@terraindustries raises additional $18M bringing our total seed to $52M. This round was done by existing investors @8vc, @SilentVentures, @svangel, Nova Global, Belief Capital, and Grant Gordon
We're also opening our first global office in London for our Ops and AI teams (1/2)
Announcing Hone
Intelligence has become abundant. Yet the world looks remarkably similar to how it did five years ago. With every model release, the gap between what frontier AI can do and the economic value derived from it widens.
Closing the gap requires re-organizing work around organizational outcomes, not individual tasks. Hone builds AI that creates, orchestrates, and improves agents and software continuously to own organizational outcomes over weeks and months.
We are ex-founders and early core contributors to Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, and OpenAI. We obsess over real-world value, not theoretical benchmarks.
Our core beliefs on closing the gap in the thread below.
Today we are announcing Corma, and our $60M seed round led by @sequoia.
@CormaAI is building foundation models toward superintelligence for defensive cybersecurity. We do that because general AI is becoming exponentially more capable in offensive security, while it hasn't been able to improve at the same rate in cyber defense - creating an inherent imbalance between attackers and defenders that otherwise cannot be addressed.
Recent events have shown that building frontier AI models for defensive cybersecurity is one of the crucial unsolved problems of the AI age - and solving it is the generational mission Corma was founded on.
Our foundation model has already far surpassed every general-purpose frontier model on defensive cybersecurity tasks, and we are committed to remaining the frontier of defensive cybersecurity intelligence.
Corma is already protecting Fortune 100 companies and some of the world's most important organizations, across healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure, retail, and more. This is just the beginning, as we see it as our calling to protect every organization in the world that needs frontier defense.
We are grateful to our partners @shaunmmaguire and @sonyatweetybird at @sequoia , @vkhosla at @khoslaventures , @DanRose999 at @coatuemgmt , and @Weiner_Lia at Netz Capital, who believed in our ability to lead the intelligence race in cybersecurity and make sure the defenders always win.
Over the past year of building Gravity, we’ve had consumer AI applications grow revenue by up to 14,722%, helped teams go from idea to raising a Series A, and most importantly, we’ve given 14.3m people free access to AI products. All by creating an Ad Network for brands to place advertisements inside of AI conversations.
We’ve raised $38m, with @lightspeedvp and Committed Capital co-leading the Series A and @caffeinatedcap leading our Seed round with participation from @BasisSet, @haystackvc, Logos Fund, @grant__gordon and more.
We’re also fortunate for the support of our incredible angels, including @parkerharris, @alexatallah, @scottbelsky, @rauchg, @ianwcrosby, Nick Marwell and @_sholtodouglas, @jgsilverman, @Zep_Haus, and many others.
Our mission is simple: Make AI free by embedding helpful and relevant advertisements into AI products so that everyone has access to frontier technology.
Hoje a Decade sai do stealth, anunciando a maior rodada seed da América Latina.
US$ 85 milhões investidos por @benchmark , @Greenoaks e Diffusion para inaugurar uma nova categoria de serviços financeiros, a Inteligência Patrimonial.
Veja a matéria completa na @bloomberg
https://t.co/pSw3RUJOO0