Artificial Intelligence

Shuttle: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised To Build the AI Platform Engineer for Developers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 25, 2025

Shuttle, an AI-based cloud infrastructure company, announced that it has raised $6 million in seed funding to accelerate its mission of making backend development and operations as simple as writing code with AI. The round includes participation from Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (Founder of Segment), and senior leaders from OpenAI, Deel, and Confluent.

AImoji: Interview With Founder & CEO Aoi Minamoto About The Brain Health Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

AImoji is a U.S.-based AI startup focused on human-centered innovations, especially in digital health and interaction technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AImoji founder and CEO Aoi Minamoto to gain a deeper understanding of the company. AImoji’s flagship product is the KinaBot, which is a voice-and-conversation-based brain health barometer.

First Stop Health: Interview With CTO Vijay Anand About The Virtual Care Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

First Stop Health is a U.S.-based virtual care company that provides employers and higher-education institutions with a full suite of telehealth services designed to be affordable, convenient, and highly engaging. Pulse 2.0 interviewed First Stop Health CTO Vijay Anand to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Evertune: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Brian Stempeck About The Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) And AI Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Evertune is a GEO and AI marketing company that helps brands measure, optimize, and gain visibility in AI search. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Evertune co-founder and CEO Brian Stempeck to learn more about the company and why brands need to gain a deeper understanding of how they appear in AI-search recommendations.

Streetbeat: $15 Million Series A Closed To Scale Agentic AI Trading For Wealth Managers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Streetbeat, an AI-based intelligence platform for financial professionals and retail investors, has raised $15 million in Series A funding to accelerate the rollout of agentic AI for trading, risk management, and portfolio analysis. The funding round was led by CDP Venture Capital through the AI Fund, with participation from TTV Capital, Monte Carlo Capital, and 3Lines VC. The new financing brings Streetbeat’s total funding to $25 million.

Anthropic Expands Partnership With Google For Access Up To One Million TPUs For Claude Training

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Anthropic announced a significant expansion of its collaboration with Google Cloud, providing access to unprecedented compute capacity for training and deploying future generations of its Claude AI models. The deal grants Anthropic access to up to 1 million Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips, marking its most significant TPU commitment to date and representing computing power valued at tens of billions of dollars. The total infrastructure will exceed 1 gigawatt of capacity, with capacity coming online in 2026.

Crusoe: $1.375 Billion At $10 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Future Of AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Crusoe, known as “the AI factory company,” announced the initial close of its $1.375 billion Series E funding round, valuing the company at over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners, with participation from a broad group of investors including NVIDIA, Founders Fund, Fidelity Management & Research Company, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management, Salesforce Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Lowercarbon Capital, and StepStone Group. Additional participation from funds managed by Blue Owl is expected in a subsequent closing.

Darwin AI: $15 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Responsible AI Adoption In Government

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

Darwin AI, a leading platform enabling governments to adopt artificial intelligence safely, responsibly, and at scale, announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors UpWest and Resolute Ventures.

super{set}: Interview With Founding General Partner Tom Chavez About The Startup Builder

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 24, 2025

super{set} is a company builder specializing in data and AI-native software companies, meaning they focus on businesses built from the ground up around data and artificial intelligence. Pulse 2.0 interviewed super{set} founding general partner, Tom Chavez to gain a deeper understanding of how they operate.

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.