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Startup’s life is a story of births and dead. This week confirmed it, and this confirmed that the unicorn rounds are not dead.
The most interesting start -up stories of the week
As often happens in the world of startups, it was a week of debut and ends.
Reflection machines: Thinking Machines Lab, the new AI startup of the old CTO Openai Mira Murati, came out of stealth this week, without confirming how much it could have resurrected VCS. Meanwhile, ILYA SUTSKEVER (SSI) Safety SUPERTISELLING (SSI) has collected about $ 1 billion.
Kill human: Humane, the material startup behind the defective IA spindle, announced that most of its assets had been acquired by HP for $ 116 million.
Feedback: Startup Future Family, based in San Francisco, has launched a new IVF insurance product in the United States which could reimburse potential parents if the treatment does not succeed after two laps.
Low battery: The old darling of Silicon Valley Nikola Corp. has filed for bankruptcy this week. The Electric Hydrogen Truck Startup has not found any buyer or guarantee additional funds to maintain operations.
VC news and the most interesting financing this week
We thought that the unicorns counting days were behind us, but not so much. In addition, the legal AI is hot and the imminent budget cuts inspired a new biotechnological venture capital fund.
Quadricorn: The Defense Startup based in Austin, Saronic has raised a C series of $ 600 million to build a factory of autonomous ships, also quadrupling its evaluation at $ 4 billion from its last round.
New horn: Six months after collecting a C series of $ 150 million to a post-money assessment of $ 1.25 billion, the startup coding of the ia codeium is in talks to raise a new round led by Kleiner Perkins to a Evaluation of $ 2.85 billion, Techcrunch sources said.
Join the club: Hightouch, a startup co-founded by a former engineering director at Segment which provides marketing tools powered by AI, closed a C series of $ 80 million to an evaluation of $ 1.2 billion.
Always in the club: Augury, whose AI -based equipment detects dysfunctions in factory machines, has obtained $ 75 million in equity funding as part of an F series of the series it still closes. CEO and founder Saar Yoskovitz said it was a tour for the startup that had obtained unicorn status in 2021.
After the billion: After having collected $ 1 billion to date since 2015, Fintech Varo has closed $ 29 million on the G series of $ 55 million he hoped to increase. His CEO and founder, Colin Walsh, also recently announced that he is resigning.
Midway: Sanas, which takes advantage of AI to change the accents of workers in the real -time call center, ended a round of funding of $ 65 million, evaluating the company at more than $ 500 million.
AI LEGAL: The startup of legal technology fed by AI, Luminance, has raised $ 75 million in a financing round of the C series which follows several other offers concluded by the competitors, confirming that the space is warmed up.
New fund: In the midst of uncertainty on the financing of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the capital fund-venture capital of altitude LAB will plan to invest from $ 100,000 to $ 250,000 in biotechnological startups that have been Qualified for research subsidies on small businesses (SBIR) in NIH.
Last but not least
Andreessen Horowitz can have $ 45 billion in assets under management, but Marc Andreessen “does not” take place to bring back the public enterprise “. Speaking on Invest Like the Best Podcast this week, the co-founder of A16Z discussed his goal to build it in a sustainable business.
This message was updated to reflect the fact that Augury obtained the status of unicorn for the first time in 2021.
