Artificial Intelligence

Haun Ventures: $1 Billion In New Funds Announced To Back Digital Assets And Agentic Economy Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2026

Haun Ventures announced $1 billion in new funds aimed at supporting founders building infrastructure and applications across digital assets, financial technology, tokenized markets, and the emerging agentic economy.

Sierra: $950 Million Raised At $15 Billion Valuation For AI Customer Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2026

Sierra announced it has raised $950 million from new and existing investors led by Tiger Global and GV at a valuation exceeding $15 billion.

Intel: Leadership Appointments Announced To Advance Client Computing And AI Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2026

Intel announced two executive leadership appointments aimed at strengthening its client computing business and advancing the company’s long-term AI and emerging technology strategy.

Nscale: 66,000+ NVIDIA Rubin GPUs Deployment Announced For Microsoft At Portugal AI Data Campus

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 6, 2026

Nscale announced an expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft and Start Campus that will deploy more than 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs at the SINES Data Campus in Portugal beginning in late 2027.

OpenAI Reportedly Secures Over $4 Billion For New Joint Venture The Deployment Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

OpenAI has secured more than $4 billion in capital for a new joint venture named The Deployment Company, designed to accelerate the corporate adoption of its artificial intelligence software, according to a Bloomberg report. The initiative drew participation from 19 investors including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, and Bain Capital Specialty Finance, among others. SoftBank Group and Dragoneer Investment Group are also among the backers.

Blitzy: $200 Million At $1.4 Billion Valuation Raised To Advance Autonomous Software Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Blitzy, the autonomous enterprise software development platform, has closed a $200 million funding round at a $1.4 billion valuation, marking one of the largest raises to date in the agentic coding category. The round was led by Northzone, with new investors including PSG, Battery Ventures, Jump Capital, Morgan Creek Digital, and Defiant, alongside continued support from Flybridge, Link Ventures, NFX, Picus Capital, and Venture Guides. Strategic investments came from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures, and BAL Ventures.

Astrada Raises $3.8 Million To Build The Data Layer For Autonomous Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Astrada, a startup building real-time financial data infrastructure, has closed a $3.8 million seed funding round to accelerate its platform for AI-driven enterprise finance. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors, and Nyca Partners, with strategic investments from Mastercard and follow-on participation from existing investor Visa. The San Francisco-based company launched in 2024 and has since processed more than $750 million in card spend and over three million transactions across all three major card networks through a single API.

QuantWare Raises $178 Million To Build World’s Most Powerful Quantum Processors At Industrial Scale

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

QuantWare, the industrial quantum processor company, has closed a $178 million Series B equity funding round to accelerate its VIO™ processor architecture and to fund the construction of KiloFab, the world's largest dedicated quantum open-architecture fabrication facility. The round marks the largest private funding round ever raised by a dedicated quantum processor company. New investors include Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners, joined by existing backers FORWARD.one, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, InnovationQuarter Capital, Ground State Ventures, and Graduate Ventures.

Nace.AI Secures $21.5 Million To Build Metamodel That Autonomously Runs Enterprise Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Nace.AI has raised $21.5 million in seed funding to commercialize a platform where more than 100 specialized AI agents autonomously execute complex enterprise workflows, with human experts providing final validation. The round was led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst and a group of institutional and angel investors. Alongside the announcement, the company is launching its product in research preview.

Moritz Raises $9 Million To Build An AI-Powered Law Firm For Complex Legal Matters

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Moritz, formerly known as Arcline, has raised $9 million from Y Combinator, 20VC, Urban Innovation Fund, Inception Fund, and more than 20 unicorn founders to build what the company describes as the law firm users have always wanted — one capable of resolving complex legal matters in hours without unsustainable costs. The company's cap table includes the founders of Dropbox, Reddit, Instacart, Hugging Face, Superhuman, WorkOS, Runway, Mixpanel, Rappi, Scribd, Supermetrics, Privy, Optimizely, Product Hunt, and Google Photos, alongside current and former Y Combinator partners, Lenny Rachitsky, and operators from ElevenLabs, Lovable, and OpenAI.

MOTHER.Tech Raises $15 Million And Launches Degen, A One-Tap AI Creative App

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

MOTHER.Tech, an AI-native creative studio based in Brooklyn, has launched Degen, a mobile app that allows users to generate images, videos, memes, carousels, and text content in a single tap without prompt engineering, model management, or editing skills. The app is available on iOS and Android via invite code and is backed by Google Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Box Group, and Shine Capital. The company has raised a total of $15 million, with the most recent investment coming in 2026.

Anthropic Partners With Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, And Goldman On $1.5 Billion AI Venture Targeting Private Equity-Owned Firms

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Anthropic has announced a partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman to launch a $1.5 billion venture to accelerate AI adoption across hundreds of portfolio companies, according to CNBC. Additional asset managers participating in the effort include Apollo and General Atlantic. The new entity, which has not yet been named, will deploy Anthropic's Claude AI model directly inside businesses, beginning with companies owned by the investment firms involved.

Toast Introduces IQ Grow AI Marketing Solution For Restaurants And Retailers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 5, 2026

Toast introduced Toast IQ Grow, a complete marketing solution designed to take on the day-to-day work of marketing a business, from identifying a lunch slowdown to automatically launching a campaign to address it. The announcement includes more than 20 updates across marketing, payroll, inventory, and operations, with a stated goal of reducing the operational burden on restaurant and retail operators.

Bizora: Interview With Founder & CEO Adam Tahir About The Tax Research And Advisory Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2026

Bizora is an AI-powered tax research and advisory platform that helps professionals, such as CPAs and attorneys, quickly obtain citation-backed answers, navigate complex federal and state compliance, and manage M&A transactions, reducing manual research time significantly. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bizora founder and CEO Adam Tahir to learn more.

CommLoan: Interview With Founder & CEO Mitch Ginsberg About The Real Estate Lending Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2026

CommLoan is a commercial real estate lending technology company that operates a digital marketplace using its proprietary CUPID AI engine to connect borrowers and brokers with a wide range of commercial mortgage lenders, streamlining the financing process. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CommLoan founder and CEO Mitch Ginsberg to learn more.

OPAQUE Acquires Cryptographic AI Technology From UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 4, 2026

OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company headquartered in San Francisco and founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's RISELab, has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council. The acquisition marks the first time cryptographic AI technologies developed in the UAE have been acquired and deployed at scale by a U.S.-based technology company.

Redwood AI Announces Enhanced AI Models, Increasing Evaluated Chemical Reactions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2026

Redwood AI has announced preliminary results from a research initiative conducted in collaboration with Professor Jolene Reid at the University of British Columbia, aimed at significantly enhancing Reactosphere, the company's AI-driven chemical synthesis platform. The initiative has produced new models that expand the platform's evaluated chemical reaction universe from approximately 4 million training examples to more than 21 million — a 425% increase.

Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations To End Back-Office Bottlenecks

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2026

Salesforce has introduced Agentforce Operations, a new solution designed to transform slow, fragmented back-office processes into automated, agent-driven workflows that can cut cycle times by up to 70% and eliminate as much as 80% of manual tasks such as data entry, compliance checks, and approval routing. The launch marks a significant expansion of the company's Agentforce platform beyond customer-facing applications and into the internal operational systems that govern how businesses run day to day.

Green Cabbage: Launch Of Harvest AI Platform Advances Procurement Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 3, 2026

Green Cabbage has launched Harvest, an agentic AI platform designed to enhance procurement intelligence and enable faster, more informed decision-making across organizations. The platform integrates market, supplier, and commercial data into a unified experience aimed at improving negotiation outcomes and cost efficiency.