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Outset , the most advanced AI-moderated research platform for research teams, led by Aaron Cannon and Michael Hess, has secured  $30M in Series B funding led by Radical Ventures  with participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, alongside existing investors 8VC , Y Combinator , and Adverb Ventures . This raise follows a breakout year for the team, with the business growing more than 8× and customers across industries adopting the newly created category of AI-moderated res

Channel3 , building a database of every product on the internet, led by Alexander Schiff, George Lawrence, Evan Fenster, and Ignacio Valdez, has secured a $6M seed round led by Matrix , joined by Y Combinato r and Ludlow Ventures . Last year, the team at Studio was building an AI teacher with personalized curriculums and needed reliable product recommendations. Existing APIs provided only articles or outdated listings, and indexing the entire product web was clearly a full co

Saviynt , securing over 100 million identities at global leaders, led by Sachin Nayyar, Paul Zolfaghari, Shankar Ganapathy, Ajay Garg, Jeff Margolies, Atul Vij, Akshay Sivananda, and others, has secured  a $700M Series B Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion led by Funds managed by KKR , with participation from Sixth Street Growth  and TenEleven , as well as new funding from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners . The multi-firm inve