Artificial Intelligence

Blackstraw AI: Interview with Founder & CEO Atul Arya About Fast-Tracking AI Projects

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Blackstraw is a leading digital transformation provider specializing in delivering innovative data and artificial intelligence solutions to clients across various industries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Blackstraw founder and CEO Atul Arya to learn more about the company.

Haut.AI: Interview With Founder & CEO Anastasia Georgievskaya About The Skincare AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Haut.AI is an industry-leading global artificial intelligence company that specializes in skincare and longevity. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Haut.AI CEO and founder Anastasia Georgievskaya to learn more about the company.

Sett: $27 Million Series A Secured For Gaming-Focused Agentic AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Sett, an Agentic AI platform for mobile gaming studios, announced it has emerged from stealth with a $15 million Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, along with Saga VC, F2 Venture Capital, Vgames, and gaming kingpin Akin Babayigit (Arcadia Gaming Advisors, Tripledot).

Jozu: $4 Million Raised For Scaling Enterprise AI Orchestration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 9, 2025

Jozu, a company building enterprise-grade orchestration tools for AI applications, announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding. HalfCourt Capital led the round, which also included Mozilla Ventures, BrightSpark, AlleyCorp, Sentiero, and Union Bay Partners.

University Of Michigan Partners With Emeritus To Launch Chief Data And AI Officer Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business Executive Education and Michigan Engineering Professional Education, both at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with Emeritus, announced that they have launched the Chief Data and AI Officer (CDAIO) Program. This five-month multimodular program enables senior executives to develop AI-driven business strategies, enhance data governance, and lead digital transformation within their organizations. Enrollment is now open for the program starting on June 24, 2025.

EdgeRunner: $12 Million Series A Funding Raised For On-Device AI Agents For Military And Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 8, 2025

EdgeRunner AI, a leader in domain-specific, air-gapped, on-device AI agents for military and enterprise, announced the closing of its $12 million Series A fundraise. This funding round was led by Madrona Ventures with participation from seed lead Four Rivers Ventures and joined by new investors HP Tech Ventures and Alumni Ventures. This brings EdgeRunner AI’s total funding to $17.5 million.

Doppel: $35 Million Series B Raised For AI-Based Social Engineering Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Doppel, an AI-based social engineering defense platform, announced a Series B funding round following a year of rapid growth following its Series A, bringing the total amount raised to $54.4 million. The Series B funding round of $35 million was at a $205 million valuation. It was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, additional first-time Doppel investors 9Yards Capital and Sozo Ventures, and repeat investors a16z, South Park Commons, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Script Capital, and Sabrina Hahn.

LXT: Interview With Cofounder & CEO Mohammad Omar About The AI Data Solutions Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

LXT is a provider of industry-leading AI data solutions to power innovation for top 10 global technology companies and Fortune 100 organizations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed LXT co-founder and CEO Mohammad Omar to learn more about the company.

NVISIONx: Interview With Founder & CEO Glen Day About The Data Risk Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

NVISIONx (Nx) is the first data risk intelligence platform that combines business data and cyber intelligence, empowering companies to gain complete control of their enterprise data and its risk. Pulse 2.0 interviewed NVISIONx founder and CEO Glen Day to learn more about the company.

Medsender: Interview With Founder & Co-CEO Zain Qayyum About The AI Medical Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Medsender is a company that offers a comprehensive and EHR-integrated platform to integrate, streamline, and automate communication between providers, patients, and everyone in between. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Medsender founder and co-CEO Zain Qayyum to learn more about the company.

Pangea: Interview With Founder & CEO Oliver Friedrichs About The AI Guardrail Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Pangea is a company that developed an AI Guardrail Platform to help security and product teams ship secure AI applications quickly. The platform also helps security teams protect workforce AI use with guardrails that span prompt injection detection, sensitive data leakage detection, AI visibility, AI access controls, and agentic security controls. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pangea founder and CEO Oliver Friedrichs to learn more about the company.

Algorhythm Holdings Buying SemiCab India To Expand AI Transportation Footprint

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 7, 2025

Algorhythm Holdings (a diversified technology-driven holding company) announced the acquisition of India-based SMCB Solutions (SemiCab India). This marks Algorhythm’s second transaction with SemiCab following the acquisition of its U.S. business in July 2024.

Blue Yonder Reveals AI-Based Cognitive Solutions And Buys Pledge Earth

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2025

With volatility increasing and economic concerns growing, supply chain leaders are under intense pressure to maximize profits and avoid bottlenecks while remaining optimized. With the latest product release showcased at its annual customer conference, ICON 2025, Blue Yonder announced several AI-based Cognitive Solutions, accelerating long-range and intraday decision making for increased resiliency, resource leverage, and cost control. Blue Yonder also recently announced it has acquired Pledge.

P-1 AI: $23 Million Raised For Building Engineering AGI For Physical Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

P-1 AI is a company known for building Archie, an AI agent aimed at cognitive automation of tasks that human engineers perform today when designing physical systems. The company also revealed a $23 million seed funding round. The Investors in P-1 AI’s seed round, led by Radical Ventures and included Village Global, Schematic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and several angels, including Jeff Dean, Peter Welinder (VP Product, OpenAI), and Bob van Luijt (Co-Founder and CEO, Weaviate), among others.

Omada: Investment Raised From GRO And Kirk Kapital

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2025

Omada—a leader of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) software—announced a new phase in its partnership with existing investor GRO. Together with Kirk Kapital, Omada will take a majority ownership position to support its continued expansion and innovation.

Scamnetic: $13 Million Closed For AI Scam Detection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2025

Scamnetic, a company focused on protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI technology, announced it received $13 million in series A funding. Roo Capital led the round, which 1st and Main Growth Partners, SaaS Ventures, and Riptide Ventures also joined. This series A funding round brings the total investment in Scamnetic to $16 million.

AutonomyAI: Interview With CEO Adir Ben-Yehuda About The Agentic Front-End Development Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 1, 2025

AutonomyAI is a company that has built a fleet of context-aware AI agents revolutionizing front-end development for software companies. The agents work at an organizational level, mapping, modeling, and accelerating workflows to drive real business impact. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AutonomyAI CEO Adir Ben-Yehuda to learn more about the company.

Noxtua: €80.7 Million Raised For Legal AI Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 30, 2025

Berlin-based legal tech company Xayn (soon to be Noxtua SE), developer of Europe's first sovereign Legal AI Noxtua, announced recently it has completed its Series B investment round of about €80.7 million with C.H.Beck (Germany’s leading legal publisher) as the leading investor. And additional new investors on board include High-Performance Computing (HPC) specialist Northern Data, Germany’s largest business law firm CMS as Xayn's long-standing partner and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua, and global law firm Dentons.

Basil Systems: $11.5 Million Raised For Making Life Sciences More Intelligent

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2025

Basil Systems, a leading AI-based product lifecycle intelligence platform for the life sciences industry, announced it has raised a total of $11.5 million in funding led by Golden Ventures, with participation from Hearst Ventures and Argosy Capital.

Parloa: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Malte Kosub About The Conversational AI Consulting Agency

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2025

Parloa is a leading global AI company with a vision to make every customer interaction as easy as talking to a friend. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Parloa co-founder and CEO Malte Kosub to learn more about the company.

Blend: Interview With Head Of Financial Services Alex Sion About The AI Services Provider

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 29, 2025

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Blend’s Head of Financial Services Alex Sion to learn more about the company.

IBM: $150 Billion Investment Plan In America Unveiled

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 28, 2025

IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in America over the next 5 years to advance the economy and accelerate its role as a global leader in computing. And this includes an investment of over $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.

Capably: $4 Million Raised To Automate Complex Tasks With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 27, 2025

Intelligent automation platform company Capably announced it has raised $4 million in funding. The investment was led by Boost Capital Partners, with participation from other EU and US investors, including Concept Ventures, Sure Valley Ventures, Araya Ventures, Haatch, Koro Ventures, Wayra, and Ascension.

Push Security: $30 Million Series B Raised For Detecting Modern Identity Attacks In The Browser

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 25, 2025

Push Security, a company that detects and responds to modern identity attacks in the browser, announced a $30 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint Ventures, with Datadog Ventures and B3 Capital participation. This funding will advance Push’s growth, fueling innovation and global expansion. This funding round also included existing investors, including Decibel and GV (Google Ventures), showing confidence in Push Security’s goal to stop identity attacks like credential phishing and account takeover (ATO) using stolen credentials and tokens, which is a problem that has hit the industry hard, especially in the last year.

Pillar Security: $9 Million (Seed) Closed To Address Evolving Threat Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Pillar Security, an AI-based security startup that helps enterprises build and run secure AI software, announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding. Shield Capital led the round, which was joined by Golden Ventures, Ground Up Ventures, and other strategic angel investors. The funds will support expanding Pillar’s R&D and go-to-market efforts.

1Fort: $7.5 Million Raised For Automating Business Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

1Fort, an AI platform for business insurance, announced it has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by Bonfire Ventures. This round also included Draper Associates (Tim Draper), Karim Atiyeh (the founder of Ramp) and participation from all existing VCs: Village Global, Operator Partners, 8-Bit Capital, Character VC, and Company Ventures. This round brings 1Fort's total funding to $10 million.

Nyobolt: $30 Million Raised To Advance Decarbonization And Reduce Downtime

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Nyobolt, a pioneer of ultrafast charging technologies, announced it has raised $30 million in funding, led by IQ Capital and Latitude (the sister fund of LocalGlobe), with strategic partners including Scania Invest and Takasago Industry.

Arcana Labs: $5.5 Million Raised For AI-Based Content Production Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 22, 2025

Arcana Labs, an AI-based content production platform and studio, announced it has raised $5.5 million in funding and launched its transformative all-in-one AI production studio, Arcana AI. The funding round was led by SEMCAP AI and its co-founders and co-CIOs, Walter “Buck” Buckley and Cyrus Vandrevala.

Terra Security: $8 Million (Seed) Secured For Agentic AI Pen Testing Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Terra Security, an Agentic AI-native penetration testing service-as-software platform, announced it has raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors, including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback and Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security.

Bauplan: $7.5 Million (Seed) Secured For AI And Data Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 21, 2025

Bauplan, a Python-first serverless data platform that transforms complex infrastructure processes into a few lines of code over data lakes, announced its launch with $7.5 million seed funding. Innovation Endeavors led this funding round, which included experienced operators Wes McKinney, Aditya Agarwal, and Chris Re.