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California venture capital firm founded by Bill Maris, who started GV (formerly Google Ventures); it invests in AI, biotech and science-driven companies.
Insight Partners and S32 led $350 million into a business that ships graded tasks, rubrics and reinforcement-learning environments to frontier labs. The price works out near ten times a company-reported run-rate.
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Insight Partners and S32 co-led the round, and the product they are funding is expert-built agentic environments and rubrics that Snorkel says take qualified humans hours or days to construct.
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S32 led a $140M round that takes Basecamp Research's total funding to $225M since 2019. Two of the sixteen named backers, NVIDIA and Anthropic's Anthology Fund, are also partners on the dataset its models train on.
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The Series C values Basecamp Research at about $800 million, roughly 3.6 times everything it has raised, on the strength of a proprietary sequence library and scaling comparisons the company ran internally.
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The Series C funds a 28-billion-parameter model trained on more than 100 billion genes. Two of the partners who helped assemble that dataset, Nvidia and Anthropic's joint fund, are also in the round.
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Insight Partners and S32 co-led $350m at a valuation nearly 2.7 times the one Snorkel took in May 2025. The $375m figure underneath it is an annualized run rate, and the company's own launch dates for the service that produced it do not agree.
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The $350m Series E values Snorkel AI at $3.5b, roughly nine times the annualized revenue it reports. What a customer buys now is a written evaluation rubric, a graded dataset and a sandbox to train in.
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Faro says six of the ten largest drugmakers already use its platform to design studies. The eight investors on its Series B are each putting in about $4.7 million to find out what that adoption converts into.
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Linear's $99m tender at a $2.5bn mark prices existing shares rather than new capital, while the blog beneath it puts agent-created work at half the total, a composition figure Atlassian answers with a 4x quarter off an undisclosed base.
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Eight investors are named on the round and no valuation was disclosed. The only outside corroboration of Faro's data model covers how it writes protocols, not what agents do with them.
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