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Conveo Raises $50M Series A

Conveo raised a $50 million Series A to grow in the US and turn its AI interview platform into a standing source of consumer knowledge for enterprises.

Dili Raises $15M from Khosla to Automate Infrastructure Compliance

Dili raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures to automate prevailing wage and labor compliance for energy, data center, and infrastructure projects.

Henry Raises $16.5M to Automate Commercial Real Estate Deals

Henry, the AI platform used by commercial real estate brokers to build deal decks, has raised a $16.5 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital and launched a product covering underwriting and comps research.

Anthropic's Fable 5 Rises

The Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff that took the company's most advanced models offline.

Coval Raises $28M Series A to Make Voice AI as Reliable as a Waymo

Orthogonal Raises $4.3M to Build the API Layer for AI Agents

Bland Raises $50M Series C for Voice AI

Voice AI platform Bland closed a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, tripling down on complex, high-stakes phone conversations.

Diana Hu Promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator

Y Combinator has promoted Diana Hu, co-founder of Niantic-acquired Escher Reality, to Managing Partner after four years working with nearly 230 companies across 18 batches.

The Top Agent-Pilled Startups in YC P26

From phone numbers to liability insurance to hiring marketplaces, YC's Spring 2026 batch is building the infrastructure, tooling, and services that AI agents need to actually operate in the real world.

Cedar Raises $3.1M for Its AI Sales Platform

Cedar, a YC W25 startup building an AI-native workspace for account executives, has raised $3.1M and launched publicly.

Top Marketing Tech Startups in YC P26

Four startups from YC's Spring 2026 batch are tackling marketing's distribution problem with AI agents, synthetic customers, and automated experimentation.

Anthropic Raises $65B at $965B Valuation

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, pushing the Claude maker's valuation to $965 billion.

Didit Raises $7.5M for Internet-Scale Identity Verification

Twin brothers from Barcelona raised an oversubscribed $7.5M seed to build identity verification infrastructure validated by Spain's government as more secure than in-person checks.

Exa Raises $250M at a $2.2B Valuation

Exa, the AI search engine company, raises $250M in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2B valuation.

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

The OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director announced he has joined Anthropic to work on R&D at the frontier of large language models.

Flick Raises $6M to Build the Filmmaking Platform for the AI Era

Enhanced Radar Raises $7M to Modernize Air Traffic Systems

Enhanced Radar, the YC-backed startup building AI for air traffic control, has raised $7 million led by Initialized Capital with participation from United Airlines Ventures and others.

Cinder Raises $41M Series B for Trust and Safety Infrastructure

Cinder, the trust and safety platform used by OpenAI, Spotify, and others, raised a $41 million Series B led by Radical Ventures.

Moritz Raises $9M for Full-Stack AI Law Firm

Avoca Raises Series B at $1B Valuation

Avoca, the AI platform for service businesses, has raised over $125 million across Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds at a $1 billion valuation, with the Series B co-led by Meritech and General Catalyst.

LegalOS Surpasses $1.5M Annualized Revenue During YC W26

The AI-native immigration law firm hit $1.5M in annualized revenue during YC's W26 batch, growing from zero in under four months.

The Top 4 LegalTech Startups in YC W26

Four AI-native legal startups from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch are rethinking how law firms operate, from contract review to immigration to personal injury intake.

General Legal Hits $1M in Annualized Revenue During YC

The YC W26 AI-native law firm surpassed $1M in annualized revenue run rate and 100 clients just over two months after launch.

AgentMail Raises $6M for AI Agent Email Infrastructure

AgentMail, which provides email inboxes purpose-built for AI agents, has raised $6 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst.

Lio Raises $30M Series A to Automate Enterprise Procurement

Exa Launches Revamped Agentic Search API

Exa launches a faster, cheaper version of its agentic search endpoint with structured outputs and field-level grounding.

Harper Raises $47M to Build an AI-Native Insurance Brokerage

Harper, a YC W25 grad building an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage, has raised $47M across its Series A and seed round, led by Emergence Capital with participation from Pioneer Fund, Peak XV, and others.

Letter AI Raises $40M Series B to Rethink Revenue Enablement

Letter AI closed a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, just four months after its Series A, as enterprise sales teams look to replace static enablement tools with AI-native platforms.

Guide Labs Open Sources an Interpretable 8B Language Model

Guide Labs released Steerling-8B, an 8-billion-parameter language model with interpretability built into its architecture, allowing users to trace any output back to specific concepts and training data.

Onshore Raises $31M Series B

The AI-native tax platform formerly known as SPRX raises a $31M Series B led by FPV Ventures and rebrands to Onshore.

Anthropic Raises $30B at $380B Valuation

Anthropic closes the second-largest private tech funding round ever, led by GIC and Coatue, as the Claude maker reports $14 billion in annualized revenue.

Taiv Closes $13M Insider Round at Nearly $100M Valuation

Taiv, which uses AI to replace live TV commercials in bars and restaurants with targeted content, has closed a $13M insider round less than nine months after its Series A.

Taiv Closes $13M Insider Round at Nearly $100M Valuation

Taiv, which uses AI to replace live TV commercials in bars and restaurants with targeted content, has closed a $13M insider round less than nine months after its Series A.

Anthropic Releases Opus 4.6

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 with agent teams, a one million token context window, and PowerPoint integration.

SpaceX Acquires xAI

Elon Musk combines his rocket company with his AI startup in a $250 billion deal that creates a combined entity valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of a potential IPO.

Risotto Raises $10M Seed for AI-Powered IT Support

The YC W24 company uses AI to automatically resolve IT support tickets in Slack.

Bolna Raises $6.3 Million for Voice AI in India

The Y Combinator-backed voice orchestration platform raises seed funding led by General Catalyst to help Indian enterprises automate voice calls.

Emergent Raises $70M Series B at $300M Valuation

The vibe coding platform led by Dunzo co-founder Mukund Jha raised from SoftBank and Khosla Ventures, tripling its valuation just months after its Series A.

Anthropic Launches Cowork, "Claude Code for the Rest of Your Work"

Anthropic releases Cowork, a new feature that brings Claude Code's agentic capabilities to non-technical users through the macOS desktop app.

Anthropic Launches Claude for Healthcare

Anthropic debuts Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready infrastructure, enabling providers and patients to use AI for medical records, prior authorization, and clinical workflows.

Anthropic Reportedly Raising $10B at $350B Valuation

Anthropic is raising $10 billion at a pre-money valuation of $350 billion, led by Coatue Management and GIC.

Paperspace Founders Raise $15M for Autonomous, an AI Financial Advisor

Raindrop Raises $15M Seed Led by Lightspeed to Monitor AI Agents

The YC-backed startup building 'Sentry for AI agents' raised $15M led by Lightspeed to help engineering teams detect when AI agents fail in production.

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic releases its most capable AI model yet, claiming state-of-the-art performance in coding, agentic workflows, and computer use.

OpenPipe Acquired by CoreWeave

CoreWeave acquires the startup behind one of the most popular open source tools for training AI agents

Theorem Raises $6M from Khosla for AI-Powered Code Verification

YC-backed Theorem raises $6M to build tools that mathematically verify AI-generated code is correct before it ships.