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Empirik, an AI-powered infrastructure observability startup incubated by Sequoia Capital, launched Tuesday with $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The company, led by CEO Kartik Chandr…
Orchestra, an AI-native platform for enterprise data and AI workflows, formally launched with $4.6 million in total funding, including a $3.3 million seed round led by Differential Ventures and a $1.3 million pre-seed ro…
Dash Security Inc., a startup founded in October 2025, is addressing the security risks of AI agents that operate with delegated authority, which can appear legitimate until they act maliciously. Co-founder and chief pro…
Rillet, an AI-native ERP startup co-founded by CEO Nicolas Kopp and backed by former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha, is challenging legacy incumbents Oracle, SAP, and Workday by replacing batch accounting with real-time fi…
MinIO is partnering with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-owned HUMAIN to build the data foundation for a sovereign Saudi AI Stack, with MinIO named HUMAIN's data and memory foundation partner. The collaboration incl…
Visko Platform Inc. today opened public access to Orbis, a foundation model that streams real-time, interactive video with persistent memory and physics-grounded generation for unlimited duration, and raised $10 million …
AIR Security emerged from stealth on September 1 with a $50 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks to build a real-time firewall for AI agents, aiming to discover, vet, and block malicious agent behav…
AI security startup AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million raised across two seed rounds to help companies vet the skills, plugins, and add-ons that AI agents use. Founded by Yair Saban (CEO) and Niv Hoffman (CTO), ve…
Mozaik is hosting its 2026 hackathon, challenging developers to build concurrent multi-agent systems with $1,000 in cash prizes. The event shifts focus from sequential to event-driven AI, as announced by Hadil Ben Abdall…
Fambot, a startup founded by former Instagram engineer Greg Karlin, CEO David Reich, and Jason Morrow, is launching an 'AI chief of staff' for families that connects to email, calendar, and WhatsApp to provide daily chec…
Visko, an AI startup, raised $10 million in a pre-seed round and launched Orbis, its AI model for real-time video generation, addressing the workflow problem of producing finished clips from prompts.
Chinese AI lab Z.ai reported its H1 2026 earnings, showing its model-as-a-service business grew 2,736% year-over-year, driving overall growth. The company's active user base reached 7.4 million, up from 5.8 million at th…
Aranya Inc., a startup founded last year, launched today with $11 million in funding to transform bare-metal servers into production-ready GPU clusters for AI inference in under 48 hours. The company, which has managed o…
Several startups, including Far Labs and Evolving Edge, are launching platforms that let individuals rent out spare computing power from home servers and gaming PCs to run AI inference, paying owners for the use. Far Lab…
Guickly emerged from stealth with $4.2 million in seed funding to help enterprises track AI usage, costs, and return on investment, according to founder Prashant Jalan. The platform analyzes billing and usage data withou…
Z.ai announced on September 1 that every current GLM Coding Plan subscriber will receive a Reset Card that refills both the rolling five-hour allowance and the weekly quota, with redemption requiring a signed-in ZCode ac…
SciFin Tech Inc. launched today with $44 million in seed funding to help revenue teams close the 'context gap' by converging information across disconnected systems. The round was co-led by Altimeter and Madrona, with pa…
Visko Platform Inc., an AI research lab, has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round from Llama Ventures and launched Orbis, its first live model for generating long-form videos. Orbis continuously streams interac…
Fambot, an AI 'chief of staff' for families, launched on Tuesday with a $3.5 million pre-seed funding round led by NextView Ventures, aiming to help parents manage the deluge of emails, group chats, and notifications fro…
DataAgent, co-founded by Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom, emerged from stealth on September 1 with a $10 million pre-seed round led by MizMaa Ventures and Alicorn Venture Partners, to develop software that automatically repa…