{"id":38809,"date":"2025-09-23T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38809\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:29:08","slug":"vcs-are-scrambling-for-a-piece-of-ai-darlings-like-anthropic-cursor-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/38809\/","title":{"rendered":"VCs Are Scrambling for a Piece of AI Darlings Like Anthropic, Cursor, Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Raising venture capital money has been a breeze for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2454438D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Decagon AI Inc.<\/a>, a two-year-old startup developing artificial intelligence tools for customer service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">All four of Decagon\u2019s funding rounds, totaling more than $230 million, were preempted, meaning firms like Andreessen Horowitz offered to invest before the company started fundraising. Now, just three months after a round that valued it at <a href=\"https:\/\/decagon.ai\/resources\/series-c-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">$1.5 billion<\/a>, Decagon is fielding unsolicited offers at valuations as high as $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raising venture capital money has been a breeze for Decagon AI Inc., a two-year-old startup developing artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,16545,363,364,35506,19983,35505,9799,35504,111,139,69,1046,145,16541,1287],"class_list":["post-38809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chang-lin-mao","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cognition-ai-inc","tag-customer-service","tag-decagon-ai-inc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-valuation","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}