Artificial Intelligence

MoEngage: $100 Million Closed Fo Expanding AI Customer Engagement Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 6, 2025

MoEngage announced it has raised $100 million in new funding from existing investor Goldman Sachs Alternatives and new investor A91 Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $250 million. The company, which provides an insights-led customer engagement platform for consumer brands, has seen its North America business grow substantially over the past year, now contributing the largest share of revenue.

Portal26: $9 Million Series A Raised To Accelerate Enterprise GenAI Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 6, 2025

Portal26, the GenAI Adoption Management Platform for enterprises, has secured a $9 million Series A funding round led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from Fusion Fund and the venture arm of a Fortune 500 financial services firm. The company previously raised $6 million in seed funding in 2022. The new capital will support continued product development and expansion as global enterprises work to deploy Generative AI programs at scale.

Scavenger AI: €2.5 Million Seed Round Raised To Democratize Business Data Access For European SMEs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Scavenger AI, a Frankfurt-based startup focused on democratizing access to business data, has raised €2.5 million in seed funding. The round highlights increasing investor confidence in AI-driven analytics platforms tailored to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe.

Lettuce: $28 Million Raised And Besolo Acquired To Expand Platform For Solo Workers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Lettuce, an AI-powered financial platform for independent professionals, has secured $28 million in new funding led by existing investor Zeev Ventures and announced the acquisition of benefits access startup Besolo. The dual move reflects the company’s push to become a comprehensive operating system for the rapidly growing solo workforce.

AuditBoard: Paaras Parker Named As Chief Human Resources Officer To Lead Global People Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

AuditBoard, an AI-based platform for connected risk management, has appointed Paaras Parker as its new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). The Los Angeles-based company said the appointment reflects its continued focus on building an organization as it scales its global workforce and strengthens its leadership team amid rapid growth.

Hippocratic AI: $126 Million Series C At $3.5 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Safe Generative AI Across Global Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Hippocratic AI, a leader in clinically safe generative AI for healthcare, has raised $126 million in Series C funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $404 million. The round was led by Avenir Growth, joined by new and existing investors including CapitalG (Google’s growth fund), General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, Universal Health Services (UHS), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, and Rick Klausner.

Incredibuild Buying AI Startup Kypso To Advance Code Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Incredibuild, a global leader in build acceleration and intelligence, has announced the acquisition of Kypso, an AI startup developing context-aware AI agents for engineering teams. The acquisition represents a major milestone in Incredibuild’s evolution into an AI-native developer platform aimed at optimizing the entire software development pipeline.

Sitero Buys StudyOS And Launches SiteroAI, Establishing A Fully AI-Powered CRO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Sitero, a technology-enabled Clinical Research Organization (CRO), announced the acquisition of the AI assets and business of studyOS, the developer of Ash—the AI Clinical Trial Agent—marking a major milestone in its mission to advance AI-driven clinical development.

AUI: $20 Million At $750 Million Valuation Raised Following Breakthrough In Neuro-Symbolic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Augmented Intelligence (AUI), the company behind Apollo-1, the world’s first neuro-symbolic foundation model for task-oriented conversational AI, announced it has raised $20 million at a $750 million valuation cap. The bridge SAFE round, which closed in just one week, brings AUI’s total funding to nearly $60 million.

FINNY Collaborating With Integrated Partners And Adds Executives To Advisory Board

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

FINNY AI, an AI-based prospecting and marketing platform for financial advisors, announced a strategic partnership with Integrated Partners, a national financial planning and registered investment advisory firm overseeing more than $22 billion in assets under advisement.

Microsoft Committing $15.2 Billion To Deepen AI And Cloud Investment In The UAE

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Microsoft has announced plans to invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates by 2029 as part of its multi-year effort to expand AI and cloud infrastructure, develop local talent, and strengthen trust in responsible AI governance. The initiative, which began in 2023, builds on a strategic partnership with G42, the UAE’s sovereign AI company, and enjoys the support of both the U.S. and UAE governments.

Teleskope: $25 Million Raised To Advance Agentic Data Security Platform For The AI Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

New York-based Teleskope has raised $25 million in Series A funding to accelerate the adoption of its agentic data security platform designed to bring human-level intelligence to enterprise data protection. The round was led by M13 with continued participation from Primary Venture Partners and Lerer Hippeau, bringing the company’s total funding to $32.2 million. The funding will support product innovation, market expansion, and hiring across data science, engineering, and go-to-market teams.

Zest AI: Strategic Investment Raised From Major Credit Unions and Citi in Oversubscribed Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Zest AI, a leader in AI-powered lending technology, announced it has closed an oversubscribed, customer-led financing round backed by key financial institutions, including SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, Members 1st Federal Credit Union, ORNL Federal Credit Union, Truliant Federal Credit Union, and Citi Ventures.

IREN Secures $9.7 Billion AI Cloud Contract With Microsoft

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

IREN Limited announced that it has signed a landmark, multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft, valued at approximately $9.7 billion. The agreement represents one of the most significant AI infrastructure partnerships of the year, underscoring the growing demand for large-scale, high-performance GPU cloud capacity.

Automation Anywhere Buying Aisera To Advance The Autonomous Enterprise Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Automation Anywhere, a global leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA) and enterprise AI, has announced the acquisition of Aisera, a top provider of agentic AI solutions for autonomous IT. The deal unites two pioneers in automation and conversational AI to create the industry’s most complete agentic automation platform, designed to deliver fully autonomous operations across departments such as IT, HR, and customer service.

Beacon Software: $250 Million Series B Raised For Transforming Real-World Industries With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Beacon Software, an AI-driven holding company focused on building the permanent home for essential vertical software and services, has raised $250 million in Series B funding. The round was led by General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and D1 Capital, bringing Beacon’s total capital raised to $335 million since its founding last year.

Alternative Payments Buys Delmar Insights To Launch First AI-Based Payments And Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Alternative Payments, a leading financial operating system for B2B services companies, has announced its acquisition of Delmar Insights, a data and analytics platform specializing in advanced benchmarking and operational intelligence. The integration will create the first end-to-end platform that combines financial automation workflows with industry-specific intelligence, delivering real-time, AI-powered decision-making for services-based businesses.

Sunflower Labs: $16 Million Series B Raised To Advance Autonomous Security Drones

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Sunflower Labs, a pioneer in autonomous aerial security technology, announced three major milestones that strengthen its position as a leader in automated security: nationwide FAA approval for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations, the launch of a new property configuration tool, and the close of a $16 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital.

Firstsource Investing In Lyzr.ai To Advance UnBPO Vision And Enterprise AI Agent Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Firstsource Solutions Limited, a global provider of business process management services and part of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, has announced a strategic investment in Lyzr.ai, a leading enterprise AI agent infrastructure platform. The collaboration is set to advance Firstsource’s UnBPO vision, which redefines outsourcing by combining human expertise with enterprise-grade, responsible AI.

Bugcrowd Buys Mayhem Security To Advance AI-Based Human-In-The-Loop Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

Bugcrowd has announced the acquisition of Mayhem Security, an AI offensive security pioneer founded by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Dr. David Brumley and Dr. Thanassis Avgerinos. The acquisition accelerates Bugcrowd’s mission to integrate human ingenuity with AI-driven automation, creating an adaptive security platform that continuously identifies and mitigates vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

C.Scale: $2 Million Closed For Building AI Platform For Low-Carbon Construction Materials

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

C.Scale, a San Francisco-based technology startup, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to modernize the fragmented $1 trillion building materials market and accelerate the shift toward low-carbon construction. The round was co-led by Active Impact Investments and Wireframe Ventures, both early-stage investors committed to supporting sustainable and profitable innovation.

RapidFire AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CTO Arun Kumar About Making LLM Customization Faster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 4, 2025

RapidFire AI is a company that accelerates deep learning development by enabling data scientists to run many model and hyper-parameter experiments in parallel, monitor them in real time, and dynamically prune or clone promising runs all while abstracting away the cluster-infrastructure complexity. Pulse 2.0 interviewed RapidFire AI co-founder and CTO Arun Kumar to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

OpenAI And AWS Sign $38 Billion Multi-Year Partnership To Power Next-Generation AI Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 3, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a landmark multi-year strategic partnership valued at $38 billion, aimed at accelerating OpenAI’s ability to run and scale its artificial intelligence workloads on AWS’s infrastructure starting immediately. The collaboration marks one of the most significant cloud infrastructure commitments in the AI sector to date, with plans for continued expansion over the next seven years.

Andersen And University Of San Francisco Partner To Launch Generative AI Tax Research Training Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 3, 2025

Andersen has partnered with the University of San Francisco School of Law (USF Law) to launch a first-of-its-kind Generative AI Tax Research Training Program, designed to redefine how tax professionals responsibly leverage artificial intelligence in their practice.

Lanai Software: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Lexi Reese About The Enterprise AI & Security Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 3, 2025

Lanai Software is an AI observability platform that helps enterprises detect hidden AI use and recommend which AI tools will benefit them in cost savings. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lanai Software co-founder and CEO Lexi Reese to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Sisense: Interview With CEO Ariel Katz About The Analytics Platform As A Service (AnPaaS) Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 3, 2025

Sisense is an API-first, AI-powered Analytics Platform as a Service (AnPaaS) company that helps organizations analyze, visualize, and embed data insights into everyday workflows and applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Sisense CEO Ariel Katz to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Emerald AI: $18 Million Seed Extension Raised To Advance Power-Flexible AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 2, 2025

Emerald AI, a fast-growing innovator at the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, announced that it has raised an additional $18 million in seed extension funding, bringing its total funding to $42.5 million. The new capital will accelerate the company’s mission to transform AI data centers into flexible grid assets that can dynamically adjust their energy use to support grid stability and resilience.

Figma Buying Weavy For Advancing AI-Native Media Creation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 1, 2025

Figma has announced the acquisition of Weavy, an AI-driven media creation platform that integrates generative AI with professional editing tools. The newly formed entity, Figma Weave, will expand Figma’s creative ecosystem to include image, video, animation, motion design, and visual effects editing, all within a collaborative, browser-based environment.

OpenSpace Expands Visual Intelligence Capabilities With Acquisition Of Disperse

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 1, 2025

OpenSpace, a San Francisco-based leader in Visual Intelligence for builders, has announced the acquisition of London-based Disperse, a construction progress tracking company. The deal unites two pioneers in construction technology, combining image-based intelligence, progress analytics, and verified data into a single, trusted platform for builders worldwide.

Ondas Buys Stake In Insight Intelligent Sensors To Expand AI Sensing Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 1, 2025

Ondas Holdings has acquired a controlling interest in Israel-based Insight Intelligent Sensors Ltd., strengthening its AI-driven electro-optical sensing capabilities and expanding its multi-domain autonomy ecosystem. The move deepens Ondas’ reach across defense, homeland security, and environmental resilience markets.