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AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Arena

Arena (formerly LMArena, born as Chatbot Arena at UC Berkeley) operates the crowdsourced leaderboard and evaluation platform used industry-wide to benchmark and rank AI models.

3 Pulse stories
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Straiker

Straiker is an agentic AI security company that helps enterprises discover, test, and protect autonomous AI agents from novel security risks.

2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$250M
$85M
ArenaStraiker
Last Valuation
$1.7B
ArenaStraiker
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2025
Founded
2025
San Francisco, CA
HQ
Mountain View, California
Private
Status
Private
Arena investors
FelicisUC InvestmentsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersThe House FundLaude Ventures
Straiker investors
Marathon Management PartnersCiti VenturesIlluminate FinancialWorkday VenturesBain Capital VenturesLightspeedGTM CapitalRain Capital

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Arena and Straiker.

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