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Moment, which develops AI tools to automate fixed income and equity trading technologies, raised a $78 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from a16z (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The AI paradox: more automation, more humans, more work | Dan Sender Interviews with world-class product…

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Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation of $2.2 billion, up from $700 million in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 20, 2026

Bloomberg: Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation…

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Digital Asset, which is building Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raises ~$300 million seed round led by crypto a16z at a valuation of ~$2 billion (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

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Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund and plans to close raising by the end of the first half of 2026 (Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 4, 2026

Fortune: Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by…

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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has raised $1 billion from a16z, Nvidia, AMD and others to advance its global models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 18, 2026

Alicia Tang / Bloomberg: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has raised $1 billion from a16z, Nvidia, AMD and others to advance…

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Survey of 100 Global 2000 companies on the use of AI: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production compared to 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic’s gains are impressive (a16z)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 1, 2026

a16z: Survey of 100 Global 2000 companies on the use of AI: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production…

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Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25 million seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 26, 2026

Zack Abrams / The block: Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25 million seed led by a16z in…

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Boltz, which develops open-border AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28 million seed led by Zetta, Amplify and a16z at a valuation of $125 million (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 9, 2026

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Truffle Security, whose open source tool detects, verifies and remediates leaked secrets such as API keys, raised a $25 million Series A round led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 6, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Technology is becoming more and more political, isn’t it? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Relace, which creates specialized tools and language models to help AI agents code faster for clients like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23 million Series A round led by a16z (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 8, 2025

Stephanie Palazzolo / The information: Relace, which creates specialized tools and language models to help AI agents code faster for…

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London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Browsing: a16z

Moment, which develops AI tools to automate fixed income and equity trading technologies, raised a $78 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from a16z (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Exa, which offers a search engine designed for AI agents, raised $250 million led by a16z at a valuation of $2.2 billion, up from $700 million in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Digital Asset, which is building Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raises ~$300 million seed round led by crypto a16z at a valuation of ~$2 billion (Bloomberg)

Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund and plans to close raising by the end of the first half of 2026 (Fortune)

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has raised $1 billion from a16z, Nvidia, AMD and others to advance its global models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)

Survey of 100 Global 2000 companies on the use of AI: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production compared to 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic’s gains are impressive (a16z)

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25 million seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Boltz, which develops open-border AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28 million seed led by Zetta, Amplify and a16z at a valuation of $125 million (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)

Truffle Security, whose open source tool detects, verifies and remediates leaked secrets such as API keys, raised a $25 million Series A round led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Relace, which creates specialized tools and language models to help AI agents code faster for clients like Lovable and Figma, raised a $23 million Series A round led by a16z (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)