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Drizz launches with $2.7M to provide vision-based testing AI for mobile apps
Drizz Automation Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a company that uses vision-enabled generative artificial intelligence agents to test mobile applications, today announced it launched with $2.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Shastra VC, with participation from former Cleartrip Chief Business Officer Anuj Rathi and Vaibhav Domkundwar. The company said ...
Trunk Tools raises $40M to revolutionize how construction teams interact with project data
Trunk Tools Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered platform for construction teams, today announced it has raised $40 million in fresh funding to change how project management works. The Series B round, led by Insight Partners, also attracted participation from Redpoint Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Stepstone, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Prudence. The new funds bring the total funding ...
Gupshup raises $60M+ to expand its conversational AI and messaging platform
Gupshup Inc., the developer of a conversational artificial intelligence platform for marketing, commerce and support automation, announced Wednesday it has raised more than $60 million in mixed equity and debt financing from Globespan Capital Partners and EvolutionX Debt Capital to expand its operations. Founded in 2004, Gupshup began as a text messaging platform. It now ...
Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you
Leena AI Inc., the developer of an employee-facing agentic artificial intelligence assistant, today announced the launch of what it’s calling AI colleagues, which can speak out loud and listen using natural, conversational language in the workplace. The company said its AI agents can work and interact just like human employees can and provide support across ...
HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software
HeroDevs LLC, a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for deprecated open-source software, today announced it raised $125 million in strategic growth investment from PSG. Deprecated open-source projects are those where the original developers no longer recommend using them or are planning to stop updating them in the future. They are essentially legacy projects ...
Holistic AI report: Red teaming could have prevented Grok 4’s public collapse
Artificial intelligence large language models are being deployed more frequently in sensitive, public-facing roles, and sometimes they go very wrong. Recently Grok 4, the LLM developed by X.AI Corp. and deployed on X, made headlines for all the wrong reasons. During the second week of July, Grok went on what can only be described as ...
Robot guard dog firm Asylon raises $26M for autonomous security
Asylon Inc., a provider of robotic perimeter security, today announced it has raised $26 million in early-stage funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures and the GO PA Fund also participated in the company’s Series B funding round. Asylon is best known for its robotic guard dogs, built by ...
CircleCI launches Platform Team Toolkit to reduce strain between developer speed and centralized control
Circle Internet Services Inc., which provides a continuous integration and delivery platform for DevOps teams, today announced the release of a new solution that eliminates the need to choose between organizational control and developer speed. The new tool, named Platform Team Toolkit, allows software development administrators to manage organization-wide work from a single configuration while ...
Multimodal AI startup Reka AI raises $110M at $1B valuation
Multimodal large language model research startup Reka AI Inc. today announced it has raised $110 million in fresh funding backed by Nvidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. Founded in 2022, Reka develops multimodal models focusing on ultra-efficient training and serving infrastructure for delivering inference at low cost. The company offers multiple AI models including Reka Flash, ...
Telegram receives built-in crypto wallet for millions of US users
Telegram Messenger LLC, best known for its cloud-based encrypted messaging app Telegram, today announced that starting today the cryptocurrency Wallet in Telegram will begin to roll out across the United States. The crypto wallet, developed by The Open Platform, will give millions of U.S. users access to a crypto wallet within Telegram, eliminating the need for ...