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Greenoaks Capital Partners is an investment firm making large growth-stage bets in technology companies, including AI and consumer startups.
Salesforce agreed to buy AI interview startup Listen Labs at a reported $2 billion, about 67 times its estimated revenue. Salesforce says the data will give its agents context, without saying how Listen's simulated customer answers are checked against real ones.
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The Prysm-led Series D is earmarked for an autonomous platform for vehicles smaller than a car. The $3,500 bike is the first housing for the motors, batteries and compute.
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The design premise is that an aircraft should weigh less than its cargo. The one flying today weighs about 1.5 times its payload; the one that clears the bar is still under development.
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Sequoia and Greenoaks led the round for a 40-person company founded in February, which makes the priced asset a research library showing 6.7 million installs of add-ons that fetch their instructions from sources nobody vetted.
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The census behind a Sequoia-led round describes 6.7 million installations of add-ons that fetch their instructions at runtime, some of them Skills impersonating Anthropic and OpenAI to clear a security review.
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The founders' claim is that permissions describe an agent's reach while its context decides its behaviour, and their own scan of 142,836 public skills flagged roughly one in eight as leaning on an external resource they could not vouch for.
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A $2B Series B rests on synthetic respondents agreeing with human focus groups 85 to 99 percent of the time. The band's floor and ceiling are not the same product.
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The Rivian spinout's Series D takes it to $455 million and past a $1 billion valuation. The only product shipping is a $4,500 e-bike that arrived months late.
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Anthropic passed OpenAI on run rate, but the same quarter produced one thin operating profit and one loss about 1.8 times revenue. Those are the unit economics you are buying into.
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The Journal's reconstruction shows the fund shopping its Anthropic stake and its leveraged book at the same time, and telling only one set of buyers. That is a pricing problem for every AI secondary.
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A reported climb from about $9B to $65B of run rate in seven months is being priced off 2028 forecasts. Whoever lists first sets the multiple your existing AI marks get argued against.
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