Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions

Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.

Jul 29, 2026

Pangram Raises $9M for AI Content Detection Tools

Pangram raised $9 million and launched Pangram 4 for AI text detection, along with an AI image detector in research preview.

Jul 29, 2026

Recursive Signs $410 Million AWS Compute Deal

Recursive signed a $410 million multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services to run its automated AI research system on AWS and jointly develop infrastructure for automated AI research.

Jul 29, 2026

Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed Round for AI Voice Models

Fish Audio raised $52 million in seed funding to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises. The company reports $21 million in annual recurring revenue and more than 8 million users.

Jul 29, 2026

Weave Raises $13.5 Million for Engineering Intelligence Platform

Weave raised $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Standard Capital to expand its platform for measuring human and AI engineering work.

Jul 29, 2026

Nexus Acquires Telemetrix RPM for Remote Patient Monitoring

Nexus acquired Telemetrix RPM to add remote patient monitoring, chronic care management, cardiac AI, and Epic workflow access to its clinical care operating system. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Jul 29, 2026

Katalyst Acquires Layer27 to Expand Managed Services and Cybersecurity

Katalyst has acquired Layer27, a Durham, North Carolina managed services and cybersecurity provider with Microsoft expertise and clients in healthcare and regulated industries.

Jul 29, 2026

Galaxy Digital Buys Texas Land for AI Data Center Campus

Galaxy Digital acquired about 500 acres in McGregor, Texas, for an AI and high performance computing data center campus. The first phase is expected to reach 74 MW.

Jul 29, 2026

Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance

Hush Security raised $30 million in Series A funding, with Akamai Technologies joining Battery Ventures and YL Ventures as an investor. The company plans to expand its AI agent identity and access controls for enterprise systems.

Jul 29, 2026

Act Security Raises $60 Million and Launches Cloud Security Platform

Act Security emerged from stealth with $60 million in funding and launched a cloud security platform that limits access paths across cloud infrastructure for humans, workloads, and AI agents.

Jul 29, 2026

KDDI and Google Open AI Startup Program in Japan

KDDI and Google AI Futures Fund have launched a joint program for Japanese AI startups, offering equity investment, early model access, cloud credits, GPU infrastructure, and expert support.

Jul 27, 2026

Enigma Raises $70 Million for Online Robot Control Experiment

Enigma has raised a $70 million seed round to test how people communicate with robots through an online experiment using more than 100 proprietary robots.

Jul 27, 2026

Keyfactor Plans to Acquire Cofide for AI Agent Identity Security

Keyfactor plans to acquire Cofide, a UK identity platform that secures software workloads and AI agents in cloud environments. The company says Cofide will extend its Trust Control Plane to non human identities.

Jul 27, 2026

Beelzebub Raises €3 Million for Cybersecurity Platform

Beelzebub raised €3 million in seed funding led by United Ventures to expand its research team, open offices in Rome and San Francisco, and acquire clients in Europe.

Jul 27, 2026

Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star

Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star, the social astrology app. Co-Star founder Banu Guler is joining Midjourney as chief design officer while continuing to oversee the app.

Jul 27, 2026

AMD to Invest Up to $5 Billion in Anthropic Server Deal

AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under a deal for up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs, with the first gigawatt expected in the first half of 2027.

Jul 27, 2026

OpenAI to Cover Power Costs for $20 Billion Georgia Data Center

OpenAI will cover infrastructure and electric service costs for its planned $20 billion data center in Effingham County, Georgia, Southern Company said. The agreement also includes up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response.

Jul 27, 2026

Care Career Acquires MAS Medical Staffing

Care Career has acquired MAS Medical Staffing, its seventh acquisition in 24 months. The deal adds MAS Medical Staffing's clinician network, client relationships, and MAESTRA engagement technology to Care Career's AI powered workforce platform.

Jul 27, 2026

GR0 to Acquire Ultimate AI Deployment Division and Launch GR0 AI

GR0 plans to acquire Ultimate AI's deployment division and launch GR0 AI, a new company that builds AI revenue systems for DTC and ecommerce brands. The deal is expected to close this quarter, and terms were not disclosed.

Jul 27, 2026

Rescale Gets DOE Funding for Agentic AI Simulation Project

Rescale received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Genesis Mission for an agentic AI project with three national laboratories.

Jul 27, 2026

Trillium Technologies Launches Compute Credit Marketplace on Percent

Trillium Technologies has launched a compute credit investment marketplace using Percent's private credit infrastructure. The marketplace supports a compute credit convertible note offering tied to prepaid or allocated computing capacity.

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