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Vision AI startup Hayden AI raises $90M to boost public transit efficiency
Artificial intelligence startup Hayden AI Technologies Inc. today announced it has closed on a bumper $90 million round of growth equity financing to expand the rollout of its comprehensive vision AI platform in some of the U.S.’s largest cities. Today’s round was led by TPG’s The Rise Fund and saw participation from existing investors including ...
Cyberattack crisis readiness startup Cytactic raises $16M in seed funding
Cyberattack crisis readiness and management startup Cytactic Cyber Management Ltd. said today it has closed on a $16 million seed funding round led by the cybersecurity software-focused venture capital firm Evolution Equity Partners. The startup has created a software platform that enables companies to prepare themselves to deal with potentially devastating cyberattacks that can take ...
Enso Technologies raises $6M to build an army of guided AI agents for SMBs
Artificial intelligence service-as-a-software startup Enso Technologies Ltd. today announced the launch of what it claims is the first ecosystem of “guided AI agents” for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s launch came as it closed on a $6 million seed funding round led by NFX Ventures. Dark Mode Ventures and a number of angel investors, ...
US announces $1.6B to fund research in advanced chip packaging technologies
The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced the launch of a new federal funding competition that aims to spur the research and development of more advanced computer chip packaging technologies. The Biden administration has earmarked $1.6 billion in funding, in the latest attempt by the White House to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. In an ...
Skild AI raises $300M to build a general-purpose, AI-powered brain for any robot
Skild AI, a startup that’s developing artificial intelligence-powered brains for robots, said today it has closed on a bumper $300 million early-stage funding round, bringing its valuation to a cool $1.5 billion. The Series A round was led by a host of top-tier venture capital firms, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Softbank Group Corp. and ...
Solo.io paves the way for smoother LLM connectivity with Gloo AI Gateway
Cloud-native application networking startup Solo.io Inc. is taking on the challenge of network traffic management for artificial intelligence workloads, launching a new product called Gloo AI Gateway. The company said today that generative AI is gaining traction in almost every industry and is expected to see an annual growth rate of 37% over the next ...
Runway Finance enhances financial planning and budgeting with generative AI
Accounting software startup Runway Finance Inc. has announced the launch of what it says is a more intuitive platform that leverages artificial intelligence to simplify financial planning and modeling. Generally available starting today, Runway Finance’s platform is described as a “modern, user-friendly interface for financial modeling, headcount planning, departmental budgeting” and more besides. It comes with ...
Storj Labs buys GPU cloud company Valdi to offer on-demand storage and compute for AI workloads
Decentralized cloud-based storage company Storj Labs Inc. said today it has acquired the graphics processing unit cloud provider Valdi Labs PBC. The deal means its customers will be able to access on-demand GPU capacity to power their artificial intelligence workloads whenever they require it. Storj is pioneering the concept of more affordable and secure decentralized ...
Tracebit lands $5M in funding to enable mass adoption of cyberthreat deception techniques
U.K.-based “threat deception” startup Tracebit Ltd. said today it has closed on a $5 million seed funding round to enable the mass adoption of a cybersecurity technique that has, until now, strictly been limited to the top 1% of security teams. Today’s round was led by Accel and saw participation from Tapestry VC, 20Sales and ...
Boomi centralizes API discovery, management and governance with new control plane
Integration platform-as-a-service provider Boomi LP is building on its vision to simplify the way enterprises manage their information technology infrastructure with the debut of its first major application programming interface product, the result of two key acquisitions earlier in the year. The company has just announced the launch of the Boomi API Control Plane, which is ...