Sequoia-backed security startup Vanta will see its valuation soar past $2 billion in new funding round, sources say

Building our way: Announcing our Series C - Linear

Today, I’m happy to share that we’ve raised an $82M Series C at a $1.25B valuation. The round includes both primary and secondary funding, led by Accel with continued support from Sequoia and 01A, and joined by new partners Seven Seven Six, Designer Fund, Indie.vc, TK Ventures, Soleio, Jeff Weinstein, Ilkka Paananen, and Lauren & Vlad Loktev.

The Next Chapter for Suno

Suno Raises $400M at a $5.4B Valuation

Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet

Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.

Ollama: all aboard open models· Ollama Blog

Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.

Former Meta AR Neural Band Leader Targets $2.5 Billion Valuation for Brain-Inspired Power-Sipping AI

Thomas Reardon, the former Meta executive who built the Neural Band wristband, is raising capital for a new startup called Flourish at a target valuation of $2.

OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future

I don’t see the path from here to there, where *there* is a justification for a trillion-dollar-ish valuation.

Linq Raises $1.1M to Create Secure Platform for Sharing Intimate Images | Femtech Insider

London-based startup Linq has raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding for its platform designed to give users control over their intimate images and help combat revenge porn and "sextortion" scams. Founded in 2024, Linq has developed an app that uses AI technology typically deployed to prevent media piracy, allowing users to grant and revoke access

Dream Cats NFT: don't buy them

Here is another NFT story (and not a sequel to the last one was in March after someone uploaded my "Yin and Yang of world hunger" on OpenSea...) Today, it is about the official release of the "Dream Cats" catalog on OpenSea by ROPLAK, a derivative of my 2016 Creative Commons Attribution Catavatar generator. It was announced yesterday in this post on Twitter [edit: they deleted their post, and made a new one], and the OpenSea catalog page linked counts already over 10K items and already sold 4.2 ETH, so, around 10 000 Euros in two days...

The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital

Frontier Lab IPOs are coming, and philanthropy isn’t ready

Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.

Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator

Information about startup documents, including the safe (simple agreement for future equity).