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~$0.19B cumulative VC raised ($43M seed 2021 + $150M Series A Mar-2023, a16z-led, ~$1B post valuation); the Aug-2024 $2.7B Google payment was a license+talent fee that appears to have largely cashed out existing investors and redistributed ownership to employees, not fresh operating capital raised by the company — excluded from weight on that basis, noted here for context
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- Wikipedia — Character.ai $43M seed (2021) + $150M Series A (Mar 2023, a16z-led, ~$1B valuation)
- DuckDuckGo HTML search aggregation total pre-Google funding $193M across funding rounds
- DuckDuckGo HTML search aggregation with the Google deal, Character.AI bought out its investors and distributed ownership among employees
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