Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic)

Veeda, founded by ex-Nvidia AI research VP Sanja Fidler, secured a seed round exceeding $90 million from investors including Khosla Ventures and Radical. Stripe is acquiring New York-based OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion paid to the founders and $6 billion to investors, integrating OpenRouter’s AI model routing into Stripe’s payments ecosystem.