Artificial Intelligence

GrailPay Raises $10.5 Million To Scale Risk Decisioning Infrastructure For Instant And Agentic Payments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2026

GrailPay announced it has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to expand its risk decisioning infrastructure for instant payments and agentic commerce. The round was led by MissionOG, with participation from EJF Ventures, Counterpart Ventures, Construct Capital, Commerce Ventures, and SSC Venture Partners. The new funding brings GrailPay’s total funding raised to $17.2 million.

Jarvie AI Raises $8.3 Million To Bring AI Agents To Group Chats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2026

Jarvie AI announced it has raised $8.3 million in seed funding to bring AI agents to everyday consumers. The funding round included Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed.

Saviynt: Interview With Chief Product & Strategy Officer Jeff Margolies About The Identity And Access Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Saviynt provides an AI-powered identity and access governance platform that manages and secures digital access for human, non-human, and AI agent identities across an organization's applications, data, and infrastructure. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Saviynt’s Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Jeff Margolies, to learn more.

Arena Reaches $100 Million Annualized Revenue Run Rate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Arena announced that it has reached a $100 million annualized revenue run rate just eight months after launching its evaluation product. The company is known for operating one of the most widely used AI model evaluation platforms. Arena originally started as a research project at UC Berkeley and became known for its crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, where users compare model responses and select which one performs better.

Cursor Launches Native iOS App For Building With AI Agents From Anywhere

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Cursor announced the launch of Cursor for iOS, a native mobile app that is now available in public beta. The app enables developers to launch always-on agents in the cloud or control agents running on their computers from an iPhone. And developers can use the app to start work when ideas come up, receive notifications when work is ready for review, and merge pull requests while away from their desks.

OpenClaw Launches iOS And Android Apps For Agentic AI Assistants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

OpenClaw announced the release of standalone apps for iOS and Android, bringing its agentic AI assistant to the App Store and Google Play.

Quantifind Raises $200 Million To Advance AI-Native Risk Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Quantifind announced a $200 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Citi Ventures, S&P Global, Deloitte, and Stephens Group also participated in the round.

SandboxAQ To Bring Large Quantitative Models To Google Cloud Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

SandboxAQ announced that it will make its Large Quantitative Models available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

Nixxy And Tachyon 9 Advance $1 Billion AI Data Campus In North Dakota

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Nixxy announced that its proposed strategic combination with Tachyon 9 is advancing the Nakota Data Campus, a planned $1 billion AI infrastructure development in North Dakota.

Faraday Future Raises 2026 Shipment Target To 2,000 Units After June Robotics Momentum

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric shared a weekly business update from founder and global CEO YT Jia, highlighting growth in its embodied AI robotics business and plans to raise its full-year shipment target.

Straiker Raises $64 Million Series A To Secure Enterprise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Straiker announced that it has raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure enterprise AI agents. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed. The financing brings Straiker’s total funding to $85 million. Gokul Rajaram, founding partner of Marathon, is joining Straiker’s board of directors.

Deck: Interview With Founder & CEO Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf About The AI-Based Data Infrastructure Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Orderful Raises $35 Million Series C To Grow AI-Native EDI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Orderful announced that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies. NewRoad Capital Partners also participated in the round. The financing brings Orderful’s total funding to $85 million. Orderful’s previous investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, 9Yards Capital, Flume Ventures, NFI Ventures, and GLP Capital Partners.

Mirendil Raises $200 Million Seed Round To Build Self-Accelerating AI R&D Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Mirendil announced its formal launch with a $200 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins. NVIDIA also invested in the company, along with other backers.

Qualcomm Unveils Dragonfly Data Center Roadmap For Agentic AI Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Qualcomm Technologies announced a new data center roadmap and product portfolio designed for the agentic AI era. The company introduced new data center solutions, including the Qualcomm Dragonfly C1000 CPU, Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute technology, the Qualcomm Dragonfly AI300 inference accelerator, connectivity products, and custom silicon solutions.

Sail Research Raises $80 Million To Build Infrastructure For Long-Horizon AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Sail Research announced that it has raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation.

OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol And New Model Family

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

OpenAI announced a limited preview of the GPT-5.6 series, introducing Sol, Terra, and Luna as its newest family of AI models.

Sazabi Raises $8 Million Seed Round To Build AI-Native Observability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Sazabi announced that it raised an $8 million seed round to build an AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams. The round was led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator, with participation from Orange Collective and more than 60 angel investors from AI, developer tools, and infrastructure companies. Investors included angels from Vercel, Cursor, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, Replit, Browserbase, and others.

RightCapital Launches Iris AI Agent For Financial Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

RightCapital announced the launch of Iris, an AI planning agent designed to help financial advisors save time and improve the quality of client financial plans.

Rippling Launches Data Cloud To Bring AI-Powered BI To Workforce Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Rippling announced the launch of Rippling Data Cloud, a new suite of products designed to bring AI-powered business intelligence to workforce and operational data.

Hera Raises $27 Million Series A Led By Bain Capital Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Hera announced that it raised $27 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered senior care coordination platform. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with continued participation from Accel and IA Ventures. Angel investors also participated, including the CFO of Mount Sinai.

MGX Reportedly Raises About $50 Billion To Accelerate AI Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

MGX has reportedly raised close to $50 billion from regional and global investors to accelerate its artificial intelligence investment strategy, according to Bloomberg.

Google Advances AI-Powered Tools For Natural Disaster Forecasting And Crisis Resilience

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Google announced new progress in its decade-long effort to use AI and global partnerships to help communities prepare for and respond to natural disasters.

Stitch Fix Expands Vision AI Platform For Personalized Style Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Stitch Fix announced that it is expanding Stitch Fix Vision, its AI style visualization platform, with a new capability that lets clients generate personalized images of themselves in recommended outfits.

Qurrent Launches AI BPO Platform For CFOs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Qurrent announced the formal launch of its AI Business Process Outsourcer platform for Chief Financial Officers.

Valence AI Raises $5 Million And Secures U.S. Patents For Real-Time Emotional Detection From Live Speech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Valence AI announced $5 million in total funding and the issuance of two U.S. patents covering the company’s proprietary audio signal processing pipeline for real-time emotional detection from live speech. The funding includes a seed round led by Differential Ventures, with participation from Difference Partners, Willowtree Ventures, Change Paradox Ventures, and SRI International.

Coval Raises $28 Million Series A To Advance Voice AI Evaluation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Coval announced it raised $28 million in Series A funding to expand its evaluation platform for voice AI. The round was led by Norwest, with participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures, and Y Combinator. The latest financing brings Coval’s total capital raised to $31 million since its launch in 2024.

Runlayer Raises $30 Million Series A For Helping Enterprises Become AI-Native

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Runlayer announced it raised $30 million in Series A funding to help enterprises become AI-native. The round was led by Felicis, with participation from Khosla Ventures. The latest funding brings Runlayer’s total capital raised to $42 million.

Lusha: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Yoni Tserruya About The Sales Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Quali Expands Torque As Control Plane For Enterprise AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Quali announced a major capability expansion for Torque, its intelligent infrastructure management platform.