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Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents
Outcraft AI, an agentic AI platform focused on autonomous revenue execution, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from Practica Capital. The company also received early backing from venture builder Lost Astronaut. Businesses frequently miss revenue opportunities due to delayed or inconsistent customer engagement. Leads may go cold, free users fail to convert, declined payments read more
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Modern Relay raises $3M to build shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise
Modern Relay today announced a $3 million funding round from Point Nine, Emerge, Amino Collective, Common Magic, and angels, including Charlie Songhurst (board member at Meta), Michael Boehler (former BioNTech executive), and Thomas Clozel (co-founder of OWKIN). Employees are already running multiple agents to draft research, ship code, and handle day-to-day operations. The moment those read more
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Agents for finance startup Zalos raises $3.6M to transform finance departments
A startup looking to ease the manual workload of finance teams through deploying AI agentshas raised $3.6m in a seed funding round. The funding round in the London and San Francisco-basedZalos was led by Swiss VC 14Peaks Capital. Other investors include Cohen Circle, Harry Stebbings’ 20VC and several angels, including Ian Sutherland, the CTO of read more
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Interloom raises $16.5M to develop enterprise memory for AI agents
Interloom, an enterprise operations platform that captures expert knowledge and converts it into a persistent memory layer for AI agents, has closed a $16.5 million seed funding round. The round was led by DN Capital, with participation from Bek Ventures and existing investor Air Street Capital. The company addresses a key limitation in enterprise AI read more
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Sequoia-backed Edra raises $30M Series A to turn enterprise data into self-improving AI agents
Today, startup Edra announced $30 million Series A led by Sequoia, which included investment from 8VC and A*z. Edra builds AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. Its AI agents reverse-engineer how a business actually runs from existing systems and create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions that agents can act read more
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Agent debugging startup Laminar raises $3M seed to tackle the observability gap in AI agents
Laminar today announces a $3 million seed round led by Atlantic.vc, with participation from Y-Combinator, AAL.vc, and notable angels including Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTelemetry and Ant Wilson, CTO of Supabase. Founders Robert Kim (CEO) and Dinmukhamed Mailibay (CTO) grew up together in Kazakhstan, studied at KAIST, and worked side by side in London before read more
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Retired FBI Agents Geoffrey Kelly Details His 22-Year Investigation into the Gardner Museum Heist in New Book
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. Next week, the world’s greatest art heist turns 36. To mark the anniversary of the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is a new book read more
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Escape secures $18M Series A to develop AI cybersecurity agents
Escape, an offensive security engineering platform, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round to develop AI agents designed to automate the security lifecycle. The round was led by Balderton, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator. Advances in AI have shortened the time between code deployment and read more
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Diligent AI raises $2.5M to support KYC and AML teams with AI agents
London-based Diligent AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup developing autonomous AI analysts for financial crime compliance, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Speedinvest alongside fintech investor Shapers, with participation from strategic angel investors including the CEOs and founders of N26, Allica Bank, IDnow, Billie and Cybersource (acquired by Visa). KYC read more
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Skene raises €800k to accelerate software growth via AI agents
Helsinki-based product growth automation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from NVIDIA executives. As AI accelerates the pace of software development, a widening gap has emerged between building products and achieving commercial success. Many startups struggle to reach market fit, while a significant portion of SaaS tools read more
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Cerrion raises $18M to reduce factory downtime with AI video agents
Cerrion, the Swiss-founded AI video agent platform that detects and resolves production line issues in real time, has raised $18 million in Series A funding to further expand and scale operations in the US and Europe. The round was led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session read more
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AI agents “lost” when patients ask medical questions, says healthtech boss
AI agentsare “lost” when patients ask medical questions, and it will take time to roll agents out effectively in a clinical setting, according to the founders of two healthtech firms. Ali Parsa, who previously ran the failed Babylon Health and Circle Health and is now heading upQuadrivia, which has built an AI agent for clinicians, read more
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