Blacksmith, a platform for building and testing software, including AI-written code, announced a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $1 billion valuation. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said the company aims to make continuous integration (CI) less painful as AI agents increase code volume. Blacksmith reports 17x annual recurring revenue gro…
Warhound, a startup backed by Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm and developed in partnership with Anduril (Palmer Luckey), emerged from stealth on 2026-10-22 with $200 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. Investors include In-Q-Tel, Sequoia and 8VC. The company plans to gene-edit and clone working dogs for the U.S. military, la…
Anthropic is expected to go public this year at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion, according to TechCrunch citing Bloomberg. At the latest private valuation of $965 billion, early and late-stage backers already hold stakes worth billions. Eric Schmidt owns about 1%, worth nearly $10 billion. Iconiq holds a stake worth $17 billion afte…
Year-old AI startup Flapping Airplanes announced a $1 billion Series A round co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6 billion valuation. The round comes nine months after a $180 million seed round from GV, Sequoia and Index that valued the company at $1.5 billion. Other investors include Kleiner Perkins, Valor, Atreides, A and Nvidia. …