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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm investing in startups across software, crypto, biotech, and defense tech sectors.
Intuit is buying London-founded Sequence to add billing and revenue recognition to QuickBooks Online Advanced and Intuit Enterprise Suite. The Times put the price near $200 million, Tech.eu reported, about five times the roughly $40 million Sequence raised.
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JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs raised yields on Volta's $5 billion unrated AI loan to about 11.21%-11.75% after weak demand, Crypto Briefing reported. The banks only have to try to sell the $3.712 billion GPU tranche, so its fate will show whether that price clears.
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Anduril opened an employee tender at $94.80 a share that values it near $90 billion, against $61 billion in May. On last year's $2.2 billion of revenue that is about 41 times sales, up from about 28 times in May.
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Applied Intuition is fielding offers that value it at $30 billion or more, double its $15 billion valuation of June 2025. Estimated recurring revenue doubled too, so the multiple stays near 36 times.
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Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 on October 12 with a $20 million stalking-horse bid from Disney for a non-exclusive license to its AI technology. Google paid about $2.7 billion for a non-exclusive license to its model technology in 2024, 135 times that figure.
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Koch's venture arm made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in AI sales startup Emanate, Fortune reported. Emanate would not name a Koch company using the product. The record holds an investor's thesis and no confirmed deployment.
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Workday gave TypeSafe's Jev every atomic component in its design system and lets the model pick what Sana shows, said chief AI officer Joel Hellermark. TypeSafe claims 70 to 500 milliseconds per answer; whether Workday sees that depends on how many screens reduce to closed questions.
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LinkedIn began a free 14-week course on starting a business in September, enrolling 30 of its own employees, Fortune reported. Because the students are LinkedIn staff, the pilot can test a syllabus but cannot yet show what outside workers will pay for it.
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A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia will not favor its own chips on Hugging Face. The reporting captures only that statement, with no mechanism attached, and that puts weight distribution in front of platform teams as a live decision they never had to make before.
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Andreessen Horowitz led a financing of about $870 million in TypeSafe at a $7.5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The money backs Jev, a model that hands software a choice plus a probability, and its use to builders depends on those probabilities matching how often it is right.
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Andreessen Horowitz partner Olivia Moore published a ranking of the top 100 consumer AI apps that puts ChatGPT far ahead of every rival. In a TechCrunch interview, she argued that growth depends on ads and cheaper models paying for the users who do not subscribe.
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Flock Safety plans to cut about 270 jobs, roughly 18% of its workforce, Reuters reported. Two days earlier Henrico County, Virginia, said it would end its contract over protection of data shared across Flock's nationwide network.
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Vesta raised $30 million from investors including two of its own lender customers, Pennymac and New American Funding. CEO Mike Yu says revenue grew 12x in a year. The stake makes those lenders shareholders in agents they are still learning to trust with loans.
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Andreessen Horowitz, Insight and Sequoia were among at least 22 investors in 10 or more Q3 venture rounds, most of them doing more deals as funding fell. Crunchbase ties the lower total to the absence of new record AI megarounds, while its lead-investor dollar rankings turn on a few multi-billion checks.
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National Compute plans to pledge $100 million in compute credits to the Genesis Mission at Thursday's White House event, Business Insider reported. Researchers cannot schedule work against the credits until the providers, eligibility rules and start date are disclosed.
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Four leaders of Trump's Super Intelligence task force meet Thursday to set its agenda, with a report on AI risks due within 120 days. Its mandate avoids heavy regulation, and at least five members hold AI or tech investment ties.
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Air Space Intelligence won a five-year U.S. Army command-and-control contract with a $99 million ceiling, a SAM.gov notice shows. The figure only caps orders, so the Army's task orders will decide what software first built for airline dispatchers earns.
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Stuut raised a $52.5 million Series B led by Insight Partners to sell AI that runs the entire order-to-cash process, citing a 47% average cut in DSO. ZoomInfo, the only customer with before-and-after figures in the launch coverage, saw less than half that, a check any buyer can run against its own books.
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OpenAI and Anthropic raised more than $200 billion of the record $515.8 billion invested in US startups through September, PitchBook-NVCA data shows. With IPOs slipping, a venture-backed vendor that exits is likelier to be sold, often below its last private price.
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