Developer workspace with code on monitors representing AI coding assistant market growth
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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling AI coding market has room for multiple winners

Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding assistant Devin, has raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation — a sign that venture investors still […]

Vijay Pande and co-founder Zach Werner in a meeting at VZVC's office
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Vijay Pande on trading a $4B a16z fund for five bets a year — and why biology’s data problem is the real bottleneck

Vijay Pande spent more than a decade building Andreessen Horowitz’s bio fund into a roughly $4 billion practice — then walked away in June 2025 to start something deliberately small. His new firm, VZVC, co-founded with longtime investor Zach Werner, makes only about five investments a year, has no associates, and leans on AI agents […]

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Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board days after record-breaking IPO

Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha has joined SpaceX’s board of directors, the company disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Wednesday. The appointment fills an existing vacancy and comes less than a week after SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history. Former Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha has […]