3 in Finance

1/26: Anthropic (San Francisco, CA), operator of an AI safety and research company, raised $1.2B of Series D venture funding in a deal led by Menlo Ventures, placing the company’s pre-money valuation at $18B. (Link)

1/22: ElevenLabs (New York, NY), developer of an artificial intelligence voice dubbing tool, raised $80M of Series B venture funding. Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross led the deal, placing the company’s pre-money valuation at $920M. (Link)

1/9: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) acquired Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) (Sunnyvale, CA), a leader in AI-native networks, for $14B. (Link)

3 for Fun

OpenAI launches custom GPT store. (Link)

Developed robotic sensor reads braille at double the speed of humans. (Link)

State of Florida using AI to manage growing traffic. (Link)