Handshake
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Total raised
$8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Mar 2014 · 12 yr ago
Team
11-50
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Long since its last round
150 months since the last round · not hiring
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15/100
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Mar 31, 2014
Raised a round Venture round $8M · Venturebeat
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2014 | $8M | — | Venturebeat |
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A Company Will Pay $6 a Page for Your Work Documents. In Most Cases, They Aren't Yours to Sell
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Handshake AI wants to pay you up to $30K for work documents that you own
Handshake AI is paying $6 per page for written work documents of "high quality" - if you own them. A data privacy lawyer told BI he had concerns.
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Running Handshake and Stateless MCP in the Same Gateway
On July 28th, the MCP maintainers shipped the 2026-07-28 revision. No more initialize. No more initialized. No more Mcp-Session-Id. David Soria Parra called it
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How CometBFT's SecretConnection handshake spends CPU before authenticating the peer
CometBFT completes the full SecretConnection STS handshake - an X25519 Diffie-Hellman exchange and an Ed25519 signature verification - for any connecting peer before checking whether that peer's node-ID is allowlisted, so an unauthenticated remote source
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We Ran a Live Handshake Against 995 MCP Servers. Only 39 Are Verified.
We ran a live MCP handshake against every server in our index. 277 of 995 answered; 39 cleared the bar we call MCPExplorer Verified. The full funnel, the tool-risk breakdown, and the method.
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Student Writes 'Not Interested in Working for a Jew' on Handshake, Cornell Reports Bias Incident
The University reported Austin Franco '28 to the Office of Civil Rights for a bias incident in which he responded to a job offer with "Not interested in working for a jew. Thanks." on Handshake, according to a June 8 X post.
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The 1000 mile handshake
What twelfth-century merchants on the Malabar Coast knew about counterparty risk, and what we have spent a thousand years trying to forget.
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Financials
Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2014 | $8M | Details |