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Today, we’re announcing Viktor’s $75M Series A, led by Accel. viktor.com was supposed to be a small experiment. It became the AI coworker 10x'ing real businesses. $15M in annualized revenue run rate. In 10 weeks. – Small companies saving millions of dollars – Sourcing hundreds of thousands in new revenue in their first 30 days – Whole teams getting half their week back – Companies running 40% leaner without cutting output Viktor is not another AI tool. It’s the first true AI employee. The vision that has been with us since 2023 when we started the company has finally been shipped. Back then, it was just the two of us, with a very small but dedicated team, iterating for years. Failing multiple times. Showing products that users didn't even want to test! But we never gave up. Our decisions were often wrong. Certainly more often than not! We kept trying. Now we’ve shipped something people love. Worth every sleepless night. Every sacrifice. The best employees don’t need to be told what to do. Neither does Viktor. Grateful to Zhenya Loginov, Cecilia Wang and Bilal Mobarik for leading this round. Grateful to our team, our earliest users, and everyone who believed this category could be bigger than chat.

GRAI has raised a $9M seed round led by Khosla Ventures and co-led by Inovo.vc, with participation from Tensor Ventures, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, Flyer One Ventures, a16z Scout Fund, and angels Andrew Zhai, Greg Tkachenko, Rob Reid, and Dima Shvets. Music runs the internet, but the way people interact with it hasn’t really changed. It’s still mostly passive. We’re building GRAI to change that. Using AI, we’re focused on understanding how people actually move through music: what they do with it, how they share it, how it becomes part of culture, and making it fun and creative for everyone. Huge thanks to everyone who backed us early and believed in this direction, special congrats to founders Ilya Liasun, Andrei Avsievich, and Dzmitry Kamarouski on this milestone, Bill Campbell and Elizabeth Moody for your incredible impact. And thanks to TechCrunch for telling the story (link to the article in bio). This is where the next era of music begins.

Today marks a major milestone for Preply and for the future of learning. Thank you to Bloomberg, Axios, TechCrunch and many more for covering our Series D fundraise and our new valuation. While this is an important moment for our company, it reflects something bigger: a growing belief in learning that’s rooted in human connection and that drives real, measurable progress. At Preply, we’re building a global learning platform where AI amplifies human expertise and helps people move forward faster. As we scale, we’re excited to deepen our impact and support millions more learners and tutors around the world. To our learners, tutors, partners, and the Preply team, thank you for making this possible. We feel incredibly fortunate and deeply responsible to help shape how people learn in a rapidly changing world. By bringing together the world’s best tutors and AI, we’re creating new possibilities for learning and progress at a scale that was once unimaginable. The journey ahead is just beginning. More coverage is linked in the first comment below. #SeriesD #Unicorn #FutureofLearning #StartUps #Progress https://lnkd.in/eX2ZvZ8z