Today we're excited to announce @HalluminateAI's $30M Series A led by @oakhcft with participation from @YCombinator, @orangecollectv, @FTPartners, @heavybit, and more.

I’m super excited to join Cognition as its Chief Revenue Officer. Going from the 1st sales rep at Snowflake to CRO at a $100b public company was the thrill of a lifetime.   Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd get the opportunity to jump on another rocket ship.  Meeting Scott, Russell, and the entire team at Cognition got me so excited to do it again with world-class technology. Hearing how customers spoke about how Devin is transforming their business made me realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. While I am not jumping on as the first sales rep this time, I can’t wait to dive in and help drive amazing customer outcomes while building a world-class sales team.  As many of you know, Chad Peets was my co-pilot in building the sales team at Snowflake and my business partner when I joined RPT.  There is no world where I could be the best version of myself without Chad.  So I am thrilled that Chad and the RPT team will be working closely with me in our pursuit of building a generational company.  LFG!!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other city officials announced a sweeping new policy Wednesday imposing a one-year ban on student use of generative artificial intelligence in New York City public schools from 2-K through 8th grade, while limiting screen time for younger students and launching AI literacy lessons for high schoolers. More: abc7ny.com/post/new-york-cit… 7ny.tv/Ywj5FU

Today we announce our $100M seed round to redefine how humanity computes in AI's next chapter. The future of compute and AI is heterogeneous. Callosum is building it: callosum.com/blog/seed-round

Today we’re announcing SPC Fund IV: $575M to help founders find their life’s work. A decade of guiding founders through -1 to 0 brings @SPC to $2B in AUM and, more importantly, a 1200 member community of the world’s most talented technologists. We strongly believe that: → The person comes before the idea. At -1, generational founders are often busy reading, prototyping, discarding, and earning the right to their own conviction. → Ambition is social. The people you surround yourself with in the early days play a big part in inflecting your ambition. → Patience compounds. It is better to work on something you have deep conviction in rather than simply sprint at the first idea. The quiet months we protect at the beginning have produced three funds in the top 10% of their vintages, and companies like @baseten, @GammaApp, @render, @GoodfireAI, @LumaLabsAI, and @profound. We are proud to have worked with all these founders in their -1 phase and beyond. While we defined -1 to 0, we're no longer bound by it. Fund IV allows us to partner with companies well beyond launch. We're doing this now because we've never seen a wider gap between what's possible and what's being attempted. Intelligence is abundant. The cost of trying ideas keeps falling, and problems that seemed insurmountable a few years ago are quickly becoming solvable. To our members, to the founders who trusted us before anyone else did, and to the LPs who had conviction in our own -1 journey: thank you. This milestone belongs to you as much as to us. To the builders looking to find your life’s work: let’s get started.

We just raised $7.5M to build the infrastructure for identity and fraud. The round is backed by @ycombinator, Orange Collective, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and other incredible VCs and angels. AI is making fraud incredibly cheap to create: fake identities, fake businesses, fake transactions, all generated at internet scale. We believe every app will soon need trust infrastructure the same way apps today rely on payments or cloud hosting. The future of the internet is verified. Didit (@didit) is building it.

America is $39 trillion in debt and adding another $1.9 trillion a year. How long before this becomes impossible to fix? To learn more about the national debt and deficit, visit: hoover.org/research/us-natio…

Today, @UseCorgi is announcing a $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation led by TCV. This new round of funding will help us scale what we've built and expand into new verticals including trucking, payroll, and small business. This follows our $108M Series A that we announced 16 weeks ago, bringing total funding to over $268M.