Artificial Intelligence

AI One: $7 Million Series A Closed To Scale Enterprise AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 26, 2025

AI One has raised $7 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital secured to $11 million as the company ramps up work with Fortune 500 enterprises adopting AI at scale. The announcement was made by co-founder and CEO Conor Twomey, who said the new financing will help organizations move beyond pilots and begin treating AI as critical infrastructure.

Gloo Buys XRI Global To Expand Multilingual And Voice AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 26, 2025

Gloo announced that it has acquired XRI Global, an AI company specializing in multilingual and low-resource language technologies. The deal aims to deepen Gloo’s AI capabilities as the company looks to expand its platform across international markets within the broader faith-and-flourishing ecosystem.

Vijil: $17 Million Closed To Advance Deployment Of Resilient AI Agent Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 26, 2025

Vijil has secured $17 million in new funding in a round led by BrightMind Partners with participation from Mayfield and Gradient, bringing its total capital raised to $23 million. The Menlo Park–based startup builds trust infrastructure for AI agents, enabling enterprises to deploy agentic systems more reliably and at greater scale.

IntelliHost: Interview With Founder Jeff Brown About The Revenue Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 26, 2025

IntelliHost is a company that provides AI-driven revenue optimization and dynamic pricing tools that help vacation rental owners and managers automatically adjust rates, analyze demand, and maximize profitability. Pulse 2.0 interviewed IntelliHost founder Jeff Brown to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Cerrion: $18 Million Series A Raised To Scale AI Agents For Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 26, 2025

Cerrion, a company developing AI agents for industrial production environments, has raised an $18 million Series A round led by Creandum, with participation from new and existing investors including Hanel Baveja, Y Combinator, Robin Chan, Justin Kan, 10x Founders, Session, Harry Stebbings, Garrett Langley, Filip Kaliszan, Oskar Hjertonsson, Thomas Wolf, Marc Maurer, Johannes Schildt, Carl Rivera, Christian Floerkemeier, Roman Hölzl, and others.

Mira: $6.6 Million Seed Funding Raised For Building Advanced AI-Based Smart Glasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Mira, formerly known as Halo, has raised a $6.6 million seed round led by General Catalyst to develop a new class of AI-powered smart glasses designed to act as a “second brain” for users. The company aims to introduce an interface that goes beyond traditional screen-based interactions by providing proactive, personal, real-time intelligence through a lightweight wearable device.

Model ML: $75 Million Series A Raised To Advance AI Workflow Automation In Financial Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Model ML has secured a $75 million Series A financing round, marking one of the largest early stage fundraises in the history of fintech. The round was led by FT Partners with participation from Y Combinator, QED, Thirteen Books, Latitude, and LocalGlobe. The raise comes only six months after Model ML’s seed round and just one year after its launch, highlighting the rapidly growing enterprise demand for AI driven workflow automation within financial services.

Amazon Announces Up To $50 Billion Investment To Expand AI And Supercomputing Infrastructure For U.S. Government Agencies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to significantly expand its artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. The initiative, scheduled to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of new AI and supercomputing capacity across AWS Top Secret, AWS Secret, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion will rely on a new network of data centers equipped with advanced computing and networking technologies tailored to federal missions.

Opti: $20 Million Seed Round Closed To Accelerate AI-Native Identity Security Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Opti has raised $20 million in seed financing to accelerate the global expansion of its AI-native identity security platform. The round was led by YL Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Hetz Ventures, with participation from Squared Circle Ventures, LocalGlobe, Maple Capital, and angel investor Shlomo Kramer. The New York-based company plans to use the capital to advance product development and scale deployments across enterprise markets.

Momentic: $15 Million Series A Raised To Advance AI-Driven Software Verification

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Momentic has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Standard Capital, marking a significant step in the company’s effort to build what it describes as the definitive verification layer for modern software teams. Dropbox Ventures and existing backers Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform, and Karman Ventures also participated in the round, which the startup says will accelerate development of its AI-powered testing platform.

Sola Security: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Guy Flechter About The Enterprise Security Orchestration Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Sola Security is an AI cybersecurity platform that empowers teams to rapidly create, orchestrate, and adapt security solutions across their environments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Sola Security co-founder and CEO Guy Flechter to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Google And Accel Atoms Launch AI Program To Advance India’s Startup Ecosystem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 25, 2025

Google has partnered with Accel’s Atoms program to launch a new initiative to accelerate pre-seed artificial intelligence startups in India. The program, part of the Accel Atoms x AI Futures Fund (AIFF) collaboration, is designed to support founders building next-generation AI applications and will begin its first cohort in February 2026.

Vouched: Interview With CEO Peter Horadan About The Identity Verification Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 23, 2025

Vouched is a company that provides AI-based identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Vouched CEO Peter Horadan to gain a better understanding of the company.

Pibit.AI: $7 Million Series A Raised To Advance Development Of Its AI-Powered Underwriting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 23, 2025

Pibit.AI has raised a $7 million Series A round as the San Francisco-based insurtech company seeks to modernize underwriting through its trusted AI platform, CURE. The investment, led by Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures, will help the company advance its centralized underwriting system and broaden adoption across carriers and MGAs.

OpenAI And Foxconn Launch Collaboration To Advance U.S. Manufacturing For Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 23, 2025

OpenAI and Hon Hai Technology Group, known globally as Foxconn, announced a new collaboration to accelerate the design and domestic manufacturing readiness of next-generation AI infrastructure hardware in the United States. The partnership will provide Foxconn with insight into OpenAI’s emerging hardware needs across the fast-growing AI sector, guiding the company’s design and development efforts for systems to be produced in its U.S. facilities. The initial agreement does not include purchase obligations, but OpenAI will have the opportunity to evaluate early systems and secure purchasing options.

Tidalwave: $22 Million Series A Secured To Advance Agentic AI Mortgage Platform And Expand Market Share

By Amit Chowdhry ● Nov 23, 2025

Tidalwave, a New York-based agentic AI mortgage point-of-sale platform, has raised a $22 million Series A round led by Permanent Capital, with participation from D.R. Horton (the largest homebuilder in the United States), and follow-on funding from Engineering Capital. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $24 million. And it marks a significant new enterprise relationship, as D.R. Horton is investing as both a strategic partner and a new enterprise customer.