{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-08T23:45:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-nous-research-1-5b-hermes-for-businesses/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-nous-research-1-5b-hermes-for-businesses/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"Adam Bicz","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-10-07-nous-research-1-5b-hermes-for-businesses","date":"2026-10-07","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Nous Research raises $90M at a $1.5B valuation and launches 'Hermes for Businesses'","deck":"Open-source Hermes Agent passes 22M downloads","takeaway":null,"category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"TechCrunch: Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/nous-research-confirms-it-hit-1-5b-valuation-launches-ai-agents-for-business-users/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"},{"n":2,"title":"WSJ: Nous Research scores $90 million to bring open-source AI assistant to enterprises","url":"https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/nous-research-scores-90-million-to-bring-open-source-ai-assistant-to-enterprises-516f9208","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"wsj.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-10-08","updated":"2026-10-08","orgs":["Nous Research"],"title":"Nous Research raises $90M at a $1.5B valuation and launches 'Hermes for Businesses'; open-source Hermes Agent passes 22M downloads","summary":"On Oct 7, 2026 Nous Research, maker of the open-source Hermes models and the Hermes Agent, confirmed a $90M Series B led by Robot Ventures at a $1.5B post-money valuation (the WSJ first reported $1.2B) and launched Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies deploy custom agents on private data. Hermes Agent has had more than 22M downloads since February.","key_facts":["Round: $90M Series B led by Robot Ventures; Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung and 1789 Capital (where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner) participated; total raised $158M (TechCrunch)","Valuation: $1.5B post-money per TechCrunch; the WSJ's first report gave $1.2B (Techmeme summary)","Hermes Agent: 22M+ downloads since February (WSJ); 24M+ clones and ~2.5% of global AI token usage (TechCrunch)","Annualized revenue ~$36M in mid-September 2026, projected above $100M by year-end (TechCrunch)","New product: Hermes for Businesses, custom agents for multi-step workflows with private data handling"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["open-source","agents","funding","hermes"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nThe WSJ (paywalled) reported the round first; TechCrunch confirmed it and the higher valuation the same day.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nHermes Agent is one of the most-used open-source agent harnesses, and Nous is one of the few US labs focused on open models to reach a\nbillion-dollar valuation.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[{"id":"donald-trump","name":"Donald Trump","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/donald-trump/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-08","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-08","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-10-08","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-08"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":160,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":99,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-3-8-flash","name":"Gemini 3.8 Flash","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":190,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":129,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}