Strategy
Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
EnterpriseConsumerFintechGamingAI
Geographies
USASan Francisco, CA
Check size
$1M-$100MPortfolio
8 totalRecent Investment Activity
2| Date | Company | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Instinct | Series B | $350M | $2.5B | outlined = lead | Pulse story |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Town | funding round | $1B | $1B | Index Venturessecond personal-assistant startup outlined = lead | Pulse story |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
4 · 50%
Biotech
1 · 13%
Cybersecurity
1 · 13%
Quantum computing
1 · 13%
Fintech
1 · 13%
Co-Investors
12Kleiner Perkins · 2 sharedSequoia Capital · 2 sharedGeneral Catalyst · 2 sharedSpark Capital · 2 sharedNew Enterprise Associates (NEA) · 2 sharedDimension · 1 sharedCyberstarts · 1 sharedGreenoaks · 1 sharedLux Capital · 1 sharedRedpoint Ventures · 1 sharedBenchmark · 1 sharedAndreessen Horowitz · 1 shared
Latest Pulse
- Sep 4, 2026Claude Mythos Aces Booz Allen's Cyber Weapon IndexBooz Allen's benchmark scored Anthropic's Claude Mythos at 80 on its Cyber Weapon Index -- the only model of 18 tested to autonomously complete a full cyberattack kill chain -- well ahead of xAI's Grok-4.5 at 49 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at 46.→
- Aug 27, 2026Town Nears $1B Valuation in Index-Led RoundEnterprise AI assistant Town is raising at roughly a $1 billion valuation in a round led by Index Ventures, the second personal-assistant startup to reach a billion-dollar mark in a week.→
- Aug 27, 2026Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation on $350M RaisedInstinct, the personal AI assistant built by 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn, has raised $350 million in total including a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5 billion valuation.→
- Aug 26, 2026Instinct's Valuation Rockets to $2.5B in WeeksInstinct, a four-month-old AI assistant startup led by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, raised $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, up fivefold from $500 million just weeks earlier.→
- Aug 25, 2026Accel-Backed Keenable Raises $26M to Index Web for AIKeenable, founded by former Yandex and Amazon Alexa search engineers, raised a $26 million seed round led by Accel to build a web search index purpose-built for AI agents rather than human browsers.→
- Aug 17, 2026Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on a Stunning TurnaroundReddit joins the S&P 500 before markets open on August 18, becoming only the second pure-play social media company in the index after Meta, following a stock rally triggered by the inclusion announcement.→
- Aug 13, 2026Reddit Stock Jumps on S&P 500 InclusionReddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities, sending shares up more than 10% and making it only the second pureplay social media company in the index after Meta.→
- Aug 13, 2026Kospi Roars Back Into Bull Market on Chip ReboundSouth Korea's Kospi index climbed more than 20% from its July low to re-enter bull-market territory, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix shares recovering sharply after the same two chipmakers had driven 71% of the index's July losses.→
- Aug 12, 2026Grok 4.6 Ties GPT-5.6 Sol at Half the PriceSpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max and surpassing Kimi K3, while pricing at $2/$6 per million tokens -- roughly half the going rate for comparable models.→
- Aug 9, 2026Caris Leads a Wild Week for Recent IPO StocksCaris Life Sciences jumped 21.6% on a beat-and-raise quarter while BillionToOne fell 29.8% despite beating estimates, the sharpest split in the Renaissance IPO Index in weeks.→
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Where these figures come from
- TechCrunchmajor outlet1 fact
- NewcomerValue Add VC data1 fact
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