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Enterprise AI company Clay completes $115 million Series D funding, led by Wellington
enterprise AI company Clay has announced the completion of a $115 million Series D funding round, led by Wellington, with participation from Sequoia Capital, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, and others. The post-money valuation has risen to $7.1 billion.Clay stated that its AI agents can build real-time business and customer profiles based on internal and external data such as CRM, and automatically construct and execute workflows according to enterprise goals. Currently, companies including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Stripe have adopted its products. (Reuters)
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AI chip startup Celero raises $275 million, co-led by CapitalG and others
: AI chip startup Celero Communications announced the completion of a $275 million funding round, bringing the company's valuation to over $3 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet.Founded in 2024, Celero develops coherent digital signal processors (DSPs) for optical data transmission in AI systems, improving high-speed data transfer efficiency between data centers and across server racks within a single data center, thereby enabling the construction of larger-scale AI chip clusters. Atreides Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer Gavin Baker is set to join Celero's board of directors. (Bloomberg)
Live streaming e-commerce platform Whatnot completes $545 million Series G financing, valuation reaches $20 billion
According to Fortune, live streaming e-commerce platform Whatnot completed a $545 million Series G funding round, with its valuation nearly doubling from $11.5 billion in October 2025 to $20 billion. The round was led by ICONIQ, Lightspeed, and Avra, with new investors including Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Management, and others, while existing shareholders such as Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, and CapitalG continued to participate. Since its founding in 2019, Whatnot has raised approximately $1.5 billion in total funding, expanding its business from collectibles to hundreds of categories including designer bags and fresh food, covering multiple national markets, and surpassing 1 billion in order volume.
OpenRouter Secures $113 Million Series B Funding Round Led by CapitalG
OpenRouter, an AI model aggregation platform founded by Alex Atallah, co-founder of OpenSea, has announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by CapitalG. OpenRouter stated that its weekly transaction volume has grown from 5 trillion tokens to 25 trillion tokens over the past six months. The company noted that as AI rapidly transitions from experimental stages to production environments, its platform’s business scale continues to expand.
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OpenRouter Completes $113 Million Series B Funding Round Led by CapitalG
OpenRouter, an AI model aggregation platform founded by OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, has announced the completion of a $113 million Series B funding round, led by CapitalG, the growth fund under Alphabet, Google's parent company.Other participants in this funding round include a16z, Menlo Ventures, NVentures (affiliated with NVIDIA), as well as ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks. The company's valuation has now exceeded $1 billion.
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