AcuityMD Closes $80M Series C Led by StepStone Group
AcuityMD, the Boston‑based AI platform for medical‑device sales teams, closed an $80 million Series C round led by StepStone Group, bringing its valuation to $955 million. The funding, also backed by Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ and Atreides, will fuel the rollout of "agentic AI" tools, expand its proprietary MedTech data model, and extend the platform beyond commercial functions to the full product lifecycle. AcuityMD’s newest product, AcuityAI, entered open beta, delivering real‑time, context‑rich recommendations that blend market data with customers’ internal CRM and contract information. The company now serves over 400 MedTech firms and claims to have uncovered more than $34 billion in pipeline opportunities.
Syenta Gets $26M Series A for Advanced Chip Packaging
Australian semiconductor startup Syenta announced a $26 million Series A round led by Playground Global and the National Reconstruction Fund, bringing its total capital to over $36 million. The funding will accelerate commercialization of its Localized Electrochemical Manufacturing (LEM) process, which promises 40%...
OpenAI Launches GPT Rosalind for Life Sciences Research
OpenAI has unveiled GPT Rosalind, a large‑language model tuned for life‑sciences research, designed to accelerate early‑stage drug discovery by automating literature review, evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, and experimental planning. The model outperforms GPT‑5.4 on multiple chemistry, protein‑engineering and genomics benchmarks, and...
Sage Haven Launches AI-Moderated Chat App for Kids
Sage Haven, a public‑benefit startup founded by sisters Kate Doerksen and Anne Pizzuti, has launched an AI‑moderated messaging and voice‑calling app for children after a beta phase and a $3 million pre‑seed round. The app assigns each child a dedicated phone...
Resolve AI Raises $40M at $1.5B Valuation
Resolve AI announced a $40 million Series A extension, pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion and bringing total capital raised to over $190 million. The startup, founded by observability veterans Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal, offers an AI‑driven platform that automates incident...
Claude Backlash Grows Over Account Locks, OpenClaw Rules, and Performance Complaints
Anthropic’s Claude platform is under fire after users reported sudden account locks tied to age‑verification checks, developers protested new billing rules for third‑party tools like OpenClaw, and heavy users complained that Claude’s performance on complex coding tasks has declined. The...
Sapient Perception Raises €2M to Give Drones a Wider View
Sapient Perception, a Danish AI sensor startup, secured €2 million (about $2.2 million) in pre‑seed funding led by Balnord and FORWARD.one. The company’s 10K sensor platform captures up to 100 times more ground area than conventional drone cameras while preserving detail, processing data...
Xoople Raises $130M to Build AI Earth Data Layer
Xoople announced a $130 million Series B round, bringing its total financing to $225 million and cementing its position as the most funded player in the nascent physical‑world intelligence space. After seven years of stealth development, the company will begin commercializing its AI‑ready...
NeuBird AI Closes $19.3M Round Led by Xora Innovation
NeuBird AI announced an oversubscribed $19.3 million funding round led by Xora Innovation, with participation from Mayfield, StepStone Group, Prosperity7 Ventures and Microsoft’s M12 fund. The capital will accelerate product development, global go‑to‑market expansion and broaden access for DevOps, SRE and...
Numos Gets $4.25M to Build Transparent Finance AI
Numos, an AI platform for enterprise finance teams, closed a $4.25 million seed round led by General Catalyst. The software integrates with accounting systems, billing tools, data warehouses and spreadsheets, delivering transparent, auditable AI reasoning for tasks like variance analysis and...
No-Code, No Problem: Automotive Automation Is Clearing the Software Bottleneck
Automakers are adopting no‑code automation platforms that let engineers build vehicle functions through visual workflows instead of traditional code. These policies, defined in kilobytes, can be pushed instantly to single cars or millions, slashing development cycles and validation costs. The...
AI as Mentor: How Machine Learning Is Reshaping Human Development
Artificial intelligence is reshaping mentoring by introducing algorithmic matching and generative tools that scale relationships in corporations and academia. Machine‑learning engines analyze career trajectories, skills gaps and communication patterns to pair mentors and mentees with higher compatibility, while large language...
Variance Raises $21.5M Series A to Automate Financial Crime Investigations
Variance, a San Francisco AI risk‑compliance startup, closed a $21.5 million Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing its total funding to $26 million. The round will fund expansion of its agentic AI platform that automates KYC/KYB investigations, delivering auditable decisions in...
Spade Raises $40M Series B for Finance AI Platform
Spade announced a $40 million Series B round led by Oak HC/FT, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and other fintech investors. The New York‑based fintech reported 470% year‑over‑year growth and a peak daily transaction volume of 1.9 billion, underscoring rapid adoption. The capital will...
From Flagged Essay to 25 Million Users: Artur Zhdan on Building GPTinf
Artur Zhdan founded GPTinf after his AI‑assisted college essays were flagged by detection tools, turning a personal setback into a business. Launched in late 2022, the platform now serves 25 million users in education, marketing and professional writing. GPTinf combines AI...
Amplio's CEO on Closing the Loop in Industrial Supply Chains With AI
U.S. manufacturers sit on roughly $350 billion of unused equipment, spare parts and MRO inventory each year, much of which ends up scrapped or landfilled. Amplio, founded by Trey Closson and Taha Zinifi, pivoted from risk‑monitoring software to an AI‑driven platform...
Best ChatGPT Prompts in 2026: For Work, Writing, and Research
ChatGPT has become essential infrastructure, handling over 2.5 billion prompts daily in 2026. Users increasingly encounter unsatisfying answers, revealing that ineffective prompting—not the model—is the primary bottleneck. The article outlines clear, specific prompting techniques and settings tweaks that transform output across...
Interview: Paul Neyman, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Areti Health
Areti Health leverages generative AI to automate clinical‑trial recruitment, tapping over 250 million patient records to match candidates in seconds and manage outreach, prescreening, and scheduling without human coordinators. The platform can ingest roughly 185 documents per patient and produce a...
ChatGPT vs Gemini (2026): The Simple Guide for Non-Tech People
The guide compares ChatGPT and Gemini for everyday users, highlighting that neither tool is universally superior. ChatGPT shines in creative writing, tone flexibility, and cross‑platform integrations, while Gemini excels at research, Google Workspace connectivity, and handling large documents and images....
Deloitte Names Maisa Rising Star as Enterprises Shift AI Into Production
Maisa, an enterprise AI infrastructure firm, announced 400% year‑on‑year revenue growth and a fivefold rise in client adoption as companies move AI from pilots to production. The company earned Deloitte's 2026 Technology Fast 50 Rising Star award, highlighting its rapid...
Xscape Photonics Closes $81M Series A Round
Xscape Photonics closed a $37 million extension to its Series A, bringing total Series A funding to $81 million and doubling its valuation. The round, led by Addition with participation from IAG Capital Partners and NVIDIA, funds the rollout of FalconX, the first fully...
Levitate Secures $16M to Scale Relationship AI Tools
Levitate announced a $16 million financing round, bringing its total capital to $71 million since 2017. The Raleigh‑based startup’s AI‑powered platform, used by over 8,000 businesses, automates outreach across email, social, text and more while preserving a personal tone. The new funds,...
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...
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...