Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B(typesafe.ai)
413 points by tosh | 332 comments
Company blog post from Typesafe AI announcing an $870M funding round at a $7.5B valuation.
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Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
687 points by lukehandcool | 211 comments
A Tell HN post about a person who has funded a rural Tanzanian girl's education for ten years and now runs a small 501(c)(3), the Tanzania Education Project.
Keep Our Servers Running(blog.archive.org)
996 points by sonicrocketman | 260 comments
Internet Archive blog post announcing that new recurring donations made in September will be tripled through a matching campaign for its Monthly Giving Circle.
I am building a cloud(crawshaw.io)
1063 points by bumbledraven | 533 comments
Personal blog post by David Crawshaw on why he is founding exe.dev to build a new cloud, written on its fundraising announcement day.
State of Kdenlive(kdenlive.org)
451 points by f_r_d | 143 comments
Kdenlive team blog post reviewing the open-source video editor's 2025 development progress and plans, with a fundraising appeal.
Help Keep Thunderbird Alive(updates.thunderbird.net)
516 points by playfultones | 350 comments
Thunderbird donation appeal page, shown in the 140.0 email client, asking users to help keep the open-source project alive.
Oxide raises $200M Series C(oxide.computer)
565 points by igrunert | 299 comments
Oxide Computer Company blog post dated 5 Feb 2026 announcing its $200M Series C funding round.
Raising money fucked me up(blog.yakkomajuri.com)
342 points by yakkomajuri | 127 comments
Personal blog post by a founder who left Doublepoint to start a company, reflecting on how raising venture money affected him and his motivations.
Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends(mail-index.netbsd.org)
365 points by jaypatelani | 196 comments
A NetBSD-users mailing list post urging donations to the NetBSD Foundation, which had raised $10,738 of its $50,000 goal for 2025, to fund RISC-V and Wi-Fi work.
Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B(reuters.com)
508 points by colesantiago | 625 comments
Reuters article on Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raising $1 billion; the page loaded a captcha instead.
VCs aren’t your friends(openvc.app)
441 points by taubek | 286 comments
OpenVC blog post by Stéphane Nasser arguing that founders should not treat venture capitalists as friends when fundraising.
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap(blog.openstreetmap.org)
326 points by molly_radstowe | 50 comments
OpenStreetMap Blog post marking OSM's 19th birthday and announcing an online fundraising campaign to support the project's future.
Kagi raises $670k(blog.kagi.com)
357 points by erwinmatijsen | 309 comments
Kagi blog post announcing it raised $670K in a SAFE note round from 42 accredited investors, mostly Kagi users, its first external fundraise.
We raised a bunch of money(fly.io)
566 points by charliermarsh | 413 comments
Fly.io blog post announcing it raised $25M from A16Z and existing investors, plus an additional $70M round led by EQT Ventures.
The tiny corp raised $5.1M(geohot.github.io)
554 points by super256 | 247 comments
George Hotz's blog post announcing that his new company, the tiny corp, raised $5.1M, and explaining its plan to sell AI computers and eventually chips.