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•Karthik Idikuda: "Be honest about what you have achieved and what you are still trying to prove"•Raj Soni: "Lasting value comes from solving real, field-level customer problems"•Afiya Choudhury: "Do not be afraid to build something that has never existed before"•Mohammed Thaha: "Be stubborn about the problem you want to solve, but flexible about how you solve it"•Saurabh Kumar: "Great companies can be built from small villages"•Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari on Doordripp: "Why can't fashion be delivered as quickly as groceries?"•Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M•Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip•Karthik Idikuda: "Be honest about what you have achieved and what you are still trying to prove"•Raj Soni: "Lasting value comes from solving real, field-level customer problems"•Afiya Choudhury: "Do not be afraid to build something that has never existed before"•Mohammed Thaha: "Be stubborn about the problem you want to solve, but flexible about how you solve it"•Saurabh Kumar: "Great companies can be built from small villages"•Sarvesh Kumar Tiwari on Doordripp: "Why can't fashion be delivered as quickly as groceries?"•Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation as legal AI revenue crosses $400M•Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a $3B valuation to run AI inference across every chip
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Lightfield raises $47M Series A for an AI-native CRM built on continuous customer context
Startup News

Lightfield raises $47M Series A for an AI-native CRM built on continuous customer context

Lightfield has raised $47 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Coatue, Greylock and Lightspeed also participating, to rebuild CRM around continuously maintained customer context.

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Startup News

London's CloudNC raises $20M to automate CNC machining programming

CloudNC has raised $20 million to automate CNC machining programming - the specialist, slow, and increasingly scarce work of turning a part design into machine instructions.

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London's CloudNC raises $20M to automate CNC machining programming
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Solstice Oncology raises a $225M Series A to rebuild CTLA-4 cancer immunotherapy

Solstice Oncology has raised $225 million in Series A funding to develop next-generation CTLA-4 cancer immunotherapy - a first round larger than most companies' growth stages.

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Solstice Oncology raises a $225M Series A to rebuild CTLA-4 cancer immunotherapy
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Clay raises $115M Series D as AI agents move into go-to-market workflows

Clay has raised $115 million in a Series D led by Wellington Management, with Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and StepStone participating, for AI-driven sales and marketing automation.

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Clay raises $115M Series D as AI agents move into go-to-market workflows
Savvy Wealth raises $100M Series C to consolidate wealth management on one AI platform
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Savvy Wealth raises $100M Series C to consolidate wealth management on one AI platform

Savvy Wealth has raised $100 million in a Series C, doubling its total funding to $200 million, for a platform consolidating the operational stack that independent financial advisors run on.

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Quaise closes $180M to drill five kilometres down and build the first superhot geothermal plant
Technology

Quaise closes $180M to drill five kilometres down and build the first superhot geothermal plant

Quaise Energy has closed a $180 million Series B to commercialise millimetre-wave drilling - a technique intended to reach rock hot enough to make geothermal power viable in far more places than it is today.

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Cylake raises $245M in convertible notes for cybersecurity 'operational sovereignty'
Technology

Cylake raises $245M in convertible notes for cybersecurity 'operational sovereignty'

Cylake has raised $245 million in convertible notes from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital and Redpoint Ventures, for a platform built around what the company calls operational sovereignty.

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