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“Many high-value processes run for weeks and risk losing value at every handoff. Long-running agents can now carry one from start to finish, keeping context and following up as often as needed.”

“Eka Robotics, a one-year-old startup based in Cambridge, MA, that develops robots that use force-sensitive grippers and deep-learning models to handle objects for industrial customers, raised a $150 million Series A round at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation.”

“$8.3M seed led by a16z”

“Raises $100M Series E Round from Tau Ventures, a16z”

“a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Coatue, General Catalyst, Peak XV, Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, CRV and Kfund.”

“in August 2026 they raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation. DHL, Kuehne+Nagel and Uber are customers.”

“Eka Robotics, a developer of general-purpose robots, raised $150m in Series A funding at a $1.45b valuation. A16z and F-Prime led.”

“Town, an SF-based AI assistant for teams, raised $108m in Series B funding at a $1b post-money valuation. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures led, joined by a16z, First Round Capital...”

“it turns out, if you could actually produce it via silicon, the market's quite large.”

“We worked together when you were the CTO of Plaid, and I had led our investment in Plaid here.”

“Why Real-World AI Is Harder Than the Benchmark”

“Forgepoint... automates manufacturers' request-for-quote and pricing workflows with AI agents... raised a $9.8M seed co-led by a16z.”

“Stuut ($52.5M Series B, 'full enterprise order-to-cash workflows')”

“Typesafe raised $870M at Series A”

“Forgepoint, an NYC-based developer of AI agents for manufacturing, raised $9.8m in seed funding led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z”

“Valon Mortgage ($150M Series D at $2.3B, 'AI-native operating system for regulated finance')”

“Atlas Atomics, a nuclear startup cofounded by Vivek Ramaswamy, reportedly raised $400m at a $1.9b valuation. General Catalyst led, joined by a16z.”

“TypeSafe AI (dba Jev), an SF-based composable AI startup led by OpenAI vet Diogo Almeida, raised around $870m at a $7.5b valuation. A16z led, joined by insiders DCVC and Sequoia Capital.”

“Raghu Raghuram, A16Z partner, former VMware CEO, host”

“One of them turned out to be running millions of automated tasks a month without knowing which model does the work.”

“Stuut, an AI coworker that runs order-to-cash for enterprises, raised $52.2m in Series B funding. Insight Partners led, joined by a16z and M12.”

“General Medicine... raised $120m in Series B funding. A16z led, joined by Matrix, VXI Capital, Eli Lilly, Mercy Health, and BoxGroup.”

“Backed by a top-tier fund or accelerator, such as Y Combinator or a16z”

“It's the tailwind of a lifetime in cyber.”

“Raises $110M with Vista Equity Partners, Government of Singapore Investment, Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein, Y Combinator, Wintermute, CRV, a16z, Coinfund. A stablecoin-native financial operating system providing global corporate cards and payments”

“Raises $350M from a16z, Navitas Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan at $4B Valuation”

“A year ago, I made this meme, which was the slap on a chatbot strategy, which is essentially like all the incumbents effectively had a chatbot that sat on top of the system record... The principal agent, you're actually weighing, okay, should we offer more compensation? Because that was a pretty terrible outage and we want to reserve the relationship.”

“For every $100 flowing into the supply chain: $50 to chips, $20 to power, $15 to networking, $15 to cooling, buildings, and land.”

“The legacy incumbent is limited to their system of record and that record that they have, and they're not completing the end-to-end job.”

“Kanu AI... $11.7M seed with a16z, Accel, BMW i Ventures”

“raised $255.5m in Series B funding at a valuation north of $2.5b. Accel and a16z led.”

“'The American consumer does not want to spend less. They love spending money. There's free money: what's all the money that you're actually spending on your loan, the money that the government owes you that you haven't come and collected?'”