Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sona, the AI platform for real economy businesses, has turned what was a ten-year product vision into a one-year execution plan. With core products already powering scheduling, HR, payroll and other business-critical workflows, Sona is fast-tracking its evolution into the operational foundation these organizations run on — the platform providing the infrastructure, collaborative agents […]
Runway has announced the launch of a $10 million venture fund to support early-stage startups building across AI, media, and simulation, as the company expands its focus beyond AI video generation into broader “video intelligence” applications. The initiative includes a Builders program offering startups significant API credits to accelerate development on Runway’s platform. Led by […]
Mantis Biotech has secured $7.4 million in seed funding led by Decibel VC, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2, and angel investors, as it develops AI-powered synthetic data infrastructure for biomedical applications. The company is focused on addressing data scarcity in healthcare by generating high-fidelity digital twins of the human body using large language […]
ScaleOps has secured $130 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital, valuing the company at $800 million. The company develops AI-driven software designed to automatically manage and optimize compute infrastructure in real time, addressing inefficiencies in AI and cloud environments. […]
Notch has announced a $30 million Series A funding round led by Headline, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jibe Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Phoenix Insurance, bringing total funding to $45 million. Founded in 2021, the company is developing an AI operating system designed to enable regulated industries to deploy AI safely across complex workflows. […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Variance, building AI investigative agents for risk and compliance, announced a $21.5 million Series A funding round to expand its agentic AI platform for financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. The round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Urban Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures. Variance […]
Jimini Health has secured $17 million in seed funding from M13, Town Hall Ventures, LionBird, Zetta Venture Partners, OneMind, and additional investors, bringing total funding to over $25 million. The company is developing clinician-supervised, patient-facing AI infrastructure designed for large behavioral health systems, enabling safe and compliant deployment of AI at scale. The platform, Sage, […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Censys, the trusted authority for Internet intelligence and insights, announced its Series D funding round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from Decibel Partners, Greylock Partners, GV, Intel Capital, and others. The company will use the $40 million Series D round and $30 million debt financing to accelerate building AI-driven solutions for […]
Copenhagen-based Financial News Systems (FNS) has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding backed by Ugly Duckling Ventures, as it advances an AI-only financial newsroom model delivering real-time coverage of 9,000 companies across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Founded in 2024 by Gelu Sulugiuc and Nicolai Pedersen, the team behind PLX AI, the company is focused […]
Anthropic has acknowledged that thousands of GitHub repositories were unintentionally taken down following an effort to remove leaked source code related to its Claude Code AI product. The incident began after a software engineer identified that a recent release had exposed parts of the application’s underlying code, prompting widespread sharing and analysis within developer communities. […]