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| 13.09.2026 | Alibaba Backs AI Testing Pioneer UniPat with $300 Million | UniPat secured $300 million in funding. Alibaba Group led the round. This AI testing startup verifies complex models. It ensures reliability. Valuation hit $2.5 billion. The deal signals a market shift. AI safety is now paramount. Enterpris... |
| 10.09.2026 | Alibaba вложится в стартап своего бывшего сотрудника, создающего тесты для ИИ | Alibaba Group готовится возглавить раунд инвестиций на $300 млн в стартап UniPat AI, разрабатывающий инструменты для тестирования и оценки ИИ-моделей. В рамках обсуждаемой сделки компанию могут оценить в $2,5 млрд.
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| 02.09.2026 | Стартап по подготовке данных для ИИ может стать самым быстрым единорогом Y Combinator | Стартап AfterQuery, который готовит обучающие данные для ИИ-моделей, может получить оценку в $3,2 млрд в новом раунде финансирования, сообщает Forbes. По данным издания, компания уже нашла ведущего инвестора.
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| 26.08.2026 | Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down | Amazon announced it’s shuttering Mechanical Turk, a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks, on Sept. 30.
The platform launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for c... |
| 24.08.2026 | AI's Global Reshaping: Innovation, Regulation, and Strategic Power Plays | AI rapidly reshapes technology and society. It integrates into physical products: camera-equipped AirPods, global robotaxi fleets. Regulatory pressures mount on platforms regarding youth harm and AI safety. Tech giants aggressively acquire ... |
| 24.08.2026 | Rillet Transforms Finance: New AI-Native ERP Hits Unicorn Status | Rillet secured $100 million in Series C funding. This catapults the AI-native ERP firm to a $1 billion valuation. It reshapes corporate finance. Rillet replaces outdated ERP with a real-time, AI-driven platform. AI agents automate tasks; hu... |
| 24.08.2026 | The CEO of the unicorn AI accounting startup, Rillet, says AI is changing who consulting firms hire | For years, upgrading the software companies use for bookkeeping consumed a consultant's entire job.
"It's no fun being a consultant implementing your third instance of Oracle Fusion and having three years of your life basically go by i... |
| 21.08.2026 | Стартап по разметке датасетов Micro1 нарастил выручку в 5 раз меньше чем за год из-за спроса на данные | Американский стартап Micro1, занимающийся разметкой и генерацией данных для обучения ИИ-моделей, за последние восемь месяцев увеличил валовую годовую выручку (ARR) со $100 млн до $500 млн. Об этом со ссылкой на источник, знакомый с финансов... |
| 21.08.2026 | Rillet Nabs $100M Series C Financing |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Rillet, the AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform for modern finance teams, has announced a $100 million Series C round.
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| 20.08.2026 | AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer | Another AI company wants to get its hands on Spirit Airlines' data.
Ali Ansari, 25, the founder and CEO of Micro1, a startup that helps train AI models, told Business Insider that his firm is making a "materially higher" offer for... |
| 20.08.2026 | Judge delays $10M sale of Spirit data to Google after attendants raise privacy concerns | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A proposed $10 million sale of a trove of Spirit Airlines data to Google has been delayed by a federal bankruptcy judge after unionized flight attendants raised privacy concerns.
The data is among ... |
| 20.08.2026 | Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed | Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automatio... |
| 20.08.2026 | Rillet Raises $100 Million at $1B Valuation To Build Financing AI Agents | Nothing about enterprise accounting has really changed in 20 years. ERP tools like NetSuite, Oracle, and SAP still treat data like files in a cabinet. So every month, finance teams copy numbers from spreadsheets, push for sign-offs, and bur... |
| 19.08.2026 | Rillet Raises $100 Million Series C At $1 Billion Valuation As AI-Native ERP Tops 600 Customers | Rillet has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation as the AI-native enterprise resource planning company accelerates development of what it calls “Accounting Superintelligence,” where AI agents perform increasingly complex ... |
| 19.08.2026 | AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price? | AI is running into a data dilemma, and it needs your help.
Technically, it doesn't need your help. It just needs your emails, your internal messages with coworkers, and any documents you created.
Consider this the newest stage of the great ... |
| 19.08.2026 | Nvidia in talks to invest in AI data startup Mercor at $20 billion valuation | Nvidia is in talks to invest in Mercor, the AI data startup whose valuation could double to $20 billion less than a year after its last major funding round, according to a report from The Information.
The potential investment would make Nvi... |
| 18.08.2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 18, 2026: Apple, Baidu, ByteDance, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Xiaomi & More | It’s Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and AI is breaking out of the chatbot box.
In the last 24 hours, the technology race pushed deeper into the physical world: Apple’s rumored camera-equipped AirPods point to AI that can see what you see, Pony.a... |
| 18.08.2026 | Harvey's first LLM for legal work is here | Harvey built an $11 billion legal-software business on top of other companies' AI models. Now it's trying to prove it can build one of its own.
On Tuesday, Harvey introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work... |
| 18.08.2026 | Google buys 100 million Spirit Airlines emails and 500 million teams chats for $10 million to train AI models | Google is paying $10 million for something few people would expect to find at a bankrupt airline: roughly 100 million employee emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and years of internal business records that could help train its AI... |
| 03.08.2026 | The VC firm behind Shopify is doubling down on robotics and defense | Hard tech used to be a hard sell in Silicon Valley. Now, a major venture firm is staffing up to invest in it.
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm best known for bets on Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a pa... |
| 27.07.2026 | Mercor is embracing old-school Big Tech interview strategies that even Google and Microsoft are ditching | Mercor's interview process is less vibe coding, more whiteboarding.
On an episode of the "20VC" podcast released on Saturday, Mercor's head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home... |
| 22.07.2026 | Mercor CEO says young people job-hop too often | Mercor's CEO thinks Gen Z should stop hopscotching the job market.
Brendan Foody, the 23-year-old CEO of the AI training giant, wrote on X about a takeaway that surprised him from interviewing candidates. The average tenure among the younge... |
| 15.07.2026 | These 19 AI Startups Are Generating $18.3 Billion in Annual Revenue and Are Worth a Combined $319 Billion | A new analysis reveals that AI’s next wave extends far beyond OpenAI and Anthropic, with infrastructure, coding, data, and enterprise startups already generating billions in annual revenue.
For years, the AI conversation has centered on Ope... |
| 15.07.2026 | Startup Today. AI e innovazione: le 5 notizie da seguire oggi | L’attenzione delle ultime 24 ore è concentrata sull’evoluzione dell’AI generativa verso strumenti sempre più orientati al lavoro. OpenAI accelera con GPT-5.6 e ChatGPT Work, mentre il mercato continua a premiare startup che costruiscono app... |
| 13.07.2026 | Prime Intellect Score $130M Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Prime Intellect announced it has raised $130M in Series A, led by Radical Ventures
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| 10.07.2026 | Теория мёртвой экономики | Вероятно, вам знакома теория мёртвого Интернета, гласящая, что бóльшая часть того, с чем мы сталкиваемся онлайн, сгенерировано ботами и для ботов, а роль людей редуцировалась до скукожившейся аудитории создаваемого машинами шума. В прошлом ... |
| 08.07.2026 | Data At The Edge | Many of the most critical data sets are the ones that we have long been unable to access or interpret.
Value on the internet has largely compounded through data loops that continuously strengthen with scale. A product or platform collects d... |
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| 30.06.2026 | Digital World Models: Patronus AI Raises $50M for Advanced AI Evaluation | Patronus AI secured $50M in Series B funding, totaling $70M. The company builds Digital World Models, advanced simulations to stress-test AI agents. These environments ensure real-world reliability beyond static benchmarks. AI agents learn ... |
| 26.06.2026 | Стартап Patronus AI привлек $50 млн на стресс-тесты для ИИ-агентов | Стартап Patronus AI, основанный в 2023 году бывшими исследователями Meta* Анандом Каннаппаном и Ребеккой Цянь, закрыл раунд B на $50 млн. Раунд возглавил фонд Greenfield Partners; в нем также приняли участие Notable Capital, Lightspeed, Dat... |
| 22.06.2026 | New Market Realities: Brands Adapt, Consumers Dictate, AI Accelerates | Brands innovate for growth. Nex Playground expands globally via Wrexham AFC. Hollister partners Target for dorm decor, targeting the $89B back-to-college market. Retailers face scrutiny as LGBTQ+ consumers shift spending based on DEI commit... |
| 22.06.2026 | Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion Series F To Power AI Inference | Baseten announced that it has raised a $1.5 billion Series F financing round. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital. Sands Capital and Wellington Management also participated as co-leads. Other investors in t... |
| 16.06.2026 | This startup wants to pay for your email and photos to train AI — and it's on an acquisition spree | The next wave of AI needs your photos, receipts, and emails to get smarter. One startup wants to help you get paid for it, and it's on a corporate shopping spree.
AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer applications, bringing... |
| 15.06.2026 | Copperlane Raises $4.1M in Seed Funding | Copperlane, a New York City-based developer of an AI-native autonomous mortgage origination platform, raised $4.1m in seed funding.
The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, US News Digital Ventures, Mercor, an... |
| 28.05.2026 | Trajectory Raises $15M in Seed Funding | Trajectory, a San Francisco, CA-based research and product lab building a platform for continual learning, raised $15M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Conviction, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Radical VC, BoxGroup... |
| 27.05.2026 | Human Archive: $8.2 Million Raised To Build Training Data Infrastructure For Physical AI | Human Archive, a Silicon Valley-based startup founded by researchers from University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, announced it has raised $8.2 million in funding to build infrastructure for collecting real-world training... |
| 13.05.2026 | A* Announces A* III, A $450 Million Early‑Stage Fund Focused On Backing Founders Before Consensus | A* has announced the launch of A* III, a new $450 million early‑stage fund built around the firm’s founding philosophy: to be a founder’s first believer.
The firm said it remains sector‑agnostic but deeply specialized in the craft and disci... |
| 29.04.2026 | TriFetch: $1.9 Million Raised To Automate Administrative Workflows For Independent Specialty Clinics | TriFetch, a San Francisco-based AI automation platform built for independent specialty clinics, has raised a $1.9 million pre-seed round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from angels with backgrounds at Google, Hippocratic, ... |
| 25.04.2026 | Google’s AI agent platform takes pole position but work remains
Opening setup: TPU 8, the data foundation and the move from chat to actions
Service as software: Why agents force the whole enterprise t... | Enterprises are rapidly moving from an artificial intelligence that answers questions and generates content to one that performs tasks and takes actions. According to Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian, this shift requires a fundame... |
| 31.03.2026 | LAPSUS$ claims massive breach of AI hiring startup Mercor, says 4TB of data taken via Tailscale VPN | A cybercrime group with a track record of hitting some of tech’s biggest names says it has struck again—this time going after one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI talent pipeline.
Posts circulating across X and Reddit point to a c... |
| 29.01.2026 | AI Agents Struggle: Human Professionals Remain Indispensable | AI agents fall short for complex white-collar work. A new benchmarking study, APEX-Agents by Mercor, reveals profound limitations. Leading frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic achieved under 30% accuracy in law, investment ban... |
| 23.01.2026 | Can AI Agents Replace White-Collar Workers? | Whether you’re a worker bee or sitting behind a C-suite desk, the rise of AI agents has sparked equal parts optimism and anxiety, but a new benchmarking study has thrown cold water on the hype, revealing these next-gen bots are nowhere clos... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Secures $75M at $1B Valuation, Propelling Enterprise AI Automation | Serval announced a $75M Series B funding round, pushing its valuation to $1 billion. This AI-native ITSM platform transforms enterprise IT. It deploys AI agents to automate help desk requests, access management, and complex workflows. Serva... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Soars to $1 Billion Valuation with $75 Million Series B Funding | Serval, an AI-native enterprise automation leader, secured $75 million in Series B funding. The company now boasts a $1 billion valuation. This milestone fuels its mission to transform enterprise service management. Serval's AI agents autom... |
| 16.12.2025 | Valinor Secures $13 Million to Revolutionize Clinical Trials with AI | Valinor, a San Francisco-based AI firm, just raised $13 million. This seed funding aims to improve clinical trial success. The company uses machine learning. It analyzes patient data to predict treatment response. This reduces trial failure... |
| 16.12.2025 | AI Firm Valinor Secures $13M to Revolutionize Clinical Trials | Valinor, a San Francisco-based AI company, just raised $13 million in seed funding. The company aims to drastically improve clinical trial success rates. It uses AI to predict patient response to drugs *before* trials begin. This “response-... |
| 12.12.2025 | Valinor Raises $13M in Funding | Valinor, a San Francisco, CA-based AI company leveraging machine learning models to increase the probability of clinical trial success, raised $13M in Seed funding.
The round was led by CRV, Harpoon Ventures, Amino Collective, and Pelion Ve... |
| 11.12.2025 | Serval Raises $75M in Series B Funding; Achieves $1B Valuation | Serval, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform, raised $75m in Series B funding, achieving a $1 billion valuation.
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| 04.11.2025 | Applied Compute Launches with $80 Million To Build Specific Intelligence For Enterprise AI Agents | Applied Compute has launched with $80 million in funding from leading investors Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux Capital, Hanabi, Neo, Elad Gil, Victor Lazarte, and Omri Casspi. The company is developing a new category of enterprise AI known as “Spe... |
| 04.11.2025 | Scale AI’s life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it’s not a ‘zombie company’ | Five months after Scale AI’s high-profile founder joined Meta in a blockbuster deal, the startup’s CFO is trying to show that the company remains on a growth trajectory.
“People mischaracterize this deal as some sort of acquihire or some so... |
| 28.10.2025 | AI Leader Mercor Reaches $10 Billion Valuation with $350M Funding Boost | Mercor, an AI-focused talent network, just closed a $350 million Series C funding round. This new investment propels its valuation to $10 billion, a fivefold increase. The company's strategic pivot to providing human experts for AI model tr... |
| 28.10.2025 | Mercor Raises $350 Million at a $10 Billion Valuation | Mercor is a leading artificial intelligence hiring startup that is growing its business to power the modern recruitment boom. The company focuses on developing and scaling AI-powered solutions designed to support the significant talent acqu... |
| 28.10.2025 | Mercor: $350 Million Series C Raised To Transform Work In The Age Of AI | Mercor, a company pioneering the intersection of human expertise and artificial intelligence, announced a $350 million Series C funding round led by Felicis, with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures. The r... |
| 27.10.2025 | Serval Raises $47M in Series A Funding | Serval, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform, raised $47M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $52M since its founding in 2024, was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation ... |
| 27.10.2025 | Mercor Raises $350M in Series C; Valued at $10 Billion | Mercor, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that connects AI labs with experts for training their AI models, raised $350M in Series C funding.
The round, which valued the company at $10 billion, was led by Felicis with participation from Benc... |
| 27.10.2025 | AI startup Mercor now valued at $10 billion with new $350 million funding round | Artificial intelligence hiring startup Mercor announced a $350 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to $10 billion.
The raise was led by Felicis with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures.
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| 27.10.2025 | Mercor, an AI startup founded by 22-year-old college dropouts, raises $350M and hits $10B valuation in just two years | San Francisco–based AI startup Mercor is now valued at $10 billion after raising $350 million in a Series C round led by Felicis, with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures. The funding marks a fivefold incr... |
| 21.10.2025 | Serval raises $47M to bring AI-native automation to IT operations
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| 16.10.2025 | Jack & Jill raises $20M to fix job hunting with conversational AI
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| 23.09.2025 | VCs to AI startups: please take our money | Synopsis
The lavish VC overtures are part of a larger Silicon Valley frenzy for AI, driven by startupsâ astonishing revenue growth and investorsâ belief that these companies can dethrone tech giants. US startups have raised around $200 ... |
| 10.09.2025 | Report: Investors offered to fund AI data startup Mercor at $10B valuation
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| 20.06.2025 | OpenAI Begins ‘Phasing Out’ Scale AI, but It’s Not Because of Meta | Image: Kaikoro/Adobe Stock
Silicon Valley’s AI alliances are fracturing — and the ripple effects are just beginning.
OpenAI is beginning to phase out it relationship with Scale AI, a once-critical data partner whose founder has just defecte... |
| 14.06.2025 | Exclusive-Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans split after Meta deal, sources say | Previous
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| 15.05.2025 | SignalRank Marks Two-Year Milestone with Strong Performance, Announces v4 of Investment Selection Model | Palo Alto, United States/California, May 15th, 2025, FinanceWire
SignalRank, the Palo Alto-based technology-driven venture investment platform, today announced several key milestones, including:
Two years of performance data for The SignalR... |
| 02.05.2025 | These teenagers just founded a $2 billion AI startup—And they can’t even vote yet | Think you’re too young to build a unicorn? Think again. Some of tech’s biggest names got their start as teenagers, dropping out of college to chase bold ideas. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Mark Zuckerberg. They didn’t wait for permission. And no... |
| 15.04.2025 | 'Fully Replacing People': A Tech Investor Says These Two Professions Should Be the Most Wary of AI Taking Their Jobs AI might replace jobs, but it also has the potential to help start new companies. | Big Tech companies may not say outright that AI is replacing people, but one tech investor is — and he says two professions, in particular, should watch out.
"Big companies talk about, like, 'AI isn't replacing people, it's augmenting ... |
| 10.02.2025 | Most-Active US Investors In January: a16z Only Investor To Warm Up To The New Year | 1 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent w... |
| 31.01.2025 | The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Helion Energy Takes Top Spot In Another Slow Week | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| 19.09.2024 | Mercor Closes $30M Series A At $250M Valuation | Mercor, a San Francisco, CA-based HR Tech startup, closed a $30m Series A funding round, at a $250m valuation.
The round was led by Benchmark with Victor Lazarte joining the board. Other participants in the round included Peter Thiel, Jack ... |
| 18.09.2024 | AI-powered hiring platform startup Mercor raises $30M in Series A funding led by Benchmark | The traditional hiring process is broken, slow, and often skewed by bias. Now, a trio of 21-year-old Thiel Fellows are transforming the system, tackling these long-standing issues head-on to create a more efficient and fair hiring experienc... |
| 14.01.2024 | Mercor Raises $3.6M in Funding | Mercor, a San Francisco, California-based provider of a fully-automated platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies, raised $3.6M in funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst and includes participation from Scott ... |
| 11.01.2024 | Perplexity AI’s challenge to Google hinges on something simple but tough—being the best | There are two major Steve Jobs movies.
I learned this talking to Perplexity AI cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas, who wanted to be clear with me—he was talking about the Steve Jobs movie featuring Michael Fassbender, not Ashton Kutcher.
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