Artificial Intelligence

Optilogic: Interview With Founder & CEO Don Hicks About The Supply Chain Design Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2025

Optilogic is a company that provides a cloud-native supply chain design software platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Optilogic founder and CEO Don Hicks to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Donna: $4.8 Million Raised To Advance Global Expansion Of Agentic AI Assistant For Field Sales Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2025

Donna, a fast-growing AI platform built for field sales professionals, has secured $4.8 million in new funding to expand internationally and strengthen its position in the sales enablement market. The new capital, announced in Ghent on December 3, 2025, was led by Frontline Ventures with participation from Pitchdrive, Fortino Capital, WeLoveFounders, Syndicate One, New School, Everywhere Ventures, and several experienced angel investors.

Factorial Capital: $25 Million Fund II Closed To Advance Investments In Frontier AI Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2025

Factorial Capital has closed Fund II at $25 million as the New York-based early-stage venture firm expands its model of backing technical founders building at the edge of what emerging AI technologies now make possible.

Disney Makes $1 Billion Investment In OpenAI As Companies Sign Licensing Agreement For Sora

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2025

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have entered into a landmark three-year licensing and commercial agreement that will bring more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters to Sora, OpenAI’s generative video platform. As part of the expansive partnership, Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, formalizing one of the entertainment giant's most significant strategic investments in the artificial intelligence sector.

Grantd Launches AI Platform To Transform Equity Compensation Planning For Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2025

Grantd has officially introduced its AI-powered equity compensation advice platform, aiming to streamline how financial advisors analyze, manage, and maximize the value of client equity grants. The launch comes as equity compensation continues to gain prominence across public and private companies, yet many recipients still lack accessible, informed guidance.

ContractPodAi: Interview With President and CTO Anurag Malik About The Enterprise AI and Contract Lifecycle Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Diald AI: $3.75 Million Raised To Expand AI-Based Real Estate Due Diligence And Underwriting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Diald AI has raised $3.75 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the expansion of its AI-driven real estate due diligence and underwriting platform. The round included participation from institutional backers such as Feedback Ventures of Singapore, alongside strategic angels and sector-focused funds.

Fal: $140 Million Series D Raised To Advance Real-Time Generative Media Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Fal announced the completion of a $140 million Series D financing round led by Sequoia, marking its third capital raise in 2025 and signaling strong momentum for the generative media infrastructure company. The round also included significant participation from Kleiner Perkins and new backing from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, alongside Alkeon Capital. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Kindred Ventures, Meritech, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Shopify Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures also joined the round, reaffirming broad support for the company’s rising role in real-time generative media.

Amazon Commits $35 Billion To India Through 2030 To Accelerate AI Infrastructure And Create One Million Jobs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Amazon announced that it will invest more than $35 billion in India by 2030 as part of a large-scale expansion effort designed to accelerate AI adoption, strengthen digital and physical infrastructure, and support economic growth across the country. The commitment builds on nearly $40 billion the company has already invested in India, which has contributed to the digitization of more than 12 million small businesses, generated $20 billion in cumulative ecommerce exports, and supported approximately 2.8 million direct, indirect, induced, and seasonal jobs across industries in 2024.

LexisNexis Expands Legal AI Capabilities With Next-Generation Protégé General AI Release

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced a significant expansion of its legal AI platform with the next-generation release of Protégé General AI. This unified environment now blends authoritative LexisNexis legal content, customer documents, and open web data. The upgraded system is designed to give legal professionals broader analytical capabilities, improved drafting tools, and more advanced reasoning features within the secure Lexis+ AI environment.

Shippo Launches Agentic Shipping Platform To Automate Real-Time Delivery Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Shippo announced the debut of Shippo MCP, a new agentic shipping platform designed to translate natural language requests into real shipping actions, including label creation, package tracking, returns, and address validation. The company described the launch as a significant step forward in making advanced shipping workflows more intuitive for e-commerce businesses.

Gradial: $35 Million Series B Closed To Expand Agentic Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2025

Gradial has secured $35 million in Series B financing to accelerate the growth of its agentic marketing operations platform, bringing the company’s total funding to $55 million. VMG Partners led the round with continued participation from Madrona and Pruven Capital.

Saviynt: $700 Million Series B At $3 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Identity Security For The AI Era

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

Saviynt has raised $700 million in a Series B growth equity round led by KKR at a valuation of approximately $3 billion. The funding round included participation from Sixth Street Growth and TenEleven, along with additional capital from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners. The investment reflects growing institutional conviction that identity security is now foundational for enterprises deploying AI at scale.

Microsoft Announces $17.5 Billion Commitment To Expand AI Infrastructure And Workforce Development In India

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

Microsoft has unveiled a $17.5 billion investment plan for India, marking the company’s most significant financial commitment in Asia and accelerating its strategy to support the nation’s expansion of AI, cloud, and digital public infrastructure. The four-year initiative, spanning 2026 through 2029, is designed to strengthen hyperscale infrastructure, advance nationwide AI adoption, and deepen the company’s presence across the country’s technology ecosystem.

Emergent Secures Google AI Futures Fund Investment As It Launches E2 Agent And Reaches $25 Million ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

Emergent has unveiled its newest agent, E2, announced a strategic investment from Google’s AI Futures Fund, and surpassed $25 million in annual recurring revenue less than five months after launch. The San Francisco-based company, backed by Lightspeed and Y Combinator, is positioning E2 as a significant advancement in AI-driven application development, particularly for users building integration-heavy software.

NextEra Energy And Google Cloud Sign Strategic Energy And Technology Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud have unveiled a significant expansion of their longstanding collaboration, launching a broad national initiative that links extensive scale data center development with advanced energy infrastructure and AI-driven modernization.

Quali: Interview With CEO Lior Koriat About The Infrastructure Automation Tools Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

Quali is a company that provides AI-powered tools that design, provision, orchestrate, and manage cloud and infrastructure environments so DevOps, SRE, FinOps, and data teams can automate complex tasks, accelerate delivery, and reduce costs.

Warmly: Interview With CEO Maximus Greenwald About The Revenue Orchestration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 9, 2025

Warmly is an AI-powered revenue orchestration platform aimed primarily at B2B SaaS companies and revenue teams. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Warmly CEO Max Greenwald to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Guide Labs: $9 Million Seed Funding Closed To Build Interpretable Large Language Models

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 8, 2025

Guide Labs has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Initialized Capital to advance what it describes as the first large-scale interpretable large language model.

Superbo AI: Investment Raised From Deep Capital Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 8, 2025

Superbo AI has secured its first external investment through a strategic funding round led by Deep Capital Group, marking a significant milestone in the company’s global expansion plans. The investment supports Superbo AI’s efforts to scale its Agentic AI technology across international markets and accelerate adoption within regulated industries.

IBM Buying Confluent In $11 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 8, 2025

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent in a transaction valuing the data streaming company at $11 billion, marking one of IBM’s most significant deals in recent years as it expands its position in hybrid cloud, enterprise AI and real-time data infrastructure.

Govstream.ai: $3.6 Million Seed Funding Raised To Accelerate AI Native Permitting For U.S. Cities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

Govstream.ai has secured a $3.6 million Seed round to expand its AI-driven permitting platform, designed to help local governments process development applications more efficiently and shorten approval timelines. The Seattle-based company intends to shrink permitting cycles from months to weeks and ultimately to days by unifying chats, emails, voice interactions, plans, and workflows into a single conversational system.

Harvey: $160 Million At $8 Billion Valuation Raised For Advancing AI Tech For Legal Pros

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

Harvey has secured a significant funding milestone with a $160 million investment round, valuing the company at $8 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the financing and follows a recent investment from EQT, further broadening Harvey’s base of prominent backers. Additional new investors include WndrCo and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., joining returning supporters Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and Elad Gil.

Curvestone AI: $4 Million Seed Funding Closed To Scale Reliable Automation For Regulated Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

Curvestone AI has secured $4 million in seed funding, led by MTech Capital, with participation from Boost Capital Partners, D2 Fund, and Portfolio Ventures. The investment marks a significant milestone for the London-based company as it accelerates efforts to bring dependable, end-to-end AI automation to financial services, legal, and insurance teams.

OpenAI Launches Up To $2 Million Research Grant Program Focused On Mental Health Safety

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

OpenAI announced a major new funding initiative that will award up to $2 million to support independent research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and mental health, marking one of the organization’s most significant external safety investments to date. The program, which is now accepting applications through December 19, 2025, seeks to generate new insights, resources, and evaluation tools that can strengthen both OpenAI’s internal safety work and the broader field.

Imper.ai: $28 Million Closed To Advance Real-Time Defense Against AI-Driven Impersonation Threats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

Imper.ai has launched with $28 million in funding as it seeks to establish a new standard for real-time defense against AI-driven impersonation and social engineering attacks. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures, with participation from Maple VC, Vessy VC, and Cerca Partners. The funding will support Imper.ai’s efforts to scale its platform and expand its presence across industries facing surging identity-based cyber threats.

Mirage Digital: Interview With COO Robin Bigge & Chief Content Officer John Littell About The Product-Content Infrastructure Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 7, 2025

Mirage Digital builds an AI-powered product-content infrastructure that helps brands automatically generate, manage, and optimize high-quality product descriptions, images, and metadata across e-commerce platforms. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mirage Digital COO Robin Bigge and Chief Content Officer John Littell to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Tracktile: $1.25 Million Seed Round Raised To Advance AI Operating System For Food And Beverage Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Tracktile, a Canadian AI software company focused on modernizing operations for small and medium-sized food and beverage manufacturers, has secured a $1.25 million Seed investment to accelerate the development and expansion of its AI-powered Operating System. The funding round was led by BDC Seed Venture Fund and Island Capital Partners, with participation from Graphite Ventures, marking a significant step in Tracktile’s plan to bring enterprise-grade intelligent manufacturing tools to underserved operators across North America.

Marvell To Acquire Celestial AI In $3.25 Billion Deal To Accelerate Optical Scale-Up Connectivity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Orq.ai: €5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Advance Enterprise AI Agent Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 6, 2025

Orq.ai has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to accelerate the development and adoption of production-grade AI agents across global enterprises. The round was led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion exe, with continued participation from Curiosity VC, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The new investment brings Orq.ai’s total funding to €7.3 million since its launch in 2022.