Apate.AI’s ~$8.15M Seed: Adversarial Bots That Hunt Scammers
Lobby Capital led Apate.AI’s US$8.15M (A$11.4M) seed as the CBA-backed anti-scam bot army relocates to the U.S. — 2.5M decoy conversations and 250k intel artefacts claimed.
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How Much Did Standard Metrics Raise? $20M Series B, No Valuation
Standard Metrics closed a $20 million Series B led by 8VC. Spark Capital participated. The company cites roughly $50 million raised to date, most from customers, 150 firms, $400 billion in AUM on the platform, and no valuation.
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Did Stripe Buy Clerky? Agreed. No Price. Not Closed.
Clerky said on August 26, 2026 that it has agreed to join Stripe. Terms were not disclosed. The deal is not described as closed. Same month Stripe announced OpenRouter ($7.5B is still press).
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August 31 VC News: Adaptyv $40M, Clerky→Stripe, Standard Metrics $20M
Monday August 31 did not print a new US mega-round. The gap-fill is Adaptyv’s $40M Series A (no valuation), Clerky agreeing to join Stripe (no price, not closed), Standard Metrics’ $20M Series B (8VC; no valuation), plus HITAI–Quell IP (undisclosed) and Arintra’s $25M B.
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August 30–31 VC News: Dexterous Robots, Heterogeneous Inference, World Models, Clinical Agents
Gap-fill investment explainers for the Aug 18–28 tape still missing deep pages: Sharpa ~$670M, Callosum $100M seed, Veeda $90M+, Faro $37.3M, Multiplier $6M (Lux/YC asset managers), and Hubble $30M B-II — who uses the products and why these syndicates fit.
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How Much Did Adaptyv Raise? $40M Series A, No Valuation
Adaptyv closed a $40 million Series A led by Highland Europe. Y Combinator, ACE Ventures, and byFounders returned. Valuation was not disclosed. The company says throughput grew more than 5x and names Chai Discovery, Boltz, Roche, and Novo Nordisk as customers.