Runway has launched a $10 million early-stage fund and a Builders program that together aim to pull startups onto its video‑intelligence platform rather than merely sell tools — a move with concrete trade‑offs for founders weighing capital, credits, and potential platform lock‑in. Who this offer genuinely fits Founders building interactive, real‑time video applications are the […]
Kleiner Perkins has raised $3.5 billion across two purpose-built vehicles — a $1 billion early-stage fund (KP22) and a $2.5 billion growth-stage fund — signaling a deliberate, stage-calibrated bet on AI startups rather than a generic flood of capital. The split reflects a conviction that AI companies are scaling faster and need different types of […]
Air Street Capital’s newly closed $232 million Fund III is Europe’s largest solo-GP venture vehicle focused on AI-first startups. The fund rewrites a familiar distribution of power in European VC: faster, single-decision bets across software, science, physical AI and defense rather than committee-led, generalist rounds. What the fund can do fast and why that matters […]
Google and Accel’s Atoms accelerator received more than 4,000 applications for its 2026 cohort and turned down roughly 70% as “AI wrappers” — startups that bolt AI features onto existing products without rethinking the underlying workflow. Instead, the program selected five companies that promise deeper, workflow-level change and committed up to $2 million each plus […]
AMI Labs is not positioning itself as another large language model company. Its $1.03 billion seed round is a direct bet on “world models” that learn from video, 3D, and spatial data to predict physical environments, with Yann LeCun and a team of ex-Meta researchers arguing that embodied understanding matters more than text generation for […]
