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Humans& just raised the 2nd largest seed round in history. The 3-month-old AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, and Google alums secured $480M at a $4.48B valuation. Key metrics: • $480M seed round (2nd largest ever) • $4.48B valuation in 3 months • 20+ employees from top AI labs • Investors: Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV How they did it: • Assembled dream team from Anthropic, xAI, Google • Positioned as "human-centric AI" vs replacement narrative • Leveraged founder pedigree for pre-product funding • Built AI collaboration platform with memory Takeaway: Team pedigree + contrarian positioning unlocks massive pre-product funding. Source: TechCrunch #startups#funding