Prof G Markets · Sunday, November 1, 2026
Reflection co-founder and CEO Misha Laskin discussed his company's recent $25 billion pre-money valuation in a June funding round backed by Sequoia, Citigroup, and NVIDIA. Laskin explained how Reflection's open-weight model Beam provides an alternative to closed systems while addressing national security and enterprise needs.
“Backed by firms including Sequoia, Citigroup, and NVIDIA, the company closed its June funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation.”
“When we launched Beam, we launched it with 40 different partners. We integrated into a number of different open source fine tuning frameworks. We released our own open source agentic harness called Mirror.”