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New York-headquartered venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, with past investments including Chief, Alma and Dandy.
Forgepoint raised a $9.8M seed round for Frank, an AI rep that prices manufacturers' RFQs from their own cost models. The Next Web reported the company's own claim of seven-figure ARR within six months of launch.
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Two Smartly.io veterans have $13M and a thirteen-person team to replace the Salesforce-plus-tools stack with background agents, and they are chasing Attio and Clay while both sit on far larger war chests.
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Selected AWS customers can try The Biological Computing Company's video model from Tuesday. The cells stay on silicon arrays in San Francisco, and what customers get is software built to imitate how those cells handled images.
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NewView Capital led the Series C at a valuation above $500 million and lifted total funding to $225 million, with the falls and length-of-stay evidence behind that price coming from Inspiren's own customers.
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Crunchbase News reports the New York billing and revenue-recognition startup at 180 employees and a founder-quoted $400 million valuation. The funding total moves by $2 million mid-article.
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