anthropic, but its direct AI money goes to vertical applications. The legal AI round it skipped is now priced at $5.55 billion.
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The firm's case rests on one comparison, that Microsoft's founders held almost four-fifths of their company at IPO while most founders now hold under a fifth.
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Crunchbase counted four U.S. rounds of $1bn or more in one week. Tunneling, truck fleets and reusable rockets took $5.3bn of the $7.3bn, and the United Arab Emirates led the biggest check of the four.
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Motive crossed $600m of annual recurring revenue at 30% growth and pulled the S-1 that four bookrunners had prepared. It disclosed no valuation and no terms for General Catalyst's money.
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Crunchbase counted 29 additions to its unicorn board in August, worth about $63bn, and across the nine AI, software and semiconductor entrants with disclosed terms, every dollar of new cash set roughly eight dollars of paper.
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The Series E takes company-reported run-rate from $492M to close to $900M in four months, but nothing in the announcement says how much of that is Devin agent work and how much is Windsurf editor seats.
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Neo led Sapien at a $180 million valuation with no round size attached, so the figure worth weighing is the $12 million of margin that changed sign inside one Carlex division, on evidence the seller supplied.
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The round is still under negotiation, but the multiple it implies will outlast the negotiation. That multiple is the figure every seller of coding agents will get measured against the next time procurement asks why the seat price moved.
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Faro says six of the ten largest drugmakers already use its platform to design studies. The eight investors on its Series B are each putting in about $4.7 million to find out what that adoption converts into.
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A $6B non-exclusive license plus a $1B equity check runs to about a tenth of Nvidia's free cash flow for the year, and it arrives because the venture stack would not write the $2B that held Poolside's January cluster.
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Eight investors are named on the round and no valuation was disclosed. The only outside corroboration of Faro's data model covers how it writes protocols, not what agents do with them.
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Ground broke on August 25 on a $1 billion, 156-module pulsed machine aiming at net facility gain by 2030. The commercial gap is five times the output and 86,400 shots a day.
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CTGT's 76-prompt audit puts an anonymous OpenRouter endpoint at 6.5 on the usual censorship probes and 89.5 on Chinese domestic legitimacy. The prompt list is the benchmark.
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