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neptune.ai announces its definitive agreement to be acquired by OpenAI, marking Gunderson’s second this year representing a company in its sale to OpenAI, following Statsig’s $1.1 billion acquisition

LotusFlare, a provider of a cloud-native digital commerce and monetization platform for communications service providers (CSPs), announces the closing of an equity investment from Ericsson

Chilean-based Vambe, an AI conversational business-to-consumer commerce platform that automates sales operations and customer support, announces its $14 million Series A financing led by Monashees

Nudge Security, the leading innovator in SaaS and AI security governance, announces its $22.5 million Series A financing led by Cerberus Ventures with participation from Ballistic Ventures, Forgepoint Capital and Squadra Ventures

Advolve, a Brazilian company specializing in artificial intelligence applied to performance marketing, announces its acquisition by iFood.

EvolutionaryScale, a frontier research lab building AI models for biological research, announces a strategic transaction with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative whereby the EvolutionaryScale team will join Biohub, a 501c3 medical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.

MiSalud Health, a bilingual Spanish and English AI-powered health platform, announces its new financing led by IGNIA Partners, bringing the company’s total investment to $18.3 million.

Gunderson Dettmer proudly celebrates six of our clients recognized in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups 2025.

The world’s first audio data research lab, David AI,  announces its $50 million Series B financing led by Meritech with participation from NVIDIA, Alt Capital, First Round Capital, Amplify Partners and Y Combinator

AI-native ERP, DualEntry, announces its emergence from stealth mode and the announcement of its $90 million Series A financing, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures with participation from Google Ventures, Contrary and Vesey Ventures

Figure announces its more than $1 billion Series C financing, at a post-money valuation of $39 billion, led by Parkway Venture Capital with significant investment from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures

Leader in AI security, Pangea, announces its definitive agreement to be acquired by CrowdStrike, extending Crowdstrike’s Falcon® platform, delivering the industry’s first complete AI Detection and Response

Thrive Capital co-leads the $1 billion Series K financing of Databricks, the data and AI company, The round was co-led by Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX and WCM Investment Management

Statsig, a leading experimentation platform for A/B testing, feature flagging, and real-time decisioning, in its acquisition by OpenAI

Orby AI announces its acquisition by the Business AI company Uniphore, bringing Orby’s deep research expertise, Large Action Models, neuro-symbolic reasoning and agentic process discovery to Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud

Brazil-based provider of AI workers for sales, customer support and post-sales processes, Darwin AI, announces its additional $4.5 million seed financing led by Base10 Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $7 million

Seven Gunderson Dettmer company clients were recognized by Forbes in its Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2025

Holding company transforming IT services with AI, Titan, announces its $74 million financing led by General Catalyst

Applied AI research company, Fundamental Research Labs, announces its $33 million Series A financing led by Prosus Ventures with participation from Patron, Eric Schmidt's First Spark Ventures, a16z speedrun, Sol Bier's Factorial, Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison, among others

AI-enabled threat hunting platform, Nebulock, announces its emergence from stealth mode and its $8.5 million Series Seed financing led by Bain Capital Ventures