AI agent platforms expand into enterprise workflows
Enterprise-focused AI agent platforms for coding, customer support, and productivity secured major funding and launched new product integrations, focusing on security, governance, and workflow automation.
Factory raised $150 million in a Series C round at a $1.5 billion valuation for its AI coding agent platform, per the company's announcement. The company, which developed proprietary 'Context Compression' technology for working with large codebases, had previously raised a Series B round in September 2024.
Creao AI raised a $10 million Series A, led by Prosperity7 Ventures, for its AI workflow automation platform, according to its funding announcement. GuruSup, a Valencia-based AI customer service platform, secured a €1.3 million Seed round, as reported by EU-Startups.
Separately, NanoClaw released version 2.0 of its agentic policy control software in partnership with Vercel and OneCLI, per VentureBeat. The update adds human-in-the-loop approval mechanisms for AI agents operating across 15 messaging applications.
Perplexity made its 'Personal Computer' AI agent available to all $200/month Max subscribers on macOS, per the official launch details.
AI hardware and chip startups attract major capital amid strategic competition
European and US AI chip startups Euclyd and Cerebras pursued massive funding rounds targeting production scale and an IPO, while Nvidia's CEO warned of geopolitical threats from a China-led hardware stack.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that if Chinese lab DeepSeek's V4 model is optimized for Huawei's Ascend 950PR processors, it would be a "horrible outcome" for the US, per the SCMP report. DeepSeek’s V4 model is reportedly slated to run on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR chips, per prior reports from early April.
Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd is in negotiations to raise at least €100 million, per external coverage. In the same week, AI chipmaker Cerebras made plans for an initial public offering aiming to raise over $3 billion at a valuation exceeding $35 billion, a 60% premium to its $22 billion February valuation.
Separately, the UK government’s new £500 million Sovereign AI fund disclosed its first investment in software company Callosum, per Techmeme. Callosum raised a $10.25 million pre-seed round led by Plural and ARIA in February, developing orchestration software for AI workloads across diverse chips.
Applied AI for vertical markets sees enterprise integration and funding
AI startups in healthcare, finance, and manufacturing secured funding and launched products focused on deep workflow integration, like EHR systems, expense management, and supply chain prediction.
Loop raised a $95 million Series C led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund for its supply chain prediction platform. Per the announcement, the round included participation from 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, and J.P. Morgan's Growth Equity Partners.
American Express entered into an agreement to acquire Hyper, an AI-driven expense management startup, to enhance its corporate payment services. The deal is expected to close within the second quarter of 2026.
AvoMD secured a $10 million Series A led by Noro-Moseley Partners for its EHR-integrated clinical AI platform. The company's prior traction includes a reported 35% reduction in clinician charting time. Its platform integrates directly with systems including Epic and athenahealth.
Loop AI, a different company focused on restaurant back-office automation, raised $14 million in a Series A in February 2026. Separately, fintech competitor Slash closed a $100 million Series C this week.
This Week in Brief
Funding
- Euclyd — Euclyd is seeking €100 million in funding to scale production of its specialized AI inference chips with backing from former ASML CEO Peter Wennink.
- Cursor — Cursor is in talks to raise over $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation and forecast a $6 billion revenue run rate by end of 2026.
- Upscale — Upscale initiated a funding round to raise $200 million, which would value the AI sales startup at approximately $2 billion.
- Sygaldry Technologies — Sygaldry Technologies raised $139 million in a combined seed and Series A round led by Earth VC for its quantum-AI research.
- Alcatraz — Alcatraz secured $50 million in a Series B round to scale its edge-based facial authentication systems for enterprise building access.
- リチェルカ (Ricerca) — Japanese startup Ricerca raised $11 million to develop its AI agent-driven ERP platform, RECERQA, for manufacturing and trading companies.
Product & Technology
- Google — Google released a free Gemini desktop app for macOS with a screen-sharing feature for on-screen content analysis.
- Anthropic — Anthropic launched its Claude Mythos Preview cybersecurity model and hired lobbying firm Ballard Partners to repair relations with U.S. officials.
- OpenAI — OpenAI published a detailed rate card for its Codex API, establishing pricing across Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise/Education tiers.
- TraderBro — TraderBro built an AI tool using NLP to fact-check financial advice claims made by TikTok influencers against real-time market data.
- 직방 — Zigbang launched an AI service called Jikim Diagnosis, which assesses real estate contract risks using its proprietary transaction data.
- 라이너 — Liner added an AI slide generation feature that converts its search results and business documents into structured PowerPoint presentations.
- Aqua Voice — YC-backed Aqua Voice reports over 50% of its users are in Japan, where its voice AI tool sees strong adoption for AI prompting.
- Lightricks — Lightricks released the open model LTX-2.3 for generating synchronized video and audio on local hardware like an RTX 4070 GPU.
- 群核科技 — China's Qunke Technology listed on the Hong Kong exchange, with shares surging 171% as the first public 'spatial intelligence' AI company.
Partnership
- Galaxy Corporation — Galaxy Corp established a Dubai subsidiary to expand its AI and robotics entertainment business and pursue cooperation with UAE leadership.
Compiled from 28 linked sources in Week 16 of 2026.
