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 […]
Antaris has announced the first close of a $28 million Series A funding round led by WestWave Capital, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures and additional investors, as demand accelerates for AI-driven satellite mission technologies. The company develops the Antaris Intelligence platform, designed to streamline satellite design, simulation, manufacturing, and operations for ISR and communications […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — depthfirst, an applied AI lab on a mission to secure the world’s software, announced its $80M Series B round, led by Meritech Capital, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and The House Fund, and existing investors, including Accel, Box Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alt Capital, and Mantis VC. This new funding, announced less […]
Spotwise.ai has secured $450,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Outlast Fund with participation from BADideas.fund and 500 Global, following its presentation at the TechChill 2026 Founders Battle. Founded in late 2024, the company is developing an agentic AI platform that combines broadcast monitoring, analytics, and sales automation for media organizations. The platform is designed to […]
Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai has raised $7.17 million in a Series B funding round led by Aavishkaar Capital, marking its first financing event of 2026 as demand for enterprise-grade voice AI accelerates. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on automating customer interactions across voice, chat, and messaging through a voice-first generative AI platform. The transaction, approved through […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Starcloud, the company building data centers in space, announced it has raised a $170 million Series A, at a $1.1 billion valuation. Achieving unicorn status just 17 months after its Y Combinator demo day, Starcloud is now the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history. The round is also more than double the […]
SK hynix has confidentially filed a Form F-1 for a potential U.S. listing, aiming to raise between $10 billion and $14 billion in the second half of 2026, as it seeks to strengthen its position in the global AI semiconductor supply chain. The company is positioning the move as a way to address a long-standing […]