Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450 million

Early-stage venture firm A* Capital just took the wraps off its $450 million Fund III.

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth as well as early-stage startups.

Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

Nvidia continues to be a big investor in the AI ecosystem.

Mother Ventures is looking at moms as the ‘economic engine’

The VC firm, which focuses on mothers as consumers, raised a $10 million debut fund.

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Kalshi doubles valuation in 5 months, hitting $22B

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.