Launch · CIO Africa · 42m ☆

Vambo AI releases open-weight MORENA model

Vambo AI released MORENA, an open-weight AI model; weights are published for public use and further development.

Muks Robotics wins ISRO project for humanoid space worker

Pune-based Muks Robotics secured an ISRO project to develop SPACEO Prime, an Indian humanoid robot intended to work in space. Terms and timeline were not disclosed.

Series A · $24M · TTV Capital · The SaaS News · 1h ☆

Sunbound raises $24M Series A for AI senior-living revenue system

Sunbound raised $24M in a Series A led by TTV Capital to grow its AI-powered revenue operating system for senior living operators.

Startup · Sifted · 2h ☆

Sifted profiles Reson8 founder building European AI giant

Profile of Reson8's 30-year-old founder and his ambition to build a large European AI company.

Startup · Slator · 2h ☆

Snorkel boosts commitment to open AI benchmarks

AI data firm Snorkel says it will expand investment in open benchmarks for evaluating AI models.

CodeWall exits stealth with $4M for AI attack agents

CodeWall emerged from stealth with $4M to build autonomous AI attack agents that continuously test enterprise security, simulating attacker behavior to find exploitable flaws.

Pre-seed · nine-figure RMB · Sunway Communication · TechNode · 3h ☆

Robot AI developer Ruoyu raises nine-figure RMB Pre-A

Shenzhen-based robot AI developer Ruoyu Technology completed a nine-figure RMB Pre-A round led by Sunway Communication, with Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital and Zhongchuang Capital participating.

Seed · MYSC · The SaaS News · 3h ☆

MixRoom raises seed funding from MYSC for AI cloud DAW

Music-tech startup MixRoom secured seed funding from MYSC to develop its AI-powered cloud-based digital audio workstation software.

Series A · $10M · Silverton Partners · The SaaS News · 3h ☆

Chariot raises $10M Series A for AI arbitration platform

Chariot raised a $10M Series A led by Silverton Partners to scale its AI-driven legal tech platform handling mass consumer arbitration claims.

Funding · Robotics & Automation News · 4h ☆

Skild AI trains robots to learn physical skills via self-play

Why it matters: Self-play training could let robots learn general physical skills without hand-coded tasks.

Skild AI is training robots to acquire physical skills through self-play, according to Robotics & Automation News, an approach that lets robots practice and improve tasks without direct human demonstration.

Seed · $4M · The SaaS News · 4h ☆

IPX Exchange raises $4M seed for agentic IP exchange

IPX Exchange raised $4M in seed funding at a $125M valuation to build an agentic operating system and tokenized exchange for intellectual property on Base.

Funding · €44.5M · Claret Capital Partners · EU-Startups · 4h · 2 sources ☆

LearnUpon raises €44.5M for agentic learning platform

Dublin-based enterprise learning platform LearnUpon secured a €44.5 million ($50 million) growth financing facility from London-based Claret Capital Partners to scale its agentic learning platform.

TwelveLabs launches Jockey AI video library search tool

Why it matters: Brings multimodal video understanding into everyday AI assistants and developer APIs.

Jockey by TwelveLabs is an AI that understands entire photo and video libraries, letting users search people, moments and context across footage in Claude or ChatGPT, or via API/SDK.

Autonomous launches Harness command center for coding agents

Harness is an open-source command center that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Hermes across machines, with desktop, terminal, iOS and Android apps and end-to-end encryption. Free on Mac and Linux.

Pomerado turns any website into an API or MCP server

Pomerado converts previously inaccessible websites like Google Flights, Zillow and Instacart into native APIs or MCP tools for agents in minutes, hosting, authenticating and maintaining the integrations.

Hintly for Google Meet explains terms in real time

Hintly for Google Meet is a tool that explains terms, names and things people mention on your Google Meet calls a moment after they come up, providing real-time hints during meetings.

Fish Audio releases Drama 3 directable AI voice model

Drama 3 is Fish Audio's voice model for directable AI voice acting, with natural-language control over emotion, pacing, whispers, laughter and pauses across 83 languages. On web, mobile, API, with open weights.

Parallax launches app to run many coding agents at once

Parallax runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and 40+ more in one app with 240+ models on your own subscriptions, plus a Captain agent, one-click PR merges and subscription auto-fallback.

Series B · $29M · Vertex Ventures · The Economic Times · 5h · 5 sources # ☆

RapidCanvas raises $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures

AI agent startup RapidCanvas raised $29M in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures to expand go-to-market teams.

Funding · RuntimeWire · 5h ☆

DoubleAI plans code-optimization product announcement next week

DoubleAI plans to announce a code-optimization product next week, per Shashua. Its earlier WarpSpeed work produced doubleGraph, a free verified replacement for Nvidia's cuGraph; name and terms are undisclosed.

Funding · €10.69M · EU-Startups · 5h ☆

Goodweek raises €10.69M to become AI manager for SMBs

Strasbourg-founded Goodweek raised €10.69 million to build an AI Manager for small and medium businesses, EU-Startups reports, aiming to run everyday admin and operations tasks.

Funding · Wipro · www.marketscreener.com · 5h ☆

Wipro takes 20% stake in agentic AI startup FLARRE.AI

Wipro acquired a 20% stake in FLARRE.AI, an insurance-focused agentic AI startup; Wipro shares rose 5% on the news.

Series A · $32M · Balderton · RuntimeWire · 5h ☆

Duvo raises $32M to automate retail software's leftover work

Duvo, an enterprise AI startup founded out of Rohlik's operating problems by Tomáš Čupr, raised $32M led by Balderton with three existing investors returning.

Series A · $65M · Maverick Silicon · Ventureburn · 7h ☆

Mueon raises $65M Series A for modular AI computing systems

Mueon Corporation raised $65M in Series A funding led by Maverick Silicon to advance its modular AI computing platform.

Launch · BigGo Finance · 7h ☆

Ex-DingTalk president Ye Jun launches enterprise AI agent startup

Former DingTalk president Ye Jun launched an enterprise AI agent startup targeting China's cross-border e-commerce, per BigGo Finance.

Datalab releases Indra OCR document intelligence model

Why it matters: A tiny CPU-only OCR model at 49 pages/s lowers cost for document pipelines.

Indra OCR is a 1M-parameter model that converts PDFs and images into markdown, plain text or JSON with bounding boxes. It runs 49 pages per second on CPU, roughly 230ms per page, and is 11-17x faster than Tesseract and PaddleOCR.

Series C+ · $40M · Avidity Partners · Ventureburn · 8h ☆

Sirona Medical raises $40M Series D for radiology AI platform

Sirona Medical raised $40M in Series D funding led by Avidity Partners to scale its AI-powered radiology software platform.

Launch · GitHub · 8h ☆

Frametell turns ideas into explainer videos via AI director agent

Frametell is a local-first TypeScript project that turns your notes and material into explainer videos using an AI director agent, and works with any model. The repo gained 117 stars in its first week.

Seed · $6.1M · RuntimeWire · 8h ☆

LightSprint raises $6.1M so non-engineers can propose code changes

LightSprint's AI-assisted workflow turns proposed changes into pull requests for engineers to review; it estimates engineers modified code in 20-25% of requests.

Funding · Sarvam AI · 11h · 2 sources ☆

Sarvam AI releases Bulbul V4 Flash text-to-speech

Why it matters: Adds fast, India-focused TTS options to the voice-agent stack.

Bulbul V4 Flash is Sarvam AI's new fast text-to-speech model for Indian languages, bringing voice-agent campaigns and analytics into coding tools.

Funding · RuntimeWire · 12h ☆

ZestyAI says its risk models surpass 500 regulatory approvals

The approvals span 317 carrier filings across 44 states, according to ZestyAI, whose co-founder Kumar Dhuvur bets property-level AI can win regulators' trust.

Funding · RuntimeWire · 12h ☆

Standard Bots lets factory workers program robot arms from an iPad

Why it matters: Conversational programming could lower the barrier for smaller manufacturers to adopt industrial robots.

Standard Bots' October 15 launch pairs conversational programming with vision skills; CEO Evan Beard bets easier setup can bring automation to smaller manufacturers.

Funding · RuntimeWire · 12h ☆

Stellon Labs adds 1.7B speech model and paid APIs to KittenML

KittenML now offers a larger speech model, hosted text-to-speech and transcription APIs and emotion-aware transcription, alongside the founders' existing 25 MB CPU speech model.

Launch · Finextra · 12h ☆

Movere launches AI-native payments platform for businesses

A team of banking and fintech veterans unveiled Movere, an AI-native payments platform aimed at businesses, built around AI-driven payment operations.

Funding · $100M · DigiTimes Asia · 13h · 3 sources # ☆

Bolt Graphics seeks $100M at $700M for Zeus GPU

US chip startup Bolt Graphics is seeking about $100 million at a roughly $700 million valuation to build Zeus GPUs for scientific computing and professional rendering, targeting Nvidia and AMD beyond AI.

Funding · GlobeNewswire · 14h ☆

Coheria says AI teams produced $1.2B in audited output

Boulder startup Coheria says AI teams produced $1.2 billion in audited output over one year, a claim about AI-driven value creation.

Seed · 2080 Ventures · KoreaTechDesk · 14h ☆

2080 Ventures backs Korean robot inspection startup IRVIS

Korean AI robotics startup IRVIS won a Seoul National University competition and secured three LG Electronics factory inspection contracts before 2080 Ventures announced its seed investment.

Launch · SiliconANGLE · 14h ☆

Vinci4D uses physics-driven AI to speed chip design simulation

Vinci4D, a Silicon Valley startup, applies physics-driven AI to orchestrate chip design simulations faster, reducing specialized setup time for hardware engineers.

Launch · RuntimeWire · 15h ☆

Cua launches shared desktops for teams and AI agents

Cua lets teams connect their own machines and supervise AI agents on shared desktops, and pay for collaboration tools. Founded by former Microsoft engineer Francesco Bonacci.

Launch · RuntimeWire · 15h ☆

Overshoot claims inference software halves GPU bills

Why it matters: Cheaper inference is a key bottleneck for scaling agentic and enterprise AI workloads.

Overshoot says its inference software can halve GPU costs without quality loss, using workload-specific tuning and output checks. Zakaria El Hjouji says deployments have saved AI teams over $5 million.

Launch · RuntimeWire · 15h ☆

Photon opens messaging-agent beta with $100 in credits

Photon 2.0 connects AI agents to iMessage, voice, email, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS, and is opening a beta with $100 in credits for builders. Access is by request.

Launch · Telecom Reseller / Technology Reseller News · 15h ☆

Vobiz AI builds telecom infrastructure for voice AI

Vobiz AI offers telecom infrastructure and connectivity for voice AI agents, handling telephony, SIP and call routing so developers can deploy real-time voice applications.

Launch · Fierce Healthcare · 15h ☆

CareCycle launches free Medicare plan comparison voice tool

Voice AI startup careCycle rolled out a free plan comparison tool for Medicare beneficiaries, using voice AI to help them evaluate and choose coverage options.

Funding · Reddit · 16h · 2 sources ☆

PrismML releases Ternary Bonsai 2 local models

Why it matters: Ternary quantization down to 0.43GB shows capable models running fully in-browser.

PrismML published Ternary Bonsai 2 models at 2B, 4B and 9B parameters, with weights as small as 0.43GB; the 2B runs in-browser at up to 500 tok/s on an M4 Max via WebGPU kernels.

Funding · Superwhisper · 17h · 2 sources ☆

Superwhisper 3.0 launches bot-free offline meeting recorder

Superwhisper, a dictation tool with LLM reformatting for macOS, Windows and Linux, reached version 3.0 with a meeting recorder that joins calls without a bot and can run offline.

Series B · $60M · PeakSpan Capital · Pulse 2.0 · 18h · 3 sources ☆

North.cloud raises $60M Series B led by PeakSpan

North.cloud raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital to automate and manage cloud, AI and data spend for enterprises.

Funding · Quasa.io · 19h ☆

AudioShake AI audio separation platform reviewed

AudioShake is an AI audio separation platform that splits songs into stems and isolates dialogue from audio. A review covers its stem creation and dialogue isolation uses.

Launch · SiliconANGLE · 20h ☆

nFOX Lab launches LLM governance platform, plans to open-source Blockhouse

AI governance startup nFOX Lab launched a platform for managing owned large language models and said it will open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox that restricts what AI workloads can access and do.

Funding · $20M · Accel, Zacua Ventures · The Economic Times · 20h · 3 sources # ☆

Origin raises $20M to scale construction robots

Construction robotics startup Origin raised $20 million led by Accel and Zacua Ventures to build autonomous construction robots, targeting 150 deployments by 2027.

Funding · Microsoft · WebWire · 20h ☆

Tucuvi joins Microsoft Pegasus Program for AI care management

WebWire reports Tucuvi joined Microsoft's Pegasus Program to scale its clinically governed AI care management platform across health systems.

Pre-seed · €3M · EU-Startups · 20h · 2 sources ☆

Elevatry raises €3M pre-seed to automate procurement workflows

German startup Elevatry raised €3 million in pre-seed funding to build AI that automates enterprise procurement workflows.

Launch · MarkTechPost · 21h ☆

CopilotKit releases CLiF continual learning platform for agents

Why it matters: Turns production agent traces into training data, easing agent reliability work.

CLiF is a platform that turns AI agent traces and user actions into reusable skills, evaluations and fine-tuning data, helping teams make agents perform consistently on product-specific tasks.

Funding · $21M · SYN Ventures, Race Capital · Pulse 2.0 · 22h · 3 sources ☆

Opsin raises $21M for AI agent security platform

Opsin raised $21 million led by SYN Ventures and Race Capital to expand its AI agent security platform.

Launch · Syllad · 22h ☆

MWire Labs shows Garo speech-to-text AI model at Google event

Syllad reports Shillong-based MWire Labs showcased what it says is the first public Garo speech-to-text AI model at a Google event, aiming to support the low-resource language.

Launch · FinTech Magazine · 22h · 3 sources ☆

Proof launches x401 for AI agent identity and authorization

Why it matters: Gives agents a verifiable identity layer, key for agent-driven transactions.

Proof launched x401, a standard that lets AI agents prove who they represent and what they are authorized to do, aiming to give agent transactions verifiable identity and permissions.

Launch · Stock Titan · 23h ☆

Rice Robotics debuts expressive school robot via Mint

Mint (AXNX) unit Rice Robotics launched a school robot with an expressive face, aimed at classrooms.

Launch · Mediashotz · 23h ☆

C-Centric launches shoppable AI ads that let users buy in-page

C-Centric launched AI-powered advertisements that let consumers purchase products without leaving the page, combining generative creative with in-ad checkout.

Seed · $500K · ET Edge Insights · 23h ☆

Tilion raises $500K from four college friends for AI startup

Tilion, an AI startup founded by four college friends from Jammu, has raised half a million dollars, according to ET Edge Insights.

Launch · The Manila Times · 1d · 3 sources ☆

YYForce launches Yolara AI workforce platform in Singapore

YYForce launched Yolara, an AI workforce intelligence platform, in Singapore, aimed at helping organizations analyze and manage their workforce with AI.

Launch · Finextra · 1d ☆

Cultivate AI launches AI platform for credit unions

Cultivate AI, a collaborative AI platform built specifically for the credit union industry, is now available to all credit unions and CUSOs.

Funding · Bloomberg · 1d ☆

Equal AI seeks $1B valuation to challenge Truecaller in India

Automated call-screening app Equal AI is seeking fresh funding that could value it at $1B, as the startup aims to take on Truecaller in India, its founder said.

Funding · $65M · The Information · 1d ☆

Mueon raises $65M for denser AI data center racks

Why it matters: Denser rack designs could ease power and space limits on AI data center buildouts.

Portland-based Mueon raised $65 million to develop a new arrangement of AI server rack components it says could fit up to ten times more computing capacity into the same power envelope.

Seed · ¥65M · JR East Startup · The Bridge · 1d ☆

ACIMUS raises ¥65M for generative AI BIM modeling

ACIMUS, which lets users create building BIM models by chatting with generative AI, raised about ¥65M in seed funding and formed a capital and business alliance with JR East Startup.

Series A · ¥490M · Mobile Internet Capital, DNX Capital · The Bridge · 1d ☆

AZOO raises ¥490M Series A for AI hotel OS WASIMIL

Kyoto-based AZOO, developer of the integrated hotel OS WASIMIL that automates hotel operations with AI, raised ¥490M in a Series A led by Mobile Internet Capital with DNX Capital, Kyoshin Social Capital and ALL STAR SAAS FUND.

Launch · forkast.news · 1d · 2 sources ☆

DeepLumen gives Shopify merchants AI referral sales tracking

DeepLumen is infrastructure that tracks AI-driven referral orders for Shopify merchants, charging only when AI orders come through. Nearly 2,000 merchants have installed it.

Funding · $125M · Tech Funding News · 1d ☆

Salience Labs raises $125M to link GPUs with light

Why it matters: Optical interconnects are a candidate fix for scaling GPU clusters past copper's limits.

Oxford photonics startup Salience Labs raised $125M to build optical interconnects linking thousands of GPUs, per Tech Funding News.

Pre-seed · $1M · Digital Music News · 1d · 2 sources ☆

GasLab raises $1M pre-seed for GenAI music app paying musicians

DJ Reinier Zonneveld raised over $1 million pre-seed for GasLab (Generative AI Solutions Lab), a generative AI music platform built to recognize and pay musicians for their work.

OpenMuse launches open-source self-hostable personal agent

OpenMuse is an open-source, self-hostable personal agent with its own browser, terminal, files and persistent work. You ask for an outcome, watch it work, review actions and return to the result; it works with any agent harness.

Funding · €576K · SiliconANGLE · 1d · 4 sources # ☆

120ft raises €576K to build humanoid robot microfactories

120ft has raised €576,000 in angel funding to build container-sized microfactories run by humanoid robots for local manufacturing.

Funding · tens of millions of RMB · Shanghai Future Industry Fund, Houxue Capital · TechNode · 1d ☆

SciVisual raises tens of millions of RMB for AI scientific simulation

Chinese scientific simulation and AI-data startup SciVisual completed angel and angel-plus rounds totaling tens of millions of RMB, backed by Shanghai Future Industry Fund, Houxue Capital and Pudong Venture Capital.

Pre-seed · $6.3M · Seedcamp · Tech.eu · 1d ☆

Solvera raises $6.3M pre-seed for AI-native engineering firm

Oslo-based Solvera has raised $6.3 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-native engineering firm for the construction industry. Seedcamp led, with Cons... participating.

Funding · ETtech · 1d · 12 sources # ☆

DexForce trains humanoid robots on virtual data to cut costs

Why it matters: Simulated training could cut a major cost barrier in humanoid robot deployment.

Shenzhen-based DexForce uses simulated training data to teach humanoid robots a wide range of real-world tasks without human assistance, aiming to slash training costs.

Launch · Nikkei Asia · 1d ☆

Japan's Solafune to launch AI satellite

Japanese data analytics startup Solafune plans to launch an AI-equipped satellite, per Nikkei Asia.

Funding · $150M · Nvidia · Bloomberg.com · 1d · 4 sources ☆

Nvidia-backed AI drugmaker Iambic raises $150M in US IPO

Why it matters: Tests public investor appetite for AI-driven drug discovery startups.

Nvidia-backed AI drug discovery company Iambic raised $150 million in its US IPO and climbed 16% on its trading debut.

Funding · TechCrunch Startups · 1d ☆

CedarDB pitches one database for transactions and analytics

CedarDB is a database engine that handles both analytical and operational workloads in one system, an approach gaining relevance as agentic AI workloads raise demands.

Funding · $21M · Volition Capital · Ventureburn · 1d ☆

Tamr raises $21M for agentic AI data platform

Tamr raised $21 million in growth equity led by Volition Capital to expand its AI-powered enterprise data management platform, which uses agentic AI to unify and clean corporate data.

Funding · $42M · Beinsure · 1d ☆

Pluto Security raises $42M to secure enterprise AI apps and agents

Pluto Security raised $42 million to protect enterprise AI applications and agents, addressing a growing security market as companies deploy autonomous software.

Funding · $6M · The Business Journals · 1d ☆

Scottsdale AI startup raises $6M for SMB sales agents

A Scottsdale-based AI startup raised $6 million to scale its AI sales agents aimed at small businesses, according to a Business Journals report.

Seed · $7M · Amplify Partners · Pulse 2.0 · 1d ☆

Swamp Club raises $7M and launches behavior-centric AI agent platform

Swamp Club raised a $7 million seed round led by Amplify Partners and launched a behavior-centric AI agent platform for enterprises.

Series B · $55M · Wowtale · 1d ☆

Chemistry-native AI Albert raises $55M Series B

Albert, described as a chemistry-native AI company, raised $55 million in Series B funding to advance its AI for chemistry work.

Funding · $3.8M · Dealroom · 1d ☆

Minicor raises $3.8M to link AI with legacy business software

Minicor raised $3.8 million to connect AI systems with legacy business software, aiming to bridge modern agents and older enterprise applications.

Series C+ · $750M · Bloomberg · 1d · 4 sources # ☆

Modal raises $750M at $15.75B valuation

Why it matters: Modal's $1B ARR and 3x valuation jump in five months underline how hot AI infrastructure demand remains.

AI cloud startup Modal raised $750M at a $15.75B post-money valuation, citing over 3 billion AI sandboxes and surging inference and reinforcement learning demand.

Funding · TechCrunch Startups · 1d ☆

Mosqitter turns mosquito traps into AI surveillance network

Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network that identifies species, monitors populations and gives earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risk.

Pre-seed · $80M · Dealroom · 1d ☆

Axionic raises $80M pre-seed for AI chip startup

Why it matters: One of the largest pre-seed rounds ever signals continued investor appetite for AI silicon challengers.

Axionic, an AI chip startup founded by a former Qualcomm executive, raised an $80M pre-seed round, per Dealroom.

Funding · Reddit · 1d · 3 sources ☆

Krea 2 Turbo image model demo appears on Hugging Face

A Hugging Face Space demo (Aura1in/Krea-2-Turbo_v2) lets users run the Krea 2 Turbo image model, while community tests probe its block weights and bias across prompts. Krea 3 is rumored to be open source.

Series A · $12M · Dealroom · 1d · 3 sources ☆

Fragment raises $12M Series A for AI finance tools

Fragment raised $12 million in Series A funding to build AI tools that keep companies' AI agents from mishandling money, covering finance workflows and controls.

Funding · $5M · Endiya Partners · 7NEWS · 1d · 7 sources ☆

Shamrock AI raises $5M to help enterprises deploy AI agents

Enterprise AI startup Shamrock AI raised $5M led by Endiya Partners to help enterprises deploy AI agents reliably, and plans to keep up to 80% of its workforce in India.

Pre-seed · $149M · Dealroom · 1d ☆

Moss Intelligence raises $149M Pre-A for multimodal AI

Why it matters: A $149M pre-A signals continued heavy investor appetite for multimodal AI startups.

Moss Intelligence raised $149M in a Pre-A round for real-time multimodal AI, per Dealroom.

Series A · Dealroom · 1d ☆

AI music startup augustlab raises Series A

AI music startup augustlab raised a Series A round and has topped $1.6M in cumulative revenue, per Dealroom.

Launch · TechCrunch · 1d ☆

Floqer launches AI agents that research B2B sales prospects

Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform giving B2B sales and marketing teams an AI-powered database that continuously collects, organizes and updates customer information, replacing manual prospect research.

Launch · Yahoo Finance · 1d · 2 sources ☆

Rival.io drops token charges for open-weight AI building

Rival.io says it eliminates token charges for building with open-weight AI models, per an ACCESS Newswire release.

Funding · Finextra · 1d ☆

Mollie to build banking layer for AI agents

Why it matters: Payments firms building agent-native banking layers shows agentic commerce moving into core infrastructure.

Mollie announced a venture model to build a dedicated intelligence platform and banking layer for AI agents.

Series B · $125M · Tech.eu · 1d ☆

Salience Labs raises $125M for photonic AI data centre chips

Why it matters: Photonic interconnect funding shows optics gaining ground as AI data centre networking scales.

Salience Labs raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B to scale deployment of its photonic chips and optical switching technology for AI data centre connectivity.

Launch · Invezz · 1d · 2 sources ☆

Sparkling launches web app with trading terminal and AI agent

Sparkling launched a browser web app offering a full trading terminal plus an AI agent for traders.

Launch · AWS Machine Learning · 1d ☆

Tamnoon builds AI cloud remediation agent on Amazon Bedrock

Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that investigates and safely fixes cloud security findings from CNAPP and cloud-native sources, cutting critical exposure over 90% in 90 days.

Launch · us.acrofan.com · 1d · 3 sources ☆

NeodraDynamics showcases Neo1 heavy-duty hydraulic humanoid at CIIF

NeodraDynamics and JD Industrial showed Neo1, a 4-meter, 1.2-ton heavy-duty hydraulic robot, at CIIF. Its hydraulic-electric hybrid design targets real-world industrial tasks and can reportedly lift 500 kg.

Launch · The Decoder · 1d ☆

Artemis Security releases Orion-1 cyber defense AI model

Why it matters: Security-specific models could rebalance cyber defense as frontier labs restrict hacking capabilities.

Artemis Security's Orion-1 is a model purpose-built for cyber defense that beats Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the company's benchmark, filling a gap as frontier models lock down cyber capabilities.

Funding · $44M · TechCrunch · 1d · 5 sources # ☆

Zenzap raises $44M for AI workplace chat app

Why it matters: A large seed for AI workplace messaging signals competition with Slack and WhatsApp at work.

Zenzap emerged from stealth with $44 million to bring AI-powered workplace messaging to frontline teams. Customers include Starbucks and Taco Bell.

Launch · markets.businessinsider.com · 1d · 4 sources ☆

Aligned launches Seller Agent AI inside its deal workspace

Aligned introduced Seller Agent, described as the first AI agent built inside a deal workspace, helping sellers manage deal tasks directly within the platform.

Series B · $50M · FourWeekMBA · 1d ☆

Harmonic Security raises $50M, taps Claude compliance API

Harmonic Security raised $50M and is using Claude's compliance API as part of its security offering.

Launch · The Batesville Daily Guard · 1d · 2 sources ☆

PayQuicker adds APIs, AI automation to orchestration platform

PayQuicker upgraded its payment orchestration platform with advanced API capabilities, AI-driven automation and real-time visibility.

Launch · AOL.com · 1d ☆

NeuBird launches Agentic Reliability Center to govern production AI agents

NeuBird's Agentic Reliability Center (ARC) is a platform for monitoring and governing AI agents running in production environments, aiming to keep agent behavior reliable and accountable.

Funding · $100M · Booking Holdings · GeekWire · 1d · 2 sources ☆

Booking Holdings launches Vayo, $100M AI travel startup in Seattle

Why it matters: Major online travel player placing a $100M bet on an AI-native travel startup.

Booking Holdings unveiled Vayo, a Seattle-based AI travel startup led by Mike Fridgen, with a planned $100 million investment from the company.

Series A · $32M · Balderton Capital, Index Ventures · Tech.eu · 1d ☆

Duvo raises $32M Series A for enterprise AI

Duvo, founded by Rohlik's Tomáš Čupr, announced a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital with Index Ventures, Northzone and Credo Ventures participating.

Funding · Forkast News · 1d · 2 sources ☆

Crossmint says agent payments need bridges, not new rails

Crossmint argues AI agent payments should connect to existing payment rails rather than build new ones.

Funding · UK sovereign VC fund · Tech.eu · 1d ☆

UK sovereign VC fund invests in security startup Augur

The UK government's £500m sovereign VC fund is investing in Augur, a British startup using AI to update Britain's surveillance network.

Startup · $6.6M · 3one4 Capital · e27 · 1d · 6 sources ☆

Parallel Loop raises $6.6M for enterprise AI context

Parallel Loop raised $6.6M led by 3one4 Capital to bring context to enterprise AI workflows using forward-deployed engineers; founders previously built insurtech Vouch.

Series A · $12.5M · Z47 · The Economic Times · 1d · 5 sources ☆

Confido Health raises $12.5M led by Z47

Confido Health, founded 2022, builds AI agents that automate healthcare administration: patient calls, scheduling, insurance verification, refills and payment follow-ups. It raised a $12.5M Series A extension led by Z47.

Launch · Hackread · 1d · 4 sources # ☆

FLock.io releases Qwen-based open-source edge decision model

FLock.io launched an open-source decision model built on Qwen, designed for local edge deployment and enhanced data privacy. The company says it outperforms larger LLMs on selected tasks.

Launch · €1.8M · e27 · 1d · 2 sources ☆

Miracly launches with €1.8M to track AI brand mentions

Miracly, from Swedish company The Wild Ventures, launches with €1.8M ($2M) to help marketers see what AI chatbots like ChatGPT say about their brand and automate AI-powered marketing.

Seed · $7.5M · CT Innovations · SiliconANGLE · 2d · 2 sources ☆

Uvi raises $7.5M to cut AI agent context costs eightfold

Agentic AI startup Uvi raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by CT Innovations to help AI agents learn business context and run at eight times lower cost, reducing enterprise token spend.

Pre-seed · $9M · Uncork Capital, Field Ventures · SiliconANGLE · 2d ☆

Evos raises $9M pre-seed for AI workers learning from employees

Evos raised $9 million in pre-seed funding led by Uncork Capital and Field Ventures to build autonomous AI workers that learn from a company's most experienced employees, targeting smaller businesses.

Seed · $9.8M · Primary, a16z speedrun · SiliconANGLE · 2d · 4 sources ☆

Forgepoint raises $9.8M to automate manufacturing quotes

Forgepoint raised $9.8M in seed funding co-led by Primary and a16z speedrun to automate custom price quotes for manufacturing firms with AI.

Pre-seed · $5M · Sifted · 2d · 8 sources ☆

Matters raises $5M pre-seed for AI-native bank

Matters is an AI personal finance platform raising $5M pre-seed. The round also covered Dougs' €50M for agentic AI accounting and Marklo's $5M agentic marketing platform.

Seed · €1M+ · Purple Ventures, Garage Angels · Tech.eu · 2d ☆

FLÆ Robotics raises €1M+ for hotel AI receptionist

Czech company FLÆ Robotics raised over €1 million in seed funding from Purple Ventures and Garage Angels to develop its AI-powered hospitality platform BE-A and put an AI receptionist in 60+ hotels.

Launch · tech-insider.org · 2d ☆

Pi 1.0 coding agent released open-source with 40% token cut

Pi 1.0 is an open-source coding agent that its developers say cuts token use by 40% versus comparable agents.

Funding · Nscale · Nscale · 2d · 2 sources ☆

Nscale and Figure sign partnership for physical AI

Why it matters: A major compute-humanoid tie-up plus reported Nvidia investment signals big bets on physical AI.

Nscale and humanoid robotics startup Figure announced a strategic partnership to power next-generation physical AI; reports say Nvidia may invest $1 billion in Figure AI.

Series B · $25M · TechCrunch · 2d ☆

Scimplify raises $25M for AI-driven specialty chemicals

Scimplify raised $25M to use AI in producing critical materials and challenge China's grip on the sector; its annualized revenue run rate tripled to $200M as it eyes US expansion.

Launch · GitHub · 2d ☆

Outcrawl open-sources Scout browser agent

Scout is Outcrawl's open-source TypeScript browser agent, mirrored from the company's own repository. It gained 165 stars in its first week.

Pre-seed · $80M · Globes · 2d ☆

Axonica Labs raising up to $80M to shake up AI chips

Herzliya-based Axonica Labs, founded by former Qualcomm executive Assaf Touboul, is raising up to $80 million in a pre-seed round to build AI chips.

Seed · $4.9M · Wowtale · 2d ☆

MotifDrive raises $4.9M for end-to-end self-driving software

MotifDrive, an end-to-end self-driving software developer, raised $4.9 million to advance its autonomous driving stack.

Launch · Pandaily · 2d ☆

PHANES AI launches SeePhys Hub wearable robot-training kit

Why it matters: Provides a wearable data-collection kit for robot training from human demonstrations.

PHANES AI's SeePhys Hub pairs a four-camera headband with wrist, waist and leg trackers plus tactile gloves to capture human vision, touch and full-body motion data for training robots.

Beenext and Lotus lead $2M pre-seed for AI startup Miracly

Beenext and Lotus led a $2 million pre-seed round for AI startup Miracly. Details on the product and other investors were not disclosed.

Series A · nearly RMB 2 billion · Yizhuang State Investment · TechNode · 2d ☆

SUNMMIO raises nearly RMB 2B for 3D-stacked inference chips

Beijing-based AI inference-chip startup SUNMMIO completed Pre-A2 and Series A rounds led by Beijing state-backed investors including Yizhuang State Investment, raising nearly RMB 2 billion total in a year.

Funding · RMB 1B to 1.5B · TechNode · 2d ☆

AGIBOT nears funding at RMB 50B valuation

Why it matters: Shows large-scale investment continuing in humanoid and embodied AI robotics in China.

Chinese AI robot maker AGIBOT is nearing a new funding round of RMB 1B to 1.5B, valuing it at about RMB 50 billion. Founded in 2023, it began preparing for a Hong Kong listing in July.

Pancake launches MCP toolkit for go-to-market agents

Pancake is a launchpad for go-to-market agents, giving building blocks to deploy GTM ideas from Claude or Codex: a GTM Brain, sending infrastructure, and 40+ data providers and enrichment through one MCP connection.

Inferock launches serverless LLM inference with credits on failures

Inferock offers serverless pay-per-token LLM inference. Users bring their own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini keys, see which calls fail and their cost, and get credits back on eligible failed calls; free signup credits are available.

Retriever AI launches free browser agent for leads and jobs

Retriever is a free AI browser agent that completes work across websites, such as finding leads and sending outreach, shortlisting creators or applying to jobs. It runs in your Chrome or in cloud browsers hosted by rtrvr.

Tiden launches intent verification for coding agents

Tiden verifies that coding agents built what was asked. It keeps intent as requirements that branch and merge like code, checks each change against that record, and runs verdicts as tests in your environment with no model grading the diff.

Reason launches cost-efficient coding agent

Why it matters: A cheaper coding agent claiming parity with Codex intensifies price competition.

Reason is a coding agent usable in the cloud or locally, on Mac, terminal, web or Slack, with a choice of models and connected subscriptions. It claims 65.1 on the Coding Agent Index versus Codex's 62.5 at 22% lower cost per task.

AirJelly launches proactive desktop AI agent

AirJelly is an always-on desktop AI agent that observes on-screen activity, captures intent, organizes tasks and acts ahead of them. It also tracks personal interactions so follow-ups and promises are not missed.

Launch · Pocket Gamer.biz · 2d ☆

Playgama launches tools for AI agents to publish games

Playgama released tools that let AI agents publish and improve games on its platform, aiming to let autonomous agents handle distribution and optimization tasks.

Launch · - Disrupt Africa · 2d ☆

South Africa's KhayaHR builds AI-first workforce platform

KhayaHR is an AI-first workforce platform targeting frontline employers in South Africa's economy, covering hiring and staff management.

Launch · Caixin Global · 2d ☆

Chinese startup StepFun launches smartphone to challenge giants

Why it matters: An AI model developer moving into its own hardware signals a new competitive route.

Chinese AI startup StepFun launched its own smartphone, aiming to compete with major handset makers by putting its AI models on dedicated hardware.

Funding · $10.5M · Inc42 · 2d ☆

Spill Games raises $10.5M for AI-led mobile gaming

Indian studio Spill Games raised $10.5 million to scale an AI-led mobile gaming studio.

Seed · €1M+ · Dealroom · 2d · 3 sources ☆

AZOO, Ambio and FLÆ Robotics raise AI startup rounds

Helsinki-based AZOO raised $3.09M Series A to automate lodging with AI, Ambio raised €5.1M seed for AI plastics procurement matchmaking, and FLÆ Robotics raised €1M+ for hotel AI receptionists.

Seed · $2.5M · Accion Ventures, Cedar Hill Capital · Inc42 · 2d · 8 sources ☆

RevRag.AI raises $2.5M for lender AI agents

RevRag.AI raised a $2.5 million seed led by Accion Ventures and Cedar Hill Capital to build AI relationship managers for lenders and insurers, planning its own models.

Launch · Show HN · 2d ☆

Blumify launches tracker for AI leaders' changing views

Blumify is a tool that tracks what AI leaders say over time and shows how their views change, letting users follow shifts in public statements from key figures.

Funding · VnExpress International · 2d ☆

Valon Technologies built $2.3B AI mortgage startup

VnExpress profiles Andrew Wang, Linda Du and Jon Hsu, Harvard and Carnegie Mellon alumni who built Valon Technologies, an AI startup automating the roughly $13 trillion US mortgage market.

Launch · Laurel Leader-Call · 2d · 5 sources ☆

GreenCore launches gtinfetch.ai GTIN resolver for AI agents

GreenCore Solutions released gtinfetch.ai, a GTIN resolver that lets AI agents look up and verify product barcode identifiers for commerce and catalog tasks.

Funding · $90M · Modern Healthcare · 2d · 2 sources ☆

Suki raises $90M to expand AI medical scribe

Why it matters: Funding for AI clinical documentation shows healthcare's growing adoption push.

Suki raised $90 million to take its AI medical scribe beyond note-taking into broader clinical documentation and workflows.

Startup · 404 Media · 2d ☆

Character.ai bankruptcy filings detail AI economics

Why it matters: Bankruptcy filings expose how hard consumer AI economics remain even at scale.

Character.ai's bankruptcy documents show the companion-chatbot company was burning large amounts of cash even after degrading its product, according to 404 Media, underscoring the weak economics of AI consumer apps.

Launch · Launch HN · 2d ☆

Consus launches LLM gateway for sensitive government data

Consus routes AI requests to ITAR-restricted and CUI-compliant infrastructure; the company says it satisfies ITAR and completed a FedRAMP High equivalency audit.

Launch · Reddit · 2d ☆

Developer launches Anima Claude Code skill for biology figures

Anima is an open-source Claude Code skill that turns a biology idea into an interactive scientific figure instead of text or static diagrams. Code is available for developers to install and run.

TypeSafeAI raises $870M to scale Jev automation platform

Why it matters: A large raise for AI automation signals continued investor appetite for enterprise agents.

TypeSafeAI raised $870 million to scale Jev, its AI automation platform.

Launch · FinancialContent · 3d · 4 sources # ☆

Railtown AI launches Conductr agent runtime

Conductr is an agent runtime that unifies deployment, data and observability for AI agents in one platform, aimed at teams running agents in production. Railtown AI announced its launch.

Funding · Tearsheet · 3d ☆

Salient focuses AI on auto lending vertical

Salient built an AI platform focused solely on auto lending rather than a general-purpose product, going deep in one vertical.

Launch · Yahoo Finance · 3d ☆

DualEntry launches Tasks to put AI agents in finance work

DualEntry launched Tasks, a product that brings AI agents into everyday finance tasks such as reconciliation and data work, according to the announcement.

Seed · $3M · e27 · 3d · 3 sources ☆

Drylab raises $3M for autonomous AI scientists in pharma labs

Vietnamese-founded Drylab raised $3 million to develop self-improving AI scientists that run experiments inside pharmaceutical labs, aiming to help biology handle the data it now generates.

Funding · $1.5M · POSCO DX · Wowtale · 3d ☆

Enterprise AI startup Enhance raises $1.5M from POSCO DX

Enterprise AI startup Enhance secured a USD 1.5 million investment from POSCO DX to develop its AI offerings for industrial and enterprise customers.