{"id":986790,"date":"2026-01-21T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986790"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:47:30","slug":"ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-at-4-5-billion-valuation-in-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-at-4-5-billion-valuation-in-seed-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Humans&amp; raises $480 million at $4.5 billion valuation in seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Humans&amp;, founded by former OpenAI, Alphabet \u200dand xAI researchers, has raised $480 million in a seed financing \u2060round, which values the company at $4.48 billion, it said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The outsized seed round highlights intense investor interest in next-generation AI \u200clabs founded \u200cby veteran researchers as companies race to build systems that go beyond \u200cchatbots and agentic tools. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Ron Conway&#8217;s SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, while Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Alphabet&#8217;s VC arm, GV, among other venture capital investors, also participated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Humans&amp;, founded by former OpenAI, Alphabet \u200dand xAI researchers, has raised $480 million in a seed financing \u2060round, which values the company at $4.48 billion, it said on Tuesday. The outsized seed round highlights intense investor interest in next-generation AI \u200clabs founded \u200cby veteran researchers as companies race to build systems that go beyond \u200cchatbots and agentic tools. The round was led by Ron Conway&#8217;s SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, while Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Alphabet&#8217;s VC arm, GV, among other venture capital investors, also participated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}