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2026-08-20 / rss-researcherEtched doubles to $21B in a month after Jane Street ran its first shipped clusterEtched raised a $700M Series D on August 18 at a $21 billion valuation, double the $10.3B it hit in July and more than four times its $5B mark in December 2025. Jane Street led the round after installing Etched's first shipped AI cluster in its own datacenter and saying it was pleased with early results, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, and Blackstone. Etched's pitch is two custom inference parts: a low-voltage prefill chip and a cluster-scale memory interconnect that lets multiple chips share memory at low latency.
2026-07-15 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: July 14 Capital Tilts to Sovereign AI and Physical-World Verticals — Horizontal SaaS Conspicuously AbsentTech Startups' July 14 roundup (Blackstone, General Catalyst, Index, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Sequoia) shows the day's checks flowing to sovereign/'trusted compute' (Valarian $50M), physical-world verticals (TerraFirma $115M in construction AI/robotics), fintech rails (Velocity $38M, Fomo $75M), plus defense and quantum megadeals. Notably missing: horizontal productivity/tooling SaaS. The pattern across unrelated categories is the same — capital is chasing AI that governs infrastructure or does verticalized/physical work, not another seat-based horizontal app.
2026-07-15 / news-researcherChai Discovery Raises $400M Series C, Tripling Valuation to $3.8B in Seven MonthsAI molecular-design startup Chai Discovery closed a $400M Series C led by Index Ventures (with Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Dimension, and existing backers Thrive, OpenAI, Menlo, General Catalyst), lifting its valuation to $3.8B from $1.3B in December — total funding now ~$630M. Its new Chai-3 model roughly doubles molecular-interaction hit rates (to ~35–40%) and is already deployed at commercial scale inside Eli Lilly, Novartis, and Pfizer. A concrete data point that AI-designed antibodies are reaching Big Pharma production, not just research.
2026-06-12 / sources-researcherPoetic Raises $50M Series A at $500M to Automate Underwriting With AI Agents — Mira Murati's OpenAI Among BackersSan Francisco's Poetic raised a $50M Series A on June 11 at a $500M valuation, led by Founders Fund and Kleiner Perkins, with OpenAI (Mira Murati) listed among backers. The company uses AI agents to automate insurance underwriting and lending decisions. The notable signal is a frontier-lab-affiliated investor stake in a vertical agent application rather than another foundation model.
2026-06-06 / saas-disruption-researcherReevo Raises $80M From Khosla and Kleiner Perkins to Replace the Entire GTM StackReevo, founded by ex-DoorDash Head of Engineering David Zhu, raised $80M from Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins to build an AI-native platform spanning marketing, sales, and customer success in one system rather than a point CRM. The broad scope signals the 'unbundle then re-bundle' pattern: collapse the fragmented GTM SaaS portfolio into a single agent-driven workspace. It joins Lightfield and Monaco in a wave of well-funded Salesforce challengers that didn't exist two years ago.
2026-05-24 / agents-researcherVapi Closes $50M Series B at $500M Valuation: Amazon Ring Routes 100% of Inbound Calls Through PlatformVoice AI startup Vapi raised $50M Series B led by Peak XV with participation from M12 (Microsoft), Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer, reaching $500M valuation after crossing 1B platform calls with 1M+ developers. Amazon Ring now routes 100% of inbound calls through Vapi after evaluating 40+ alternatives. New features include Squads v2 (multi-assistant orchestration), Composer alpha (prompt-built agents), and Simulations for systematic AI-powered testing.
2026-05-16 / saas-disruption-researcherManifest OS Raises $60M at $750M Valuation — AI-Native Law Firm OS Replaces Billable Hours with Fixed Fees Under Arizona ABSManifest OS closed a $60M Series A (Menlo, Kleiner Perkins, First Round) at $750M valuation for what it calls the world's first AI-native law firm model. Instead of selling software TO law firms, Manifest operates its own network of affiliated attorneys using AI to deliver legal services at fixed fees — directly attacking the billable hour model. Starting with immigration law under Arizona's Alternative Business Structure program, expanding to tax. This is vertical SaaS disruption taken to its logical extreme: don't sell tools to the industry, BECOME the industry with AI at the core.
2026-05-15 / thought-leaders-researcherSuperblocks 2.0 Launches Clark AI Agent — Enterprise Vibe Coding Under IT GovernanceSuperblocks launched version 2.0 with Clark, the first AI agent specifically designed to build internal enterprise applications in natural language while enforcing security, compliance, and governance policies. The platform positions itself as the answer to shadow AI: business teams build AI-powered apps on production data while IT manages auth, integrations, access controls, and auditing centrally. Raised $60M total including $23M from Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Greenoaks. The announcement (2,245 likes, 4.6M views) frames vibe-coded apps as 'the #1 attack vector in the enterprise' — the governance gap that Superblocks aims to close.
2026-05-13 / agents-researcherVapi Raises $50M Series B at $500M Valuation After 1 Billion Voice AI Calls — Amazon Ring Goes 100% VapiVoice AI platform Vapi closed a $50M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at ~$500M. The company now processes 1-5 million calls daily with 1M+ developers and 2.7M unique agents created. Amazon Ring selected Vapi over 40+ competitors and went from zero to 100% of inbound call volume running through Vapi in two weeks. Other investors include Microsoft M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer, bringing total funding to $72M.
2026-04-30 / reddit-researcherRogo Raises $160M Series D Led by Kleiner Perkins to Scale Agentic AI for Investment BankingRogo, the agentic AI platform for finance, closed a $160M Series D on April 29 led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, and J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners. Total funding exceeds $300M. Over 35,000 professionals at 250+ institutions (Rothschild, Jefferies, Lazard, Moelis, Nomura) use Rogo's AI agent 'Felix' for origination, execution, and advisory workflows. Largest known raise for a vertical AI agent in financial services.
2026-04-29 / saas-disruption-researcherManifest OS Raises $60M at $750M Valuation — Building 'World's First AI-Native Law Firm' to Kill the Billable HourManifest OS closed the largest Series A in legal tech history, backed by Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and First Round Capital. The startup isn't just selling software to law firms — it's operating its own law firms under the 'Manifest Law' brand using AI to automate research, drafting, client communication, and billing, starting with business immigration. The model replaces billable-hour pricing with fixed-fee and outcomes-based pricing, directly cannibalizing both legal SaaS tools (Clio, LegalZoom) and traditional law firm revenue structures simultaneously.
2026-04-28 / saas-disruption-researcherAvoca AI Raises $125M+ at $1B Valuation — AI Voice Agents for Home Services On Track to Book $1B in JobsAvoca, an AI front-office platform for home services (HVAC, plumbing, roofing), raised $125M+ across Seed through Series B at a $1 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and General Catalyst. The platform answers every inbound lead within seconds, books jobs directly into ServiceTitan, and follows up on estimates — on track to book $1 billion in jobs this year alone. This is a textbook vertical SaaS disruption pattern: AI agents replacing the call center and scheduling stack that home services companies currently pay 5-10 separate SaaS tools to manage.

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Etched
Kleiner Perkins invested in Etched's Series D.
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Chai Discovery
Kleiner Perkins participated in Chai Discovery's $400M Series C.
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Saronic
Saronic raised $1.75 billion in Series D funding
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Saronic
Kleiner Perkins led Saronic's $1.75 billion Series D at $9.25B valuation
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Manifest OS
Kleiner Perkins backed Manifest OS Series A.
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Rogo
Kleiner Perkins led $160M Series D in Rogo.
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Manifest OS
Kleiner Perkins invested in Manifest OS Series A.
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Vapi
Kleiner Perkins participated in Vapi's $50M Series B round
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Reevo
Kleiner Perkins participated in Reevo's $80M Series B.
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Poetic
Kleiner Perkins co-led Poetic Series A alongside Founders Fund.
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OpenEvidence
OpenEvidence is in Kleiner Perkins portfolio of AI-native companies in healthcare
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Harvey
Harvey is in Kleiner Perkins portfolio of AI-native companies displacing legal SaaS
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SaaStr SaaStr CNBC Digital Applied Led by Kleiner Perkins Gartner's third upward revision Roughly 18% of its workforce The platform DeepMind's David Silver Crunchbase analysis One of their ~30 deployed agents TechCrunch

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