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TechCrunch — Instinct at $2.5B in August
Instinct, an AI assistant startup founded last year and led by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, has raised $250M in Series B funding at a $2.5B valuation, bringing total funding to $350M. The company, which helps users organize their lives through connected apps and devices, has faced privacy concerns regarding its permissions and terms of use despite early user enthusiasm.
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Summary
Instinct, an AI assistant startup founded last year and led by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, has raised $250M in Series B funding at a $2.5B valuation, bringing total funding to $350M. The company, which helps users organize their lives through connected apps and devices, has faced privacy concerns regarding its permissions and terms of use despite early user enthusiasm.
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ai-startup · funding-round · valuation · series-b · instinct · venture-capital · privacy-concerns
Key entities
Instinct (organization, 0.99) · Noah Shinn (person, 0.95) · Spear Street Technology (organization, 0.9) · Index Ventures (organization, 0.92) · Benchmark (organization, 0.92) · TechCrunch (organization, 0.95) · The Wall Street Journal (organization, 0.9) · AI assistant (technology, 0.88) · San Francisco (location, 0.85)
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news · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Sep 2026