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| 29.01.2026 | AI Agents Struggle: Human Professionals Remain Indispensable | AI agents fall short for complex white-collar work. A new benchmarking study, APEX-Agents by Mercor, reveals profound limitations. Leading frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic achieved under 30% accuracy in law, investment ban... |
| 23.01.2026 | Can AI Agents Replace White-Collar Workers? | Whether you’re a worker bee or sitting behind a C-suite desk, the rise of AI agents has sparked equal parts optimism and anxiety, but a new benchmarking study has thrown cold water on the hype, revealing these next-gen bots are nowhere clos... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Secures $75M at $1B Valuation, Propelling Enterprise AI Automation | Serval announced a $75M Series B funding round, pushing its valuation to $1 billion. This AI-native ITSM platform transforms enterprise IT. It deploys AI agents to automate help desk requests, access management, and complex workflows. Serva... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Soars to $1 Billion Valuation with $75 Million Series B Funding | Serval, an AI-native enterprise automation leader, secured $75 million in Series B funding. The company now boasts a $1 billion valuation. This milestone fuels its mission to transform enterprise service management. Serval's AI agents autom... |
| 16.12.2025 | Valinor Secures $13 Million to Revolutionize Clinical Trials with AI | Valinor, a San Francisco-based AI firm, just raised $13 million. This seed funding aims to improve clinical trial success. The company uses machine learning. It analyzes patient data to predict treatment response. This reduces trial failure... |
| 16.12.2025 | AI Firm Valinor Secures $13M to Revolutionize Clinical Trials | Valinor, a San Francisco-based AI company, just raised $13 million in seed funding. The company aims to drastically improve clinical trial success rates. It uses AI to predict patient response to drugs *before* trials begin. This “response-... |
| 12.12.2025 | Valinor Raises $13M in Funding | Valinor, a San Francisco, CA-based AI company leveraging machine learning models to increase the probability of clinical trial success, raised $13M in Seed funding.
The round was led by CRV, Harpoon Ventures, Amino Collective, and Pelion Ve... |
| 11.12.2025 | Serval Raises $75M in Series B Funding; Achieves $1B Valuation | Serval, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform, raised $75m in Series B funding, achieving a $1 billion valuation.
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| 04.11.2025 | Scale AI’s life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it’s not a ‘zombie company’ | Five months after Scale AI’s high-profile founder joined Meta in a blockbuster deal, the startup’s CFO is trying to show that the company remains on a growth trajectory.
“People mischaracterize this deal as some sort of acquihire or some so... |
| 04.11.2025 | Applied Compute Launches with $80 Million To Build Specific Intelligence For Enterprise AI Agents | Applied Compute has launched with $80 million in funding from leading investors Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux Capital, Hanabi, Neo, Elad Gil, Victor Lazarte, and Omri Casspi. The company is developing a new category of enterprise AI known as “Spe... |
| 28.10.2025 | AI Leader Mercor Reaches $10 Billion Valuation with $350M Funding Boost | Mercor, an AI-focused talent network, just closed a $350 million Series C funding round. This new investment propels its valuation to $10 billion, a fivefold increase. The company's strategic pivot to providing human experts for AI model tr... |
| 28.10.2025 | Mercor Raises $350 Million at a $10 Billion Valuation | Mercor is a leading artificial intelligence hiring startup that is growing its business to power the modern recruitment boom. The company focuses on developing and scaling AI-powered solutions designed to support the significant talent acqu... |
| 28.10.2025 | Mercor: $350 Million Series C Raised To Transform Work In The Age Of AI | Mercor, a company pioneering the intersection of human expertise and artificial intelligence, announced a $350 million Series C funding round led by Felicis, with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures. The r... |
| 27.10.2025 | AI startup Mercor now valued at $10 billion with new $350 million funding round | Artificial intelligence hiring startup Mercor announced a $350 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to $10 billion.
The raise was led by Felicis with participation from Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures.
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| 27.10.2025 | Mercor Raises $350M in Series C; Valued at $10 Billion | Mercor, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that connects AI labs with experts for training their AI models, raised $350M in Series C funding.
The round, which valued the company at $10 billion, was led by Felicis with participation from Benc... |
| 27.10.2025 | Serval Raises $47M in Series A Funding | Serval, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform, raised $47M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $52M since its founding in 2024, was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation ... |
| 21.10.2025 | Serval raises $47M to bring AI-native automation to IT operations
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Cookies | Serval Inc. announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to expand its AI platform capabilities, enhance enterprise-grade features and accelerate migrations from legacy information technology service management systems.
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| 16.10.2025 | Jack & Jill raises $20M to fix job hunting with conversational AI
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Cookies | Jack & Jill, a hiring platform powered by conversational generative artificial intelligence, said today it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Creandum.
Every year, millions of job seekers go online to find employment and 68% ... |
| 23.09.2025 | VCs to AI startups: please take our money | Synopsis
The lavish VC overtures are part of a larger Silicon Valley frenzy for AI, driven by startupsâ astonishing revenue growth and investorsâ belief that these companies can dethrone tech giants. US startups have raised around $200 ... |
| 10.09.2025 | Report: Investors offered to fund AI data startup Mercor at $10B valuation
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Cookies | Investors have reportedly offered to arrange a new funding round of $100 million for Mercor Inc. that would value the startup at upwards of $10 billion.
TechCrunch on Thursday cited sources as saying that Mercor has received multiple offers... |
| 20.06.2025 | OpenAI Begins ‘Phasing Out’ Scale AI, but It’s Not Because of Meta | Image: Kaikoro/Adobe Stock
Silicon Valley’s AI alliances are fracturing — and the ripple effects are just beginning.
OpenAI is beginning to phase out it relationship with Scale AI, a once-critical data partner whose founder has just defecte... |
| 14.06.2025 | Exclusive-Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans split after Meta deal, sources say | Previous
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FILE PHOTO: People walk next to a Google logo during a trade fair in Hannover Messe, in Hanover, Germany, April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Annegr... |
| 15.05.2025 | SignalRank Marks Two-Year Milestone with Strong Performance, Announces v4 of Investment Selection Model | Palo Alto, United States/California, May 15th, 2025, FinanceWire
SignalRank, the Palo Alto-based technology-driven venture investment platform, today announced several key milestones, including:
Two years of performance data for The SignalR... |
| 15.04.2025 | 'Fully Replacing People': A Tech Investor Says These Two Professions Should Be the Most Wary of AI Taking Their Jobs AI might replace jobs, but it also has the potential to help start new companies. | Big Tech companies may not say outright that AI is replacing people, but one tech investor is — and he says two professions, in particular, should watch out.
"Big companies talk about, like, 'AI isn't replacing people, it's augmenting ... |
| 10.02.2025 | Most-Active US Investors In January: a16z Only Investor To Warm Up To The New Year | 1 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most-active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent w... |
| 31.01.2025 | The Week’s Biggest Funding Rounds: Helion Energy Takes Top Spot In Another Slow Week | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board.
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| 19.09.2024 | Mercor Closes $30M Series A At $250M Valuation | Mercor, a San Francisco, CA-based HR Tech startup, closed a $30m Series A funding round, at a $250m valuation.
The round was led by Benchmark with Victor Lazarte joining the board. Other participants in the round included Peter Thiel, Jack ... |
| 14.01.2024 | Mercor Raises $3.6M in Funding | Mercor, a San Francisco, California-based provider of a fully-automated platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies, raised $3.6M in funding.
The round was led by General Catalyst and includes participation from Scott ... |
| 11.01.2024 | Perplexity AI’s challenge to Google hinges on something simple but tough—being the best | There are two major Steve Jobs movies.
I learned this talking to Perplexity AI cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas, who wanted to be clear with me—he was talking about the Steve Jobs movie featuring Michael Fassbender, not Ashton Kutcher.
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