Kate Clark

Sesame AI is discussing a funding round of more than $200 million, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital.

Startup generated revenue of about $870 million last year.

Runway AI Inc. has raised $308 million in a new round of funding that more than doubles the company’s valuation — a sign of investor enthusiasm for startups building artificial intelligence software that can generate videos.

The startup is discussing a new funding round that would bring in hundreds of millions from investors.

The $12 billion HR startup has been accused of corporate espionage by a competitor.

Tech’s venture capital class had been banking on a 2025 comeback for public listings.

This was supposed to be the year that Silicon Valley’s yearslong backlog of billion-dollar startups were finally able to go public, delivering riches to venture capitalists. Instead, U.S. President Donald Trump’s promises of sweeping tariffs and the havoc in global markets have thrown those plans into limbo, threatening to plunge the VC and startup industry into crisis.

Venture capitalists are starting to grapple with a more volatile stock market and the potential risks of hasty bets on AI. But first…

OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Deel Inc., a $12 billion Silicon Valley startup, is escalating a bitter legal fight with its top rival in the market for human resources and payroll software.