NeuReality Taps Former Google AI Director to Steer Its Inference Operating System Into the Market
NeuReality, an Israeli AI inference startup, appointed Shalini Agarwal, former Google AI product director, as a strategic adviser to drive market adoption of its NR‑NEXUS inference operating system. NR‑NEXUS, launched in March, promises hardware‑agnostic orchestration of pre‑fill and decode tasks across GPUs, CPUs and NICs, aiming to improve utilization of costly accelerators. The company has raised about $70 million, including a $20 million round in March 2024, and targets neocloud providers, enterprises, and chip vendors. The move comes as inference workloads now account for two‑thirds of AI compute, attracting massive hyperscaler spending and heightened competition.
The Dummy Server and the Chip War
A federal indictment unsealed on March 19, 2026 accuses three men, including Super Micro co‑founder Wally Liaw, of diverting roughly $2.5 billion in AI‑focused servers containing Nvidia GPUs to China. The scheme relied on dummy servers with swapped serial‑number stickers, staged in...
DORA Is Reshaping How Europe’s Financial Sector Thinks About Compliance, and Most Firms Still Aren’t Ready
Fourteen months after DORA became enforceable, European financial institutions are still struggling to meet its requirements. Surveys show only about a third feel confident about full compliance by the Jan 2025 deadline, while half expect to finish by end‑2025 and many...
Apollo.io Acquires Pocus as It Pushes to Build an AI-Native Operating System for Sales Teams
Apollo.io announced the acquisition of revenue‑intelligence startup Pocus, aiming to embed an AI‑native signal layer into its sales platform and create a full‑stack GTM operating system. Apollo, now approaching $200 million in ARR and serving over 600,000 companies, has long excelled...
GlobalComix Raises $13M, Acquires INKR, and Appoints New CEO to Build the Infrastructure for Global Comics Distribution
GlobalComix announced a $13 million funding round, the acquisition of Singapore‑based AI localisation startup INKR, and the appointment of Henrik Rydberg as chief executive. The round was co‑led by SBI US Gateway Fund and Point72 Ventures, building on a 2023 Series A....
German Biotech Kupando Raises €10M More to Take Its Innate Immunity Drug Into the Clinic
German biotech Kupando announced an extra €10 million Series A raise, bringing total Series A funding to €23 million. The capital will launch a Phase 1b trial of its dual TLR4/7 agonist KUP101 in advanced solid tumours and speed pre‑clinical work on drug‑resistant infections. The...
Ofiniti Raises $6.8M to Push Its Maritime Fuel Software Into Global Shipping Hubs
Ofiniti, an Oslo‑based spin‑out of DNV, raised $6.8 million in a growth round led by Verb Ventures, bringing its total capital to $9 million. The funding will fuel its expansion beyond Singapore, where it commands roughly 40 % of the digital bunkering market,...
Most Marketing Agencies Are Held Together by Duct Tape. GoHighLevel Wants to Fix That.
Marketing agencies typically juggle six to twelve separate tools, driving up costs and operational friction. GoHighLevel offers a single‑platform alternative that bundles CRM, email, SMS, funnel building, scheduling, reputation management and AI‑driven automation. Its architecture provides unlimited, isolated sub‑accounts per...
Endform Raises €1.5M as Faster AI-Generated Code Puts New Pressure
Swedish startup Endform secured €1.5 million seed funding to accelerate AI‑generated code testing. Its platform distributes Playwright tests to individual cloud machines, collapsing CI pipeline time to the duration of the slowest test. Early adopters like Lovable cut runtime in half,...
Why 2026 Will Be the Year of Governed Cybersecurity AI
The 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report shows a 9% drop to $4.44 million, driven largely by security AI and automation that slash detection times. Yet organizations that fully automate see breach costs up to $1.9 million lower than manual peers,...
Clarity as Strategy
Consulting and professional services firms often operate without clear, real‑time insight into project profitability, a gap highlighted by the Bluevine 2026 BOSS Report’s declining profit expectations. CuraeSoft’s new coAmplifi Pro platform centralizes project planning, time tracking, and billing to connect operational...
Anchr Raises $5.8m to Automate Food Distribution’s Manual Back Office
Anchr, a New York AI startup, closed a $5.8 million pre‑seed round led by a16z to automate the back‑office of independent food distributors. The platform layers AI agents on top of existing ERP systems, promising to halve order‑processing time and drive...
Breakout Ventures Closes $114m Fund III to Back AI-Powered Science Startups
Breakout Ventures announced the close of its third fund, raising $114 million, the firm’s largest to date and bringing total assets under management above $230 million. The AI‑focused fund will invest from pre‑seed through Series A in startups that fuse artificial intelligence with...
Augur Raises $15m From Plural to Turn Existing Surveillance Infrastructure Into Real-Time Intelligence
London‑based Augur has closed a $15 million seed round led by Plural to turn Europe’s existing camera and sensor networks into real‑time threat intelligence. The startup’s AI platform ingests video and sensor feeds, delivering live situational awareness without requiring hardware replacement....
Plato Closes $14.5M to Bring AI Automation to Wholesale Trade
Plato, a Berlin‑based startup, secured a $14.5 million seed round led by Atomico to embed generative AI into wholesale distribution. The company links AI directly to legacy ERP systems, turning historical sales data into automated quotes, revenue alerts, and risk flags....
How the Uninvestable Is Becoming Investable
Venture capital is moving into traditionally “hard” sectors—government, defence, energy, manufacturing—after years of avoidance. Rapid growth in public‑sector tech spending, which more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, and the rise of AI‑first solutions are reshaping procurement cycles and lowering...
Stanhope AI Raises $8M to Build Adaptive AI for Robotics and Defence
London‑based deep‑tech startup Stanhope AI closed a €6.7 million ($8 million) seed round led by Frontline Ventures to develop adaptive AI for robotics and defence. The company’s “Real World Model” leverages neuroscience principles, especially the Free Energy Principle, to enable edge‑run perception,...
