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The first priced institutional venture round, typically raised after a seed to fund a product's initial commercial scaling.
Veridion says more than 70% of its revenue already comes from US customers, and the $20M led by Hoxton Ventures mostly pays to double a US team at a company of just over 60 people worldwide.
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The startup's agents draft security policies and gather audit evidence, and its founders say a person still approves each policy while an independent auditor still signs the report.
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Air Street Capital led $40 million into a hiring marketplace where an agent for the candidate and an agent for the employer must both agree before an introduction happens. The two have arranged 25,000 interviews so far.
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Spark led a $26M round on the premise that buried-asset records can be bought once instead of chased per project. The one outcome number on offer comes from a customer's own study of paving it could have skipped.
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The pitch is a software-style test loop for machines: model a customer's own hardware and sensors, calibrate against real runs, then try thousands of scenarios before booking rig time. Ring says the match held on scenarios it withheld.
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Greylock led a $32m Series A into a New York simulation platform whose strongest commercial evidence is Ring's chief product officer saying, on the record, that the simulations matched physical test results on scenarios withheld from calibration.
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Sequoia led the seed and co-led the Series A, so the same investor helped set the price twice for a 23-person company whose only disclosed commercial proof is one customer that ripped out two rival products.
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