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Profound raises $96M at $1B valuation for AI discovery monitoring platform
Artificial intelligence discovery monitoring platform company Profound today announced that it had raised $96 million in new funding on a $1 billion valuation to expand its AI visibility monitoring and automation platform to support greater enterprise usage and to accelerate development of its analytics and AI-driven workflow capabilities. Founded in 2024, Profound offers software that ...
Veeam launches Agent Commander to tackle AI risk and reverse agent mistakes
Data management and data protection solutions provider Veeam Software Group GmbH today announced the launch of Agent Commander to help organizations safely detect artificial intelligence risk, protect AI systems and undo AI mistakes by empowering them to address AI-driven risks and securely scale AI agents. The new offering is powered by technology from Securiti Inc., a company ...
Axonis unveils decision intelligence offering to create a system of record for AI-driven decisions
Federated artificial intelligence infrastructure platform provider Axonis Inc. today announced the launch of Axonis Decision Intelligence, a new platform capability that allows enterprises to operationalize AI-assisted decision-making at scale by capturing and preserving the full context behind how decisions are made in a living system of record. AI systems have become adept at generating answers, ...
Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI
Nimble announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to accelerate development of its agentic web search platform, expand its multi-agent research capabilities and scale up its governed real-time web data infrastructure for enterprise artificial intelligence deployments. Founded in 2021 as Thhe Data Company Technologies Inc., Nimble offers a real-time web search ...
Druva launches Deep Analysis Agents to cut forensic investigations from days to minutes
Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced a major expansion of its DruAI platform with the launch of Deep Analysis Agents, agents that are capable of automating complex, multiday forensic and compliance investigations. Information technology and security teams spend too much time not just addressing problems but also proving what happened and why across incident response, forensics, ...
Arctic Wolf Networks acquires Sevco Security to expand exposure assessment capabilities
Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired exposure assessment startup Sevco Security Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Sevco offers an exposure assessment platform that is focused on addressing the challenge of comprehensive visibility and risk assessment across an organization’s attack surface. Modern information technology environments grow and ...
Google X spinout Taara launches Taara Beam to deliver fiber-like speeds through the air
Wireless communications startup Taara Connect Inc., a spinout from X, Google LLC’s Moonshot Factory, today unveiled Taara Photonics, a wireless communication platform based on optical phased arrays and Taara Beam, its first product based on its photonic core. Pitched by the company as being a breakthrough approach to commercial communications and connectivity infrastructure, the technology ...
Ubicquia raises $106M to expand AI-enabled infrastructure platform
Intelligent infrastructure solutions provider Ubicquia Inc. revealed today that it has raised $106 million in new funding to accelerate development of its artificial intelligence-enabled infrastructure solutions and expand direct sales efforts globally. Founded in 2014, Ubicquia offers intelligent infrastructure platforms that attach to existing utility and municipal assets to collect, process and transmit operational data. ...
Humand secures $66M to scale AI-powered operating system for frontline workers
Humand Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised $66 million in new funding to accelerate the expansion of its operating system for deskless workforces across the U.S. and 51 countries and to fund continued artificial intelligence development. Founded in 2020, Humand offers a platform to support deskless workforces, which account for a large portion ...
NIST launches AI Agent Standards Initiative as autonomous AI moves into production
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has launched the AI Agent Standards Initiative, a new program aimed at developing technical standards and guidance for autonomous artificial intelligence agents as their use accelerates across enterprise and government environments. The initiative, led by NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is designed to address emerging ...









