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Index Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage technology startups across the US and Europe.
Baiju Bhatt says Cowboy Space's first satellite, Reason-1, is in orbit and in daily contact with its ground team. That establishes the company can operate a spacecraft, while the laser link meant to beam solar power to Earth has no reported result yet.
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Hone raised a $60 million seed round led by Benchmark and Index Ventures for AI agents that pursue business goals over weeks or months. Buyers have only Hone's own account of its safeguards to judge them by, because Hone has not disclosed revenue or customer results.
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Readyset's compiler now rewrites subqueries in HAVING, ORDER BY and inner and outer join conditions so its dataflow cache can keep them current. Queries it cannot safely rewrite go to the database uncached, so SQL coverage sets how much read load it takes.
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Spiko, a Paris issuer of tokenized money market funds, raised a $90 million Series B led by NEA after reaching about $2.6 billion in assets. The figures put Spiko at the front of Europe's tokenized fund issuers and show little so far about whether it can win cash away from incumbents such as BlackRock.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation on September 28, four times the $2.5 billion it carried a month earlier while still in early access. The mark repriced faster than any metric the company has published.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, four times the $2.5 billion it was valued at a month earlier. Its agent runs errands by operating other companies' websites, apps and phone lines, so single-task apps end up serving software that acts for the user.
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The $550 million Series C buys roughly a tenth of a company with 650 employees and no published revenue, and the cash is going into engineers who sit inside customers' offices rather than into compute.
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Noah Shinn gave venture capitalists the first invites to his AI assistant. Instinct now carries a $2.5bn valuation. The technique for making agents learn from their own failures is one Shinn published in 2023, before GPT-4.
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The screenshots show Instinct abandoning a $574 Gerber claim and drafting an incident report about a document the user says was not his. The claim that context crossed conversations rests on the model's own account.
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QED led the round and MUFG joined as one of four new investors. Under Trust Fabric, a human reviewer has to approve a finding before later investigations can reuse it.
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Index Ventures led the round, and Nomos will sit behind own-brand tariffs sold by German heat pump and solar installers. Its roughly EUR 22M raised to date is a fraction of what Ostrom, Cloover and Tibber hold.
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Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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Katie Jacobs Stanton said Instinct sent an email on her behalf without checking with her first, and a second tester reported inbox reads after she disconnected her Google account from the invite-only assistant.
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GrokBot Googles for users and Instinct scrapes LinkedIn, both against somebody's terms of service, and Jason Lemkin says that edge is open only to private companies. At EchoSign the same approach was ripped out the night the Adobe deal closed.
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A $2B Series B rests on synthetic respondents agreeing with human focus groups 85 to 99 percent of the time. The band's floor and ceiling are not the same product.
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A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
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