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  • Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders
  • SpaceX backer 137 Ventures raises $700M for two growth-stage funds
  • Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

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techcrunch.com /2 weeks ago

Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders

This new fund will back founders building enterprise technology in the United States. Meridian is agnostic, co-founder Devon Gethers said, noting that the firm has already invested...

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

SpaceX backer 137 Ventures raises $700M for two growth-stage funds

VC firm 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million to back growth-stage startups. Its portfolio includes SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian.

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

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inc.com /3 days ago

This $40 Billion Silicon Valley Unicorn Is Becoming an Unexpected Founder Factory

At least 30 former employees have launched their own ventures since leaving fintech company Ramp.

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techcrunch.com /2 weeks ago

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

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techcrunch.com /2 weeks ago

Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting

Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups. So Eric Vishria dragged his feet 10 years ago before agreeing to hear Cerebras' pitch.

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techcrunch.com /1 week ago

For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis

Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.

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techcrunch.com /3 weeks ago

Mother Ventures is looking at moms as the ‘economic engine’

The VC firm, which focuses on mothers as consumers, raised a $10 million debut fund.

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yourstory.com /1 day ago

The First Lap Runners: Why Micro VCs are critical in India's venture relay

Capital-intensive businesses like deep-tech, hardware, biotech, anything with long R&D cycles before a market signal, often need investors with deeper pockets and longer horizo...

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yourstory.com /3 weeks ago

Pronto extends series B to $45M at $200M valuation

The latest investment was led by Lachy Groom, the co-founder of AI robotics company Physical Intelligence and an early backer of quick commerce startup Zepto.

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medcitynews.com /1 month ago

Top Silicon Valley VCs Are Backing a New Health Tech Residency Program

The AI Health Fund launched Treehub, a new residency program designed to back and build healthcare AI startups at the earliest stages, often before companies are even formed. It is...

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jdsupra.com /1 week ago

When Everyone Wants In: Shifting Venture Financing Terms in the AI Era

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) are reaching scale at speeds that have no precedent in the history of venture-backed technology. Anthropic reached $1...

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techcrunch.com /2 weeks ago

Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M

The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be b...

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inc.com /1 week ago

This Founder Called VCs ‘Grifters’—Then Took $110 Million From Them and Built a Unicorn

Fabrication startup SendCutSend recently raised venture captial from Sequoia, Paradigm, and the co-founders of Stripe.

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

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techcrunch.com /2 weeks ago

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware

Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers. 

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government

On Wednesday, Pursuit announced a $22 million Series A round led by Mike Rosengarten, the co-founder of OpenGov, with big-name VCs participating.

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thebridge.jp /2 weeks ago

Yosemite, a Commerce Platform, Raises Approximately ¥1.5 Billion from B Dash Ventures and Others

Yosemite, which is building a commerce platform that provides integrated production, logistics, and sales services, announced on the 12th that it has raised a total of approximatel...

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yourstory.com /2 weeks ago

D2C Insider to launch Rs 150 Cr VC fund

The 'ConsumerX Ventures' fund will invest in around 25 D2C brands with a focus on pre-seed and seed stages of funding.

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techcrunch.com /1 month ago

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets

The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and Pat Grady now serving as co-stewards of the 54-year-old firm.

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techmeme.com /2 weeks ago

Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True...

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors ...

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thehindubusinessline.com /4 days ago

Nandan Nilekani-backed F2A launches with ₹3,000 cr corpus to back frontier technologies

The platform will oversee investments of ₹1,000 crore, in addition to managing the ₹2,000-crore Fundamentum III fund, which will focus on artificial intelligence and deeptech oppor...

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thehindubusinessline.com /4 days ago

Nandan Nilekani-backed F2A launches with ₹3,000 cr corpus to back frontier technologies

The platform will oversee investments of ₹1,000 crore, in addition to managing the ₹2,000-crore Fundamentum III fund, which will focus on artificial intelligence and deeptech oppor...

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dataconomy.com /3 weeks ago

First Round Capital’s Network Shows Where Seed Capital Is Landing

Written by Smartech Daily Team This article has been originally published on Smartech Daily and republished at Dataconomy with permission. Data from early-stage venture portfolios...

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