Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space. Cloud storage was supposed to make computers feel limitless. Yet workflows remain constrained by the disk inside each device. The cloud gave data another place to live, but not... The post Space Raises $2.4 Million Led by a16z Speedrun to…
AITech Insights Snapshot: Alloy Robotics has raised $8 million at an $80 million valuation to expand its AI agent platform for robot fleet diagnostics. The platform analyzes logs, telemetry, video, and sensor data to identify failures, regressions, and recurring patterns across growing fleets. Alloy Robotics, which builds AI agents that analyze robot data to identify... The post Alloy Robotics…
Market research is meant to accelerate decisions. The operation behind it often does the opposite, with researchers spending more time coordinating the process than interpreting what customers are actually saying. Echovane is building to change that. Today, the company announced $1 million in funding co-led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund to expand a permanently done-for-you... The post Echovane…
After a $50 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, Endra is scaling its AI-powered design platform for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering as data centers, electrification, and net-zero infrastructure put new pressure on a constrained global engineering workforce. Every building eventually runs into the same constraint: the engineering capacity required to make it real.... The…
The San Francisco company unveils proprietary research and a from-scratch model designed to help AI systems cut through synthetic content and manipulated recommendations as purchasing decisions increasingly shift from humans to agents. Onton today announced the launch of Ontology 1, a trust and authenticity model for the emerging agentic web, where AI systems increasingly research,... The post…
Freehand AI Agents autonomously manage supply-chain spend for Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Dunkin’, Pfizer and Cardinal Health Freehand, whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for the Fortune 500, today announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from PSP Growth — the fund led by former U.S.... The post Freehand Raises $75M…
The ETH Zürich spin-out is building trapped-ion processors on a novel two-dimensional architecture. The new funding will grow the team and expand its research efforts as the company works to increase the number of qubits it can put on a single chip. ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, today announced... The post Zuriq Raises $25.5 Million to Scale New Groundbreaking 2D…
Fresh off its $19.1 million Series A, Liquidnitro Games brings onboard Cedrick Collomb, former CTO of Tencent Games Global and EA Mobile, as Chief Technology Officer, a signal of how far the company intends to push its platform-led model for building, launching, and scaling games worldwide. The old production math in gaming is broken. Bigger teams, larger... The post Liquidnitro Games Names…
Six AI specialists proactively handle payroll, compliance, scheduling, and HR work for restaurants, hotels, dealerships, and other real-world businesses, inside Netchex and inside ChatGPT & Claude Netchex, a payroll and human capital management (HCM) platform for businesses with deskless workforces, today announced Mesh, a team of AI HR teammates that anticipate problems and complete work... The…
Consumer hardware company Aina has announced a $5.5M seed round to build a general purpose interface for the age of AI beyond phone touchscreens and keyboards. Aina was operating as an HCI Lab for the last few months and is the company behind Dune, a popular three-key context-aware keypad, launched earlier this year. AI is... The post Ex-Ultrahuman Exec Raises $5.5m for Aina, a New Hardware…
