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Orbital raises $60M to modernize real estate law with AI
Orbital Witness Ltd., an artificial intelligence platform for real estate law, said today it has raised $60 million in early-stage funding led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital to grow its market share in the United Kingdom and the United States. New investors in the Series B round included REV, the venture capital ...
Nvidia launches Earth-2 open AI weather forecast models and tools
Nvidia Corp. today unveiled Earth-2, its artificial intelligence models and tools for scientists, startups, developers, enterprises and governments worldwide to make weather prediction more accessible than ever. Access to weather prediction matters because it shapes the map of human decisions, from the mundane to the profound. If a logistics leader knows a rainstorm will hit ...
Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation to build worker skills using AI avatars
London-based Synthesia Ltd., an artificial intelligence video avatar platform, today announced that it has raised $200 million in a late-stage funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion. Founded in 2017, Synthesia offers a platform that generates photorealistic lifelike video avatars of people using generative AI. The company said it will use the new Series E ...
Nexxa.ai raises $9M to streamline the world’s industrial backbone with AI
Nexxa.ai Inc. announced today that it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Construct Capital, with significant participation from a16z and existing investors, to help heavy industry engineers modernize their software stack. Launched in 2024, the company builds specialized AI agents for heavy industries and engineers who design rail networks, factories, construction projects, ...
AheadComputing lands $30M to build RISC-V processors for AI data centers
AheadComputing Inc., a company pioneering breakthrough central processing unit microarchitecture to deliver next generation performance for future artificial intelligence needs, today announced it has raised $30 million in early-stage funding. Eclipse, Toyota Ventures and Cambium co-led the Seed2 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $53 million to date. Corner, Trousdale, EPIQ, MESH and Stata also ...
LexisNexis unveils global launch of AI work automation for legal professionals
LexisNexis, the global data and analytics division of RELX Inc., today unveiled a new commercial preview program for its Protégé artificial intelligence assistant for legal and business professionals, introducing workflows backed by citable authority and data. As AI adoption makes inroads into the legal industry, trust and reliability continue to become an important hallmark. LexisNexis ...
AiStrike raises $7M to expand preemptive cyber defense for the AI era
AiStrike, a cybersecurity company pioneering artificial intelligence-native cyber defense, announced today it has raised $7 million in seed funding to scale its its platform for cybersecurity operations. The round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Runtime Ventures, NextEra Energy Investments and Oregon Venture Fund. The company aims to use AI to disrupt the ...
XBuild raises $19M to launch AI-powered residential roofing contract estimation product
XBuild, a company aiming to bring artificial intelligence to residential construction contractors, today announced it raised $19 million in early-stage funding to build what it calls a “vibe coding” estimating platform for construction projects. N47 led the Series A round, and Rackhouse Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz also participated. XBuild was founded by the Firemaps Inc. ...
Harness launches a ‘human-aware’ site reliability engineering agent
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications, said today it’s launching a “human-aware change agent” to help teams resolve incidents faster without adding extra members. The company said AI site reliability brings together the critical components of response engineering by capturing context, coordinating action ...
Legato raises $7M to corral in-platform vibe coding with SaaS app AI builder
Legato, a company building in-platform artificial intelligence “vibe” application creation for business users, today announced $7 million in seed funding to expand its software-as-a-service product that allows businesses to embed AI builders directly into their products. Israel-based early-stage venture capital firm S Capital VC led the funding round with participation from Cerca Partners. The company ...