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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.
YC‑backed Robocurve announced a $10 million seed round to build an independent testing operation for AI models controlling physical robots, expanding its open‑source evaluation tools.
Mecka AI, a startup that collects human motion data for robot training, is close to a $500 million valuation after a Sequoia-led funding round.
Runway Financial Inc. pivots to cfo.ai, unveiling Ari, an AI agent that acts as a virtual chief financial officer for startups and independent business owners.
NavigateAI, backed by $25 million in seed funding, offers AI copilots that guide construction crews on site via smartphones and Meta‑powered glasses.
Meta has bought Stilla.ai to accelerate its Business Agent for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, boosting AI-powered commerce.
AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding to build an inline firewall that protects AI agents from malicious content, compromised tools, and untrusted data sources.
Former Opendoor CEO Eric Wu launches NavigateAI, an AI‑powered copilot for construction workers, targeting the growing labor shortage in the industry.
Indian startup Ultrahuman raises $70 million to develop a ring that can run software, expanding beyond health tracking into AI interactions.
Atira develops an AI sales engineering platform that helps industrial companies process complex RFQs, configure solutions and generate bid documentation and proposals.
The food‑industry software startup secured €4 million in pre‑seed funding to develop its AI‑powered quality and compliance platform, automating quality management across the food supply chain.
UK‑based B2B software startup Souk raised $1.6 million in pre‑seed funding to develop an AI‑powered partner‑management platform that automates partnership workflows.
Toronto‑based Veeda AI has secured $90 million in seed funding to develop scalable simulation environments that let embodied AI agents learn without real‑world trials.
Grindr is pivoting toward a full‑service platform that includes dating, healthcare, and travel, powered by AI to enhance user experience.
Inherent’s new AI agent Faraday beat larger systems from Anthropic and OpenAI at reproducing scientific findings, despite its smaller size.
Deep Cogito Inc. secured $43 million in a Series A round to expand its enterprise business and release new open‑source self‑improving AI models.
Z.ai released the code for GLM-5.3-Flash, a large language model that’s 10 times more cost‑efficient than its predecessor, after the model debuted under the codename Ox Alpha.
Indian AI startup Runable raises $21 million to expand its agent platform beyond building sites, aiming to help small businesses acquire customers and scale.
Chinese EV maker Xpeng’s robot subsidiary Dogotix secured $900 million in a first‑round equity deal, valuing the unit at $6.3 billion and marking the largest private investment in China’s physical‑AI sector.
Airbound, an Indian drone startup, raised $37 million to scale its vertical‑flight drones for fast, low‑cost cargo delivery, targeting a 10,000‑flight‑per‑day network.