Artificial Intelligence

geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round To Advance AI Visibility Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

geoSurge announced an oversubscribed $12 million Seed round. The financing was led by AlbionVC and included participation from Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures, Boost Capital, existing investors Passion Capital and Tuesday Capital, and angel investors from Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and Signal AI.

Poindexter Labs: Interview With Founder & CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy About The Expert Reasoning Data Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Poindexter Labs is an expert reasoning data company building high-fidelity training data for frontier AI models using an academic peer-review model rather than factory workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Poindexter Labs founder and CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy to learn more.

Thunkable: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Arun Saigal About The No-Code App Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Thunkable is a no-code app development platform that empowers anyone to design, develop, and publish custom, native mobile applications for iOS and Android without writing a single line of code. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Thunkable co-founder and CEO Arun Saigal to learn more.

Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With $2.5 Billion AI Engineering Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on helping enterprise customers deploy AI systems at scale while protecting their proprietary data, workflows, and intellectual property.

Amazon AWS Invests $1 Billion To Embed AI Forward Deployed Engineers With Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 3, 2026

Amazon AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a dedicated AWS Forward Deployed Engineering organization. The new organization will embed AWS engineers directly with customer teams to co-develop and deploy agentic AI solutions.

CarbonSix Raises $40 Million Series A To Deploy Physical AI Across Global Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

CarbonSix announced it has raised $40 million, or about KRW 60 billion, in Series A funding to deploy Physical AI across the manufacturing sector. The funding round was co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment. New investors in the round included IMM Investment, Korea Development Bank, SV Investment, Cortentia, and ASQ. And all existing seed investors — including Foothill Ventures, Storm Ventures, Zeitgeist Capital, Xquared, and CarbonBlack Fund — participated with follow-on investments.

Vestmark Opens Center For AI Research And Development In Boston

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Vestmark announced the opening of the Vestmark Center for AI Research and Development, known as the CARD, a new Boston-based center focused on developing AI-enabled and software solutions for the wealth management industry.

Tripo AI Raises Over $150 Million In Series A3 Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Tripo AI announced that it has completed a Series A3 financing round, raising over $150 million. The funding round included participation from a broad group of strategic and financial investors spanning the automotive, gaming, internet, and technology sectors.

TaxStatus Launches Planning Observations To Turn Tax Records Into Advisory Opportunities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

TaxStatus announced the launch of Planning Observations, a new capability that automatically identifies timely advice opportunities and advice gaps from a client’s tax records. TaxStatus is a provider of IRS-sourced financial data for financial advisors and CPAs.

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5. Claude Sonnet 5 is designed to be Anthropic’s most agentic Sonnet model yet. The company said the model can make plans, use tools such as browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that previously required larger, more expensive models.

University Of Sydney And IBM Researchers Identify Pathway To High-Fidelity Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 2, 2026

Researchers from the University of Sydney, working with IBM, identified and quantified key factors limiting the performance of quantum computers and demonstrated ways to reduce their impact.

Meta Reportedly Building Cloud Business To Sell Excess AI Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell excess artificial intelligence computing capacity, according to a Bloomberg News report The plans are still in development and the strategy could change.

Etched Comes Out Of Stealth With $800 Million Raised And $1 Billion In Customer Contracts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Etched announced that it has come out of stealth after building its first racks following a successful A0 tapeout. The company also disclosed that it has raised $800 million and secured more than $1 billion in customer contracts.

Aligned Raises $60 Million To Advance AI Deal Workspace Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Aligned announced it has raised $60 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to $73.8 million. Aligned is the AI Deal Workspace where sellers, buyers, and AI agents run deals together.

OXMIQ Raises $35 Million To Scale OxCore Architecture

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

OXMIQ Labs announced the close of its $35 million Series A financing round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $60 million. OXMIQ is a unified GPU and AI architecture company founded by Raja Koduri.

Together AI Raises $800 Million Series C At $8.3 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Together AI announced it has raised $800 million in Series C financing at an $8.3 billion post-money valuation. Together AI is known for making it cheaper and easier for companies to run open-source AI models at scale. The round was led by Aramco Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, NVIDIA, March Capital, Pegatron, S Ventures, and others.

Remoti: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Pablo Miller About The Talent Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Remoti is a Workforce-as-a-Service and talent infrastructure platform that helps global organizations recruit, hire, and manage distributed teams, particularly across Latin America. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Remoti co-founder and CEO Pablo Miller to learn more.

Kim.cc Raises Funding To Build AI-Native Customer Support Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 1, 2026

Kim.cc announced that it has finalized an institutional venture funding round led by Stellaris Venture Partners. The company will use the funding to accelerate its U.S. expansion and build the next generation of AI-native customer service. Financial terms of the round were not disclosed.