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a16z partner Kofi Ampadu to leave firm after TxO program pause
Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm’s Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has…
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Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal
AI coding assistant Cursor announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI to review and…
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Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for…
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Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem
AI lets anyone create videos, but many AI video creation tools lack support for audio. Mirelo is building…
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Oboe raises $16 million from a16z for its AI-powered course-generation platform
Oboe, a learning startup from Anchor co-founders and former Spotify execs Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, said today…
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Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round
Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, has raised $475 million in seed capital at a…
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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation
German AI lab Black Forest Labs said on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series…
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a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere
As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax. “Marketplaces…