Artificial Intelligence

Shyld AI: $13.4 Million Raised For Active AI Hospital Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Shyld AI, a healthcare technology company developing Active Intelligence systems for healthcare facilities, announced it has raised a $13.4 million seed round to expand deployments across U.S. hospitals. The financing round is one of the largest early stage raises in the healthcare AI sector and was led by Aulis Capital.

Torq: AI SOC Platform Expanded Through Jit Acquisition To Advance Context-Aware SecOps

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Torq announced the acquisition of Jit, a Boston-based cybersecurity company focused on AI Context Graph technology, in a move designed to strengthen the company’s AI-driven security operations platform and accelerate the evolution of autonomous security operations centers.

Exhibitly.ai: €1.4 Million Raised To Modernize B2B Events With AI-Powered Personalization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Exhibitly.ai announced that it has raised €1.4 million in funding to modernize B2B events through AI-powered hyper-personalization technology designed for exhibition and conference attendees.

OwlTing Group: AI Agent Hospitality Booking Engine Launches for End-to-End Travel Transactions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

OwlTing Group announced the upcoming launch of OwlPay Booking Engine for Agent Checkout, a hospitality booking infrastructure platform designed to support AI agent-initiated hotel reservations, payments, confirmation workflows, and cross-border settlement. The company said the service is expected to launch in June 2026 and will initially roll out across the more than 2,800 hotel and accommodation clients currently using its OwlNest property management system.

Automation Anywhere: EnterpriseClaw Launches To Run AI Agents Across Enterprise Systems With Cisco, NVIDIA, Okta, And OpenAI

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Automation Anywhere announced EnterpriseClaw, a new capability developed in collaboration with Cisco, NVIDIA, Okta, and OpenAI that is designed to bring claw-style AI agents into enterprise operations. The company said EnterpriseClaw enables organizations to deploy autonomous AI agents across cloud platforms, desktops, on-premises systems, and secure enterprise networks while maintaining centralized orchestration, governance, observability, and control.

Unframe: $50 Million Raised As Enterprise AI Company Surpasses $100 Million TCV

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Unframe announced it has raised an additional $50 million in funding led by Highland Europe, bringing the company’s total funding to $100 million. Existing investors participating in the company include Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, TLV Partners, Third Point Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Vintage Investment Partners.

Auxia: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Sandeep Menon About The Agentic AI Platform Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Auxia is an agentic marketing platform that autonomously determines the best experience for every customer, orchestrating cross-channel, real-time journeys across web, app, email, and SMS while optimizing for business goals like activation, retention, cross-sell, and lifetime value. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Auxia co-founder and CEO Sandeep Menon to learn more.

Contrario: $2.3 Million Raised For AI Recruiting Platform That Hit $6 Million Annualized Revenue

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Contrario, an AI-native recruiting platform built for high-growth companies, officially launched after reaching $6 million in annualized revenue and paying more than $1 million to recruiters in under six months.

Hammerhead AI: Interview With Founder & CEO Rahul Kar About Data Center Power Infrastructure Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2026

Hammerhead AI uses reinforcement learning agents to optimize data center power infrastructure, enabling operators to increase AI token production by up to 30% within existing power limits. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Hammerhead AI founder and CEO Rahul Kar to learn more.

Ocean: $28 Million Raised For Agentic Email Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Ocean announced its launch from stealth with $28 million in total funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital and Cerca Partners. Additional angel investors include Assaf Rappaport, Wiz founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael, along with Dor Knafo.

Procurement Sciences: Interview With Founder & CEO Christian Ferreira About The Government Contracting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Procurement Sciences is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors and businesses streamline the bidding and proposal process, allowing them to find, win, and deliver contracts more efficiently. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Procurement Sciences founder and CEO Christian Ferreira to learn more.

Thalo Labs: Investment Raised To Bring AI-Powered HVAC Diagnostics To Technicians

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Thalo Labs announced an investment from Suffolk Technologies, the venture capital affiliate of Suffolk Construction, along with a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered HVAC diagnostics and service intelligence. The investment reflects growing demand for more proactive and intelligent service models across the HVAC industry as contractors face labor shortages, aging infrastructure, and increasing system complexity.

Blank Bio: $7.2 Million Seed Financing Raised To Advance RNA Foundation Models For Precision Oncology

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Blank Bio, an applied AI research lab focused on training foundation models for RNA, announced the closing of a $7.2 million seed financing round along with a strategic collaboration with Pacific Biosciences to advance RNA foundation models for precision oncology.

Nourish: $100 Million Series C Raised For AI-Native Metabolic Health Clinic

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Nourish announced a $100 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total funding to $215 million as it expands its AI-powered metabolic healthcare platform focused on reversing chronic disease. The funding round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Atomico, Daybreak, and Operator Partners. As part of the investment, Menlo Ventures partner J.P. Sanday will join Nourish’s board.

Scope: $20 Million Raised For AI Inspection Platform Transforming The TIC Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Scope, an AI workflow platform for the testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry, announced it has raised $20 million in funding led by Index Ventures with participation from Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and Syndicate 1. The company also attracted notable angel investors including Mehdi Ghissassi, Cedric Pech, Naren Shaam, and Andy Szybalski.

Decart: $300 Million Raised At Nearly $4 Billion Valuation Raised To Make Switching AI Chips Easier

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Decart, a frontier AI research lab focused on real-time video and world models, announced a $300 million funding round led by Radical Ventures as the company expands its infrastructure platform for low-latency AI systems. New investors in the round included NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, Toyota Ventures, eBay Ventures, Atreides Management, and Valor Equity Partners. Existing backers Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Zeev Ventures also participated. Individual investors included Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, the Nintendo family, and gaming investor Moritz Baier-Lentz. This funding round was raised at nearly a $4 billion valuation.

Cursor: Composer 2.5 Upgrade Improves AI Coding Performance And Long-Running Task Execution

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor, introducing substantial improvements in intelligence, usability, and collaboration capabilities over Composer 2. Built on the same open-source checkpoint as Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5, the updated model is designed to handle sustained work on long-running tasks, follow complex instructions more reliably, and deliver a more polished collaborative experience.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Foundation: $108.3 Million Donated In CoreWeave AI Computing Resources For Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

The foundation established by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, has purchased approximately $108.3 million worth of AI computing resources from CoreWeave and donated the computing capacity to universities and nonprofit research institutions focused on advancing artificial intelligence and scientific discovery.

PolyAI: Agentic Dialog Platform Opened To All Builders

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 19, 2026

PolyAI announced it is opening its Agentic Dialog Platform to all builders, giving developers and enterprise teams access to the same conversational AI infrastructure used by hundreds of global enterprises. The company said the platform will be free for the first two months and enables teams to build production-ready dialog agents in under ten minutes.