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🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week
Temporal – $300M (Series D) – San Francisco
Open-source durable execution platform for reliable agentic workflows—because “my AI agent retried the payment” is not a cute bug.
Taalas – $169M (Series A) – New York
Back-office automation for private equity/alternatives using AI to streamline fund ops—turning spreadsheets into an actual system of record.
Code Metal – $125M (Series B) – Mountain View, CA
AI that translates intent into optimized, safe low-level code. Aimed at speeding up systems programming without shipping a time bomb.
Jump – $80M (Series B) – Salt Lake City, UT
AI “operating system” for financial advisors. Jump automates workflows and intelligence so humans can spend time on clients, not clicks.
Selector – $32M – Santa Clara, CA
AI-driven observability + network intelligence to prevent downtime.
Vizzia – $32M (Series B) – Paris, France
AI-powered supply chain visibility that flags risk and delays early, so logistics teams stop learning the bad news from customers.
🦄 Startups to Watch:
Portkey (Series A)
If AI is becoming “load-bearing,” Portkey is selling the breaker box: governance + reliability + spend control in-path. That’s sticky infrastructure once adopted.Avantos (Series A)
Wealth management is a paperwork factory; Avantos is going after the ugly middle (onboarding + servicing) where automation actually compounds over time.Stacks (Series A)
Finance close is still 1999-coded. Stacks is aiming to be the agentic layer that finally makes month-end less of a recurring trauma.Rapidata (Seed)
As models proliferate, differentiated human feedback + eval pipelines become a defensible moat—especially for regulated and high-stakes deployments.Adronite (Series A)
Enterprises can’t modernize what they can’t see. Codebase intelligence is the unsexy prerequisite for every AI-assisted refactor roadmap.
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📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
“Agentic” is now a budget line item: money flowed to durability, governance, and control planes (Temporal, Portkey) over novelty wrappers. (
Vertical AI is still printing checks when it owns a workflow end-to-end (wealth ops, PE ops, finance close).
Observability is rebranding as resilience: keeping complex systems up (Selector) is becoming the easiest AI ROI story to sell to enterprises.
Europe kept pushing “stack sovereignty” vibes. Infra + AI players tightening the loop between models and compute (and buying it when needed).
Robotics/physical AI momentum is creeping into capital markets via creative structures (SPAC-style combos) and strategic acquisition chatter.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions:
Mistral AI agreed to acquire cloud startup Koyeb (undisclosed), tightening its grip on the infra layer.
Palo Alto Networks struck a deal to acquire “agentic endpoint” security startup Koi, continuing its platform consolidation arc.
JFB and XTEND announced a $1.5B business combination to form a Nasdaq-listed AI-driven autonomous defense robotics company.
Ubtech Robotics said it will acquire up to 43% of Zhejiang Fenglong Electric in a deal valued up to ~1.67B yuan.
M&A Pulse: Big platforms are shopping for “agentic” capabilities, while robotics keeps experimenting with public-market pathways.
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