Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/khosla-ribbit-back-college-dropouts-startup-slash-at-1-4-billion-valuation"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260416/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260416/p26#a260416p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Rebecca Torrence / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/khosla-ribbit-back-college-dropouts-startup-slash-at-1-4-billion-valuation">Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Slash Financial Inc., a financial services startup run by two 24-year-old founders, has landed a $1.4 billion valuation &hellip; </p>