Fundraising, product launches, and the next generation of AI pioneers.
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London-based artificial intelligence agent startup Zaro has secured $5.1 million in a seed funding round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from GitHub co-founder Thomas Dohmke and Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf, signaling strong confidence from prominent tech figures in the commercialization of AI agents for enterprises. Zaro’s
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Trajectory, a research lab and product company pioneering continual learning, has raised $15 million to build a platform that continuously trains large-scale agentic models using real-time product usage signals, shifting the industry from static training to a living learning system. Backed by investors including Conviction, Bessemer Venture Partners, Radical Ventures,
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ClickHouse, the open-source analytics database company, has revealed that its annualized revenue has surged to $250 million—tripling year-over-year—as co-founder Anatoly Gorshkov projects nearly $1 billion by year-end. The company, valued at $15 billion following a January Series D led by Dragoneer, has hired Jimmy Sexton, former Snowflake investor
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Stilta, an AI startup specializing in patent litigation and intelligence, has raised $10.5 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator. The company's agentic platform analyzes over 180 million patents and billions of data points to surface evidence often missed by
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Anthropic has quietly acquired Stainless, a developer tools startup that automates multi-language SDK generation and management, in a deal reportedly valued at over $300 million. The acquisition removes a critical infrastructure provider from the open market, forcing former clients—including OpenAI and Google—to find alternatives as Stainless’s hosted
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Beijing E-Town, a key economic development zone in China, has unveiled a three-level incentive mechanism to accelerate open-source AI innovation, offering up to 3 million yuan per enterprise for projects spanning development, donation, and commercialization. The initiative, announced alongside two core outcomes of the 'Lingji OS' project—the
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Bengaluru-based startup SwishX has launched what it claims is the world's first Agentic AI platform for the pharmaceutical and medtech industries, backed by $2.2 million in seed funding and founded by former Google and Amazon executives. The platform automates sales, marketing, and distribution operations, targeting a 30%
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Seekoo has secured a multi-million dollar funding round led by Yunqi Capital, Qiji Chuangtan, and Atypical Ventures, following the explosive early success of its Multi-Agent video creation platform Anijam.ai, which amassed over 1,000 paid users globally within two weeks of its April 2026 launch, with more than half
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In 2026, AI agents are rapidly integrating into core business operations, with Gartner predicting that 40% of enterprise applications will incorporate task-oriented AI agents by year-end, up from less than 5% in 2025. Despite this growth, a McKinsey survey reveals that 88% of companies use AI in at least one
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AcuityMD, a MedTech data platform, has secured $80 million in Series C funding led by StepStone Group, with participation from Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ, and Atreides Management. This round brings the company's total funding to over $160 million and values it at $955 million. The capital will accelerate
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In a significant move within the fintech sector, a seasoned industry veteran has launched Primitive AI, an innovative agent operating system designed to enhance automation and intelligence in financial services. This development aims to address the growing demand for advanced AI solutions that can streamline operations and improve decision-making processes,
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Moonshot AI, the Chinese AI startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, has announced a full reset of all user quotas for April 2026 after technical issues plagued the launch of its new flagship model, Kimi K2.6. The company acknowledged that unexpected high traffic during the rollout led to service