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According to TechFundingNews, AI company Lassie, founded by former Robinhood and Superhuman employees Steijn Pelle and Frédéric Renken, has completed a $35 million Series A funding round led by a16z, with participation from Night Capital, the founder of Superhuman, the co-founder of Plaid, the co-founder of Wise, among others, bringing the total funding to $47 million.The two co-founders worked manually for months at a dental clinic before writing code, handling insurance claims and reconciling payments. Currently, Lassie operates in over 700 clinics across 49 states in the U.S., saving owners more than 250,000 hours of administrative work each year. a16z general partner Alex Rampell has joined the board of Lassie. Lassie's AI agent directly accesses the clinic's insurance portal, pulls reimbursement data, reconciles, updates system records, and verifies bank funds, completely replacing human labor rather than adding a software layer.

ChainCatcher news, Filecoin has launched a user-side retrieval tool called Lassie, allowing users to retrieve data without running an IPFS or Filecoin node. Additionally, application developers can utilize Lassie as a library to directly fetch content from Filecoin and IPFS within their applications.It is reported that due to the diversity of data transfer protocols in the IPFS ecosystem, Lassie currently supports both Graphsync and Bitswap protocols simultaneously, with plans to support more data transfer protocols in the future. (source link)