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AI accounting startup Rillet raises a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by Iconiq, with Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia returning as investors. Its platform uses AI to manage company books and automatically pull data from sources such as Salesforce and Brex; Rillet says it serves more than 600 companies and doubled ARR over the past three months. The company also cites an alliance with EY as a recent milestone.

Aug 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Stripe reportedly finalizes a deal to acquire OpenRouter at a price above $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The AI gateway lets customers select among models based on their needs and budget; OpenRouter said it had 8 million global users and access to more than 400 models, after raising $113 million in a Series B at a reported $1.3 billion valuation in May.

Aug 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Valar Atomics raises $1 billion in equity in a round led by Sequoia, while securing a $200 million line of credit from Erebor and other banks; Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire joins its board. The startup is building small modular nuclear reactors and says its Ward 250 reactor powered an Nvidia Blackwell system in a June demonstration. It says the funding will help it reach its next milestone: manufacturing fleets of its reactors.

Aug 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Etched raises $300 million in a Sequoia-led Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen says. Its systems are designed for AI inference, pairing a low-voltage prefill chip with cluster-scale shared memory for decode, and can run transformer, Mixture of Experts, and Mamba models. The startup says client testing is underway and it has booked $1 billion in orders; it also operates a 2-megawatt data center and opened a 10-megawatt facility.

Jul 2026 · TechCrunchNews article