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Oct 9, 2026
Matt WalshHOST
Then it's new research in OpenSource AI Lab.
Matt WalshHOST
They raised $90 million from Robot Ventures, NVIDIA, and Union Square Ventures.
Nick CarterHOST
Spiko is a tokenized money market fund.
Nick CarterHOST
They raised 90 million from NEA, Index Ventures, and others.
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Noose Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.
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Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round.
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It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y Combinator, and several others.
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Noose is now valued at $1.5 billion.
CassidyHOST
Series B.
CassidyHOST
1.5 billion valuation.
CassidyHOST
Robot Ventures leading.
CassidyHOST
After this week? That's a round size I can read without squinting.
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News research has confirmed a ninety million dollar Series B at a valuation of one point five billion dollars.
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The round was led by Robot Ventures with Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Samsung among the participants.
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News builds Hermes Agent, an open source AI assistant that can search the web, edit files, and write code, and that has become popular with developers.
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Alongside the funding, the three-year-old company launched Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies run custom agents for multi-step workflows without their data leaving their systems.
JamieHOST
It must choose between distribution it does not control and withholding its best model.
JamieHOST
In the harness, tools, and orchestration world, News Research has confirmed a ninety million dollar Series B at a one point five billion dollar valuation led by Robot Ventures with NVIDIA, USV, Menlo, Samsung, and Seventeen Eighty Nine Capital.
JamieHOST
Total funding is now one hundred and fifty-eight million dollars.
JamieHOST
Its open source Hermes Agent has been cloned more than twenty-four million times, and News estimates it drives roughly two and a half percent of global AI token usage, a company figure.
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Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz, Dragonfly, Dolphin CL, all four kept in the case to face that theory.
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Half two protects Robot Ventures, alleged only to have bought and held tokens, was dismissed.
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Merely holding a governance token is not partnership.
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The court's test, the capacity to meaningfully participate in management.
Steve EhrlichHOST
We're in- investors and holders of NEAR.
Robert LeshnerHOST
So are Robot Ventures.
Steve EhrlichHOST
Okay.
Steve EhrlichHOST
Yeah.