Artificial Intelligence

Push Security: $30 Million Series B Raised For Detecting Modern Identity Attacks In The Browser

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:23 AM

Push Security, a company that detects and responds to modern identity attacks in the browser, announced a $30 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint Ventures, with Datadog Ventures and B3 Capital participation. This funding will advance Push’s growth, fueling innovation and global expansion. This funding round also included existing investors, including Decibel and GV (Google Ventures), showing confidence in Push Security’s goal to stop identity attacks like credential phishing and account takeover (ATO) using stolen credentials and tokens, which is a problem that has hit the industry hard, especially in the last year.

Pillar Security: $9 Million (Seed) Closed To Address Evolving Threat Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Pillar Security, an AI-based security startup that helps enterprises build and run secure AI software, announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding. Shield Capital led the round, which was joined by Golden Ventures, Ground Up Ventures, and other strategic angel investors. The funds will support expanding Pillar’s R&D and go-to-market efforts.

1Fort: $7.5 Million Raised For Automating Business Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

1Fort, an AI platform for business insurance, announced it has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by Bonfire Ventures. This round also included Draper Associates (Tim Draper), Karim Atiyeh (the founder of Ramp) and participation from all existing VCs: Village Global, Operator Partners, 8-Bit Capital, Character VC, and Company Ventures. This round brings 1Fort's total funding to $10 million.

Nyobolt: $30 Million Raised To Advance Decarbonization And Reduce Downtime

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Nyobolt, a pioneer of ultrafast charging technologies, announced it has raised $30 million in funding, led by IQ Capital and Latitude (the sister fund of LocalGlobe), with strategic partners including Scania Invest and Takasago Industry.

Arcana Labs: $5.5 Million Raised For AI-Based Content Production Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Arcana Labs, an AI-based content production platform and studio, announced it has raised $5.5 million in funding and launched its transformative all-in-one AI production studio, Arcana AI. The funding round was led by SEMCAP AI and its co-founders and co-CIOs, Walter “Buck” Buckley and Cyrus Vandrevala.

Terra Security: $8 Million (Seed) Secured For Agentic AI Pen Testing Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Terra Security, an Agentic AI-native penetration testing service-as-software platform, announced it has raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors, including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback and Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security.

Bauplan: $7.5 Million (Seed) Secured For AI And Data Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Bauplan, a Python-first serverless data platform that transforms complex infrastructure processes into a few lines of code over data lakes, announced its launch with $7.5 million seed funding. Innovation Endeavors led this funding round, which included experienced operators Wes McKinney, Aditya Agarwal, and Chris Re.

Charli AI To Buy Investment Firm Sums Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Charli AI, a leader in AI-based market intelligence, announced that the company agreed to acquire Sums Capital, an early-stage investment platform specializing in streamlining investor transparency, reporting, and portfolio management for private companies. This strategic deal enhances Charli AI’s ability to deliver advanced, AI-powered financial insights, streamlining capital flow and decision-making across private and public markets.

DRUID AI: Interview With VP Of North America Bill Schwaab About The Enterprise AI Agent Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

DRUID AI is a company that provides the best end-to-end platform for Enterprise AI Agents, knowledgebases, and intelligent apps that automate business processes and drive ROI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DRUID AI VP of North America Bill Schwaab to learn more about the company.

Liminal: $8.5 Million (Series A) Raised For Real-Time Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Liminal, a real-time intelligence platform for complex markets and regulated industries, announced that it has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding. This funding round was led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with continued participation from early backers and strategic customers who have supported the company's vision from the outset.

Leidos: $10 Million Partnership With The University Of Pittsburgh For AI-Based Disease Detection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 20, 2025

Leidos announced it is committing $10 million to advance artificial intelligence for detecting and managing diseases, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE).

hellocare.ai: $47 Million Raised For AI-Based Virtual Care Delivery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 19, 2025

hellocare.ai, a leading AI-assisted virtual care delivery platform transforming hospital care models and operations, announced it has raised $47 million in an oversubscribed funding growth round. This funding round was led by HealthQuest Capital, with participation from a strategic coalition of health systems and digital health investors, including Bon Secours Mercy Health, UCHealth, OSF Ventures, and LRVHealth.

Corvic AI: $12 Million (Seed) Secured For AI Cognitive Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 19, 2025

Corvic AI, a company transforming secure and scalable GenAI adoption for enterprises, announced it has raised $12 million in seed funding led by M Ventures and Bosch Ventures, with participation from Foothill Ventures, Lam Capital, LDV Partners, K2 Access Fund and Brian Long (Atlantic Bridge).

HubSpot To Buy AI-Based Workplace Search Assistant Company Dashworks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 19, 2025

HubSpot announced it agreed to buy Dashworks, an AI-based workplace search assistant. This deal will combine Dashworks' deep search and reasoning expertise with a vision of giving every go-to-market team member an AI assistant.

IUNU: $20 Million Raised For AI-Driven Greenhouse Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 19, 2025

IUNU (pronounced "you-knew"), an innovator in AI and machine vision technologies transforming agriculture, announced the closing of its $20 million funding round led by S2G Investments, with participation from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) and Lewis and Clark Partners.

Tredence: Interview With CSO Soumendra Mohanty About The Data Solutions Provider

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2025

Tredence is a global data science solutions provider focused on solving the last mile problem in AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tredence Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Innovation Officer Soumendra Mohanty to learn more about the company.

Octolane: $2.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Self-Driving AI CRM Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2025

Octolane, a company that provides the first AI-driven CRM that automates sales actions and CRM updates, announced an oversubscribed $2.6 million seed round. Launched by two young immigrants, Octolane challenges legacy CRM providers with a new AI-based platform that automates sales actions and CRM updates.

Goodfire: $50 Million (Series A) Closed For Advancing AI Interpretability Research Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 18, 2025

Goodfire, a leading AI interpretability research company, announced a $50 million Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, B Capital, Work-Bench, Wing, South Park Commons, and other investors.

Exaforce: $75 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Security With Agentic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 17, 2025

Exaforce announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series A funding led by marquee investors Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, and Thomvest to develop an Agentic SOC Platform that provides AI agents (called Exabots) and advanced data exploration that gives customers a tenfold reduction in human-led SOC work, while dramatically improving security outcomes.

Elm AI: Cornell University Spinout Raises $2 Million For Supply Chain Sustainability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 16, 2025

Elm AI, a Cornell University spinout and an AI-based platform helping enterprises improve sustainability and operational performance across their supply chains, announced it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed funding round. The funding round was led by Beta Boom Fund and Working Capital Fund, with participation from Boro Capital Partners, Very Serious Ventures, Gorges Ventures, The Bond Collective, and Textbook Ventures.

Lex Machina: Interview With General Manager And Head of Product Carla Rydholm About The Legal Analytics Provider

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

Lex Machina is a company that provides lawyers with insights on which to base opinions – an essential element of good lawyering. Through Lex Machina, lawyers can now predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce and craft successful strategies to win cases and close business. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lex Machina General Manager and Head of Product Carla Rydholm to learn more about the company.

ConductorAI: $15 Million (Series A) Raised To Improve Government Efficiency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

ConductorAI, a dual-use software company specializing in AI-enabled approvals, announced $15 million in Series A funding led by Lux Capital. Other participants included Altman Capital, Haystack Ventures, Sunflower Capital, Humba Ventures, Also Capital, Forward Deployed VC, and Abstract.

Honeycomb Buying Query System And AI Agent Company Grit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

Observability creators Honeycomb announced the acquisition of Grit, an open-source query system and AI agent, to help customers instrument complex software systems for end-to-end observability. And the company also announced the appointment of two executives to its leadership team, with Julie Neumann joining as Chief Marketing Officer and Matt Nelson as Chief Revenue Officer.

Artisan: $25 Million (Series A) Raised For Outbound Sales Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 14, 2025

Artisan announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Glade Brook Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Oliver Jung, Day One Ventures, BOND, Soma Capital, Sequoia Scout, and others. Y Combinator also continued its support.

Tessell: $60 Million (Series B) Closed For AI-Based Multi-Cloud Data Ecosystems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 13, 2025

Tessell, a next-generation multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables enterprises and startups to accelerate database, data, and application modernization journeys at scale, announced a $60 million Series B funding round, bringing total funding to $94 million. The funding round was led by WestBridge Capital, with continued strong participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and new investments from B37.vc and Rocketship.vc.

Rondah AI: $1.8 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Helping Dental With Appointment Bookings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 11, 2025

Rondah AI, an AI platform purpose-built for dental service organizations (DSOs), announced a $1.8 million pre-seed funding round co-led by 2048 Ventures and Twelve Below.

incident.io: $62 Million (Series B) Raised To Help Engineering Teams Fix Issues Faster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

incident.io, an end-to-end incident management platform used by engineering teams at companies like Netflix, Linear, Ramp, and Etsy, announced it has raised $62 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by Insight Partners and with continued support from Index Ventures and Point Nine Capital. And this round brings the total funding to over $96 million.

illumicell AI: $2 Million (Pre-Seed) Closed For Male Fertility Diagnostics Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

illumicell AI, which was founded by Harvard-trained physician Michel Bielecki, former McKinsey consultant Jeyla Sadikova, and rocket engineer Loup Cordey, announced it has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of the first portable lab scanner and real-time AI platform for fluid-based diagnostics, capable of analyzing cells and biomarkers within minutes. Investors include several top-tier healthcare operators, clinicians, and early-stage funds such as KOFA Healthcare, Harvard Phoenix Venture Fund, and MedTechSyndicates.

Thoughtful Automation: Growth Investment Raised From New Mountain Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

Thoughtful Automation, a leading AI-based revenue cycle automation company, announced a strategic investment from New Mountain Capital, an investment firm with over $55 billion in assets under management. This funding will support Thoughtful.ai’s next growth phase and further advance automation and AI adoption to address the complex challenges facing healthcare providers.

Humach Buying AI-Based Financial Communications Platform Markets EQ

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 10, 2025

AI customer experience company Humach (Humans + Machines) announced the acquisition of Albany, N.Y.-based Markets EQ, known for bringing AI-powered voice analytics to Wall Street. And Markets EQ transforms high-impact financial communications and provides unique data access across earnings calls.