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Igor Babuschkin's River AI raises $1.1 billion seed/Series A
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River AI, a personal AI agent startup from xAI co-founder Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC — it came out of stealth in June (TechCrunch exclusive)
Why it matters
The extreme of the new-lab capital cycle, with $1.1 billion going into a 2-month-old company
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Presstechcrunch.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/general-catalyst-leads-1-1b-round-into-2-month-old-river-ai/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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