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SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that invests broadly in technology startups.
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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Mecka AI pays people to wear sensors while they make coffee or fix cars, and two people told TechCrunch that Sequoia is leading a round at about $500 million, three months after a $60 million round. The terms are not final.
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The team move disclosed no price. It handed every Instant customer a choice between porting the data layer and paying for the ops that Instant Cloud used to run.
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A $52mn seed closes with an $18mn top-up and a first office outside Africa. The argument that production can stay put now rests on a $100mn bookings number.
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Paid Relay workspaces stop at 11:59 p.m. Pacific on September 14th, and stored credentials are deleted with them. Jacob Bank takes the approval-checkpoint idea into Google Chrome.
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The Nigerian defence-tech company added $18M and a London office. The load-bearing number is a 34,000 sq ft Ghana plant due in Q4 2026, promising 50,000 units a year by 2028.
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