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AI Personal Assistant Startup Instinct Lands Billion-Dollar Round
Instinct, a San Francisco company building an AI personal assistant that runs errands for you, announced a $1 billion Series C on Monday. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue backed the...
The $3 Trillion Problem Hiding in Corporate Contracts, and the AI Built to Find It
Terzo says Fortune 500 companies have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars that leaked out of deals they had already won. Across the global B2B economy, trillions of dollars in...
Brain-Computer Interface Funding Crosses $250M Mark
Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D for its brain-computer interface work, a raise big enough to push its valuation past $1 billion. Pershing Square Inc. and the...
Construction Robotics Gets a Boost From Nexterity’s Pipefitting Bot
Lindsey Elliott spent years in ExxonMobil’s engineering and planning ranks before deciding the most overlooked opportunity in industrial tech was not another piece of software. It was a robot that...
When Should Businesses Consider eLearning Staff Augmentation?
Training teams rarely run at a comfortable pace for long. A product launch moves up. A compliance update lands late. A client asks for three modules sooner than anyone planned....
Manufacturing Procurement Software Lands $17M for Axya
Manufacturers still run purchasing on spreadsheets and email chains more often than most founders would guess, and a Montreal startup just raised money to change that. Axya locked in $17...
Payment Fraud Prevention Gets a $16M Boost From IPID
Instant payments move fast, and that speed is exactly the problem a startup called IPID just raised money to fix. The company announced a $16 million Series A on September...
Acquisition Strategy Lessons From Databricks’ Row Zero Deal
Databricks confirmed on September 24 that it has acquired Row Zero, a young startup whose cloud based spreadsheets can hold more than a million live rows. Terms were not disclosed....
Vibe Coding Hits a $600M Milestone With Lovable
Lovable’s co-founder told a crowd in Amsterdam this week that the AI app building platform’s annualized revenue run rate just crossed $600 million. Fabian Hedin shared the number at the...
Aldi to invest US$1.2 billion in Britain in 2027
Published Mon, Sep 28, 2026 · 04:18 PM[LONDON] The British arm of German discounter Aldi said on Monday (Sep 28) it will invest £900 million (US$1.2 billion) next year including...
