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TechCrunch reported on 16 February 2026 that Ricursive Intelligence had earlier raised a $35 million seed round led by Sequoia.

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Ricursive Intelligence → announced funding of → 35,000,000 USD

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Ricursive Intelligenceannounced funding of ↓35,000,000 USD

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Date: Date unknown
Transaction type: funding round
Relationship context: external
Period or expected timing: seed round
Stage: announced
Amount: exact · $35,000,000
round total

Scope and limitsThe record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no company announcement of the seed round was retrieved, and its date is not established.

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How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

TechCrunch · 2026-02-16

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“a $35 million seed round led by Sequoia”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

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Authors: Julie Bort
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 35cc4764bacbc969cb392083a59ae0f6569d330b6b7666723ed66307638b27a3) directly from the publisher. Linked from Ricursive Intelligence’s home page.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Julie Bort, “How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months”, 2026-02-16.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (8 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L225) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

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AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch

TechCrunch · 2026-01-26

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“The Series A comes just two months since the company formally launched with a seed investment led by Sequoia.”

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

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Authors: Julie Bort
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 592dc2a0a8cc258a6b0ae3f43ab85f4ed407fbab48b14a282058c349eebf0466) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Julie Bort, “AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch”, 2026-01-26.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (19 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L225) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

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Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. The reported total of a financing round, not a valuation or any one investor’s contribution.

Date. TechCrunch reported on 26 January 2026 that the company formally launched with a seed investment led by Sequoia about two months before the Series A, and on 16 February 2026 that the seed round came a couple of months before it; no date is given.

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