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AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinct, which is fundraising at a 2.5 billion valuation, promises to handle emails and more, but some early users raise privacy concerns
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- Sources: Benchmark raised 2B across two new funds, including a 1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
- Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a 45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a 500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
- Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a 65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a 15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-08-26