Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own notable hire in that vein, bringing on Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and […]
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.
SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.
Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.
Snabbit has scaled rapidly, crossing one million jobs in March, amid growing investor interest.
Users can use the in-built voice transcription tool to reply to emails
A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.
Tem has built a transaction engine that relies on AI to cut costs. Lightspeed led the round to help the startup expand to the U.S. and Australia.
The two-year-old startup confirms that it closed a Series A led by Lightspeed at $1 billion valuation.