Ian Crosby, the founder ousted from collapsed accounting startup Bench, has raised $10 million in seed funding for a new venture called Synthetic, which aims to build a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper capable of generating accrual-based financials without human involvement. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Basis Set Ventures and Shopify […]
Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Insider Brief Genesis AI unveiled a new robotics foundation model called GENE-26.5 alongside a proprietary robotic hand and data collection system designed to improve how robots learn complex physical tasks from human behavior. The system is intended to address the difficulty of collecting large amounts of usable training data for physical tasks, which the company […]
AI music startup GRAI has raised $9 million in a seed round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Inovo VC, with participation from the a16z Scout Fund and various angels. The company, co-founded by CEO Ilya Liasun, CTO Dima Kamarouski, and president Andrei Avsievich — the Belarusian team behind video app Vochi, previously acquired by Pinterest — is building AI […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nas.com, the AI platform built for the solopreneur economy, today announced $27 million in Series A funding led by Vinod Khosla and Nicole Fraenkel at Khosla Ventures. 500 Global participated alongside strategic angels including Shuo Wang, co-founder of Deel, Stanley Tang, co-founder of DoorDash, Scott Adelson, CEO of Houlihan Lokey, and Tim […]
Factory has secured $150 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation to expand its AI-driven coding platform for enterprise engineering teams. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Blackstone. Keith Rabois has joined the company’s board. Founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg, the company develops AI […]
The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.