Index Ventures

Deals & regulation

1. Oct 9

   Invested in Hone · $60M at $285M

2. Aug 3

   Invested in Design Arena · $7.9M

3. Jul 28

   Invested in Enigma · $71M

4. Jul 14

   Invested in Chai Discovery · $400M at $3.8B

Trends

• Robotics and world models attract capital on the way to deployment

Items

1. Oct 9

   Hone raises $60M for enterprise AI

   The San Francisco startup building autonomous AI systems for enterprise outcomes raised a round led by Benchmark and co-led by Index Ventures, with Elad Gil participating.

2. Sep 24

   Ando raises $20M for human-agent messaging

   Backed by Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence Capital, Ando is building a messaging platform where human teams and AI agents work side by side and accumulate shared context over time.

3. Aug 3

   Design Arena team raises $7.9M seed

   Intelligence, the team behind the Design Arena human-preference benchmark, raised an Index Ventures-led seed to bring crowd-scored taste evaluation to generative-design models.

4. Jul 28

   Enigma raises $71M seed for robot models

   The physical-AI startup emerged from stealth to build foundation models that make robots easier to deploy across industries, and launched what it calls the first live public AI-robotics experience.

5. Jul 14

   Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8B

   The biomolecular-interaction modeling company raised an Index Ventures-led Series C, with Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and existing backer OpenAI, as its AI-designed antibodies advance with Big Pharma, lifting total funding to ~$630M.