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Agentic finance automation startup Stacks raises $23M in funding
London-based startup Stacks Technologies B.V. says enterprise financial operations are due for a much-needed injection of “agentic” automation after raising $23 million in an early-stage funding today. Today’s Series A round was led by the high-profile venture capital firm Lightspeed, and saw participation from General Catalyst, EQT Ventures and S16VC. It comes less than a ...
Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today said it has raised $15 million in seed funding from Mayfield to build that platform. ...
Amplitude reports mixed earnings results after launching new agentic analytics tools
Shares of the behavior-tracking software company Amplitude Inc. edged barely higher in late trading today after it posted its latest financial results, maintaining momentum after rising more than 12% during regular trading hours. The after-hours gain was surprising, because Amplitude could only deliver mixed fourth-quarter results and guidance. It reported adjusted earnings of just 4 ...
ChipAgents secures $50M in funding to accelerate agentic chip design
Agentic artificial intelligence startup ChipAgents said today it’s ready to bring automation to one of the toughest challenges of all after raising $50 million in an early-stage funding today, bringing its total amount raised to date to $74 million. The Series A1 round was led by Matter Venture Partners and saw participation from Bessemer Venture ...
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end
Efficient Computer Co. says it’s going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by Triatomic Capital and saw participation from Eclipse, Overlap Holdings, Union Square Ventures, RTX Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Overmatch Ventures and others, bringing its total ...
With $20M in funding, Solid Data has a solid plan to improve the reliability of AI agents
Solid Data Inc. is trying to help enterprises get around the problem of error-prone artificial intelligence agents after raising $20 million in seed funding today. The round, led by Team8 and SignalFire, will help Solid to accelerate the deployment of its AI-ready semantic models, which are designed to help AI systems verify, prepare and understand ...
Meta agrees to buy millions more AI chips from Nvidia, raising doubts about its in-house hardware
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed a new deal with Nvidia Corp. to buy millions of its next-generation Vera Rubin graphics processing units and a similar number of Grace central processing units to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. The deal, announced today, is likely to be worth billions of dollars. In a statement, Meta Chief Executive ...
Mesh Optical Technologies raises $50M to mass produce American-made data center links
Three SpaceX Corp. alumni who helped the rocket company develop optical communications for its Starlink satellite Wi-Fi service have raised millions of dollars to commercialize that technology for data centers. Mesh Optical Technologies, co-founded by its Chief Executive Travis Brashears, President Cameron Ramos and Vice President of Product Serena Grown-Haeberli, said today it has raised ...
Braintrust lands $80M funding round to become the observability layer for AI
Artificial intelligence-native observability startup Braintrust Data Inc. believes it’s on a fast track to becoming an essentially infrastructure layer for AI models and agents in production after raising $80 million in a middle-stage funding today. The Series B round was led by Iconiq and saw participation from high-profile backers, including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, basecase capital ...
Glean adds a bit more sheen to its enterprise AI assistant
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Glean Technologies Inc. said today it’s boosting the capabilities of its digital coworker Glean Assistant, making it much more customizable than before. Users are getting all kinds of new goodies, including real-time voice support, the ability to generate on-brand content, proactive templates and agent sandboxes for sensitive tasks. They’re also getting ...