Enterprise AI
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Enterprise Voice 4.0
Enterprise voice agents can answer calls at scale, but delays, awkward interruptions and disconnected models still make many conversations feel automated. San Francisco-based Smallest.ai has raised a $13 million Series A, taking its total funding to more than $21 million. The round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. […]
Top Five AI Startups Raised $1.36B in One Week
In five days, five companies took in roughly $1.36 billion. Read the round sizes and it looks like more of the same froth. Read where the money went, and something more deliberate emerges. Not one of these teams is building a smarter chatbot. CuspAI, Meshy, Augustus, Glow, and Humanoid are aiming AI at the places […]
Coforge Secures $230M-Plus European AI Transformation Contract
A company can run dozens of AI pilots without changing how its business actually works. The harder step begins when artificial intelligence must connect with legacy applications, employee workflows, governance systems and the software responsible for daily operations. Coforge has secured a five-year contract worth more than $230 million from an undisclosed major European client […]
Audit is becoming an AI-native workflow
Andera has raised a $37 million Series A led by Lightspeed, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, A*, and Pear VC, to build AI agents for audit work. Lightspeed describes Andera as the company building an AI-native platform to automate internal audit, a function that still relies heavily on manual evidence collection, control testing, Excel […]
AI’s 2026 bottleneck will not be the model. It will be the data layer.
Confluent’s 2026 Predictions Report makes a sharp argument about the next phase of enterprise AI: the model race is no longer the whole story. After a year where agentic AI dominated data conversations, Confluent says 2026 will be about solving the barriers that made AI hard to move into production. The report opens with a […]