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Enterprise artificial intelligence services startup Hang Ten Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $53 million in a second seed round, less than three months after announcing its first. Hang Ten provides advisory, transformation and applied AI services, and its customers are …
Noetive launches with $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories and logistics
Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with $41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the company says design partners in manufacturing, logistics, energy and data centers …
CADDi raises $114M at $1.2B valuation to bring manufacturing AI to North America
Manufacturing artificial intelligence startup CADDi Co. Ltd. today announced it has raised $114 million in new funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion, partly to expand in North America. CADDi builds software that lets manufacturers put the information locked inside their engineering …
Neo4j launches GraphAware financial crime product for banks and insurers
Graph database company Neo4j Inc. today launched a product that banks and insurers can use to detect and investigate financial crime. The product is called Neo4j GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence. Today’s release is the first since Neo4j closed its purchase of GraphAware in …
Cohesity’s new Agent Resilience lets companies roll back AI agents that go wrong
Data security company Cohesity Inc. today introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience at its Catalyst conference. The new Cohesity Data Cloud capability backs up the memory and configuration of enterprise artificial intelligence agents so they can be rolled back to a trusted state when …
AI agent certification startup AIUC raises $40M to begin auditing frontier models
Artificial intelligence agent certification startup Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company today announced it has raised $40 million in new funding to begin auditing frontier AI models. Until now, its work has covered only the agents that companies build on those models. AIUC argues that …
Physical AI security startup Exein raises $270M at $1.7B valuation
Italian cybersecurity startup Exein SpA today announced that it has raised $270 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion to build security for robots, vehicles and other machines that run artificial intelligence. The company described the round as significantly oversubscribed. Exein was valued …
UltraViolet Cyber turns weeks of detection engineering into a 30-minute scan
Managed security services provider UltraViolet Cyber Inc. today launched Equinox, a detection engineering platform that grades how much of the known attacker playbook a customer’s existing security tooling would actually catch. Equinox inventories the detection rules and log sources a customer already …
Exaforce adds a kill switch for AI agents that go rogue
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today launched Exaforce AI Security, capabilities that let security teams see the artificial intelligence agents running across their environments and shut down the ones that turn hostile. Exaforce built the release around a gap in how …
StackGen launches Autonomous Operations Factory to govern production agents
Autonomous operations startup StackGen Inc. today launched the Autonomous Operations Factory, a governed layer that lets specialized artificial intelligence agents share context and divide the work of provisioning, deployment and incident response between them. Underneath it sits Aiden OS, which pairs a …