Fal, a San Francisco startup that hosts AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion in a Series F round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price also participating. The deal doubles Fal's valuation to $16 billion from $8 billion in April, and combined with its earlier Sequoia-led Series E, the company has raised $1.65 billion across both rounds. Fal reportedly surpassed $800 million in annualized revenue earlier this year.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-03
Cloud security startup Upwind closed a $400 million Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $3.8 billion valuation, with Greylock Partners and Craft Ventures also participating. The round nearly collapsed after Datadog offered to acquire Upwind but declined to pay above the valuation VCs had already set, prompting Upwind to stay independent instead.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
TechCrunch is offering discounted Founder and Investor Passes for its Founder Summit, taking place November 4 at Boston's SoWa Power Station, with savings of up to $200 ending October 16. Founder Passes currently cost $199 and Investor Passes $399, covering roundtables, breakout sessions, and networking sessions. The event expects around 1,000 founders and investors, with speakers including Kent Bennett of Bessemer Venture Partners, Lior Div of 7AI, and Vineet Edupuganti of Cogent Security.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-15
Bessemer Venture Partners announced it has closed $5.75 billion across two new funds aimed at investing across the AI stack, splitting the capital into $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage deals and $4 billion for growth-stage startups. The firm says it has already deployed $3 billion into more than 260 AI-native companies since 2022, spanning compute, infrastructure, foundation models, dev tools and agentic technology.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Perceptron, a startup founded by former Meta FAIR researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, has released Isaac 0.5, a vision model built to help robots perceive and navigate physical settings like warehouses and factories. The model is open-weight, meaning its parameters and training data are publicly inspectable, and the company recently closed a $21 million round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-26
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