Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~100M at a ~1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: Stanford University professor James Zou aims to raise ~100M at a ~1B valuation for Human Intelligence, which aims to use AI to study physiology — Stanford University professor James Zou is raising money at a roughly $1 billion valuation to build artificial intelligence models …

Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise 180M to 200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months (Bloomberg)
Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a 25B valuation, up from 10.2B announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)
Accel raised 5B, including a 4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a 650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to 36B (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
Sources: Sequoia raised ~7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a 3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-24

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