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Venture Capital News 30 October 2025 - 17 November 2025

Ramp Hits $32 Billion Valuation as Lightspeed-Led $300 Million Round Accelerates Its AI Finance Push

Ramp Hits $32 Billion Valuation as Lightspeed-Led $300 Million Round Accelerates Its AI Finance Push

New York-based fintech Ramp has vaulted to a $32 billion valuation after closing a new $300 million primary funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, alongside an employee tender offer that lets staff cash out part of their equity. The deal, announced on Monday, November 17, 2025, caps one of the fastest valuation run-ups in private fintech this year and underlines how aggressively investors are now backing AI-driven “autonomous finance.” PR Newswire+1 Lightspeed leads a $300M bet on “autonomous finance” Ramp describes itself as a financial operations platform that bundles corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, procurement, travel, accounting automation
17 November 2025
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Alembic Raises $145M for Causal AI as Accenture and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Back Marketing’s New Supercomputer

Alembic Raises $145M for Causal AI as Accenture and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Back Marketing’s New Supercomputer

San Francisco–based AI startup Alembic Technologies has closed a $145 million Series B round to scale its causal AI platform and build what it claims is one of the fastest privately owned supercomputers in the world. The funding is led by Prysm Capital and Accenture, with participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, Liquid 2 Ventures, NextEquity and others. WebProNews+3The Wall Street Journal+3Venturebeat+3 The deal values Alembic at around $645 million, a massive leap from its roughly $49–50 million valuation at its Series A round in early 2024, which was led by WndrCo. The Wall Street Journal+1 Today, November
16 November 2025
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Anthropic’s Private Shares Soar to $185 Amid AI Frenzy – $183B Valuation, Major Deals & $1.5B Lawsuit

Anthropic’s Record-Breaking Rise: $13B Mega-Funding, Big Tech Deals & the AI Showdown in 2025

Anthropic Developments and News as of November 3, 2025 In summary, Anthropic in late 2025 stands as a centerpiece of the global AI drama – a startup-turned-goliath with extraordinary funding, big-tech allies, and cutting-edge AI models, all vying to shape the future of AI. Its recent moves – from mega-financing and TPU mega-clusters to enterprise-friendly AI tools – illustrate both the immense potential and the grand challenges of the AI revolution. As Anthropic races OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI and others, the world will be watching to see if this safety-focused upstart can lead in innovation without losing its soul to
3 November 2025
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Lyzr Raises $8M and Lands Accenture’s AI Backing – Is “Agentic AI” About to Explode?

Lyzr Raises $8M and Lands Accenture’s AI Backing – Is “Agentic AI” About to Explode?

Lyzr’s Innovative AI Platform and Funding Lyzr is a New Jersey–headquartered startup (with its tech team largely in Bengaluru) building infrastructure for “agentic AI” – autonomous AI agents that can execute business tasks with little human oversight. In practice, Lyzr’s low-code Agent Studio lets companies design, deploy and manage AI agents that handle specific workflows. For example, a bank could spin up an AI agent to auto-approve routine loans, and an insurer could automate claims triage. Importantly, Lyzr embeds compliance and security “guardrails” into these agents. As Accenture’s Kenneth Saldanha explains, Lyzr’s tools “lets companies create secure, explainable and compliant
30 October 2025
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