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India and Southeast Asia focused venture capital firm, formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia.
RapidCanvas raised a $29 million Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, taking total funding to $52.5 million. The company claims its ARR rose 8x over six quarters, a compound rate of about 41% a quarter.
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Sequoia led a $30 million seed round in Catalyst, a startup founded in 2025 to build AI trading agents for retail investors. How closely users check each agent-built trade before it runs will decide how much of the investing judgement sits with software.
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Peak XV now invests up to $5 million per startup through its Surge seed program, up from $3 million, starting with an 18-company cohort called Surge 12. The bigger check matters to founders only if it buys enough runway to clear a Series A bar the firm says has risen.
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An unaffiliated 10-trial benchmark clocked Blacksmith's runners at 3.17x and 3.77x faster than ubuntu-latest, with no overlap in the ranges. Reaching that baseline first meant moving the repository off a personal account.
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Exaforce AI Security went generally available today with agentless discovery of coding agents, custom GPTs and MCP servers, plus response actions that can revoke a session or deactivate a model provider key.
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