Jaeden Schafer

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Resolve AI just reached a $1 billion valuation.

This is a startup that is building an autonomous site reliability engineer, or an SRE.

Essentially, it automatically maintains software systems.

This is their Series A that they've just raised, and it was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

There's a bunch of people that are looking at this deal that have kind of been putting off these...

hints and tips on what's happening.

But obviously, Lightspeed Ventures is a major VC firm.

So it's kind of top tier what's going on.

One thing that's interesting in this deal, according to a bunch of people that are kind of insiders, is that like technically the headline valuation is that it's a $1 billion valuation.

But there's actually a bunch of different, um,

levels to this round.

So there's kind of a multi-traunched structure.

And under that, many of the investors bought in at a lower valuation than a billion dollars.

But the kind of final investors that came in bought in at a billion dollars.

There's actually a lot of rounds, a lot of like fundraising that will do that.

They're like, hey, you know, for our first hundred million dollars, we'll do this valuation for the next hundred million dollars.

It increases or, you know, a hundred thousand for smaller companies.

And it kind of the people that get in later are getting at a