Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking to raise $1 billion at a $9 billion valuation, according to Crunchbase News.
Auditoria.AI has raised $38 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and Sentinel Global. The funding will accelerate the company's AI-driven solutions for finance teams.
Ligero has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Galaxy Ventures and 1kx to launch its zero-knowledge virtual machine, Ligetron.
Taktile has secured $54 million in Series B funding to advance its AI-powered decision automation platform for financial services, announced in a press release.
VerAI Discoveries has raised $24 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners to expand its AI-driven mineral exploration projects.
ONVY HealthTech Group has raised over $2 million to enhance its AI-driven health coaching platform, as announced in a press release. The funding will support the expansion of ONVY's personalized health solutions.
Siyata Mobile has signed a definitive merger agreement with Core Gaming, a leading AI gaming developer, to form a combined public company.
QuickLogic Corporation has announced a $1.1 million contract with a Defense Industrial Base company for its embedded FPGA IP, targeting GlobalFoundries' 12nm low-power process.
Bridgetown Research has raised $19 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and Lightspeed to advance its AI agents for due diligence, according to TechCrunch.
Swedish AI startup Lovable has raised $15 million in a pre-Series A round led by Creandum, according to Sifted. The company, known for its AI-driven app-building platform, plans to use the funds to expand its team and enhance its product offerings.
Perplexity AI is launching a $50 million venture fund to support pre-seed and seed AI startups in the U.S., according to TechCrunch. The fund will be managed by Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko.
Open Meta City has secured a $20 million commitment from GEM Digital to integrate AI features into its virtual real estate platform, enhancing user experiences.
Edera has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by M12 to advance its workload isolation technology, enhancing security for cloud and AI infrastructures.
Lockchain.ai has closed a $5 million Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered blockchain risk management platform, announced in a press release. The funding will support the development of new features to improve speed and efficiency for cryptocurrency portfolio management.
LangWatch.ai has announced a €1 million pre-seed funding round led by Passion Capital, with support from Volta Ventures and Antler, to enhance its AI evaluation platform.
Zendesk has announced its plan to acquire Local Measure, enhancing its AI-powered voice capabilities and strengthening its collaboration with AWS.
Promise has acquired Curious Refuge, an AI film school, to enhance generative AI storytelling, according to a press release.
WilsonAI has raised $1.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Nomad Ventures to advance its AI paralegal platform for in-house legal teams.
Patlytics, a New York-based startup, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Next47, with participation from Google's Gradient Ventures and others. The funds will be used to expand its AI-powered patent analytics platform.
MongoDB has acquired Voyage AI to integrate advanced embedding and reranking models, enabling the development of trustworthy AI applications.
