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ElevenLabs is valued at $22 billion, double its February mark, after employees sold $300 million of shares to investors led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. Its usage evidence is a self-reported conversation count, and teams sizing voice automation still need completion rates the announcement did not include.
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Blockchain.com is seeking about $500 million in a U.S. IPO at a $4 billion to $6 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against a $14 billion peak in 2022. Most of that discount was already taken in a private round in 2023.
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A $500 million round at a rumoured $12 billion would be 2.4 times February's mark. The numbers underneath it are company-reported and six months old.
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The hypersonic missile maker raised $1bn to build a high-rate production line in New Mexico. The disclosed contract book is 26 times smaller than the valuation.
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Lightspeed and Diffusion co-led $550m at a $15.6bn mark, which added $4.6bn of paper value in six months and only reads as ordinary software if $400m of ARR becomes about $1.56bn. Eighty of the Am Law 100 already buy.
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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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The $180m Series D sells roughly the same tenth of the company that $96m bought in February, and the performance figure behind the new price is revenue tripling in six months. Profound counts more than 1,000 enterprise brands.
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More than 60 enterprises, among them Salesforce and Cloudflare, already push $400 million of entertainment spending through Ande's agents. They report savings of 12% to 15% on it.
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Profound raised $96 million at a $1 billion valuation in February and Adobe closed on Semrush in April. Both deals assume presence in AI answers can be counted, and when ChatGPT names a brand without a link there is no referrer to count it.
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The San Francisco company now has $50m in total funding and a research preview, Simulations, that runs anomaly detection over replayed user traffic on each pull request. It works only if you already have traffic.
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The $35 million Series A funds a bet that a failure caught in production can be rerun as a pre-merge test, and making that work means standing up stateful fakes of every database, payment system and API the agent touched.
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The Series D values the two-year-old marketing startup at $1.8 billion. Its prompt data comes from opted-in consumer panels, and the mention-frequency score a brand sees on the dashboard is a sample estimate.
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Temporal closed a $550 million round at a $12.55 billion valuation, roughly 50 times the revenue it reports. The product it sells exists to remember which step of a crashed job already ran.
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The $130 million round is all primary equity at an estimated $1 billion valuation, so roughly 13 percent of the company changed hands, and the recurring revenue it is priced against is described only as tens of millions of dollars.
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Fangchang Ma says the lag and the dead-eyed listening in voice products come from the handoffs between four models. Nuance's evidence is a demo it calls unfinished and a research preview promised for later this year.
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The Tel Aviv company says AI data centre schedules are part of what is driving demand, and that contractors are signing multiyear deals covering whole portfolios of projects.
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A $13B valuation on $500M of booked military contracts, co-led by a bank, a buyout firm and a venture fund, is what defense industrial capital looks like when it stops being venture capital.
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The convertible note accounts for 84.5 percent of the $290 million Cylake has raised, and the product it funds is still a design-partner build with general availability promised for 2027. The next financing sets the conversion price.
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The chipmaker joined at least 53 venture rounds of $100 million or more through August, more than Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia or Lightspeed, on a count that tallies rounds entered and not dollars written.
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Lightfield says legacy CRM fields were written for humans and confuse agents, and its own record is open over the Model Context Protocol, which is also the cheapest way to leave Salesforce exactly where it is.
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