Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems

Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.

Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video editing app Captions

Mirage, the maker of video editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF).

Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say

Rox, founded in 2024 by the former chief growth officer of New Relic, offers an AI-native alternative to CRM tools.

VC mega-funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions

General Catalyst is said to be raising $10 billion and Spark Capital $3 billion. This after several other firms have also raised mega-funds.

AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents

AgentMail provides an API platform that lets you give AI agents their own email inboxes, with support for two-way conversations, parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying.

India’s Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8× in under a year

Pronto handles 18,000 daily bookings and plans rapid expansion as it races rivals to digitize India’s largely offline home services market.

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years

The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst’s earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

This VC’s best advice for building a founding team

One of the most consequential decisions early-stage founders have to make is who they will bring on as their founding team. The first five to 10 employees will have a massive impact on the company culture, and the precedents set with them are difficult…

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.