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Neil Rimer says the AI money is coming back. PitchBook data backs him up. Here's what the funding shift means for builders and operators who want to move before the window closes.
The AI funding drought is over according to Index Ventures founding partner Neil Rimer. Global AI deals rose 41% in Q1 2026. Here's what the return of operator capital means for builders and investors
Neil Rimer of Index Ventures is signaling the AI investment cycle has shifted from building to harvesting. Most investors will miss the move. Here is what the smart money is actually doing.
A former DeepMind researcher just raised $300 million at pre-seed with no product and no customers. The AI funding market is pricing pedigree over product right now. Here's what that means for every founder
Prime Intellect just raised $130M to help enterprises build their own AI agents. The companies that move now will own their workflows and protect their margins. The ones renting someone else's platform will be
Sandstone raised $30 million to bring AI directly into corporate legal departments. With Fortune 500 companies spending over $22 million a year on legal costs, the opportunity to automate routine work is enormous. The
Mira Murati spent 18 months building Thinking Machines Lab in near total silence. Now she's re-emerging with over $2 billion raised and a team pulled from the world's top AI labs. The power shift
Mira Murati left a $157 billion company to build something smaller and harder. Her firm raised $2 billion before shipping a single product. In 2026, she's stepping back into the spotlight with a clear
ZeroDrift closed a $10 million raise to protect AI models from quietly degrading in production. Most companies don't monitor their AI after deployment. That's an expensive mistake that's already costing them.
Anthropic just raised $65 billion and is nearing a $1 trillion valuation before it goes public. Most people are reading this as a tech story. It's actually a wealth transfer story, and the window