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Cybersecurity Startup Glow Emerges From Stealth as a Unicorn With $180M Series A
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth Wednesday with a $180 million all-equity Series A round that valued the company at $1.2 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Collective, and Holly…
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Passionfroot Raises $15M Series A to Expand B2B Creator Marketplace as AI Reshapes Marketing
Passionfroot, a German startup operating a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing backers Creandum, Supernode Global, and s16vc, bringing total funding to more than $21 million. Insight Partners managing director Rebecca Liu-Doyle said the company is well positioned…
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Arrakis Comes out of Stealth With $38M to Help Industrial Enterprises Compete in the AI Era
Insider Brief Arrakis, an AI deployment company helping industrial firms install AI agents for mission-critical operations, raised a $30 million Series A led by Blossom Capital with participation from Accel, bringing total funding to around $38 million, with backing from individuals including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and OpenAI’s Olivier Godement Founded in January 2026 by…
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OpenAI’s models cut their own costs
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 6,038 new readers who joined us yesterday. What happens when an AI model gets good enough to lower its own price? OpenAI just gave the industry its first real answer. The company announced new cost cuts…
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OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code
OpenAI has outlined how it aligns safety, security, and transparency work with the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code as enforcement approaches. The company has contributed to and endorsed the EU’s General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice and the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content. Both emerged from multi-stakeholder processes. The GPAI Code sets…
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ChatFeatured Raises $2M to Build an Autonomous AI Search Agent for Marketing Teams
Insider Brief ChatFeatured, an AI search optimization platform, closed an oversubscribed $2 million pre-seed round led by Storytime Capital with participation from Garage Capital and BY Venture Partners, expanded from an original $1.5 million target after investor demand The company, founded in Toronto in January 2026 by Farris Nasr and Nithiiyan Skhanthan, helps marketing teams…
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20 Germany-Based AI Scale-Ups You Need to Know in 2026
Germany’s AI scale-up scene is unmistakably industrial in its instincts, even where the applications are consumer-facing. Berlin alone accounts for nearly half the companies on this list, spanning engineering intelligence, AI asset management, and voice assistants, while Munich, Cologne, and Stuttgart are producing the platforms rebuilding hospital operations, building energy efficiency, and enterprise compliance. From…
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South Korean Robotic Hand Company Tesollo Starts IPO Process
Insider Brief Tesollo has begun preparations for a South Korean initial public offering after completing an undisclosed Series B funding round. The robotic hand developer appointed KB Securities as lead underwriter and plans to pursue a technology-special listing after 2027, with existing and strategic investors participating in the round. Tesollo develops multi-jointed robotic hands, grippers…
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Google Introduces Gemini Robotics 2 with ‘Whole Body Intelligence’
Insider Brief Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2, a three-model AI system designed to give robots whole-body control, greater dexterity, multi-step reasoning and the ability to collaborate with other robots. Tests showed stronger performance with two-finger grippers than multifinger hands, while Apollo 2 demonstrated full-body tasks including walking, bending and placing objects on shelves. Gemini…
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Natural Secures $30M Series A to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents
Natural has raised a $30 million Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued backing from existing investors, bringing the company’s total funding to over $40 million. The round closed when the company was 193 days old and drew participation from Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, and a range of individual…
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