telli raised $15 million in a seed round to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) agent builder focused on customer-facing AI agents. This tool, Charlie, helps B2C companies create, test, optimize, maintain and run agents that talk to customers, the company said in a Thursday (July 23) blog post....
Augustus, formerly known as Ivy, raised $180 million in a Series B funding round to support its offering that gives financial institutions around the world direct access to dollar accounts and rails through a federally chartered bank. The company will use the new funding to...
U.K.-based robotics firm Humanoid says it is now a $1 billion company. The startup achieved that status, becoming “Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn,” after raising $152 million in a Series A round announced Tuesday (July 21). “Now is a defining moment for the European...
Global payments and FinTech firm Ant International has raised $1.2 billion in new funding. This Series A equity financing will allow Ant to improve on its cross-border payments and agentic commerce offerings, the company said in a Monday (July 20) news release. The release added that the...
Natural, a year-old company that is building a foundational payment stack for artificial intelligence agents, raised $30 million in a Series A funding round. The round brings Natural’s total funding to more than $40 million, the company said in a Monday (July 20) press release....
Sustainable apparel company Reformation aims to raise up to $239 million when it goes public. The company and its investors plan to market roughly 14 million shares at a range of $15 to $17 apiece, Reformation said in a Monday (July 20) Securities and Exchange...
European investment firm Lakestar has closed a $300 million Resilience I Fund designed to invest in defense and dual-use technologies that enhance Europe’s resilience capabilities, the company said in a Friday (July 17) post on LinkedIn. “As [Klaus Hommels], our founder and chairman, wrote last...
Databricks is raising a round of strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation and expects the round to close later this summer, the company said in a Thursday (July 16) press release. The data and artificial intelligence company signed a term sheet for the round,...
Anthropic is arranging credit lines worth billions of dollars, adding to a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit facility it received last year, The Information reported Wednesday (July 15), citing unnamed sources. Expanding capacity like this is a common move by companies planning an initial public...