Onepot AI, founded by Daniil Boiko and Andrei Tyrin, has raised $13 million in a seed round led by Fifty Years, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Speedinvest, OpenAI co‑founder Wojciech Zaremba and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean. The company tackles a long‑standing bottleneck in drug discovery—chemical synthesis—by pairing a dedicated lab (POT‑1) with an AI‑driven organic chemist named Phil. Boiko and Tyrin aim to compress months‑long synthesis timelines into days, expanding the design space for biotech and pharma partners while building a second lab in San Francisco. Leia mais →

Runlayer, a security startup built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP), emerged from stealth with an $11 million seed investment led by Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis. Founded by third‑time entrepreneur Andrew Berman, the company already counts eight unicorns and public firms—including Gusto, Rippling, dbt Labs, Instacart, Opendoor, and Ramp—as early customers. Runlayer’s platform combines a gateway, threat detection, observability, and fine‑grained permissions, aiming to protect AI agents that interact with enterprise data. Advisors include the creator of MCP, David Soria Parra, and security leaders from Cursor and Neon. Leia mais →

Tokyo‑based Sakana AI announced a ¥20 billion (approximately $135 million) Series B financing round that values the startup at $2.65 billion. Led by a mix of Japanese financial institutions and global venture firms, the round will fund further research and development of generative AI models optimized for the Japanese language, expand engineering and sales teams, and broaden the company’s enterprise reach beyond finance into industrial, manufacturing, government, defense and intelligence sectors. Founder‑CEO David Ha highlighted plans to pursue strategic partnerships, investments and acquisitions to sustain long‑term growth. Leia mais →