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Preview is building an AI-native collaborative workspace to bring generative video into professional production workflows

Preview, founded by Stefan and Veljko, is developing an AI-native platform for professional video creators as generative video models become powerful enough to act like a new camer...

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Corma is building a defensive cybersecurity foundation model to counter AI-enabled exploits, zero-days, and scaled social engineering

Corma is training a foundation model focused on enterprise defense as agentic AI improves attackers’ ability to find vulnerabilities and automate social engineering. The company ar...

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Cyera acquires Oasis Security to combine data security with non-human identity protection for enterprise AI agents

Cyera and Oasis Security are joining forces to build a broader security platform for enterprises adopting AI. Oasis focuses on non-human identities such as API keys, service accoun...

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Etched is building production-ready custom silicon and cluster-scale systems for the rapidly growing AI inference market

Etched is developing inference-focused hardware designed to maximize throughput and latency across frontier AI models, with custom silicon expected to ship in The company says its...

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Bunkerhill Health expands Carebricks platform to help hospitals deploy AI agents across clinical and operational workflows

Bunkerhill Health is building Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems create and deploy AI agents for clinical, operational, and administrative use cases. The company says...

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Sable raises backing to build Aidan, an AI employee that runs customer calls using voice, vision, video, and browsers

Sable is developing Aidan, an AI employee designed to lead customer conversations with voice, video, real-time vision, and browser interaction. The company says frontier startups a...

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Probook launches an AI operating system to automate dispatch and admin work for home services businesses

Probook, founded by George Eliadis, Lewis Zhang, and Ben Cervantez, is building an AI operating system for home services companies. The platform focuses on dispatch and connected w...

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Standard Intelligence bets raw screen video can train general computer agents better than language-based tool workflows

Standard Intelligence is pursuing a contrarian approach to AI agents: training models directly on raw screen recordings of computer use rather than text, screenshots, and tool call...

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Sequoia backs David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence, a London lab pursuing reinforcement-learning superintelligence without human training data

Sequoia says it is partnering with David Silver and his new London-based AI research lab, Ineffable Intelligence, to build a superlearner that learns entirely through experience. T...

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Sequoia Capital partners with Auctor, an AI-driven autopilot, to automate and streamline costly enterprise software implementation processes

Enterprise software implementation is a massive, labor-intensive market worth over $500 billion annually, relying heavily on consultants for complex tasks. Auctor, an AI tool, auto...

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Edra, Founded by Former Palantir Execs, Uses Company Data to Build Dynamic Knowledge Bases for More Effective AI Agents

Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis, ex-Palantir employees, launched Edra to transform enterprise knowledge into dynamic context for AI agents. Edra analyzes existing business dat...

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Scanner Startup Enables Rapid Search of Petabytes of Security Logs in Cloud Storage, Aiding Enterprises with Data Overload and AI Operations

Enterprise security teams face challenges with the high costs of storing and searching vast log data, often limiting access to critical information. Scanner, developed by Cliff and...

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Firetiger, Led by Ex-Cloudflare and Twitch Executives, Launches AI Agents for Automated Observability to Detect and Fix Code Issues in Real-Time

AI is generating a significant portion of code for companies like Google and Anthropic, making it harder to ensure products function correctly. Firetiger, a new observability tool,...

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Sequoia Capital co-leads $5 billion funding for Waymo, aiming to cut road deaths and revolutionize global transportation with autonomous vehicles

Waymo has reduced serious injury crashes by 90% over 127 million autonomous miles, addressing the 1.19 million annual road traffic deaths. Sequoia is co-leading a $5 billion invest...

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Spector Brothers Launch Flapping Airplanes to Build Data-Efficient AI Lab with Young Talent, Challenging Scaling Paradigms

Flapping Airplanes, founded by Ben and Asher Spector, aims to create a lab for young talents to develop data-efficient AI models, addressing the key bottleneck in AI advancement. T...

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Pace AI Automates Tedious Insurance Claims Processing, Freeing Professionals from Manual Workloads in Regulated Industries

Insurance professionals often spend hours on manual tasks like reviewing claims and cross-referencing data, which is essential but exhausting. Pace's AI agents handle these process...

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Sequoia Capital invests in entrepreneur Kais Khimji and his AI-powered startup Blockit to optimize time as a critical resource

Sequoia Capital invested in Kais Khimji in 2019 for his exceptional work ethic and potential, later backing his startup Blockit. Blockit aims to use AI to improve time management t...

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Blues, founded by Ray Ozzie, delivers affordable hardware and software to connect devices to the cloud, enabling smart applications across diverse industries.

Blues, a company led by tech veteran Ray Ozzie, provides low-cost hardware like Notecard and software like Notehub for easy device-to-cloud connectivity. Customers across sectors s...

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Sequoia Capital partners with Sandstone, an AI-native platform, to help in-house legal teams streamline operations through innovative technology and serendipitous connections

Jarryd from Sequoia Capital met Nick Fleisher, a McKinsey alum with expertise in legal tech, through a professional introduction and was impressed by his vision. They decided to co...

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WithCoverage, founded by JD Ross and Max Brenner, uses AI to overhaul insurance for businesses, providing personalized risk audits and transparent fees to address high costs and inefficiencies.

Traditional insurance brokers often overcharge businesses and fail to provide adequate coverage due to high commissions and manual processes. WithCoverage leverages AI to analyze p...

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