Reading up on funding
6 deep · digging since feb 03
- DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts
DeepSeek is raising over $7 billion from investors as it begins efforts to generate revenue.
- Ex-Twitter CEO’s AI Startup Raises Funds at $2 Billion Valuation - WSJ
Parallel Web Systems, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100M in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build web search for AI agents.
- Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Yann LeCun's new startup AMI raised over $1 billion to build AI world models that understand the physical world, moving beyond LLMs.
- Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
Anthropic raised $30B in Series G funding at a $380B valuation, with a $14B revenue run rate and $2.5B from Claude Code. Hacker News commenters debated valuation sustainability, competitive moats, and risks of enterprise AI overinvestment.
- Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
Todd C. Miller, the long-time maintainer of the critical sudo utility, is seeking sponsorship to continue development and maintenance.