Behavior intelligence company Malachyte has closed a $10 million seed funding round. The company was co-founded by the team behind the behavioral intelligence infrastructure that powers the bulk of Spotify’s recommendations and aims to bring the same technology to retail and eCommerce brands, Malachyte said in a Thursday...
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator whose alumni include DoorDash, Instacart and Airbnb. Now, trading platform Robinhood says it wants to give retail investors a chance to back that organization’s future graduates as it announced Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII), the second fund from Robinhood...
Maximum emerged from stealth Monday (Aug. 3) and said it raised $30 million in a seed round to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-native operating system for banks. Maximum Founder Randy Fernando previously founded the FinTech companies Vault and Power and sold Vault to Acorns in...
Polymarket reportedly hopes to raise funds at a valuation north of $20 billion. The prediction markets company is in early discussions with prospective investors to raise about $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Aug. 4), citing sources familiar with the matter. Assuming the round closes,...
Horizon3 raised $250 million in a Series E funding round to continue growing its NodeZero platform that uses artificial intelligence to defend against AI-driven cyberattacks. The round tripled Horizon3’s valuation to over $2 billion, up from the $650 million valuation it achieved about a year...
Venture capital group Index Ventures has raised $2 billion, giving it $3.5 billion in total capital. Index said the new funding, announced last week, will let it back founders at a range of growth stages, highlighting opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) space. “AI is...
Venezuela-based pay later FinTech Cashea has raised $100 million in new funding. The company says the new investment will allow it to develop new financial products and improve on its technology while also letting it support initiatives like Generación Impulso, which provides 7,800 teenagers with programming and robotics training....
Agentic customer interaction platform Encore AI has raised $30 million in new funding. The company will use its Series A round, announced Wednesday (July 29) to expand the global deployment of its enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) program, designed to help companies increase revenue with every...
Freehand raised $75 million to scale its autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents that manage supply chain spend for global enterprises. These agents automate procurement, supplier management, invoicing and payments, the company said in a Wednesday (July 29) press release. The agents can negotiate rates, enforce contracts, manage suppliers,...