Smack Technologies Raises $32M for Defense AI
Smack Technologies announced a $32 million seed and Series A round to create the first AI lab dedicated to national security. Led by Geodesic Capital and Costanoa Ventures, the financing backs the development of its Omega and Alpha platforms, which aim to deliver "Decision Dominance" by processing multimodal sensor data across the kill chain in real time. The company, founded by former MARSOC operators, already holds contracts with the Joint Fires Network and the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, and will use the capital to expand its technical team and scale across all service branches.
Interview: Booshan Rengachari, Founder and CEO of Finzly
Finzly, founded in 2012, delivers BankOS—a cloud‑native operating system that consolidates ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, RTP, FedNow and tokenized assets behind a single API, letting banks retire fragmented legacy cores. In October 2025 the firm introduced Agentic Galaxy, AI agents that...
Multitude Insights Raises $10M Series A Police Intel Platform
Multitude Insights announced a $10 million Series A round, led by Primary Venture Partners and joined by several other investors. The funding will accelerate deployment of its AI‑powered BLTN platform, a secure system for creating, sharing, and analyzing police intelligence across jurisdictions....
NODA AI Raises $25M Series A for Defense AI
Defense AI startup NODA AI announced a $25 million Series A round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and joined by Booz Allen Ventures, Draper Associates, Bloomberg Beta and Alumni Ventures. The Austin‑based company builds AI software that orchestrates mixed fleets of autonomous...
JetScale AI Raises $5.4M Seed Round For Cloud FinOps
JetScale AI, a Montreal‑based cloud FinOps startup, closed an oversubscribed $5.4 million seed round co‑led by the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Seed Venture Fund and Diagram ClimateTech Fund. The capital will fund product innovation, team growth, and expansion into North...
Battery Ventures Leads $40M Round for Letter AI
Letter AI announced a $40 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures, closing just four months after its last raise. The Chicago‑based startup introduced Letter Compass, a real‑time deal‑enablement tool that pulls content, learning, CRM data, and interaction history...
Basis Secures $100M Series B for AI Accounting Agents
Basis secured $100 million in a Series B round, valuing the AI accounting platform at $1.15 billion. The funding, led by Accel with participation from GV, Khosla Ventures and a roster of tech luminaries, will accelerate development of more sophisticated autonomous...
Ubicquia Closes $106M Series D Round to Expand Smart Grid
Ubicquia Inc. closed a $106 million Series D round led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, adding strategic investors such as Hamilton Lane and Sercomm. The funding will accelerate AI‑driven growth in smart grid, intelligent lighting and public‑safety solutions. Ubicquia now...
7Rivers Secures $5M to Scale Snowflake AI
7Rivers, a Milwaukee‑based Snowflake Elite Partner, raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Inoca Capital Partners, taking a minority stake. The capital will expand its Snowflake delivery, product, and GenAI teams, and accelerate go‑to‑market efforts across existing and new verticals....
Grotto AI Secures $10M to Improve Leasing With AI
Grotto AI announced a $10 million seed round led by ICONIQ to tackle multifamily housing vacancy, a problem estimated to cost $500 billion in lost value. The startup’s AI platform provides real‑time coaching to leasing agents, analyzing conversations to improve rapport and...
Jump Secures $80M to Expand AI for Financial Advisors
Jump secured $80 million in Series B funding, led by Insight Partners, to build an AI operating system for financial advisors. The round brings total capital to $105 million and reflects rapid adoption, with the platform now serving over 27,000 advisors and adding...
Adronite Secures $5M Series A to Scale AI Code Platform
Adronite announced a $5 million Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, appointing Gatemore’s Liad Meidar as board chair. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered platform that scans entire software codebases across more than 20 languages, delivering deterministic, explainable...
Orq.ai Makes Routing a First-Class Layer in Enterprise AI
Amsterdam‑based Orq.ai has launched its AI Router as a standalone product, turning the previously hidden routing layer into a strategic control point for enterprise AI. The move addresses growing complexity as firms run multiple large language models to balance cost,...
Dataro Raises $14.28M Series A for AI Fundraising
Dataro, an AI fundraising intelligence platform for nonprofits, secured a $14.28 million Series A led by Blueprint Equity to accelerate its U.S. expansion and product development. The funding underscores rising investor interest in AI tools that turn donor data into predictive insights...
Codoxo Secures $35M Series C for AI Payment Integrity
Codoxo announced a $35 million Series C round, led by CVS Health Ventures and backed by Echo Health Ventures, to accelerate its AI‑driven payment‑integrity platform. The funding underscores strong market demand for its prevention‑first, Point Zero model that intervenes before claims are...
Ever Raises $31M Series A for AI Auto Retail Platform
Ever announced a $31 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to roughly $100 million, as it emerges from stealth with an AI‑driven auto retail platform. The funding, led by Eclipse, targets the $1.2 trillion U.S. auto retail market, which remains fragmented and...
Didero Raises $30M Series A for AI Procurement Platform
AI startup Didero announced a $30 million Series A round, co‑led by Chemistry and Headline with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund. The financing will accelerate adoption of its AI‑driven procurement platform, which embeds autonomous agents into existing ERP and communication tools...
OPAQUE Raises $24M Series B at $300M Valuation
OPAQUE announced a $24 million Series B round that lifts its post‑money valuation to roughly $300 million. The round was led by Walden Catalyst and includes returning investors such as Intel Capital, Race Capital, Storm Ventures and Thomvest, with the Advanced Technology Research...
ManageMy Raises $45M in Series B Funding
ManageMy secured $45 million in new financing, including a $20 million Series B led by Ventura Capital and OCVC, to accelerate its AI‑powered insurance orchestration platform. The round adds backing from BNF and strategic insurers, underscoring confidence after a successful...
Take2 Raises $14M Series A for AI Hiring
Take2 announced a $14 million Series A round led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures. The startup builds autonomous AI agents that conduct phone interviews, schedule appointments and handle credential verification for...
ChatGPT Errors: What They Mean & How to Fix Them - Complete Troubleshooting Guide (2026)
The guide outlines a step‑by‑step troubleshooting framework for the myriad ChatGPT error messages that users encounter across browsers, apps, and networks. It distinguishes between local issues—solvable with page refreshes, sign‑outs, incognito windows, or disabling extensions—and server‑side failures such as 502,...
Lawhive Closes $60M Series B for Consumer Legal AI
Lawhive announced a $60 million Series B round led by Danaher co‑founder Mitch Rales, adding to a $40 million Series A raised less than a year earlier. The UK‑originated legal‑tech firm now reports over $35 million in annual revenue—a seven‑fold increase in 12 months—and operates...
The Best ChatGPT Settings to Get Answers That Fit Your Needs
ChatGPT now sees over 5.6 billion monthly visits, making its configuration a critical productivity lever. The platform offers a suite of settings—personalization, memory, tone, model choice, security, and app integrations—that shape how the AI responds and protects user data. Adjusting these...
Lumana's Vision for Agentic AI: When Cameras Stop Recording and Start Acting
Lumana is redefining video surveillance with an agentic AI platform that moves cameras from passive recorders to active decision‑makers. Its VIA‑1 system learns locally from each camera’s environment, delivering over 90% reduction in false alerts for customers such as Salesforce...
Compa Gets $35M Series B for Real-Time Pay Analytics
Compensation platform Compa secured $35 million in Series B financing, led by Jump Capital with participation from Crosslink, Storm Ventures and others. The AI‑driven solution aggregates nine million real‑time market observations to replace traditional salary surveys, delivering instant pay analytics across salary,...
Tradespace Raises $15M Series A Led by AVP
Tradespace announced a $15 million Series A round led by AVP, with participation from existing backers Eniac Ventures, Amplo VC, and Scrum Ventures. The funding will accelerate its AI‑native intellectual property platform that aims to halve external legal spend and...
Former Google DeepMind Scientists Raise $300M for AI Chip Startup
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind scientists behind AlphaChip, closed a $300 million Series A round at a $4 billion post‑money valuation. The funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and backed by NVentures, Sequoia and others, will expand its research team and...
From $100M Seed to Unicorn: Upscale AI Raises $200M Series A
Upscale AI announced a $200 million Series A round led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest and Xora Innovation, taking its total financing above $300 million and earning unicorn status just months after a $100 million seed. The capital will accelerate the rollout of its...
Furl Lands $10M for AI-Powered Security Remediation
Furl, a security remediation platform, closed a $10 million seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and Open Opportunity Fund. The company targets the chronic execution gap in cybersecurity, where only one in ten...
What Is Vertex AI? How Companies Use It and Why 97% Renew
Google Cloud reports that over 65% of enterprise machine‑learning workloads now run on Vertex AI, and 97% of users plan to renew the service. The platform consolidates data preparation, model training, deployment, monitoring, and AI agents into a single environment,...
When AI Models Go Wrong: Understanding Model Drift and Data Decay in Real-World Systems
AI models inevitably lose accuracy over time due to model drift, which stems from concept drift and data drift as real-world data diverges from training data. Data decay—degradation of data quality—further accelerates this degradation, affecting everything from call‑spam detection to...
LeapXpert Launches Version 3.0 of Its Platform 3.0 with AI that Turns Governed Messages Into Insight and Action
LeapXpert unveiled version 3.0 of its Communications Platform, adding AI‑driven Communication Data Intelligence that converts governed chat logs into actionable insights. The release introduces three core components—Signals, Communication Workflows, and the Maxen app—to surface conversation patterns, automate approvals, and unify...
AI-Driven Patient Access: Revolutionizing Healthcare Communication and Efficiency
AI is transforming patient access by shifting communication from reactive to proactive, real‑time engagement. Tools such as automated scheduling, predictive reminders, and conversational chatbots streamline administrative tasks while remaining HIPAA‑compliant. Studies show AI can cut no‑show rates and boost capacity...
16 Common ChatGPT Mistakes You’re Probably Making (And How to Fix Them)
The article outlines sixteen frequent mistakes users make with ChatGPT and offers practical fixes. It emphasizes that prompt clarity, context, constraints, and verification are essential for reliable outputs. It warns that data privacy and model selection are critical responsibilities for...
Reco Launches AI Agent Governance as Autonomous Systems Create New Security Risks
Reco has introduced AI Agent Governance, extending its SaaS‑security platform to discover, inventory, and control autonomous AI agents across enterprise environments. The capability gives security teams visibility into agents running in tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Salesforce Agentforce, and custom automations,...
Beyond the Chatbot: Why the Future of AI Needs to See What You See
The AI landscape is moving beyond text‑only chatbots toward visual, agentic systems that can perceive and act on what users see. Models such as Gemini 3.0, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent and the emerging Physical Intelligence class combine vision, audio and reasoning to...
Theia Launches Markerless Bat Tracking to Capture Full Swing Biomechanics Using Video Alone
Theia introduced a markerless bat‑tracking module that captures full‑body biomechanics and bat trajectory using only synchronized video. Built on the Theia3D platform, the solution eliminates sensors, markers, and fixed installations, enabling portable camera‑based swing analysis. Early deployments at Driveline Baseball...
Drive Health Raises $15M for Avery Clinical AI Platform
Drive Health announced a $15 million strategic investment led by Vitalis Ventures, with Inside Capital Partners co‑investing, to accelerate its Google‑powered clinical workflow AI platform, Avery. The funding brings total capital to over $26 million and includes a second tranche slated for...
Verisoul Closes $8.8M Round to Combat Fake Users
Verisoul announced an $8.8 million Series A round led by High Alpha, adding investors such as Lookout Ventures and Bitkraft. The Austin‑based fraud‑detection startup now serves over 100 enterprise customers and has posted more than six‑fold year‑over‑year ARR growth since its seed...
Latent Labs Launches Latent-X2 AI Drug Design Model
Latent Labs unveiled its new AI model, Latent‑X2, which can generate drug‑like antibodies and macrocyclic peptides in a single design cycle, eliminating traditional iterative wet‑lab optimization. In validation tests the system produced hits on nine of 18 difficult targets, including...
Anthropomorphism in AI: Why We Treat AI Like Humans, and What That Says About Us
The article examines why professionals instinctively treat AI systems as if they were human teammates, linking the tendency to deep‑seated psychological needs for control, social connection, and pattern recognition. It cites research showing that increased interaction with conversational models amplifies...
What Is SpamGPT and How Does This Dark Web AI Tool Power Mass Phishing Operations?
SpamGPT is a dark‑web subscription service that provides AI‑driven tools for automating mass phishing campaigns. Priced at roughly $5,000 per year, it offers a full‑stack phishing management platform with dashboards, AI‑generated email content, SMTP/IMAP testing, and evasion features that can...
Gracia AI Raises $1.7M for 4D Video Production
Gracia AI, a London‑based startup, secured $1.7 million from EWOR and angel investors to expand its 4D Gaussian Splatting production platform. The funding accelerates a full‑stack solution that powers Hollywood VFX pipelines, Big Tech R&D, and immersive VR experiences across Quest...
First Round Leads $10M Seed for Vybe's AI Tools
Vybe announced a $10 million seed round led by First Round Capital, backed by Y Combinator and top tech operators. The startup’s platform lets non‑technical teams build secure, data‑connected internal applications using natural‑language prompts. Security controls are hard‑coded, preventing AI‑generated code from...
BrainChip Secures $25 Million for Edge AI Development
BrainChip Holdings announced a $25 million capital raise to accelerate commercialization of its neuromorphic Akida 2 platform and expand edge‑AI product lines. The funding will fuel development of the AKD1500 module, on‑device GenAI models, and new cybersecurity solutions with partner Quantum Ventura. CEO...
Bobyard Raises $35M to Help Contractors Bid Faster With AI
Bobyard announced a $35 million Series A round led by 8VC to accelerate its AI‑driven construction takeoff platform. The computer‑vision system automates up to 70 % of quantity takeoffs, cutting estimator time by roughly 65 % and enabling contractors to submit three‑to‑five times more...
