Socure's round prices a 63% grower at roughly 14 times ARR, and the agentic investigation platform it bought sells an 80% cut in cost per case, which is a promise to deflate the budget it is sold into.
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- Builder 21%
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- Operator 36%
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- Investor 43%
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- Evidence58
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Temporal says its annualised revenue has passed $250 million and that its cloud processed more than 1.9 trillion actions in August. At the growth floors the company disclosed, volume is outrunning the revenue it produces.
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- Builder 26%
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- Operator 23%
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- Investor 51%
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- Evidence55
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Cyera has raised $1.4 billion this year, close to 70 percent of everything it has taken in since 2021, and says the latest tranche funds agent-security products and a push into US federal buyers.
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- Evidence60
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives75
- Confidence62
Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
The $15.5 billion price works out near 39 times annual recurring revenue above $400 million, and it rests on a margin claim Harvey has not quantified: that tuning Kimi K3 beats paying OpenAI per call.
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- Evidence32
- Adoption61
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives74
- Confidence42
The $156 million round set a $5.2 billion valuation, and the part that reaches a working analyst is RiskOS_Agents, which gathers the documents, runs the screening and drafts the summary a human used to write.
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- Evidence33
- Adoption44
- Hype gap+36
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
A DST Global-led Series B quadruples the company's valuation since January. The interesting part is what the money is for: compute contracts that decide who is still shipping at renewal.
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- Builder 30%
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- Operator 23%
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- Evidence58
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence64