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April 21, 2025 - Deals
Goodfire Raises $50M In Series A Funding Led By Menlo Ventures At $200M Valuation
Goodfire, a San Francisco-based AI interpretability research company, raised $50M in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and others. Founded by CEO Eric Ho, Goodfire is a public benefit corporation focused on decoding the internal workings of AI models through its flagship platform, Ember. The funding will support the company's expansion, continued research, and customer partnerships to develop tools that unlock AI’s inner logic and enable more transparent, controllable systems.
INVESTORS: Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing Venture Capital & South Park Commons
ROUND: Series A
AMOUNT: $50,000,000
VALUATION: $200,000,000
HQ: #SanFrancisco #California
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Ollama Raises $65 Million Series B Led By Theory Ventures Bringing Total Funding To $88 MillionOllama, the popular open-source AI developer tool that helps developers run open-weight AI models locally on their computers, has raised a $65 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. Founder and CEO Jeff Morgan said the company, which launched in 2023, is now used by more than 8.9 million developers each month and is present in 85% of Fortune 500 companies. Built by Morgan and co-founder Michael Chiang, who previously helped create Docker Desktop, Ollama has gained significant traction with developers through its free desktop product while also expanding its cloud offerings for larger AI models that are too resource-intensive to run locally.
FOUNDER: Jeff Morgan
INVESTORS: Theory Ventures, Benchmark & Peter Fenton
ROUND: Series B
AMOUNT: $65,000,000
HQ: Palo Alto, California
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Anthropic Secures $1.2 Trillion Valuation Boost Ahead Of 2026 IPO With Growing Investor DemandAnthropic’s implied valuation on secondary market platforms has surged to approximately $1.2 trillion, a 550% increase from a year ago, as investor demand for shares intensifies ahead of a potential IPO later in 2026. The valuation exceeds OpenAI’s reported valuation of roughly $908 billion and comes shortly after Anthropic completed a $65 billion funding round in May that valued the company at $965 billion. Despite the strong demand, actual trading activity remains limited due to scarce share availability. The company is also expanding its footprint, having leased a large office building in Manhattan and planning to grow its New York workforce to more than 1,000 employees by the end of 2026, underscoring its rapid growth as it prepares for a possible public listing.
FOUNDERS: Dario Amodei & Daniela Amodei
AMOUNT: $1,200,000,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
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