Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions

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

Bloomberg to Acquire Canoe Intelligence for Private Markets Data

Bloomberg has agreed to acquire Canoe Intelligence, an AI powered data management platform that automates private markets data collection and delivery.

July 29, 2026

CopySight Raises $3 Million and Adds Video Checks to CopyScore

CopySight raised a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital and launched CopyScore V2, which expands its copyright and likeness risk checks into video.

July 29, 2026

UNIT AI Raises $12 Million for Ecommerce Fulfillment Automation

UNIT AI raised $12 million to expand deployments of its AI powered ecommerce fulfillment and returns platform across North America.

July 29, 2026

Encore AI Raises $30 Million for Customer Interaction Platform

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.

July 29, 2026

ThreatLocker Raises $190 Million for Zero Trust Security Platform

ThreatLocker raised $190 million in Series F funding led by Elephant to expand its Zero Trust platform, AI security controls, and international operations.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 29, 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 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.

July 27, 2026

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