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News and updates from our portfolio companies.

AI startup Sapien raises at $180M valuation to help companies find what’s really driving profit

September 8, 2026Sapien

Formic Opens Oakland Facility, Anchoring Humanoid and Physical AI Expansion in the Bay Area Alongside Tesla and Amazon

August 26, 2026Formic

Etched Raised $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street

August 18, 2026Etched

Riven Systems raises $7.9M for minerals processing tech

August 13, 2026Riven

Etched Raises $300M at a $10.3B Valuation, led by Sequoia Capital

July 23, 2026Etched

Building the Infrastructure for AI-Native Hedge Funds: Our Thesis on Databento

July 9, 2026Databento

Databento Raises $97 Million Series B Led by NEA

July 9, 2026Databento

AI Chip Startup Etched Lures Jane Street, TSMC-Linked VC as Investors

June 30, 2026Etched

Building the Industrial Stack of America: Standard Bots Raises $200M

June 10, 2026Standard Bots

Standard Bots raises $200M to expand U.S. manufacturing footprint

June 9, 2026Standard Bots

Graphon Says Its ‘Intelligence Layer’ Will Lighten the Load on AI Models

May 14, 2026Graphon

Shield AI expands Hivemind maritime autonomy in Taiwan with Thunder Tiger partnership

May 13, 2026Shield AI

Parloa solidifies partnership with SAP to revolutionize customer interactions with agentic AI

May 12, 2026Parloa

Long Lake agrees to acquire American Express Global Business Travel, the world’s largest corporate travel platform, for $6.3 billion, with support from General Catalyst and Alpha Wave

May 4, 2026Long Lake

Hershey Bets on AI Agents to Fix Its $2 Billion Marketing Blind Spot

April 27, 2026Tracer

Fuse to open Albuquerque facility, adding to state’s nuclear fusion push

April 10, 2026Fuse

Fuse Expands U.S. Radiation Testing Capacity with New Albuquerque Facility

April 10, 2026Fuse

Fuse Wins $151B Golden Dome Contract as Missile Defense Race Heats Up

April 10, 2026Fuse

Shield AI to acquire software simulation company Aechelon and raise $2B at $12.7B valuation

March 26, 2026Shield AI

Private AI Rebrands as Limina, Reflecting Its Role as the Threshold Between Sensitive Data and Safe Use

March 5, 2026Limina

The Future of AI in Retail: Our Investment in Profitmind

February 25, 2026Profitmind

Shield AI Selected as Mission Autonomy Provider for the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

February 13, 2026Shield AI

NVIDIA Case Study: How Databento Achieves Financial Industry-Leading Latency

February 6, 2026Databento

Why We Invested in Parloa

January 27, 2026Parloa

Our Investment in Articul8

January 16, 2026Articul8

Parloa triples its valuation in 8 months to $3B with $350M raise

January 15, 2026Parloa

Accenture Invests in Profitmind to Drive Agentic AI Reinvention in Retail Sector

January 8, 2026Profitmind

Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation

January 7, 2026Articul8

Leading Semiconductor Company Taps Articul8 to Accelerate Product Release Cycles with Domain-Specific GenAI

January 5, 2026Articul8

Six months an AI unicorn, Parloa surpasses $50M revenue mark

December 18, 2025Parloa

Wearlinq Raises $14 Million Series A from AIX Ventures to Commercialize World’s Most Advanced Heart Monitor

December 17, 2025WearLinq

Parallax Worlds Raises $4.9M To Help Companies Virtually Stress Test Industrial Robots

November 20, 2025Parallax Worlds

Shield AI and Destinus partner to integrate Hivemind across platforms

November 19, 2025Shield AI

CEO Evan Beard: America Needs a National Strategy for Robotics

November 19, 2025Standard Bots

Parloa and Deloitte Are Joining Forces To Redefine CX

October 29, 2025Parloa

Shield AI Unveils X-BAT, an AI-Piloted VTOL Fighter Jet for Contested Environments

October 22, 2025Shield AI

Cisco Invests In 'Universal AI Translator' Upstart Fleak

October 2, 2025Fleak AI

L3Harris and Shield AI demonstrate AI-powered system to defeat unmanned threats

September 22, 2025Shield AI

Bealls taps Profitmind agentic AI platform for merchandise planning ...

September 11, 2025Profitmind

Shield AI and AIDC sign teaming agreement to advance Taiwan's defense capabilities

September 11, 2025Shield AI

Shield AI's new V-BAT passes operational evaluation with U.S. Coast Guard

July 31, 2025Shield AI

Parloa raises $120M Series C to power AI in CX

July 16, 2025Parloa

Vizit Named 'Overall Computer Vision Company of the Year' by AI Breakthrough Awards

June 24, 2025Vizit

Legal AI Startup Marveri Secures $3 Million to Fix Due Diligence

May 5, 2025Marveri

Near Space Labs nabs $20M to take its high-res imaging Swift robots into the stratosphere

April 29, 2025Near Space Labs

Standard Bots raises $63M to accelerate AI in robotics

April 23, 2025Standard Bots

Shield AI appoints Gary Steele as CEO, Ryan Tseng named President

March 12, 2025Shield AI

Shield AI raises $240M at $5.3B valuation to scale Hivemind Enterprise

March 6, 2025Shield AI

AI profit-engine, Profitmind, crowned the winner of RTS 2025 ...

February 4, 2025Profitmind

ChatLabs Founder Jenkin Richard's Social Commerce Startup ChatLabs Raises $3.2M

December 17, 2024ChatLabs

Shield AI and Palantir Technologies Deepen Strategic Partnership and Announce Deployment of Warp Speed

December 5, 2024Shield AI

Reflexivity raises $30M Series B led by Greycroft and Interactive Brokers

October 30, 2024Reflexivity

Databento raises $10M in Series A+ to drive global expansion

October 30, 2024Databento

Sapien Raises $8.7M Seed Led by General Catalyst

October 28, 2024Sapien

Vizit Raises $25M in Series B Funding Led by Industry Ventures

October 2, 2024Vizit

Etched raises $120 million to build chip to take on Nvidia in AI - CNBC

June 25, 2024Etched

Intel spins out a new enterprise-focused GenAI software company

January 3, 2024Articul8

Shield AI Raises $200M, Reaching $2.7B Valuation

October 31, 2023Shield AI

Tracer nabs $18.1m to aggregate and normalize business ...

August 10, 2023Tracer