Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Appoints Arvind KC As Chief People Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2026

OpenAI has appointed Arvind KC as its Chief People Officer, effective February 24, 2026. In this role, KC will oversee the company’s global people strategy, including hiring, onboarding, organizational development, and the systems and policies that support OpenAI’s continued growth.

General Magic: $7.2 Million Raised By Insurance AI Platform To Cut Quote Time To 3 Minutes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 26, 2026

General Magic, a Toronto-based AI company focused on insurance workflows, has raised an oversubscribed $7.2 million seed round to accelerate the development of its SMS-native AI agents. The financing was led by Radical Ventures, with significant participation from a16z Speedrun and new investment from Figma VP of Product Brendan O'Driscoll and Larry James Erwin from OpenAI. The company has raised $8.4 million to date, backed by Radical Ventures, a16z Speedrun, and Comma Capital, along with operators including Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, and members of the executive team at Braze, including Kevin Wang, Chief Product Officer, and Spencer Burke, SVP of Growth.

Google Acquires Music Creation Company ProducerAI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Google announced that ProducerAI, a generative AI music creation platform, is joining Google Labs. The move brings together teams that share a mission of helping artists at every level make the music they imagine.

Guidde: $50 Million Raised For AI Digital Adoption Platform To Train Employees And AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Guidde, an AI digital adoption platform, announced it has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by PSG Equity, with participation from monday.com and existing investors Norwest, Entrée Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures. The new funding will support broader deployment of its platform, which is designed to train both human employees and AI agents on enterprise software.

Rowspace: $50 Million Raised To Turn Institutional Knowledge Into AI-Driven Edge For Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Rowspace, an AI platform designed to help financial services firms operationalize proprietary data, launched today with $50 million in funding across a seed round and Series A. The Series A was co-led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital, with the seed round led by Sequoia. Additional participants across both rounds include Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set, Twine, and several angels from the finance industry.

RobosizeME: $2 Million Raised To Bring AI Workflow Automation To The Global Hotel Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

RobosizeME has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by SeedTwo Capital, positioning the company to expand its AI-powered workflow automation platform across the global hospitality sector.

Quill: $6.5 Million Raised To Launch Sovereign Chief Of AI Staff Agent

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Quill Meetings announced $6.5 million in seed funding and the launch of Quilliam, a sovereign Chief of AI Staff agent designed to help modern professionals coordinate and manage their growing fleet of AI tools. The round was led by Basis Set Ventures, with participation from 500 Global, Naval Ravikant, Morado Ventures, and AME Cloud Ventures.

Elly: $8 Million Raised For AI-Native Hiring Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Elly, the AI-powered hiring platform developed by Recruit Tech Labs, has launched publicly alongside an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with participation from Atomic and Next Wave Capital. As part of the investment, Rob Rueckert, partner at Sorenson Capital’s venture and growth funds, has joined Elly’s board of directors.

Croissant: $28 Million Raised To Scale Intentional Commerce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Croissant announced it has raised $28 million in capital to accelerate growth and deepen partnerships with leading brands and retailers, bringing its total capital raised to $52 million.

Ori Merges With Brookfield’s Radiant To Form $100 Billion-Backed AI Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Ori has entered a new phase of growth, announcing a merger with Brookfield’s newly launched Radiant to form a vertically integrated, end-to-end AI infrastructure company aimed at delivering sovereign compute capacity worldwide.

DDN Appoints Guido Torrini As Chief Financial Operating Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

DDN, a provider of AI data storage and data management platforms, announced the appointment of Guido Torrini as Chief Financial Operating Officer as the company scales its global AI infrastructure operations.

VoiceLine: €10 Million Raised To Scale Enterprise-Grade Voice AI For Frontline Organizations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

VoiceLine has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round led by Alstin Capital and Peak, with participation from existing investors Scalehouse Capital, Venture Stars, and NAP. The company will use the capital to scale its AI platform, expand internationally, and accelerate growth across additional frontline-heavy industries, including pharma, medtech, food and beverage, insurance, and financial services.

Franzy: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Alex Smereczniak About The Franchise Opportunity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Franzy is an AI-driven platform that matches aspiring franchise owners with franchise brands and helps them research and invest in the right opportunity. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Franzy co-founder and CEO Alex Smereczniak to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

AUI Acquires Quack AI To Expand Customer Service Agent Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 25, 2026

Augmented Intelligence (AUI), the company behind the Apollo-1 neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence model, announced it has acquired Quack AI, a developer of AI agent technology focused on customer service. The agreement is expected to double the size of AUI’s Israeli R&D team in Tel Aviv.