Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Encore AI raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage. The company will use the funding to expand global deployment of its enterprise AI platform for customer interactions.
ThreatLocker raised $190 million in Series F funding led by Elephant to expand its Zero Trust platform, AI security controls, and international operations.
Pangram raised $9 million and launched Pangram 4 for AI text detection, along with an AI image detector in research preview.
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.
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.
Weave raised $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Standard Capital to expand its platform for measuring human and AI engineering work.
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.
Katalyst has acquired Layer27, a Durham, North Carolina managed services and cybersecurity provider with Microsoft expertise and clients in healthcare and regulated industries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
