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Founder sold AI startup pre-revenue to Thomson Reuters
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A founder sold Safe Sign Technologies to Thomson Reuters before generating revenue, the first pre-revenue acquisition in the company's 170-year history. Investors overlooked the science behind the legal reasoning model, which was trained cheaply with novel algorithms. Foundational AI startups raised $178 billion in Q1 2026, with 97% going to OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI.
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