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Nexxa.ai raises $9M to streamline the world’s industrial backbone with AI
Nexxa.ai Inc. announced today that it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Construct Capital, with significant participation from a16z and existing investors, to help heavy industry engineers modernize their software stack. Launched in 2024, the company builds specialized AI agents for heavy industries and engineers who design rail networks, factories, construction projects, ...
AheadComputing lands $30M to build RISC-V processors for AI data centers
AheadComputing Inc., a company pioneering breakthrough central processing unit microarchitecture to deliver next generation performance for future artificial intelligence needs, today announced it has raised $30 million in early-stage funding. Eclipse, Toyota Ventures and Cambium co-led the Seed2 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $53 million to date. Corner, Trousdale, EPIQ, MESH and Stata also ...
LexisNexis unveils global launch of AI work automation for legal professionals
LexisNexis, the global data and analytics division of RELX Inc., today unveiled a new commercial preview program for its Protégé artificial intelligence assistant for legal and business professionals, introducing workflows backed by citable authority and data. As AI adoption makes inroads into the legal industry, trust and reliability continue to become an important hallmark. LexisNexis ...
AiStrike raises $7M to expand preemptive cyber defense for the AI era
AiStrike, a cybersecurity company pioneering artificial intelligence-native cyber defense, announced today it has raised $7 million in seed funding to scale its its platform for cybersecurity operations. The round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Runtime Ventures, NextEra Energy Investments and Oregon Venture Fund. The company aims to use AI to disrupt the ...
XBuild raises $19M to launch AI-powered residential roofing contract estimation product
XBuild, a company aiming to bring artificial intelligence to residential construction contractors, today announced it raised $19 million in early-stage funding to build what it calls a “vibe coding” estimating platform for construction projects. N47 led the Series A round, and Rackhouse Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz also participated. XBuild was founded by the Firemaps Inc. ...
Harness launches a ‘human-aware’ site reliability engineering agent
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications, said today it’s launching a “human-aware change agent” to help teams resolve incidents faster without adding extra members. The company said AI site reliability brings together the critical components of response engineering by capturing context, coordinating action ...
Legato raises $7M to corral in-platform vibe coding with SaaS app AI builder
Legato, a company building in-platform artificial intelligence “vibe” application creation for business users, today announced $7 million in seed funding to expand its software-as-a-service product that allows businesses to embed AI builders directly into their products. Israel-based early-stage venture capital firm S Capital VC led the funding round with participation from Cerca Partners. The company ...
Reps launches to help teams train for AI-powered execution
Reps, a startup focused on making “execution readiness” measurable, today launched its artificial intelligence platform designed to help enterprises move from planning to action. Although enterprise teams are still beginning to learn how to use AI and understand how it can accelerate everyday work, many are running into stumbling blocks. What companies are starting to ...
Fetch.ai launches FetchCoder V2 to help developers ship autonomous agents
Cambridge, U.K.-based artificial intelligence lab Fetch.ai Ltd. today announced the launch of FetchCoder V2, an AI coding assistant purpose-built for autonomous software development. According to the company, its new AI software development assistant addresses challenges that traditional, general-purpose copilots can’t by helping developers build agents that can act, learn and interact independently across decentralized systems. ...
Project Eleven raises $20M to prepare cryptoasset blockchains for the quantum era
Project Eleven, a pioneer leading the post-quantum security migration for digital assets, said Wednesday it raised $20 million in early-stage funding to fuel its mission to protect blockchain infrastructure. Castle Island Ventures led the round, joined by Coinbase Ventures, Fin Capital, Variant, Quantonation, Nebular, Formation, Lattice Fund, Satstreet Ventures, Nascent Ventures and Balaji Srinivasan. The ...