Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Legal AI company Harvey has acquired Hexus, a startup that builds tools for product demos and guides. The move brings Hexus founder Sakshi Pratap and her team into Harvey’s growing engineering organization to accelerate development for in-house legal departments.
Google has invested in Japanese startup Sakana AI to expand the reach of its Gemini chatbot in Japan. The deal allows Sakana to use Alphabet’s language models to develop products and improve reliability in key services.
Yelp Inc. has agreed to acquire AI-powered lead management company Hatch for up to $300 million, combining Yelp’s scale with Hatch’s automation technology to enhance services for local businesses.
Austin-based Neurophos has raised $110 million in a Series A round led by Gates Frontier to develop its photonic AI chips, which use micron-scale metamaterial optical modulators to boost performance and energy efficiency.
London and San Francisco-based Asymmetric Security has raised $4.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop its AI-native incident response platform, which reduces cybersecurity investigation times from days to hours.
Portland-based AheadComputing has raised $30 million in a Seed2 round led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures, and Cambium to accelerate development of its RISC-V-based CPU architecture designed for AI applications.
Datarails has raised $70 million in Series C funding led by One Peak to expand its AI-native financial platform for CFOs. The company plans to use the funds for global expansion, R&D, and potential acquisitions.
goFLUENT has acquired the business operations of Learnship Networks GmbH to strengthen its enterprise language training and assessment solutions, expanding its reach in Germany and integrating over 500 new language trainers.
EAB has acquired Hybrid, a global higher education marketing firm, from UK private equity investor LDC. The acquisition will enhance EAB’s digital marketing and enrollment solutions across global markets.
AI startup Humans& has raised $480 million in a seed round valuing the company at $4.5 billion. The round included investors such as Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV, and SV Angel, and was founded by former researchers from OpenAI, xAI, and Alphabet.
Decisions and ProcessMaker have acquired Configurable Management, an SAP-focused automation company, to expand their capabilities in data migration and validation across SAP environments.
LER TechForce has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Resource Solution division from Siemens’ Altair business unit, expanding its workforce and talent management capabilities.
SYSPRO has acquired Evocon, an Estonia-based provider of real-time production monitoring and OEE solutions, to strengthen its digital shopfloor capabilities and deliver enhanced operational insights to manufacturers.
EQT Life Sciences and Gimv have co-led a €51 million Series B funding round for Exciva to advance its lead candidate, Deraphan, into Phase 2 clinical trials targeting agitation in Alzheimer’s disease.
Jon Peddie Research has released an extensive report analyzing the rapidly expanding AI processor market, highlighting over $28.5 billion in investments and activity from 120 startups.
ClickHouse has raised $400 million in Series D funding led by Dragoneer, acquired AI observability startup Langfuse, and introduced a managed Postgres service to unify transactional and analytical workloads.
WeLab has completed a $220 million Series D funding round, marking the largest digital banking capital raise in Asia for 2025. The financing will support its AI initiatives and regional expansion, including its partnership with Google.
AI cloud infrastructure provider Lambda is seeking to raise at least $350 million through a convertible note round led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of a planned IPO later this year.
Anthropic is in talks to raise $10 billion in a new funding round that would value the AI company at $350 billion, with GIC and Coatue Management leading the investment, according to Bloomberg. Microsoft and Nvidia are also expected to participate in the round.
Siemens CEO Roland Busch said the company is exploring potential acquisitions in artificial intelligence, life sciences, and operations software, building on its $5.1 billion purchase of Dotmatics last year to strengthen AI-driven drug development and data infrastructure.
