Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Buying Sky Maker Software Applications

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

OpenAI announced that it has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, the company behind Sky, a natural language interface for macOS designed to bring AI assistance directly into users’ daily workflows. The acquisition aims to enhance ChatGPT’s integration with desktop environments and improve how people interact with AI on their computers.

Apriority: $2.3 Million Raised To Improve Debt Management Through AI And Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Apriority Financial, an AI-based debt optimization platform, announced a $2.3 million seed round led by Techstars, Valhalla, Bridge, CAN, Illini Angels, and Keiretsu. The company has also joined the Techstars & Samvid Economic Mobility Accelerator, signaling a new phase in its mission to turn debt from a financial burden into a pathway for wealth creation.

Eudia Expanding Legal Reach With Acquisition Of Out-House

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Eudia, an AI-based legal technology company redefining enterprise legal operations, announced its acquisition of Out-House, a specialized legal services provider founded and led by veteran counsel Lynden Renwick. The acquisition strengthens Eudia’s position as the trusted AI platform for Fortune 500 legal departments and deepens its hybrid model of combining human legal expertise with AI-driven efficiency.

Amazon Launches New Innovations To Improve Delivery Safety And Speed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Amazon has unveiled a series of new AI and robotics systems designed to improve safety, efficiency, and delivery speed across its global operations network. The company’s latest advancements, including the Blue Jay robotics platform, Project Eluna AI model, smart delivery glasses, and virtual reality training programs, aim to empower employees, enhance customer experience, and advance Amazon’s sustainability goals.

Keycard Launched With $38 Million To Transform Identity And Access For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Keycard, a startup pioneering identity and access management solutions for AI agents, has emerged from stealth with $38 million in combined seed and Series A funding. The investment includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Boldstart Ventures, and a $30 million Series A round led by Acrew Capital, with additional participation from prominent angel investors including Ian Andrews of Groq, Ryan Carlson of Chainguard, Emilio Escobar of Datadog, Karl McGuinness, formerly of Okta, and Matias Woloski of Auth0.

Gravwell: $15.4 Million Series A Secured For Advancing Data Analytics And Security Platform For Enterprise And AI Oversight

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Gravwell, a full-stack data analytics and security platform, announced the closing of a $15.4 million Series A funding round led by Two Bear Capital, with participation from Gula Tech Adventures, Next Frontier Capital, and other investors.

MatrixSpace: $20 Million Series B Closed To Advance AI-Based Portable Counter-Drone Radar Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

MatrixSpace, a leader in portable AI-enhanced radar and counter-drone (CUAS) technology, announced the completion of a $20 million Series B funding round. The funding represents a significant increase in valuation from the company’s Series A in May 2023 and brings its total funding to $58 million. This funding round was co-led by The Raptor Group and OTB Ventures, with participation from new strategic investor L3Harris, marking a significant milestone in MatrixSpace’s expansion within the defense and autonomous sensing sectors.

Buildots Buys Genda For Uniting Construction Progress And Workforce Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Buildots, a leader in AI-based construction management, announced its acquisition of Genda, a workforce and safety management platform used by some of the world’s largest construction firms.

Intelo.ai: $2 Million Raised For Transforming Retail Through Collaborative Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Intelo.ai, a New York–based technology company building the future of retail through its Collaborative Intelligence platform, announced the close of a $2 million financing round led by Illuminate Ventures. The funding will accelerate Intelo.ai’s mission to redefine merchandising and planning through specialized AI agents that work alongside retail professionals.

Viven: $35 Million Seed Funding Raised For Bringing AI-Based Digital Twins To The Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Viven, a pioneering artificial intelligence company creating enterprise-grade Digital Twins, has officially launched from stealth with $35 million in seed funding. The funding round includes investments from Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, Operator Collective, and several leading angel investors.

Planyear: $12 Million Seed Funding Closed For Improving Benefits Consulting with AI-Based BEACON Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Planyear, an AI-native platform revolutionizing how benefits consultants manage and deliver services, announced today that it has raised $12 million in seed funding led by True Ventures. The funding will accelerate the development and expansion of the company’s BEACON platform, an AI-driven solution designed to automate administrative tasks and restore consultants’ ability to focus on strategic client engagement.

Corbel: $6.7 Million Secured For Improving Industrial Equipment Sales With AI-Native Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

Corbel, an AI-based operating system designed to modernize the sales and management of industrial equipment operations, has announced the raising of $6.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Ibex Investors, with participation from Joule Ventures, Restive Ventures, and Selah Ventures.

IO Health: $2 Million Seed Funding Raised For Scaling AI-Based Quality Platform For Home Health And Hospice Providers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 23, 2025

IO Health Technologies, a California-based health technology company developing AI-powered compliance and quality solutions for post-acute care, announced it has raised a $2 million seed round led by Nina Capital. The funding will accelerate the expansion of IO Health’s Care Optimized platform, which is designed to improve clinical accuracy, operational efficiency, and financial performance for home health and hospice providers.

Good Tape: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Lasse Finderup About The AI-Based Transcription Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Good Tape is an AI-based transcription platform that enables users to convert audio and video recordings into text quickly, securely, and with high accuracy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Good Tape co-founder and CEO Lasse Finderup to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

LegalOn Buying Fides To Expand Governance Capabilities For In-House Legal Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

LegalOn Technologies, a global leader in legal AI, announced the acquisition of Fides Technology, a governance AI company backed by Sequoia. This marks LegalOn’s first acquisition and significantly broadens its platform to cover governance, board, and entity management, enabling a single source of truth for contracts, matters, entities, and boards within enterprise legal departments.

ChipAgents: $21 Million Series A Raised For Transforming Chip Design With Agentic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

ChipAgents, an AI platform redefining chip design and verification, announced the close of an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $24 million. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with strategic investment from Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, and several top semiconductor companies. Additional participants include angels and industry veterans Wally Rhines, Raúl Camposano, and Jack Harding, along with continued backing from ScOp Venture Capital and Amino Capital.

Bronto: $14 Million Seed Funding Raised To Transform Data Logging For the AI Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Bronto, an AI-native log data platform company, announced it has raised $14 million in seed funding to redefine how enterprises and developers manage, analyze, and retain log data in the age of artificial intelligence. The funding round was led by Cercano Management, with participation from Heavybit and Conviction Capital.

Bricklayer AI: $5 Million Seed Funding Raised For Improving Cybersecurity Operations With Agentic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Bricklayer AI, an agentic cybersecurity platform empowering Security Operations Centers (SOCs) with intelligent AI agents, announced the close of a $5 million Seed round led by Tech Square Ventures. The oversubscribed funding round also included participation from Sovereign’s Capital, Dreamit Ventures, and BlueWing Ventures, along with Bricklayer joining Engage’s F500 enterprise innovation platform as part of Cohort 15.

MythWorx: $5 Million Seed Round At $100 Million Valuation Raised For AI Reasoning Architectures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

MythWorx, a Dallas-based artificial intelligence startup pioneering next-generation reasoning architectures, announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding at a $100 million valuation. The funding round was led by Eagle Venture Fund IV, Eagle Freedom Fund I, and Eagle Freedom Fund II, with participation from several prominent angel investors. The valuation reflects strong investor confidence in the company’s innovative AGI approach, which achieves unprecedented performance with dramatically lower compute and power requirements.

Uniphore: $260 Million Series F At $2.5 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Leadership In Business AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Uniphore, the Business AI company, announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round led by NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks. The funding round also saw participation from NEA, March Capital, BNF Capital, National Grid Partners, and Prosperity7 Ventures, among others. The new funding values the company at $2.5 billion and will be used to expand innovation and adoption of its flagship platform, the Business AI Cloud.

Google.org: $2 Million Awarded To National Applied AI Consortium To Expand AI Workforce Training Across the U.S.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

The National Applied AI Consortium (NAAIC), a national initiative led by Miami Dade College in partnership with Houston City College and Maricopa Community Colleges, announced a $2 million award from Google.org to advance its mission of training the next generation of American AI professionals through community colleges.

Findem: $51 Million Closed To Advance AI-Driven Hiring Through Expert-Labeled Talent Dataset

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Findem, an AI-based talent acquisition and management platform that combines human expertise with machine intelligence, announced that it has raised $51 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its domain-specific Talent AI. The funding round includes a Series C led by SLW, with participation from Wing Ventures, Harmony Capital, Four Rivers Group, and growth financing from J.P. Morgan, bringing Findem’s total funding to $105 million.

Rubrik: Agent Cloud Launched To Advance Scalable Enterprise AI Agent Deployments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2025

Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, has announced the launch of the Rubrik Agent Cloud, a platform designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale while maintaining complete visibility, control, and security.

Anrok: $55 Million Series C Closed For Expanding Global Sales Tax Compliance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Anrok, the global sales tax compliance platform for modern digital businesses, has raised $55 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures.

Moonshot AI: $10 Million Seed Round Raised For Expanding AI-Based Website Optimization Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Moonshot AI, a generative AI company transforming websites into self-optimizing digital experiences, announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The round was led by Mighty Capital, with participation from Oceans Ventures, Uncorrelated, Garuda Ventures, and Almaz Capital. The funding will enable Moonshot AI to accelerate product development, expand its engineering team, and scale its technology to new industries beyond e-commerce.

Skan AI Buying Metaculars To Expand Enterprise Agentic AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Skan AI, a leader in enterprise process intelligence, has announced the acquisition of Metaculars, a company known for developing AI agents that enhance enterprise operations. The acquisition strengthens Skan AI’s position as the only platform that unites process intelligence with agentic execution, advancing its mission to build the next-generation Observation to Agent platform.

Logic: $4.3 Million Seed Funding Raised And Plain-English AI Automation Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Logic, a Seattle-based AI automation company, has officially launched its plain-English decision automation platform, ending its year-long beta period. The platform, backed by $4.3 million in seed funding from Founders’ Co-op, Audacious, Neo (founded by Ali Partovi), Brex executives, Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis, and other investors, is now generally available to all business users.

Seneca Launched With $60 Million To Advance AI-Based Wildfire Defense Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Seneca, a resilience technology and infrastructure company, has launched publicly with a $60 million financing round aimed at transforming how the world combats wildfires. The funding round, led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital with participation from major investors including First Round Capital, Transition VC, Advance Venture Partners, Nextview Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Stepstone Group, DCVC, Offline Ventures, Roar Capital, and Slow Ventures, is believed to be the most significant venture capital investment in fire technology to date.

RecordPoint Buying Redactive To Enhance AI Capabilities In Data Security And Governance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

RecordPoint, a global leader in data governance and compliance solutions, announced the acquisition of Redactive, an Australian artificial intelligence company specializing in sensitive data discovery and classification. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Databahn.ai: Interview With Co-Founder & President Nithya Nareshkumar About The AI-Based Data Pipeline And Fabric Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 21, 2025

Databahn.ai is a technology company that offers an AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform, designed to help enterprises manage their telemetry and security data more efficiently and cost-effectively. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Databahn.ai Co-Founder and President Nithya Nareshkumar to gain a deeper understanding of the company.