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Stripe Alumni Raise €30M Series A for Duna, Backed by Stripe and Adyen Execs
Duna, a business identity verification startup founded by Stripe alumni, closed a €30 million Series A round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from current and former Stripe and Adyen executives. The company’s platform aims to create a reusable digital passport for businesses, allowing verified information to flow across fintech services, banking, and spend‑management tools. By generating its own KYB data rather than aggregating third‑party sources, Duna targets the long‑tail of enterprise customers that lack dedicated onboarding resources. Its investors see early “patches of networks” as a catalyst for scaling network effects before full market adoption.
Linq Raises $20M to Enable AI Assistants to Live Within Messaging Apps
Linq announced a $20 million Series A round to scale its API that embeds AI assistants directly within native messaging apps such as iMessage, RCS and SMS. After pivoting from a digital business‑card tool, the company doubled its annual recurring revenue and...
Qualcomm Backs SpotDraft to Scale On-Device Contract AI with Valuation Doubling Toward $400M
SpotDraft secured an $8 million Series B extension from Qualcomm Ventures, lifting its post‑money valuation to roughly $380 million—almost double its prior level. The funding will accelerate the rollout of VerifAI, an on‑device contract‑review AI that runs offline on Snapdragon X Elite hardware, keeping sensitive...
Amagi Slides in India Debut, as Cloud TV Software Firm Tests Investor Appetite
Amagi Media Labs raised $196 million in a Bengaluru‑based IPO, debuting on Indian exchanges at a 12% discount to its ₹361 issue price before settling around ₹349. The cloud‑software firm, which helps broadcasters and streaming services monetize video, earned roughly 73%...
Everstone Combines Wingify, AB Tasty for $100M+ Digital Experience Optimization Platform
Everstone Capital is merging India‑based Wingify with France’s AB Tasty to create a digital‑experience optimization platform valued at over $100 million and generating more than $100 million in annual revenue. The combined entity will serve more than 4,000 enterprise customers, with roughly 90%...
Slackbot Is an AI Agent Now
Salesforce has launched a generative‑AI version of Slackbot, now positioned as an autonomous AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers. The new Slackbot can retrieve data, draft emails, schedule meetings, and interact with external tools such as Microsoft Teams and...
Google Launches Managed MCP Servers that Let AI Agents Simply Plug Into Its Tools
Google Cloud unveiled managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that let AI agents plug directly into core Google services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. The servers are offered in public preview at no extra charge for...
IBM to Acquire Confluent for $11B as It Seeks to Bolster Its Data Offerings
IBM announced an $11 billion cash acquisition of Confluent, offering $31 per share—a 50% premium. The deal brings Confluent’s real‑time streaming platform into IBM’s data and automation portfolio, strengthening its AI‑focused product suite. IBM expects the transaction to boost EBITDA and...
Amazon Hopes to Jump-Start Its AI Coding Tool Kiro by Giving It Away to Startups
Amazon announced at re:Invent 2025 that it will give its AI coding assistant, Kiro Pro+, free for a year to qualified early‑stage startups. The offer provides up to 100 user credits per startup and targets U.S. companies with VC funding...
Amazon Releases an Impressive New AI Chip and Teases an Nvidia-Friendly Roadmap
Amazon Web Services unveiled Trainium 3, a 3‑nanometer AI training chip, at re:Invent 2025, powering the new UltraServer platform. AWS claims the system is over four times faster, offers four times more memory, and is 40 % more energy‑efficient than its predecessor, with...
Rising Data Center Electricity Use Risks Blackouts During Winter Storms
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warns that rising electricity demand from data centers could strain the grid during winter storms, with overall winter demand projected 2.5% higher than last year, reaching 20 GW. Data‑center growth in the Mid‑Atlantic, West,...
Cloudflare Outage Takes Down X One Month After Musk Mocked AWS Customers
The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and other platforms.
AI Data Startup WisdomAI Has Raised Another $50M, Led by Kleiner, Nvidia
WisdomAI, the AI‑driven data analytics startup founded by Rubrik co‑founder Soham Mazumdar, closed a $50 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Nvidia’s NVentures, following a $23 million seed six months earlier. The company differentiates itself by using large...
Figma Bets on India to Expand Beyond Design
Figma announced the opening of a new office in Bengaluru, marking a strategic push to deepen its presence in India, its second‑largest user market after the U.S. The move aims to accelerate the company’s effort to win over developers, a...
Wonderful Raised $100M Series A to Put AI Agents on the Front Lines of Customer Service
Israeli AI‑agent startup Wonderful announced a $100 million Series A led by Index Ventures, bringing its total funding to $134 million just four months after emerging from stealth. The company’s platform deploys multilingual, culturally tuned AI agents for voice, chat and email support,...
Google Gets the US Government’s Green Light to Acquire Wiz for $32B
Google has secured clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice for its $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security firm Wiz, moving the deal past the antitrust review stage. The purchase, first proposed at $23 billion in 2024 and renegotiated in early 2025, was...
Goldman Sachs Doubles Down on MoEngage in New Round to Fuel Global Expansion
Customer engagement platform MoEngage raised $100 million in a Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with Indian venture firm A91 Partners co‑leading, bringing its total funding to $250 million. The capital, split roughly 60% primary and 40% secondary, will fuel global expansion and deepen...
Lambda Inks Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Deal with Microsoft
Lambda, the Nvidia‑backed cloud‑computing firm, announced a multi‑billion‑dollar agreement with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, including the new GB300 NVL72 systems, deepening an eight‑year partnership. While the exact dollar amount was not disclosed, the deal adds...
Box CEO Aaron Levie on How AI Is Changing the Enterprise SaaS Landscape
Box CEO Aaron Levie told TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that AI agents will not replace enterprise SaaS but will operate alongside it, creating a hybrid model where deterministic SaaS handles core workflows and non‑deterministic agents augment decision‑making and automation. He warned...
New Corporate Espionage Claims Emerge, Centered on Two Highly Valued 401(k) Admin Startups
Human Interest, a $1.4 billion‑valued 401(k) admin startup, sued rival Guideline in Utah federal court alleging that three Sterri brothers, two of whom were junior sales reps at Human Interest and one a Guideline employee, stole confidential lead data, partnership information...
Israeli Intelligence Vets Raise $20M to Track Developer Buying Signals
Israeli startup Onfire, founded by former Unit 8200 veterans, emerged from stealth with $20 million in funding — including a $14 million Series A led by Grove Ventures and TLV Partners — to sell an AI-driven platform that monitors public...
Palantir Enters $200M Partnership with Telco Lumen to Offer Enterprise AI Services
Palantir has struck a multi‑year strategic partnership with Lumen Technologies to embed its Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform into Lumen’s edge computing, broadband and digital services, a deal Bloomberg says will top $200 million over several years. Lumen says the...
Sumble Emerges From Stealth with $38.5M to Bring AI-Powered Context to Sales Intelligence
Sumble, founded by Kaggle veterans Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, emerged from stealth with $38.5 million in new funding (Coatue-led $8.5M seed and a $30M Series A led by Canaan) to sell an AI‑powered knowledge‑graph that adds contextual technographic and...
Veeam Acquires Data Security Company Securiti AI for $1.7bn
Veeam announced it will acquire data governance and security vendor Securiti AI for $1.725 billion in a cash-and-stock deal expected to close the first week of December. Securiti, founded in 2019 and backed by roughly $156 million in VC, will...
European AI Rising Star Nexos.ai Raises $30M to Unlock Enterprise AI Adoption
Lithuanian startup Nexos.ai has raised €30 million (about $35 million) in a Series A round led by Index Ventures and Evantic Capital at a reported €300 million valuation to accelerate its platform that mediates between employees and large language models....
