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Startup Watch

Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B for an agent that acts for you

Index Ventures and Benchmark led a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation. Security researchers are raising alarms about the assistant's permissions.

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Startup Watch

CivilGrid raises $26M to map what is buried under US streets

Spark Capital led a $26 million Series A for CivilGrid, which merges utility, environmental and geotechnical records into one map. US crews hit 200,000 lines a year.

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Coding

Rust funds six maintainers as Clippy's review backlog hits 300

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is now paying six people to maintain Rust, backed by Google, AWS and OpenAI. Clippy's backlog sits near 300 pull requests.

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Startup Watch

Rillet hits a $1B valuation two years after leaving stealth

AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1B valuation - its third round in 14 months, closed in under 48 hours, with 600+ customers.

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