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AI agent reliability startup Temporal raises $300M in funding
Temporal Technologies Inc., a startup with a cloud platform that makes artificial intelligence agents more reliable, has closed a $300 million funding round. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series D investment. Temporal stated in its announcement of the raise today that Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and several returning backers chipped in as well. The company ...
Palo Alto Networks acquires file security startup Koi for reported $400M
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is acquiring Koi Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises prevent their employees from downloading risky files. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. According to Calcalist, the transaction is worth $400 million. Tel Aviv-based Koi previously raised $48 million from Battery Ventures and other investors. The ...
Mistral AI acquires AI infrastructure startup Koyeb
Mistral AI SAS today announced that it has acquired Koyeb SAS, a startup with a cloud platform built to run artificial intelligence workloads. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Paris-based Mistral develops an eponymous series of open-source large language models. It also has several paid offerings, including a cloud platform called Mistral Compute. The ...
India’s Neysa raises $1.2B to expand its AI-optimized cloud platform
Cloud startup Neysa Networks Pvt. Ltd. today announced that it will raise up to $1.2 billion in financing to build data center infrastructure. A consortium led by Blackstone will provide up to half the sum in the form of equity funding. According to TechCrunch, the deal is set to buy the investor group a majority ...
Alibaba releases multimodal Qwen3.5 mixture of experts model
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. By default, Qwen3.5 is capable of processing prompts with up to 262,144 tokens. Developers can nearly quadruple that number ...
Grafana Labs reportedly raising funding at $9B valuation
Grafana Labs Inc., a startup focused on commercializing the open-source Grafana observability platform, is reportedly in talks to raise new capital. The Information today cited sources as saying Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund is expected to lead the round. It’s unclear how much funding Grafana Labs’ hopes to raise. However, the insiders did reveal that ...
Sales software companies Seismic and Highspot to merge
Seismic Software Inc. and Highspot Inc., two well-funded startups that develop software for enterprise sales teams, have signed a merger agreement. The companies announced the deal on Thursday. The combined organization is set to operate under the Seismic brand and will be led by Seismic Chief Executive Rob Tarkoff. Robert Wahbe, the founding CEO of ...
AI digital twin startup Simile raises $100M in funding
Simile Inc., a startup that’s using artificial intelligence to generate digital twins of individuals, has raised $100 million in funding. Lead investor Index Ventures announced the deal in a blog post published today. The venture capital firm was joined by several other institutional backers, including Bain Capital Ventures. AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI Group ...
Anthropic closes $30B round after annualized revenue tops $14B
Six months after closing a $13 billion investment, Anthropic PBC today announced that it has raised an additional $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation. Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund and Coatue led the round. They were joined by more than 30 other backers including D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, MGX and ICONIQ, ...
Check Point announces three startup acquisitions after mixed quarter
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has acquired three venture-backed startups to enhance its cybersecurity capabilities. The company announced the deals, which are reportedly worth $150 million, today in conjunction with the release of its earnings report. Check Point significantly exceeded profit expectations but its sales missed the consensus estimate by a hair. The company’s share ...