qwant news | Anthropic Set To Raise Additional $30 Billion For $900 Billion Valuation: Report

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Anthropic is on the cusp of closing a new funding round that could exceed $30 billion and lift its valuation above $900 billion, with Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Altimeter Capital, Greenoaks Capital Partners and existing backers such as Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund collectively contributing roughly $2 billion; the company projects almost $11 billion in revenue for the second quarter and an annualized run‑rate of more than $50 billion by June. In parallel, Anthropic is nearing a $1.5 billion joint venture with major Wall Street firms—including Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman—each committing around $300 million (Goldman Sachs about $150 million) to embed its large‑language‑model AI tools into private‑equity‑backed companies, signaling a broader shift toward financial institutions taking direct ownership stakes in AI systems tailored for enterprise use and intensifying competition with rivals such as OpenAI.

Read more: https://www.ibtimes.com/anthropic-set-raise-additional-30-billion-900-billion-valuation-report-3803226

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qwant news | Anthropic and PE-backed AI-native enterprise services firm acquires Fractional AI

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Anthropic and a private‑equity‑backed AI‑native enterprise services firm have acquired Fractional AI, creating a new AI‑focused services company that is supported by a roster of investors including Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital, according to a report by Iris Dorbian.

Read more: https://www.pehub.com/anthropic-and-pe-backed-ai-native-enterprise-services-firm-acquires-fractional-ai/

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qwant news | Mercury Raises $200M Series D Funding, at $5.2B Valuation

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Mercury, a San Francisco‑based fintech that provides a financial operating system for startups, e‑commerce brands, and small businesses, announced a $200 million Series D round that values the company at $5.2 billion, bringing its total funding to roughly $700 million. The round was led by TCV with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, CRV, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital, and the capital will be used to expand operations and further product development. While traditionally operating as a neobank through partnerships with FDIC‑insured banks, Mercury is moving toward a fully chartered national bank after receiving conditional OCC approval, offering services such as a high‑yield Treasury account with expanded FDIC insurance, fee‑free checking and savings, the IO credit card with 1.5% cash back, spend‑control tools, AI‑powered bill pay and invoicing, integrations with QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite, venture‑debt financing, and an investor‑matching database. The platform now serves more than 300,000 customers, including companies like Supabase, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Linear, Phantom, and Tempo.

Read more: https://www.finsmes.com/2026/05/mercury-raises-200m-series-d-funding-at-5-2b-valuation.html

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qwant news | Decart Raises $300M in Funding

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Read more: https://www.finsmes.com/2026/05/decart-raises-300m-in-funding.html

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qwant news | Exclusive: Juicebox autonomous recruiting agents help source candidates proactively - SiliconANGLE

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Juicebox App Inc. announced its new “Juicebox Agents,” a suite of AI‑driven autonomous recruiting agents that continuously scour over 30 public data sources—including GitHub, Stack Overflow, Google Scholar, Medium and community forums—to identify, profile and reach out to candidates for multiple open roles without constant human oversight. Early users report up to a five‑fold boost in recruiter efficiency and a 50 % cut in sourcing time, helping teams cope with a surge in applications driven by generative‑AI tools (candidates now submit roughly 239 % more applications). The agents operate as outbound recruiting partners, refining searches based on recruiter feedback, suggesting outreach messages, and allowing humans to review and approve communications before they’re sent. Juicebox also publishes monthly third‑party bias audits of roughly 30,000 profiles, asserting that the system has so far passed all tests. Pricing is $200 per month per “agent slot,” which can be reassigned across roles; the company serves over 5,000 customers, maintains a database of more than 800 million public profiles, and has raised $116 million from investors such as Sequoia Capital Operations and DST Global.

Read more: https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/20/exclusive-juicebox-autonomous-recruiting-agents-help-source-candidates-proactively/

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US Top News and Analysis | Fintech firm Mercury hits $5.2 billion valuation after funding round, up 49% in 14 months

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Fintech firm Mercury raised $200 million in a Series D round, valuing it at $5.2 billion—a 49% jump from its previous funding, with the round led by TCV and participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue. The San‑Francisco‑based company, which serves over 300,000 startups and has been profitable for four years with $650 million in annualized revenue, recently secured conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a federally regulated bank, allowing it to offer loans, join the Zelle network and reduce reliance on partner banks. CEO Immad Akhund attributed recent growth to an AI‑driven surge in new‑business formation and said Mercury will expand its AI‑powered financial tools, continue working with partner banks, and eventually aim for an IPO while building a strong independent brand.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/fintech-mercury-valuation-fundraise-bank-charter.html

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qwant news | Sola Security launches Lumina to cut enterprise security alert noise with contextual AI - SiliconANGLE

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Sola Security has unveiled Lumina, an autonomous risk‑intelligence platform that applies contextual artificial intelligence across cloud, identity, SaaS and endpoint environments to turn raw security data into prioritized, decision‑ready signals. By enriching each finding with asset context, potential impact and recommended actions, and using bi‑directional severity scoring plus blast‑radius mapping, Lumina filters out extraneous alerts, reportedly cutting operational noise by up to 87 %, accelerating time‑to‑context by 50 % and freeing roughly 20 % of analyst capacity for strategic work. Built on Sola’s unified asset‑graph intelligence layer, the platform aims to give security teams an intelligence overlay that understands an organization’s risk tolerance and asset priorities, addressing the chronic problem of alert overload in enterprises that typically run dozens of security tools. Sola Security, a venture‑backed startup, has raised about $65 million to support the rollout.

Read more: https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/19/sola-security-launches-lumina-cut-enterprise-security-alert-noise-contextual-ai/

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qwant news | Multiplayer AI startup Dust raises $40M to help enterprises move beyond isolated AI assistants - SiliconANGLE

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Multiplayer AI startup Dust (Permutation Labs SAS) announced a $40 million Series B funding round led by Abstract and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, bringing its total capital to over $60 million. Dust aims to replace isolated, single‑player chatbots with a collaborative “multiplayer” AI ecosystem that lets agents share context, memory, and artifacts across an organization via a shared workspace integrated with over 100 enterprise data platforms such as Slack, Notion, and Salesforce. The platform offers model‑agnostic AI operators—non‑technical agents that can be deployed in sales, marketing, and support without engineering help—and provides a cloud‑hosted compute environment with built‑in governance and memory loops that allow agents to learn from user preferences. With more than 3,000 global customers, over 300 000 agents deployed, zero churn in 2025, and a 70 % weekly active‑user rate, Dust plans to use the new funding to accelerate development of specialized, learning agents that work as true collaborators alongside human workers.

Read more: https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/18/multiplayer-ai-startup-dust-swipes-40m-funding-help-enterprises-move-beyond-isolated-ai-assistants/

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qwant news | Parag Agrawal's startup raises $100M to build a parallel web for AI agents - SiliconANGLE

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Parag Agrawal, former Twitter CEO, has secured $100 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures, valuing his new venture Parallel Web Systems Inc. at $2 billion. The startup is building a programmatic web infrastructure—specialized APIs and a proprietary machine‑optimized index—that enables autonomous AI agents to conduct deep, accurate web research and perform tasks such as insurance claim processing or legal document analysis far more efficiently than current tools. Parallel’s platform, already used by the legal‑AI firm Harvey AI, aims to give agents granular control over site access and continuous context, positioning it as core infrastructure for “long‑running” AI agents, while competing with rivals like Tavily Inc. and Exa Labs. The funding will expand the sales, marketing, and R&D teams to accelerate development and broaden adoption among over 100,000 developers worldwide.

Read more: https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/28/parag-agrawals-startup-raises-100m-build-parallel-web-ai-agents/

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qwant news | This 30-Year-Old CEO Reveals the Surprising Reason Behind His Startup’s $11 Billion Growth

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Winston Weinberg, the 30‑year‑old co‑founder and CEO of Harvey—an AI startup that builds assistants for lawyers to draft documents and conduct research—explains the company’s rise to a $11 billion valuation by emphasizing a mindset that treats failure as a primary learning tool. After leaving a traditional securities‑and‑antitrust law firm in 2022, Weinberg launched Harvey, attracting backing from the OpenAI Startup Fund, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, but the early journey was marked by setbacks, including a collapsed merger in early 2024 that forced the team to pause and dissect what went right and what went wrong. He argues that repeatedly failing, then deliberately analyzing those failures and “destroying your ego,” fuels the insight needed to create products that truly meet customer needs, a principle echoed by other founders who have turned early missteps into strategic advantages.

Read more: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/harvey-ceo-the-surprising-reason-for-startups-11-billion-growth

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