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Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B, its 10th fund and the firm's largest ever; sources say Thrive distributed just 64% of all capital raised during the 2021 peak (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg : Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B, its 10th fund and the firm's largest ever; sources say Thrive dist...

30 October 2025

Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others (@appliedcompute)

@appliedcompute:
Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others  —  Generalists are useful, but it's not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's [image]

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