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The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.