SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)

<a href="https://techfundingnews.com/a16z-leads-40m-vals-ai-round-at-400m-valuation-to-test-ai-on-real-world-tasks/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260815/i5.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260815/p5#a260815p5" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Abhinaya Prabhu / <a href="https://techfundingnews.com/">Tech Funding News</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techfundingnews.com/a16z-leads-40m-vals-ai-round-at-400m-valuation-to-test-ai-on-real-world-tasks/">SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - Vals AI raised $40 million in a Series A round at a $400 million valuation.&nbsp; &mdash; Revenue has grown eightfold since 2025 &hellip; </p>