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Generare raises $23.2M to discover unknown molecules and advance new drugs
Generare Bioscience SAS, a Paris-based biotechnology company generating never-before-seen molecular data for drug development using artificial intelligence, announced today it has raised €20 million, about $23.3 million, in an early-stage funding round co-led by Alven and Daphni. All existing investors, including Galion.exe, Teampact Ventures and Vives Partners, joined the Series A round. Founded in 2023, ...
Alien raises $7.1M to build identity infrastructure for humans and AI agents
Alien, a startup looking to build trust infrastructure for the internet as the era of artificial intelligence agents changes how people interact with businesses and one another, today announced it has raised $7.1 million in pre-seed funding. “Alien is building the trust infrastructure for the agentic economy,” founder and Chief Executive Kirill Avery (pictured) told ...
Sona raises $45M to help businesses manage frontline operations with AI
Sona Technologies Ltd., an artificial intelligence platform helping enterprises handle frontline labor operations at large scale and deliver them more efficiently, today announced it has raised $45 million in early-stage funding led by N47. Existing investors Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and Italian Founders Fund also participated in the Series B round. Today’s funding brought the company’s ...
MemQ raises $10M to advance scalable distributed quantum networking
Quantum networking solutions startup memQ Inc. today announced it has raised $10 million in early-stage funding to advance scalable distributed networking for quantum computing. Quantonation and Ocean Azul Partners co-led the Series A round, with participation from both existing and new investors. Quantum computing represents a major shift in computing technology, allowing massively parallel exploration ...
Hackers compromise popular Axios Javascript library with hidden malware
The widely used Axios HTTP client library, a JavaScript component used by developers, was recently hacked to distribute malware via a compromised account. Attackers exploited a hijacked account on npm, a default package manager for Node.js, a tool that allows developers to share, install and manage Javascript project code to distribute the malicious software. According ...
Harness launches features to help dev teams coordinate releases to keep up with the AI coding era
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications, said today it’s shipping new features that help software teams orchestrate at AI speed. In the past, a team of developers, software engineers, cloud architects and operations specialists could coordinate multi-service releases. Today, that has changed with ...
Softr launches AI-native no-code business software building platform
Artificial intelligence app builder startup Softr Platforms GmbH launched a platform today that lets users build software for businesses to run without writing a line of code. With the introduction of the company’s AI Co-Builder, business teams can replace spreadsheets and manual work with fully functional apps, including internal tools, customer portals, partner platforms and ...
Mistral releases an open-weights ‘speaking’ AI model with Voxtral TTS
The Paris-based Mistral AI SAS today announced the release of Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech artificial intelligence model aimed at unseating the best-known and most powerful voice models on the market. The new model is very lightweight, with 4 billion parameters, which makes it a size that can be run on most consumer hardware, including ...
Qualified Health raises $125M to transform how enterprise healthcare systems adopt AI
Qualified Health, a company that provides a secure enterprise artificial intelligence platform for health systems, announced Wednesday it raised $125 million in an early-stage funding round. Founded in 2023, the firm offers enterprise-focused health systems with AI integrations aimed at safely bringing the technology into their organizations at scale, safely and securely. The objective of the ...
Bland launches Norm to help teams build production-ready voice agents in minutes
The artificial intelligence-powered voice platform Bland Inc. today announced Norm, an AI assistant that allows technical teams to build reliable voice agents from a conversational prompt. According to Bland, building voice AI agents is extremely difficult and requires considerable expertise. Unlike normal chat-based systems that merely respond to voice activation, AI voice agents must handle ...