Artificial Intelligence

Envive AI: $15 Million Series A Raised For Powering Self-Improving Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Envive AI is leading the way in shaping the future of digital commerce with its intelligent technology. Recently, the company announced that it has completed a $15 million Series A funding round, which was led by Fuse VC. This brings the total funding that Envive has raised so far to $20 million. The innovative solutions offered by Envive focus on creating self-improving AI agents that are safe for brands. These agents are designed to enhance every interaction that a customer has with a brand, ultimately driving better business outcomes and promoting growth on a large scale.

Bria: Series B Extension Closed For Visual Generative AI Platform-As-A-Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Bria is a leading visual generative AI platform-as-a-service (PaaS) dedicated to empowering businesses to create scalable and compliant visual content. Recently, Bria announced an essential strategic investment from Bright Pixel Capital.

Airia: $100 Million Secured For Advancing Safe And Secure Enterprise AI Adoption

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Airia, a rising enterprise AI security and orchestration platform, has made headlines by announcing it has secured a significant $100 million in funding. This investment is crucial for the company as it aims to help organizations safely deploy and scale their artificial intelligence initiatives. Out of the total funding, $50 million has already been invested, while the remaining $50 million commitment was revealed recently.

FormlyAI: $2 Million Raised For Medical Device Certification Solution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

FormlyAI is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence in the certification of medical devices. Recently, the company announced that it has completed a seed funding round, raising $2 million. This funding round was led by Heal Capital, with additional participation from Gradient, Massive Tech Ventures, Gaingels, and Mana Ventures. This financial support will significantly enhance FormlyAI’s mission to simplify and automate the complex regulatory processes that medical device companies face worldwide.

micro1: $35 Million Series A Raised At $500 Million Valuation For Talent And Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

micro1 is an innovative platform designed to connect artificial intelligence companies with some of the world’s leading experts. This collaboration aims to improve the intelligence of large language models, commonly referred to as LLMs. Recently, micro1 announced it has secured $35 million in a Series A funding round, which was led by 01A.

Nory: $37 Million Series B Closed To Transform Restaurant Operations With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Nory, an innovative platform that uses artificial intelligence to improve restaurant operations, has recently announced the successful completion of a $37 million Series B funding round. Kinnevik led this funding and brings the total amount raised by the company to $62.6 million, which is noteworthy considering this achievement comes just a year after their Series A funding round. This new investment signifies a significant step forward in Nory's commitment to provide hospitality operators with advanced solutions that not only make their businesses more profitable but also more sustainable.

EvoluteIQ: $53 Million Raised For Advancing Global Expansion Of Its Agentic AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

EvoluteIQ, an advanced AI platform that caters to a range of global Fortune 500 companies, has recently announced the completion of a significant funding round. This round raised $53 million in minority growth capital, led by Baird Capital, a well-known investment firm.

Upscale AI: Over $100 Million Seed Round Launched For AI Networking Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Upscale AI is an innovative company that recently launched into the high-performance AI networking space, having secured more than $100 million in funding to kickstart its journey. The funding was raised through a seed round that was co-led by notable investment firms Mayfield and Maverick Silicon. The round also saw contributions from various other investors, including StepStone Group, Celesta Capital, Xora, Qualcomm Ventures, Cota Capital, MVP Ventures, and even Stanford University.

Trially AI: $4.7 Million Raised For AI-Based Clinical Trial Recruitment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Trially, an innovative platform that focuses on enhancing clinical trial recruitment through the power of artificial intelligence, has recently announced a significant milestone. The company has successfully secured $4.7 million in funding, which will support the launch of Margo, its new AI solution designed to enhance the recruitment process for clinical trials. The primary goal of Margo is to boost trial enrollment by effectively converting patient matches into actual participants, addressing a critical challenge in the healthcare sector.

DRUID AI: $31 Million Series C Raised For Advancing Agentic AI Platform Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

DRUID AI announced it has secured $31 million in Series C financing to advance the global expansion of its enterprise-ready agentic AI platform under the leadership of its new CEO, Joseph Kim. The strategic investment – which will advance DRUID AI’s mission to empower companies to create, manage, and orchestrate conversational AI agents – was led by Cipio Partners, with participation from TQ Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig, and Hoxton Ventures.

Invisible Technologies: $100 Million Raised For AI Infrastructure For The Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Invisible Technologies, a leading enterprise AI software platform, recently announced a successful funding round, raising $100 million to enhance its growth. The funding was led by Vanara Capital, a newly established investment management firm created by professionals with extensive experience from TPG. With this latest investment, Invisible Technologies has now raised a total of $144 million, and this marks the first publicly acknowledged investment deal from Vanara Capital.

Marvin: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Prayag Narula About The AI-Based Customer Insights Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2025

Marvin is a company that provides an AI-native customer insights platform, transforming how organizations capture and act on insights. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Marvin co-founder and CEO Prayag Narula to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

GreenLite: $49.5 Million Series B Secured To Transform Construction Permitting With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2025

GreenLite, a rapidly growing construction technology company, has announced that it has raised 49.5 million dollars in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Insight Partners, a global software investor, with additional support from Energize Capital and existing backers Craft Ventures, LiveOak Ventures, and Chicago Ventures.

MarqVision: $48 Million Series B Raised To Advance AI-Based Managed Service Platform For Brand Control

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2025

MarqVision, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses protect and manage their brands, has announced the closing of a $48 million Series B funding round. This brings the company’s total funding to $90 million. The round was led by Peak XV Partners, formerly known as Sequoia Capital India & SEA, with additional participation from Salesforce Ventures, HSG, Coral Capital, Michael Seibel of Y Combinator, and returning investors including Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, and Atinum Investment. The new funding will enable MarqVision to expand its services and strengthen its position as a leader in brand protection and digital risk management.

Accordion Expands European Presence with Senior Leadership Appointments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2025

Accordion, a financial consulting firm that utilizes AI and data to help private equity-backed companies create value, has appointed three senior executives to lead its European operations. The new leadership team—Paul Reading, Andy Burgess, and Steve Jones—brings extensive experience as CFOs, operating partners, and finance leaders. Their backgrounds ensure that clients work with advisors who understand the real-world challenges of delivering results in private equity environments.

Groq: $750 Million Raised At $6.9 Billion Valuation For AI Inference Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Groq, a leader in AI inference technology, has raised $750 million in new financing, valuing the company at $6.9 billion post-money. The funding round was led by Disruptive, with significant participation from BlackRock, Neuberger Berman, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, and a large U.S.-based West Coast mutual fund manager. Existing investors — including Samsung, Cisco, D1, Altimeter, 1789 Capital, and Infinitum — also contributed.

NVIDIA Investing $5 Billion In Intel As Part Of Collaboration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Intel and NVIDIA have unveiled a major collaboration to co-develop multiple generations of custom products for both data centers and personal computing. The partnership aims to combine Intel’s leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem with NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing expertise, connected through NVIDIA’s high-speed NVLink technology.

Adaptive Security: Additional OpenAI Investment Brings Series A To $55 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2025

Adaptive Security, a company focused on preventing social engineering attacks powered by artificial intelligence, has announced an additional investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. This new funding brings the total raised in its Series A round to $55 million.

CodeRabbit: $60 Million Series B Raised For AI Code Review Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

CodeRabbit has closed a $60 million Series B financing round led by Scale Venture Partners, with NVentures: NVIDIA Venture Capital, and returning investors CRV, Harmony Partners, Flex Capital, Engineering Capital, and Pelion Venture Partners also participating.

Figure: Over $1 Billion Series C Raised At $39 Billion Valuation For Scaling Humanoid Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2025

Figure announced it has secured more than $1 billion in committed capital through its Series C financing round, achieving a post-money valuation of $39 billion. Parkway Venture Capital led the investment, joined by Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures. The new funding will accelerate Figure’s mission to deploy autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots powered by its AI system, Helix, into real-world settings at scale.

WorkFusion: $45 Million Secured To Power AI Agents In Financial Crime Compliance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

WorkFusion has raised $45 million in a new funding round led by Georgian, a growth-stage investor specializing in AI innovation. WorkFusion’s investors in this round include Serengeti Asset Management, Nokia Growth Partners, Teralys Capital, Hawk Equity, Chubb INA Holdings, Declaration Partners, SVB Innovation Credit Fund, Konrad Investments, and members of the company’s own leadership team. Their support reflects growing demand for solutions that can manage the complexity and scale of modern financial crime prevention.

Enginius.ai: Investment Raised From CerraCap Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

CerraCap Ventures has announced a strategic investment in Enginius.ai. This rapidly growing AI company is focused on transforming the way engineering teams work by delivering highly specialized, secure, and precise AI tools designed explicitly for technical environments.

LSEG: Blockchain-Powered Digital Markets Infrastructure Platform Launched

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

The London Stock Exchange Group has unveiled its new Digital Markets Infrastructure platform, a blockchain-based system designed to modernize how private funds are issued, traded, and serviced. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft and hosted on Microsoft Azure, the platform aims to bring greater efficiency, transparency, and scalability to the entire asset lifecycle from initial issuance and tokenization to distribution, settlement, and ongoing servicing.

Doctronic: $20 Million Series A Raised To Advance Personalized AI Doctor Tech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2025

Doctronic, a healthcare technology company built entirely around artificial intelligence, has announced that it has raised 20 million dollars in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional backing from Union Square Ventures, Tusk Ventures, Mantis VC, Seven Stars, and several well-known figures in the AI and healthcare fields, including Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Jay Desai, and Scott Belsky.

Alphabet’s Market Cap Hits $3 Trillion For The First Time

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Today, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has officially crossed the $3 trillion market capitalization threshold for the first time, cementing its place among the most valuable companies in the world. This milestone was achieved following a jump in the company’s share price, driven by renewed investor optimism around AI, a major legal win in a long-running antitrust case, and strong performance in its cloud computing division.

Zartico: Interview With Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer Jay Kinghorn About Z5, A Next-Generation Destination Operating System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2025

Zartico is a leading visitor intelligence SaaS company purpose-built for place-based industries. Their solutions fuse data science with real-world behavior to provide comprehensive insight into the visitor journey—spanning behavioral patterns, economic impact, and marketing effectiveness. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zartico co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Jay Kinghorn to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Nuclearn: $10.5 Million Raised To Advance AI Solutions For the Nuclear Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2025

Nuclearn, a technology company specializing in AI for nuclear operations, has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development and expand its market presence. The round was led by Blue Bear Capital, with participation from SJF Ventures and follow-on investments from AZ-VC and Nucleation Capital.

Sophont: $9.22 Million Seed Funding Secured For Multimodal Medical AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2025

Sophont, a startup building foundation models that reason across pathology slides, brain scans, clinical notes, and lab results, has closed a $9.22 million seed financing. The round was led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Upfront Ventures, Delphi Ventures, and prominent AI figures including Jeff Dean, Logan Kilpatrick, Lukas Biewald, and Clément Delangue.

Demand AI: $2.5 Million Secured To Advance Rollout Of B2B Demand Generation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2025

Demand AI Group has secured a $2.5 million investment from a coalition of international institutional backers and strategic local partners to support its rapid expansion in the business-to-business marketing sector. Founded earlier this year and headquartered in Denver, the company has built an AI-powered platform that streamlines lead generation, content creation, and customer engagement for enterprise clients.

Procense: $1.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For Automating Manufacturing With AI And IoT

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2025

Procense, a startup focused on industrial automation, has secured $1.5 million in seed funding led by Kevin Mahaffey and supported by HighSage Ventures. This investment will fuel the expansion of its AI-native manufacturing platform, enabling the company to grow its team and accelerate development of intelligent automation tools.