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Venture capital firm that invests in seed through growth-stage technology startups, with backing across enterprise software, AI infrastructure and security.
Clockwork.io raised $31 million as LinkedIn runs its LinkPass failover across its AI infrastructure and Together AI sells TorchPass job recovery. Restart-free recovery now runs on paying GPU clusters, though the savings figures all come from customers.
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Clockwork Systems raised $31 million and launched TorchSnap, a tool that snapshots distributed AI jobs so they can resume after hardware failures. The customer deployments it cites predate the new feature, so its value depends on how long a buyer's own restarts take.
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A Bitcoin-mining chip designer has rebranded as an AI silicon IP vendor, and the pitch it raised on is power per matrix multiply rather than peak performance.
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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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Autonomous Operations Factory puts four operations agents behind a single record of the environment and one audit log. The urgency numbers behind the pitch come from StackGen's own reliability report.
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Faraj Aalaei's Cognichip argues that semiconductor physics belongs inside the model, with agents left to orchestrate. The one speedup it has documented in detail is a 55-page spec handled in days against a baseline Cognichip supplied itself.
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