The Technology team guided humans& in raising over $500 million in a seed financing round, which values the company at approximately $4.5 billion. The round was led by SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, while Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Alphabet's VC arm, GV, among other venture capital investors, also participated.
humans&, based in California, is a recently formed AI lab seeking to train AI models to be better at collaborating with humans.
The Goodwin team was led by Craig Schmitz, Andrew Pusar, Ria King, Ari Ghavami, Katherine Jones, Ellie Krossa, Elia Chou, Christina Keeney, Paul Jin, Kevin Walsh, Kevin Lam, Isabelle Greenblatt-Gunning, Jacqueline Klosek, Jonathan Ng, Jacob Osborn, Ce Li, Bradley Weber, Maggie Wong, and Richard Garvan.
For more information on the deal, please read the coverage in Reuters and The New York Times.