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- Upwind Security raises $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation
Upwind Security announced a $400 million Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, valuing the AI and cloud cybersecurity startup at $3.8 billion. The valuation increased from $1.5 billion in January 2026. The reports say total funding reached approximately $830 million, and Upwind plans to use the proceeds to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market operations.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Bedrock Robotics Raises $600M Series C at $4.1B Valuation
Bedrock Robotics raised a $600 million Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, valuing the autonomous construction machinery startup at $4.1 billion, according to Bloomberg and The Next Web. The company says its driverless excavators have performed paid work on live job sites since mid-August, with proceeds earmarked for deploying more machines and expanding field-support teams.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Anthropic’s IPO comes with no VC holding more than 2%
Newcomer reports that no venture firm owns more than 2% of Anthropic, based on investor documents and six sources familiar with its funding rounds. Anthropic communicated to investors that keeping each venture firm below that threshold would prevent any single investor from exercising outsized control ahead of a planned IPO. The report traces how Spark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed and Iconiq entered through later funding rounds as Anthropic’s valuation rose from about $4.6 billion in 2023 to $183 billion in 2025.
Newcomer · 🔥 0 - Fireworks AI in early talks to raise at $30B–$40B valuation
Business Insider, in a report relayed by 智东西, said AI infrastructure startup Fireworks AI is in preliminary talks to raise a new funding round at a company valuation of $30 billion to $40 billion. The reported range is far above the $17.5 billion valuation from its July Series D round, which 智东西 calculated would represent an increase of roughly 71% to 129%. People familiar with the matter said negotiations are still at an early stage and the final valuation could change, and Fireworks AI declined to comment; the talks follow the company's October 9 disclosure of a security incident in which an intruder used internal credentials and may have exposed a small number of customer API keys.
智东西 · 🔥 0 - doubleAI launches Maxwell for runtime binary optimization
Tel Aviv-based doubleAI launched Maxwell, which it calls the first code execution model, and opened it for controlled early access. The system rewrites machine code while programs run on CPUs and GPUs, adapting binaries to observed hardware and data; doubleAI says formal methods establish behavioral equivalence for each optimization. The company also announced a $200 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia and others. doubleAI reports that Maxwell delivered more than 38-times faster data pipelines, 4.25-times faster AI inference kernels, doubled inference speed in a test with LTX, and cut one early customer's compute costs by 67%, but the supplied reports contain no independent measurements of these results.
Hacker News 首页（100+ 分） · 🔥 0 - Zenzap raises $44M for AI workplace chat aimed at frontline staff
Zenzap, an Israeli startup building a private workplace messenger with AI agents, has raised $44 million from investors including Bessemer, Lightspeed and The Garage, plus individuals such as Wix president Nir Zohar and former EY Israel managing partner Yoram Tietz. Chinese outlet Zhidx, citing CTech, reports the figure is cumulative: an $11 million seed round in 2022 plus a $33 million Series A in August 2025 co-led by Bessemer and Lightspeed, not a single round. The mobile-first app targets frontline workers in hospitality, construction, healthcare and fast food, offering group chats, tasks, calendar integration and AI voice and search on a free tier, with paid plans from $51 per month for up to 20 users and credit-based pricing for AI agents and call transcription. Zenzap lists FedEx, Dollar General, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Casey's and Regal as clients but has not disclosed revenue, paying-customer counts or conversion rates.
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