Artificial Intelligence

Nexalin: $1.3 Million PONM Acquisition Expands AI-Integrated Neurostimulation Platform Ahead Of FDA Trial

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Nexalin Technology announced it has acquired PONM from GreenLight Ventures in a $1.3 million stock transaction designed to strengthen the digital infrastructure behind Nexalin’s HALO Clarity neurostimulation platform and Nexalin NeuroCarevirtual clinic.

Commure: $70 Million Raised At $7 Billion Valuation For AI Healthcare Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Commure, an AI platform focused on healthcare operations, announced that it raised $70 million in financing at a $7 billion post-money valuation. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Kirkland & Ellis.

Rightbrain AI: £3 Million Raised To Help Enterprises Safely Deploy AI Across Existing Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Rightbrain AI has raised £3 million in funding to expand its enterprise AI platform designed to help organizations securely deploy and manage artificial intelligence tools across existing business systems. The round was led by NPIF II, with participation from existing investors Salica Investments and NYDIG.

Primer: $100 Million Series C Raised To Accelerate AI Payments Platform And US Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Primer announced a $100 million Series C funding round to accelerate the development of AI-powered payment infrastructure and expand its footprint in the US market.

StitcherAI: $3 Million Raised To Launch IT Investment ROI Platform For AI Spend Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

StitcherAI announced the general availability of its IT Finance intelligence platform designed to help enterprises evaluate whether AI and technology investments are generating measurable business returns. The company also revealed it launched with $3 million in pre-seed funding led by Founders Co-op, with participation from Sunshine Lake VC, Ascend, and Plug and Play Ventures.

Intercontinental Exchange and Ornn Launching Suite Of GPU Compute Futures Contracts

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Intercontinental Exchange and Ornn announced plans to launch a suite of GPU compute futures contracts based on Ornn’s Compute Price Index (OCPI), creating new price discovery and hedging tools for the rapidly expanding AI compute economy.

Anthropic: Andrej Karpathy Joins To Focus On Frontier LLM R&D

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Andrej Karpathy announced that he has joined Anthropic, signaling his return to frontier large language model research and development during what he described as a formative period for the industry.

KPMG: Claude Integrated Across 276,000-Person Workforce In Strategic Alliance With Anthropic

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

KPMG announced a global alliance with Anthropic to integrate Claude across its core business operations and workforce of more than 276,000 employees worldwide. The initiative will embed Claude into KPMG’s Digital Gateway platform, which is used by the firm’s professionals and clients for tax, legal, advisory, and other business services across 138 countries and territories.

Socket: $60 Million Series C Raised At $1 Billion Valuation To Help Enterprises Secure AI-Generated Code

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Socket announced it has raised $60 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation as enterprises accelerate adoption of AI coding tools and seek better ways to secure third-party open source dependencies entering production environments. The round was led by Thrive Capital with participation from a16z, Abstract Ventures, and Capital One Ventures.

Google DeepMind: Project Genie Expands With Street View-Powered Real-World Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Google DeepMind announced a major expansion for Project Genie, its experimental world model platform, by integrating Google Street View imagery into the experience, allowing users to generate interactive virtual environments grounded in real-world locations.

Google Reveals Gemini For Science, An AI Research Tool And Science Skills Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Google introduced Gemini for Science, a new collection of AI-powered scientific tools and experiments designed to accelerate discovery and support researchers across disciplines. The initiative combines multiple Google DeepMind technologies, including Co-Scientist, AlphaEvolve, Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), and NotebookLM, to streamline key parts of the scientific method.

Google Unveils Gemini Omni, An AI Model That Can Create Videos From Any Input

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Google announced Gemini Omni, a new family of AI models designed to combine Gemini’s reasoning capabilities with advanced content creation features, starting with video generation and editing. The first model in the lineup, Gemini Omni Flash, is rolling out to the Gemini app, Google Flow, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube Create App.

Viktor: $75 Million Series A Raised For AI Employee Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Viktor announced a $75 million Series A funding round led by Accel as the company continues expanding its AI employee platform for businesses. The company said it reached a $15 million annualized revenue run rate within 10 weeks and is positioning its product as an “AI coworker” that can autonomously execute workflows and business tasks.

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 To Enable Long-Horizon Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2026

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5, its newest family of AI models designed to combine frontier-level intelligence with agentic capabilities, enabling developers and enterprises to execute complex, long-horizon workflows more efficiently. The launch begins with Gemini 3.5 Flash, a model focused on coding, multimodal reasoning, and high-speed autonomous task execution.

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.