Peak XV has reaped $1.2B in the year since it split from Sequoia

Peak XV Partners, the largest India-focused venture fund, has realized about $1.2 billion in exits since it separated from Sequoia last year.
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Peak XV has reaped $1.2B in the year since it split from Sequoia

Peak XV Partners, the largest India-focused venture fund, has realized about $1.2 billion in exits since it separated from Sequoia last year.
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OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit

OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post on X Wednesday evening, along with lea…Read More

13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to

Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate planning and automating clinical trial data.
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Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices

Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open-source project that made building event-driven distributed applications easier for developers. Like so many popular open-source projects, Dapr spawned its own ecosystem, especially after Microsoft donated it to the Linux…Read More

Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’

The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle to realizing blockchain’s full potential, web3 proponents argue, is that decentralized servi…Read More

Reddit is bringing AI-powered, automatic translation to dozens of new countries

Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new languages, including Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.
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Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech  

One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations, which can be used in a wide range of applications, from games and industrial developments through to…Read More

Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech  

One of the most fundamental breakthroughs at Nvidia has been building processors that power and integrate with highly detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations, which can be used in a wide range of applications, from games and industrial developments through to…Read More

Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge

Salesforce is on a buying spree. After snatching up data management firm Own earlier in the month, Salesforce today announced its plans to buy Zoomin, an enterprise knowledge platform. Zoomin — which we’ve covered a handful of times before — unifies a company’s docs, like pro…Read More

Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge

Salesforce is on a buying spree. After snatching up data management firm Own earlier in the month, Salesforce today announced its plans to buy Zoomin, an enterprise knowledge platform. Zoomin — which we’ve covered a handful of times before — unifies a company’s docs, like…Read More

EGYM, a connected fitness startup conceived after the founder hit a wall at the gym, lands $200M at a $1.2B+ valuation

Getting healthy is big business these days. Now a startup that’s come up with a unique approach leveraging tech to help people with their exercise regimes is announcing a big round of funding, putting some weight behind its own p…Read More