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Arc

San Francisco, CA · founded 2026

Founded in 2026 by Square and Cash App veterans Mike MacLennan and Ali Hussain, Arc provides a purpose-built voice AI platform. The company specializes in creating an AI-driven drive-through ordering platform designed to bring e-commerce-style optimization and measurability to fast-food operations. Its platform enables quick-service restaurants to automate order taking, test and optimize upsell strategies, monitor performance in real time, and improve operational efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence

Funding

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Every round, secondary, debt facility or acquisition involving Arc that Lounge tracks, newest first. Latest: Seed on Jun 2, 2026.
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ArcSeedJun 2
Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Broadway Restaurant Group, Adverb Ventures, United Talent Agency · AI
$11M

Timeline · 25

Oct 17, 2026
News
DeepSeek releases open V4.1-Flash-1017 under MIT license and opens paid Search and Fetch APIs · DeepSeek
Oct 15, 2026
News
Google's Universal Cart goes live in the US across Search and the Gemini app · TechCrunch
Oct 12, 2026
News
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' · cnbc.com
Oct 11, 2026
News
HireKey: Your recruiter-informed AI copilot for tech job search · Product Hunt
Oct 9, 2026
News
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more · jessewaites.com
Oct 9, 2026
News
Memento 3 agent clears all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games while keeping its language model frozen · AI Weekly
Oct 8, 2026
News
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking and warn their dismissals chill internal safety work · Yahoo News
Oct 7, 2026
Deal
Nous Research closes $90M Series B led by Robot Ventures at a reported $1.5B valuation · The Next Web
Oct 5, 2026
Deal
Pandektes raises €13.5M Series A led by Alstin Capital to build the data layer for AI legal research · The Next Web
Oct 5, 2026
Deal
Living Optics raises $20M led by BRV, with Lockheed Martin, Applied and Lam Research backing hyperspectral vision · British Business Bank
Oct 4, 2026
News
What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? · writings.stephenwolfram.com
Oct 4, 2026
News
Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS · github.com
Oct 3, 2026
News
GPT-6 Astra downloaded a human-written StarCraft bot to avoid losing a benchmark tournament · Kotaku
Oct 1, 2026
Deal
Arceus Legal raises $17M led by Greycroft for an AI-powered law firm with flat-rate contract review · SiliconANGLE
Oct 1, 2026
News
Reddit ends RSS on Nov 13 and closes its public API by March 2027 · techcrunch.com
Oct 1, 2026
Deal
Salesforce to buy AI customer-research startup Listen Labs in a reported $2B deal · SiliconANGLE
Sep 23, 2026
Deal
Basecamp Research raises $140M Series C · Crunchbase
Sep 15, 2026
Deal
Arcee AI raises $150M Series B at unicorn status for enterprise small models · Crunchbase News
Sep 11, 2026
Deal
Archy raises $50M Series C · Crunchbase
Jul 29, 2026
Deal
Simile raises $200M+ at $2B to simulate human behavior for product research · Crunchbase News
Jun 2, 2026
Round
Seed · $10.76M · Andreessen Horowitz
Apr 15, 2026
Deal
Parag Agrawal's Parallel raises $100M at $2B for agent search · TechCrunch
Mar 19, 2026
Research
AI in Vertical Software Q1 2026 (Houlihan Lokey, March 2026): US AI venture deal value doubled to $222B in 2025 · Houlihan Lokey
Mar 15, 2026
Deal
Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03B at $3.5B for world-model research · Crunchbase News
Feb 10, 2026
Deal
Nebius to acquire AI agent search startup Tavily for $275M upfront · Calcalist CTech

In the news

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DeepSeek releases open V4.1-Flash-1017 under MIT license and opens paid Search and Fetch APIs2026-10-17Google's Universal Cart goes live in the US across Search and the Gemini app2026-10-15Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'2026-10-12HireKey: Your recruiter-informed AI copilot for tech job search2026-10-11Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more2026-10-09Memento 3 agent clears all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games while keeping its language model frozen2026-10-09Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking and warn their dismissals chill internal safety work2026-10-08Nous Research closes $90M Series B led by Robot Ventures at a reported $1.5B valuation2026-10-07
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