Venture Capital stories - Page 6

Moderne unveils Bauhaus, a selective programme backing startups building lifecycle infrastructure for an agent-driven dev future.

UpGuard secures USD $75m Series C to scale its AI cyber risk platform, fuelling product development, global expansion and acquisitions.

Komodor triples ARR and doubles Fortune 500 reach as AI-fuelled SRE, automation and cloud cost pressure reshape reliability operations.

On-demand laundry platform Laundryheap has expanded into Colombia, Mexico, Malaysia and Scotland, as it accelerates its global rollout.

Telgea raises USD $5m led by Telenor to scale its unified global mobile platform for operators and multinational enterprise customers.

Wootzwork secures USD $6.6m Series A to scale its AI-driven manufacturing coordination model across global industrial supply chains.

Aurora Tech names 10 women-led startups from emerging markets as finalists for non-dilutive funding and investor access in Santiago.

Potpie AI secures USD $2.2m pre-seed to build an ontology-first context layer helping AI agents navigate massive enterprise codebases.

FireCell merges with Acceleran and secures EUR €7.9m to chase Europe's growing sub-EUR €1m private 5G market for industry and defence.

Selector raises USD $32m at a USD $375m valuation to expand its AI-driven observability platform and accelerate global enterprise growth.

Unicity Labs raises USD $3m seed round to build peer-to-peer protocol powering high-throughput autonomous agentic AI marketplaces.

Reliable game economies turn UA from a risky expense into financeable growth fuel, reshaping competition in the crowded mobile market.

Qodo 2.1 debuts an AI-driven rules layer that learns from code history to enforce consistent standards and analytics-led code review.

DryRun Security appoints Signal Sciences Co-founder Andrew Peterson to its board to steer its AI-native code security push.

Emerald and Japan's DIC are launching a USD $62m Physical AI venture platform targeting sensing, wearables, robotics and automation.

Anthropic raises USD $30bn in new backing, lifting the AI group's valuation to USD $380bn as demand for its Claude models surges.

Aurasell launches GTM OS, an AI-native overlay that automates go-to-market workflows across existing CRMs without risky system replacement.

As 2026 looms, studios find the real growth constraint is not equity or debt, but the reliability of revenue fuelling user acquisition.

Newo raises USD $25m to grow AI voice agents that answer calls for small businesses, after revenue doubled late 2025 amid rising demand.

Matia raises $21m to expand its AI-native data stack, betting on an all-in-one platform as data engineering consolidates.