Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence models designed to simulate how people make decisions. Greenoaks led the round, while existing investor Index Ventures increased its backing. Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory and CVS Health Ventures also returned, with Definition joining as a new investor. The financing arrives only five… [...]
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A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI stand-ins for real consume [...]
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Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with par [...]