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Blacksmith raises a Sequoia-led Series C at a $1bn valuation

The CI cloud has raised $125 million in total and says it now runs more than 90 million jobs a week, up from 5 million in January, as coding agents push more code through the pipeline.

21 Oct 2026

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Artificial Intelligence - AI

Legora raises $550m at an $8.8bn valuation as legal AI passes $200m ARR

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Azoma raises $11.2m Series A to get brands picked by AI shopping agents

22 Oct 2026

SaaS

Kaminashi raises ¥2.21bn Series C to link factory floor data to management

22 Oct 2026

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Artificial Intelligence - AI

Weflayr raises $2.5m pre-seed to route AI calls to the best model

13books Capital leads the round for the Station F start-up from former Mangopay chief executive Romain Mazeries, which benchmarks models on a customer's own traffic and routes each request within approved limits.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Cygrid raises €2.66m to stop risky actions by AI agents and tokens

Atlantic leads the pre-seed for the Berlin start-up founded in January 2026, whose platform maps human, machine and agent identities and blocks or rewrites actions before they run.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Reduck raises $3m pre-seed so AI agents can run browser scripts

Daphni leads the round for the French-American start-up founded by the team behind Mithril Security and the LaVague web agent. Its library holds more than 1,200 scripts for over 250 websites.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Ultra Security raises $10m seed to police what AI agents do

The Michigan start-up, founded in 2025 by Trustpage founder Chase Lee, sits between agents and their tools to enforce policy on every call. Ludlow Ventures and Detroit Venture Partners are among its backers.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Firstwork raises $15m Series A for AI agents that onboard frontline staff

Earlybird leads the round for the 2024 start-up, whose agents handle right-to-work checks, documents and training for more than 150,000 frontline workers a month. Deel Ventures joins.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

PataBid raises $2m pre-seed for AI estimating aimed at trade contractors

The Calgary company sells Quantify to electrical, mechanical, plumbing and fire protection contractors from $2,460 a year and plans to launch a conversational estimating agent in 2027.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Mach9 raises $34m Series A to turn road scans into engineering drawings

The Carnegie Mellon spin-out began by building scanning hardware and switched to AI CAD software about two years ago. It says nearly 100 customers, including Caltrans, now use it.

22 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Flapping Airplanes raises a $1bn Series A for data-efficient AI models

The young AI lab says it spent a year building new GPU primitives to cut how much data models need. Index and Lux co-lead, nine months after a $180 million seed.

22 Oct 2026

Series A

VECKTA raises $11m Series A to help companies buy onsite solar and storage

The San Diego platform, which says it is profitable, turns a property address into a business case in under a minute and runs standardised tenders across more than 3,000 vetted suppliers.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Qualitate raises $25m Series A from Insight Partners for AI expert interviews

Insight was a paying customer before it led the round. Qualitate says its revenue run-rate grew more than tenfold this year after just over a year on sale.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

AuxoAI raises $20.7m Series A led by NTTVC for forward-deployed AI teams

Founded in 2023 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in four Indian cities, AuxoAI sends strategists and engineers into Global 2000 firms to build production AI.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Pigment raises $250m at a $2.3bn valuation to put agents into planning

The Paris-built planning platform passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue this year, and the new money goes into Graphite, the compute engine its AI agents run on.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Nutanix co-founder's Different launches with $48m for AI-run demand gen

General Catalyst leads and Lightspeed joins. Ajeet Singh, who co-founded Nutanix and ThoughtSpot, spent a year refining the system with early customers before showing it.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Asymptote Labs raises $5.5m seed to watch what AI coding agents do

Tower Research Ventures leads; its parent's security team is already testing Beacon, the open-source agent telemetry layer the round funds. The founders built detection systems at Doppel.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Eka Robotics raises $150m to teach robot hands physics, not imitation

a16z and F-Prime lead the Series A, with seed leads Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund following on. Eka claims 1,500 picks an hour, about two and a half times a human baseline.

21 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Daytona raises $60m at a $1bn valuation to run computers for AI agents

FirstMark Growth leads the Series B, taking total funding to $91 million; Daytona says revenue has grown about 25 times since January and customers include Meta, Cohere, Writer and n8n.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Dapta raises $6m to sell AI sales agents to Spanish-speaking founders

Chingona Ventures leads the seed round; Dapta says about 4,000 businesses join each week, its revenue run-rate has passed $4 million and it has paying customers in 26 countries.

20 Oct 2026

Cybersecurity

Blackwall raises $100m at a $2.2bn valuation for hosts' traffic security

AVP leads the Estonian company's Series C weeks after it was valued at €1 billion; its bot, DDoS and firewall layer runs inside hosting providers' own infrastructure and is resold under their brands.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

XRlabs raises $8.4m seed to put AI software in operating rooms

Playground Global leads the London company's round, Eka Ventures joins, and former Medtronic chief executive Omar Ishrak becomes chair; its software has been used in more than 100 operations.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Dream Labs raises a $90m seed to sell a robot brain through an API

B Capital and Kindred Ventures lead the round for the San Francisco company founded this year by former leads of NVIDIA's GR00T research; its Dream-1 model drives robot arms costing $2,000 to $10,000.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Town raises $108m Series B at a $1bn valuation for team AI assistants

Forerunner and Menlo co-led the round four months after a $55 million Series A; Town says paying teams are up ninefold since July, and each employee gets an assistant that works with colleagues' assistants.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Linkener raises €7.5m from Alantra's Klima fund for energy software

The Valencia company, which says it serves more than 2,000 business customers and 10,000 supply points, will also use the round to buy complementary technology and service firms.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Plinto raises €2.9m to put AI agents on financial controls

People Ventures and Emblem back the Copenhagen company, whose founders helped build Peakon, sold to Workday for over $700 million; its agents check orders, invoices and payments as they happen.

20 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Opsin raises $21m to police what enterprise AI agents do

SYN Ventures and Race Capital led the round; Opsin, which began by finding data overshared through Copilot, now watches agents across Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic platforms.

19 Oct 2026

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