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BetterComp, which provides compensation management services for HR teams, raised a $33M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/22/bettercomp-raises-33m-expand-compensation-management-pl…

BetterComp raises $33M to expand compensation management platform - SiliconANGLE
BetterComp raises $33M to expand compensation management platform - SiliconANGLE

Greptile, maker of an AI-powered code review tool, raised a $25M Series A led by Benchmark and launches Greptile v3 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/23/greptile-bags-25m-funding-take-coderabbit-graphite-a…

Greptile bags $25M in funding to take on CodeRabbit and Graphite in AI code validation - SiliconANGLE
Greptile bags $25M in funding to take on CodeRabbit and Graphite in AI code validation - SiliconANGLE

Economic inequality has reached a staggering milestone in Silicon Valley:
just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth, according to new research from San Jose State University.
🔥A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.
The findings come from the 2025 “Silicon Valley Pain Index”,
a report published by SJSU’s Human Rights Institute each year since 2020. The report aims to quantify “structured inequalities” in Silicon Valley, and measures “pai…

KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/kn

KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies - SiliconANGLE
KnowledgeLake raises $65M to bring AI-native synthetic labor to midsized enterprises and government agencies - SiliconANGLE

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/19/casca-gets-29m-bring-a…

Casca gets $29M to bring AI-native loan origination tech to local banks - SiliconANGLE
Casca gets $29M to bring AI-native loan origination tech to local banks - SiliconANGLE

Empower Semiconductor, which makes power management chips that cut server power consumption by ~50%, raised a $140M Series D, bringing its total raised $200M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/22/empower-semiconducto…

Empower Semiconductor raises $140M+ for its power management chips - SiliconANGLE
Empower Semiconductor raises $140M+ for its power management chips - SiliconANGLE

HeroDevs, which provides support for legacy open-source software, raised $125M from PSG, intends to allocate $20M to its Open Source Sustainability Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/herodevs-rais…

HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE
HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software - SiliconANGLE

Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/leena-ai-anno…

Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE
Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

An interview with Nick Clegg about Zuckerberg's "masculine energy", Silicon Valley's "cloying conformity" and "combination of machismo and self-pity", and more (Gaby Hinsliff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics…