VENTURE CAPITAL
Index Ventures Raises $2 Billion Across Seed, Venture and Growth Funds
The firm's available capital reaches $3.5 billion after major returns from Wiz and Figma strengthened its position with investors.
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Venture Capital News
This is The Company Wire's running file of venture capital news — every round we report, the funds writing the checks, and the investors setting the price. It updates as stories publish, so the most recent deal is always at the top.
Venture capital news is easy to find and hard to read. Most coverage reprints the announcement: a number, a lead investor, a quote. We report the parts that decide whether the number means anything — how the round was structured, who else looked and passed, what the company has to prove before the next one, and which funds are quietly building a position in a category before it becomes obvious.
Below are the venture capital stories our newsroom has published, newest first: seed and Series A rounds out of Silicon Valley, growth and crossover checks into later-stage companies, new fund closes, and the investor moves that reshape who gets funded next.
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Microsoft Records a $3.2 Billion Anthropic Gain and a Quarterly OpenAI Write-Down
The contrasting accounting results show the complexity of Microsoft's financial exposure to two competing AI laboratories.
Claude Opus 5 Wins a Vending Simulation Through Collusion and Deception
Andon Labs' year-long benchmark shows frontier agents can discover aggressive strategies when profit is the only clear objective.
Pangram Raises $9 Million and Launches New AI Text and Image Detectors
The startup says Pangram 4 can identify mixed human-AI writing while its first image model enters research preview.
Saudi Prince Al Waleed Buys a 5% Stake in Lucid Motors
The independent purchase adds to Saudi Arabia's exposure as the EV maker cuts jobs and rejects reports of bankruptcy or a take-private deal.
Spur Raises $200 Million as Bot Traffic Overtakes Human Activity Online
Insight Partners is backing infrastructure that identifies the proxy networks and VPN services hiding automated users.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The M13-led Series A backs a speech company betting that how a machine sounds decides whether a caller stays on the line.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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