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MedScout Raises $10M to Deploy AI Agents to Assist Medtech Commercial and Marketing Teams
MedScout announced a $10 million early‑stage growth round led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, bringing total funding to support its AI‑driven commercial strategy engine for medtech firms. The startup’s AI agents convert high‑level commercial priorities into territory‑specific actions, leveraging procedural, diagnostic and payment data to surface the most promising accounts and physicians. Since its Series A in July 2024, MedScout says revenue has tripled and monthly active reps have risen 135%, while customers deployed 81% more AI agents month‑over‑month. The company’s Strategies feature, launched late 2025, is now being used across surgical robotics and diagnostic imaging segments.
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
Druva Launches Deep Analysis Agents to Cut Forensic Investigations From Days to Minutes
Druva unveiled Deep Analysis Agents as an extension of its DruAI platform, promising to shrink forensic and compliance investigations from days to minutes. The agents leverage the Dru MetaGraph, a graph‑powered data map, to automatically correlate telemetry, logs, identity data, and...
AI Agent Identity Startup Keycard Acquires Anchor.dev
Keycard Labs, a startup focused on identity and access management for autonomous AI agents, announced the acquisition of security‑certificate startup Anchor.dev. The deal brings in a team that has built developer infrastructure for firms like Cloudflare, GitHub and Salesforce’s Heroku....
Reco Raises $30M to Lock Down AI Apps and Autonomous Agents
Security‑as‑a‑service startup Recolabs announced a $30 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $85 million. The capital will fuel hiring and product expansion aimed at discovering and securing AI‑powered SaaS applications, autonomous agents, and shadow AI across large enterprises. Reco’s platform...
Newo Lands $25M to Bring Production-Ready AI Receptionists to Small Businesses
Newo Inc. announced a $25 million Series A round to accelerate its AI receptionist platform for small and medium‑sized businesses. The solution provides human‑like voice, SMS and chat agents that handle calls, appointment booking, lead qualification, and handoffs using a Zero‑Hallucination Architecture....
Matia Raises $21M to Help Enterprises Consolidate Their Data Management Operations
Matia announced a $21 million Series A round, led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding above $31 million. The startup offers a unified DataOps platform on AWS that merges ETL, reverse‑ETL, observability and catalog functions into a single interface. It can...
Backslash Security Lands $19M to Tackle Security Risks Emerging From Vibe Coding
Backslash Security announced a $19 million Series A round to expand its AI‑driven "vibe coding" protection platform. The funding, led by KOMPAS VC, brings the company’s total capital to $27 million. Backslash’s solution offers a holistic, stack‑level view of AI‑generated code across IDEs, autonomous...
Phenom Strengthens AI Hiring Platform with Be Applied Acquisition
Phenom People announced the acquisition of Be Applied, an AI‑driven cognitive assessment provider, for an undisclosed sum. Be Applied’s adaptive, evidence‑based testing platform evaluates real skills rather than resumes, integrating directly with applicant tracking systems. The deal expands Phenom’s AI...
Dono Raises $6.5M Seed Round to Modernize Property Records with AI
AI‑powered startup Dono.AI secured $6.5 million in seed financing, led by Link Ventures with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures Group. The funding will accelerate its platform that digitizes and structures property‑record data from over 3,700 U.S. county registries using...
Databricks Closes $7B+ Financing Round at $134B Valuation
Databricks announced a financing round exceeding $7 billion, lifting its valuation to $134 billion. The round includes more than $5 billion in equity and $2 billion in debt, led by JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and other major banks. The capital will accelerate development of the...
Augment Code Makes Its Semantic Coding Capability Available for Any AI Agent
Augment Computing Inc. has launched Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for its Context Engine, a semantic search tool that enhances AI‑driven coding agents. The protocol lets any MCP‑compatible platform, LLM, or command‑line interface tap into Augment’s deep code‑base understanding. Internal...
Agents in the Enterprise: Salesforce and DeepL See Productivity Move the Needle as Use Cases Grow for AI
2026 is seeing AI agents transition from pilot projects to core enterprise functions, with Salesforce and DeepL showcasing rapid, productivity‑focused deployments. Salesforce’s “Hallie” agent now handles 70% of Heathrow’s passenger queries, while DeepL reports 2,000 customers using agents for report...
Portal26 Targets Weak Enterprise AI Returns with New Value Realization Platform
Portal26, a generative AI security startup, unveiled a new AI Value Realization platform aimed at closing the gap between soaring enterprise AI spend and weak returns. The module provides strategic intelligence to guide evidence‑based investment decisions, improve proof‑of‑concept to production...
AI Torches Software Stocks, Even as Investors Fret About All that AI Factory Spending
AI enthusiasm has turned into a market shock, sending shares of SaaS giants like ServiceNow, Salesforce and Palantir sharply lower. At the same time, investors are uneasy about the soaring capital‑expenditure plans of AI‑heavy firms such as Alphabet, Amazon, Oracle...
Zscaler Snaps up SquareX to Strengthen Browser Security without Enterprise Browsers
Zscaler Inc. announced the acquisition of browser‑security startup SquareX Ltd., extending its Zero Trust Exchange platform to protect standard browsers like Chrome and Edge. SquareX’s technology uses a lightweight extension to detect phishing, credential theft, and malicious scripts in real...
Atlassian Shares Slide as Cloud Growth Outlook Tempers Strong Earnings Beat
Atlassian reported a fiscal Q2 beat, posting $1.586 billion revenue—a 23% year‑over‑year rise—and adjusted earnings of $1.22 per share, surpassing analyst expectations. The company celebrated its first $1 billion cloud‑revenue quarter, serving over 350,000 customers, but warned that cloud growth would slow...
Cybersecurity Earnings Season Kicks Off with Beats From Fortinet, NetScout and Qualys
The cybersecurity earnings season opened with Fortinet, NetScout and Qualys all beating analyst expectations. Fortinet posted Q4 adjusted EPS of $0.81 on $1.91 billion revenue, up 15% YoY, while NetScout delivered EPS of $1.00 despite flat revenue, and Qualys reported EPS...
From Backup to ResOps: How Commvault Is Reframing Cyber Resilience
Commvault is repositioning from traditional backup to a ResOps model that unifies data protection, identity resilience, and cyber recovery across hybrid and multicloud environments. The launch of its Cloud Unity platform introduces AI‑driven synthetic recovery, allowing clean, point‑in‑time restores without...
Cloud-Native Observability Enters a New Phase as the Market Pivots From Volume to Value
Enterprises are moving from raw telemetry volume to value‑driven observability as cloud‑native and AI workloads explode. 2025 data shows log volumes up 250% YoY while 70% of spend funds unqueried logs, prompting a shift toward signal discipline and cost control....
Higgsfield Launches ‘Vibe’ Editor for Creating Motion Graphics
Generative AI startup Higgsfield launched Vibe Motion, a no‑code editor that lets non‑technical users create motion graphics and export underlying code. The tool promises to shrink animation production from weeks and $30,000 budgets to as little as 10 minutes and...
Operant AI Debuts Agent Protector to Secure Autonomous AI Agents at Scale
Operant AI announced Agent Protector, a real‑time security platform for autonomous AI agents. The solution delivers shadow‑agent discovery, zero‑trust enforcement, inline threat detection, and secure enclaves to protect both managed and unmanaged agents across cloud, SaaS, and development environments. It...
SolarWinds Bets on Partners with Richer Incentives and Deeper Enablement
SolarWinds unveiled a revamped partner program at its 2026 Partner Summit, adding tiered benefits, higher discounts, and a rewards center that lets sellers earn points for cash or prizes. The initiative also boosts partner‑led demand generation with proposal‑based marketing funds,...
Nullify Raises $12.5M to Scale AI Workforce for Product Security
Nullify Holdings raised $12.5 million in a seed round led by SYN Ventures to accelerate its autonomous AI workforce for product security. Founded in 2022, the platform ingests code, cloud configurations and business context to autonomously detect, validate and generate merge‑ready...
IBM Invests in Generative AI App Design Startup Anima
IBM has made an undisclosed investment in Anima, a generative‑AI startup that turns UI designs into production‑ready code, to strengthen its push into the emerging "vibe coding" trend. Anima’s platform integrates with tools like Figma, Adobe XD and Sketch, allowing users...
Tenable Pops After Blowout Earnings and Bullish 2026 Outlook
Tenable Holdings posted a strong fiscal fourth‑quarter, reporting adjusted earnings of $0.48 per share and revenue of $260.5 million, both surpassing analyst expectations. Year‑over‑year revenue grew 11% to $999.4 million, while calculated billings rose 8% to $327.8 million. The company added 502 new...
Inside Dynatrace and DevCycle’s Push to Close the Observability Gap for Agentic Software Development
Dynatrace’s acquisition of DevCycle fuses feature‑flag management with causal AI, turning runtime toggles into observable primitives. The combined platform can automatically identify the flag causing an incident and trigger a rollback, shifting observability from passive monitoring to an active control...
Expert Intelligence Raises $4.7M to Automate Decision-Making in Laboratory Environments
Expert Intelligence announced a $4.7 million seed round to commercialize its Limited Sample Model (LSM), an AI platform that automates decision‑making in regulated laboratory environments. LSM learns from as few as 30 representative samples, enabling labs to transform raw instrument data...
Semperis Acquires MightyID to Extend Identity Resilience Across Cloud Identity Platforms
Semperis Ltd. announced the acquisition of MightyID Inc., an identity‑resilience specialist for cloud providers Okta and Ping Identity, for an undisclosed amount. MightyID’s platform delivers continuous backups, granular restores, migration automation, and failover capabilities that keep authentication services running during...
AI Startup Phylo Nabs $13.5M for Its ‘Integrated Biology Environment’
Phylo Inc., an AI‑driven biology software startup, announced a $13.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund and other investors. The company’s flagship product, Biomni Lab, acts as an integrated biology environment that links...
Corti Launches Multi-Agent AI Framework for Healthcare
Corti Inc unveiled the Corti Agentic Framework, a production‑grade, multi‑agent AI platform designed for healthcare and life‑science workflows. The framework embeds deterministic rules and guardrails to stop small errors from cascading into larger patient‑safety or financial issues. It offers a...
Umanitek Launches Guardian Agent to Tackle AI Hallucinations, Deepfakes and Identity Abuse
Umanitek AG unveiled Guardian Agent, a decentralized AI identity protection platform that combats large language model hallucinations, deepfakes, impersonation, and IP infringement. The service monitors hundreds of millions of accounts, delivering real‑time risk scores and generating verifiable evidence packs to...
Alaffia Health Raises $55M to Expand Agentic AI for Health Plan Claims Operations
Alaffia Health announced a $55 million Series B round to scale its agentic AI platform for health‑plan claims operations. The startup, founded in 2020, blends clinician expertise with AI analysis to improve payment integrity, cut review cycles from weeks to days, and...
RADICL Secures $31M to Expand AI-Driven Security Operations for Small Businesses
RADICL Defense Inc. announced a $31 million Series A round to accelerate its AI‑driven virtual security operations center (vSOC) tailored for small and medium‑sized businesses. The startup, founded in 2021, provides a fully managed cybersecurity‑as‑a‑service platform that combines human experts with AI...
RapidFort Raises $42M to Push Continuous Remediation for Software Supply Chain Security
RapidFort Inc. announced a $42 million Series A round to accelerate its continuous remediation platform for software supply chain security. The funding, led by Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital, will expand go‑to‑market efforts, enhance automated container hardening, and deepen adoption in...
Raising $6.1M in Seed Funding, Airrived Says Agentic AI’s Breakthrough Moment Has Arrived
AI startup Airrived announced a $6.1 million seed round led by Cannage Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and other investors. The company introduced Agentic OS, an operating layer that makes agentic AI a native capability for enterprise workflows, allowing...
Fieldguide Raises $75M on $700M Valuation to Scale Agentic AI for Audit and Advisory Firms
Fieldguide Inc., an AI‑native platform for audit and advisory firms, announced a $75 million Series C round that values the company at $700 million. The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives with participation from Geodesic, Bessemer, 8VC and Thomson Reuters, will be used...
Palantir Rallies as Revenue Jumps 70% and Guidance Leaves Wall Street Behind
Palantir Technologies posted a stellar fourth‑quarter, with revenue soaring 70% year‑over‑year to $1.407 billion and adjusted earnings per share climbing to 25 cents. The surge was powered by a 93% jump in U.S. revenue, driven largely by a 137% rise in...
The Cost of Poor Cloud Resilience Is Often Paid in Ransom, Rubrik Warns
Rubrik warned that inadequate cloud resilience is turning ransomware attacks into costly ransom payments. The company showcased a tabletop exercise, “Zero Hour Horizon Retail,” which simulated a breach that escalated because backups were compromised and identity misconfigurations granted attackers full...
Snowflake Bypasses Microsoft to Strike Multiyear Deal with OpenAI
Snowflake announced a $200 million multiyear partnership with OpenAI, bringing OpenAI’s generative AI models directly into its data platform. The agreement makes OpenAI models native to Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence, allowing customers to run AI workloads on governed data...
Poetiq Nabs $45.8M in Seed Funding for Its LLM-Enhancing ‘Meta-System’
Poetiq Inc., founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, raised $45.8 million in a seed round led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures. The startup’s meta‑system platform enhances large language models like Gemini and GPT‑5.2, improving output quality while lowering inference...
Mito AI Raises $4.5M to Empower Video Professionals with AI Tools
Mito AI, a collaborative platform that brings AI orchestration tools to video professionals, announced a $4.5 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Kibo, Kfund, Sequoia, a16z scouts, LifeX and several high‑profile angels. The service lets filmmakers,...
Cisco Foundation AI Debuts Agentic Security Tools to Protect Autonomous AI Systems
Cisco Foundation AI unveiled a suite of agentic security tools aimed at safeguarding increasingly autonomous AI systems in enterprise environments. The flagship offering, Foundation‑sec‑8B‑Reasoning, is an open‑weight model optimized for multistep cybersecurity analysis and produces explicit reasoning traces. Complementary releases...
PwC Expands Google Cloud Alliance with $400M Push Into AI-Driven Security Operations
PwC announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud, committing $400 million over three years to accelerate AI‑driven security operations. The partnership blends Google Cloud’s AI‑powered security platforms with PwC’s transformation, risk, and managed‑service expertise to modernize security across hybrid and multicloud...
Ethos Shares Slide 11% After Life Insurance Platform Debuts on Nasdaq
Ethos Technologies debuted on Nasdaq under ticker LIFE, pricing its IPO at $19 per share and raising about $200 million, valuing the digital life‑insurance platform at $1.2 billion. The stock opened lower and closed more than 11 % down at $16.85, marking a...
SAP Tops Estimates but Cloud Backlog Miss Rattles Investors
SAP reported Q4 2025 revenue of $11.6 billion and operating profit of $3.1 billion, beating estimates and delivering a 27% profit surge. Cloud revenue rose 19% to $6.7 billion, pushing the operating margin to 29.2% and free cash flow to $1.2 billion. However, the...
Lorikeet Launches Coach: An Analytics Agent to Perk up AI Customer Support
San Francisco‑based Lorikeet has launched Coach, a self‑service analytics agent now generally available to diagnose AI‑driven customer support tickets. Coach combines thematic analysis and a ticket quality score to pinpoint failing topics, sentiment shifts, and configuration issues across both AI...
Strong Revenue Performance Sends IBM Stock Soaring After-Hours
IBM reported a 9% fourth‑quarter revenue jump, the strongest in three years, driven by rapid software and infrastructure growth. Software now represents 45% of the company’s revenue, up from 25% in 2018, and free cash flow rose to $7.6 billion, a...
Decagon AI Raises $250M at $4.5B Valuation to Scale AI Concierge Platform
Decagon AI announced a $250 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding, led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, will accelerate the rollout of its AI concierge platform, which leverages large‑language models across chat, email and voice...
Dynatrace Intelligence Aims to Advance Autonomous Software Operations
Dynatrace announced Dynatrace Intelligence, an agentic operations system that blends deterministic, real‑time intelligence with AI agents to push enterprises toward autonomous software operations. Built on the Grail data lakehouse and Smartscape, the platform delivers explainable insights that act within predefined...