…As a result, the firm hasn’t invested in Anthropic, OpenAI, or any of the other capital-intensive AI labs, such as Periodic Labs, Reflection AI, or Recursive Superintelligence . Where Benchmark has…
It’s no secret that pre-AI era startups are generally getting little love from investors now. Ariel Katz, co-founder and CEO of a nine-year-old healthcare data platform H1…
…This story was updated to clarify that 8VC was a lead investor, to list several other additional major investors and to name the post-money valuation. Topics AI , ai coding , cognition , Devin…
…The VC firm has since built a broader rep for AI investing, counting AI stars like OpenRouter , Higgsfield, Legora , Lovable , OpenEvidence , and many others in its portfolio. Topics Anthropic , Fundraising , menlo ventures…
…From choosing the right investors to building a differentiated go-to-market strategy, these venture capitalists and founder-turned-investors share hard-earned lessons on fundraising, portfolio dynamics, investor-founder relationships, and…
…Family offices and smaller institutional investors were eager to invest in the fastest-growing AI companies but couldn’t get access to those cap tables. Having spent over five years at Playground…
…list of angel investors, too. These include OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI founder and president Greg Brockman, former OpenAI chief scientist (now founder of his own AI startup) Ilya Sutskever…
…Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, however, this week said AI could expand the industry’s addressable market. Infosys itself has sought to position AI as an opportunity rather than a threat, telling investors…
…guide their children’s use of AI, and disallowed advertising that targets kids.” The company did not specify which states are involved in the investigation or share more details about what information…
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. Carter Reum is co-founder of M13 , an…