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Listen Labs walks away from $1.5B Menlo round for Salesforce talks
The AI market research startup ditched a signed term sheet as Salesforce weighs a $2B acquisition at 67x revenue.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief4 min read
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Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation, pushes past dictation into meetings
Menlo Ventures leads a Series B less than 10 months after the last round, as Wispr ships a new Canto model to fix quality complaints.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation as ARR nearly triples
The European app-builder went from 25M to 60M projects in 8 months, with Menlo Ventures returning to lead and EQT co-leading.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Pangram raises $9M to detect AI-generated text with 99% accuracy
The New York startup ships Pangram 4 and an image detector as arXiv, Substack, and Quora move to flag AI-written content.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M at $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian
Andrew Dai closed the seed round months after leaving Google, before Elorian shipped a product, betting visual reasoning is the next AI frontier.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Lovable in talks to raise $300M at $13.2B, doubling its December valuation
Menlo Ventures is expected to lead the round for the Swedish vibe-coding startup, which hit $500M ARR in June.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Menlo Ventures partner: 10,000 AI insiders now sit on $20M+ as SF malaise spreads
Deedy Das pegs the AI wealth divide at its worst yet, with founders and staff at OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, xAI and Meta on one side, everyone else on the other.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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