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Armadin’s latest funding round raised $255.5 million, driving its post‑money valuation above $2.5 billion as investors back its AI‑driven threat‑detection platform.
EliseAI announced a $350 M funding round that doubled its valuation to $4 B, while launching an AI teammate called Apollo to streamline housing and healthcare operations.
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Atomic, a Boston‑based startup, secured a $12.5 million Series A to automate inventory decisions using AI, drawing on its founders’ Tesla experience.
Firecrawl raised $75 million in a Series B led by Smash Capital and announced its new Alexandria data platform, boosting AI agent answer accuracy by 21%.
San Francisco‑based AI tax compliance software provider Numeral announced a $100 million Series C funding round, led by Insight Partners, to expand its AI‑driven tax engine.
Enterprise AI agent startup Ema secured $77 million in a Series B round, accelerating its global rollout of AI‑employee solutions across HR, IT and finance.
Lightspeed is sharpening its India strategy around AI, targeting $250 million for a new early‑stage fund as the venture firm bets the technology will drive the next wave of startups in one of the world’s largest markets.
Amazon introduced an agentic AI service called "workflows" that automates listing, inventory management, and pricing for third‑party sellers, integrating with tools like Amazon Quick and Anthropic’s Claude.
Snorkel AI pivoted from software to data-as-a-service, boosting its annualized revenue run‑rate to $350 million and securing a $3.5 billion valuation.
Ammonix unveiled a new architecture that blends fast decision‑making with a language model, enabling specialist AI agents that learn from a company’s operational data and deliver auditable, low‑cost performance.
Former Google DeepMind researchers founded Emulate, a world‑model AI startup, and are in talks to raise $700 million at a $3.7 bn valuation.
Coding startup Cognition AI raised $2 billion in a Series E at a $48 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel.
Anthropic is weighing a new model launch to counter OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra before its expected IPO, amid growing pressure to balance innovation with safety.
Diogo Almeida’s new transformer, Jev, produces calibrated probabilities instead of text, promising cheaper, faster, and hallucination‑free automation.
Mantic secured $25 million in seed funding after its forecasting system outperformed human competitors in the 2026 Metaculus Cup, positioning it as a leader in judgmental AI.
Arcee AI, founded in 2023, has raised a Series B at a $1 billion valuation after training four open‑weight models for $20 million, positioning it as a key player in the AI model market.
Industrial AI startup Noetive announced a $41 million seed round, touting a self‑learning model that optimises factory and freight operations.
Hang Ten Systems, founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, raised an additional $53 million in a seed round, bringing its total funding to $85 million as it scales its enterprise AI consulting services.
Envive AI secured $15 million in Series A funding to build a reinforcement‑learning layer that lets brands deploy AI agents that learn from real‑world customer interactions and drive business outcomes.