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According to Fortune, American public safety AI company Peregrine Technologies has completed a $250 million Series D funding round, achieving a valuation of $6.8 billion, nearly tripling from the previous $2.5 billion valuation in just 15 months. This round was led by existing investors including Sequoia Capital.Peregrine's core product is a government data integration platform that unifies existing city data such as police records, 911 logs, license databases, sensor data, and emergency management systems for real-time retrieval. It also features built-in role-based access control and complete audit tracking, while the platform itself does not collect or hold any data. Currently, the platform serves over 400 law enforcement agencies, covering approximately 125 million people in North America, and is operating security integration centers for 8 of the 11 host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.Co-founder and CEO Nick Noone previously led Palantir's special operations business, including the intelligence platform tracking ISIS; co-founder and CTO Ben Rudolph previously built data infrastructure at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The company stated that the new funds will be used for product development, expanding the engineering and implementation teams, international expansion, and employee mobility arrangements. Noone indicated that they have not yet decided whether to pursue an IPO but are preparing internal infrastructure for a potential listing.The government AI market is estimated to be valued at approximately $25 billion by 2025 and is expected to grow to $109 billion by 2035. However, the ongoing civil liberties controversies surrounding AI law enforcement monitoring remain a persistent challenge for Peregrine.

According to the official announcement, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has completed a $65 billion Series H financing round, with a post-money valuation reaching $965 billion, surpassing its competitor OpenAI for the first time, becoming the highest-valued AI startup in the world.This financing round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital, and Sequoia Capital. In addition, the company plans to expand its computing power to meet the growing demand for its Claude product and to promote the scaling of its products.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Parallel Web Systems, an AI infrastructure company founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has completed a $100 million Series B financing round, with a post-money valuation of $2 billion.This round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and Khosla Ventures. Parallel provides efficient web search and access control infrastructure for "long-cycle" AI agents, having raised a total of $230 million, with around 50 employees, serving over 100,000 developers and enterprise clients. The current focus is on expanding the sales, marketing, and R&D teams, continuously laying out the enterprise-level "AI agent web" scenario.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) recalled in his new book that after the "9·4" regulatory policy was introduced in 2017, venture capital firms as a whole became more cautious, and Sequoia Capital, which had originally expressed investment intentions, also paused related cooperation. He stated, "Seeing the venture capitalists collectively silent during our most difficult September, I was actually quite disappointed."CZ revealed that prior to this, Sequoia had expressed investment interest at the beginning of He Yi's joining, but chose to wait and see in light of the policy impact. Subsequently, Binance achieved rapid growth from September to October, with the number of users increasing from about 20,000 in August to about 120,000 by late October, ranking among the top ten exchanges globally and becoming profitable.CZ stated that by the end of October, after the risk phase had basically passed, Sequoia re-expressed its investment intentions, but they had proposed to raise the valuation requirement. Ultimately, the two sides could not reach an agreement due to valuation differences. The other party then proposed to pursue legal proceedings, and a week later, four large boxes of legal documents were delivered. CZ said this was the "first time in his life becoming a defendant." CZ mentioned that he later learned that the lawsuit was led by Sequoia's legal team in the U.S., who are skilled at using the media to create public opinion, "the media reporters knew before I, the party involved."

According to Bloomberg, the Latin American financial app ARQ, focused on stablecoins, has completed a $70 million financing round, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund.This round of financing will be used for rebranding, hiring new employees, and expanding services beyond dollar-denominated transfers, including wealth management, local currency high-yield accounts, and credit services. ARQ, formerly known as DolarApp, offers multi-currency accounts, digital wallets, foreign exchange, and debit card services, helping users store and transfer funds across borders. It has over 2 million customers in Latin America, with an annual transaction volume exceeding $10 billion. ARQ stated that it has built infrastructure connecting traditional banking networks and stablecoin-based payment systems, enabling users to hold foreign currency and conduct transactions.

According to Jinshi News, Sequoia Capital plans to make a significant investment in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Anthropic is seeking to raise funds at a valuation of $35 billion, aiming to raise a total of $25 billion or more.Microsoft and Nvidia have committed to investing a total of up to $15 billion in the company.

Focusing on embodied intelligence, Chinese high-tech startup X Square Robot (X²) announced that it has completed a 1 billion yuan A++ round of financing. This round was jointly invested by top investment institutions and various local platforms, including ByteDance, Sequoia China, Beijing Information Industry Development Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, Nanshan Zhanxin Investment, and Xichuang Investment.It is reported that this is also the first investment since the establishment of the Shenzhen Capital Group AI Fund. Notably, in addition to ByteDance, X Square has also received investments from Meituan and Alibaba in previous financing rounds, making it the only embodied intelligence company in China to be simultaneously invested in by these three major internet giants.

The prediction market platform Kalshi has completed a $1 billion financing round, with a new valuation of $11 billion, led by Sequoia.This round of financing comes less than two months after its previous $300 million financing at a $5 billion valuation. Kalshi allows users to bet on various events and operates within legal boundaries, with an annual trading volume exceeding $50 billion. Its main competitor Polymarket is also rumored to be seeking financing at a valuation of $12-15 billion.

ChainCatcher news, the artificial intelligence laboratory Harmonic announced the completion of a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and Charlie Cheever, bringing the post-money valuation to $900 million.Harmonic is currently building software verification and code verification capabilities based on Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), primarily applied in industries such as blockchain and financial services. The company raised $75 million in its Series A funding round last September.

ChainCatcher news, DoNotPay founder and CEO Josh Browder announced on the X platform that his founded Browder Capital has completed the fundraising for its fourth fund, totaling 30 million dollars.The fund has received support from well-known investors including Sequoia Capital, a16z founder Marc Andreessen and partner Chris Dixon, Accel founder Arthur Patterson, and SignalFire founder Walter Kortschak. Institutional investors also include several venture capital firms such as Cendana Capital and General Endowment Management.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto wallet Phantom has completed a $150 million Series C funding round with a valuation of $3 billion, led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, with participation from a16z and Variant.Since its launch in 2021, Phantom has reached 15 million monthly active users and manages $25 billion in self-custodied assets.According to RootData, Phantom is a user-friendly crypto wallet that allows users to securely and easily store, buy, send, receive, trade tokens, and collect NFTs on the Solana blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha posted on his social platform, "Seeing more and more regulators hurriedly imposing penalties and restrictions on businesses before the government is about to change. Their actions expose their illegitimacy. Widespread and erratic overregulation is stifling the U.S. economy."

ChainCatcher news, according to Techcrunch, led by Sequoia China (HongShan) and Sequoia India (Peak XV), has jointly invested $10 million in the seed round financing of the stablecoin payment platform KAST.KAST is a bank-like platform based on stablecoins, allowing users to hold and use stablecoins through traditional payment channels, and providing credit card services that can be used within standard merchant networks, enabling users to spend their stablecoin assets at merchants that do not support cryptocurrency payments.The platform was co-founded by Raagulan Pathy, former head of Asia Pacific at Circle, and Daniel Bertoli, former partner at Quona Capital, primarily targeting users in emerging markets, especially offshore workers. KAST reduces cross-border payment costs by bypassing traditional banking networks and is currently not operating in China and India due to regulatory restrictions. DST Global and Goodwater Capital participated in this round.

ChainCatcher news reports that sources reveal venture capital firms will profit hundreds of millions of dollars from Stripe Inc.'s acquisition of the crypto platform Bridge for $1.1 billion in cash and stock.Institutions including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, Bedrock Fund Management, Index Ventures, and Haun Ventures have seen multiple returns on their investments in this startup. When Stripe agreed to acquire Bridge, it had been established for less than three years.Among them, Sequoia Capital holds a 16% stake in Bridge, potentially profiting over $100 million. It is reported that Sequoia Capital invested $19 million in Bridge's Series A funding round last year.Ribbit holds about 10% of Bridge, valued at approximately $100 million, while Bedrock and Index Ventures each hold about 6%, and Haun Ventures holds 4%. (Bloomberg)