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TechCrunch, 2025-09-17; retrieved 2026-09-14 tier 4 press (primary)confirmed

Irregular raises $80M to secure frontier AI models

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/irregular-raises-80-million-to-secure-frontier-ai-models

Formerly Pattern Labs; Sequoia and Redpoint lead; $450M valuation; cited in o3, o4-mini, Claude 3.7 evaluations. Cited from a search snippet; not re-fetched in full. [verify 2026-09-15] fetched; page reachable, citation matches; 1 quoted span(s) found verbatim

Signals citing this source

  • Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs), F (against): $80M raised in 2025 at a $450M valuation, led by Sequoia and Redpoint; Sequoia is also a major OpenAI investor.“a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures”
  • Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs), G (against): Venture-backed for-profit; no published COI or recusal policy found.“a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures”
  • Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs), R (for): Findings appear in system cards for o3, o4-mini, GPT-5 and Claude models.

Ledger rows citing this URL

  • T20 Series round with Redpoint and angels; $450M valuation confirmed
  • R26 investor at Irregular (formerly Pattern Labs) confirmed