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Astra raises $2.7M to simplify cybersecurity by mimicking hacker behavior with AI-powered solutions
Astra Security, a cybersecurity startup specializing in artificial intelligence-driven penetration testing, today announced it has raised $2.7 million in early-stage funding to enhance its AI capabilities and expand its cloud offerings. Launched in 2018, Astra provides a platform that simplifies the cybersecurity process of penetration testing, or pentesting, which is the simulated process of attacking ...
Pipedrive introduces agentic AI teammates for the sales process
Pipedrive, a sales customer relationship management system backed by artificial intelligence, today announced a network of intelligent AI agents that will assist customers at every stage of the sales process like teammates. Pipedrive helps salespeople manage and automate the sales process so that they can focus on leads and strategy. With this new update, the ...
Opera launches web browser focused on well-being and mindfulness
Norwegian web browser developer Opera announced today released a new free browser, Opera Air, that will help users reduce stress through relaxation and mindfulness exercises. “The web is beautiful but it can be chaotic and overwhelming,” said Mohamed Salah, senior director of product at Opera. “We decided to look at science-backed ways to help our ...
Observo reduces observability costs using agentic AI-powered data pipelines with $15M raise
Observo AI, an artificial intelligence-powered data pipeline company that helps companies solve observability and security issues, said Thursday it has raised $15 million in seed funding led by Felicis and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As AI-generated data becomes the norm, enterprise businesses face ever-increasing volumes of observability and operational data, rising to terabytes and petabytes. The ...
D3 raises $25M to put internet domain names on the blockchain
D3 Global, a startup working on a way to bring internet domain names onto the blockchain, said Wednesday it has raised $25 million in an early-stage financing led by venture capital firm Paradigm to make that vision a reality. The Series A round was also joined by Coinbase Ventures, co-founder of Polygon Labs Sandeep Nailwal, ...
Sensitive DeepSeek database exposed to the public, cybersecurity firm Wiz reveals
New York-based cloud cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. said Wednesday it discovered a sensitive database belonging to popular Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek the company did not properly secure and thus exposed it to the public internet. DeepSeek has gained popular media fame in recent weeks after releasing several groundbreaking AI models, including DeepSeek-R1. According to the ...
Rad AI raises $60M to help radiologists improve accuracy of patient care
Healthcare startup Rad AI announced today it raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Transformation Capital to deploy generative artificial intelligence technology for healthcare providers. Existing investors Khosla Ventures, World Innovation Lab, UP2398, Kickstart Fund, OCV Partners and Cone Health also participated in the round. The raise comes seven months after ...
Alibaba unveils Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, saying it outperforms DeepSeek-V3
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models. The Tuesday release of Qwen 2.5-Max is the second big LLM release out of China in ...
Atomicwork raises $25M to bring agentic AI to IT management
Atomicwork Inc., a software-as-a-service company that simplifies enterprise work and communication management by automating tasks and providing artificial intelligence assistance, today said it has raised more than $25 million in an early-stage funding round. Co-led by Z47 and Khosla Ventures, the Series A round was also backed by the company’s existing investors Blume Ventures, Neon ...
DeepSeek launches Janus Pro AI image model it claims can outperform DALL-E
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the release of the ultra-popular DeepSeek AI chatbot and provider of an alterative large language model to OpenAI’s models such as ChatGPT, launched a new cutting-edge AI image generation model on Monday: Janus-Pro-7B. The startup made waves recently after the latest release of DeepSeek’s frontier R1 LLM last ...