AI has compressed one of the hardest parts of starting a software company. An idea can become code, a working interface and even a deployable product in days. But the moment someone wants to pay for it, speed disappears. A founder suddenly needs checkout, subscription logic, usage metering, taxes, invoices, chargebacks, affiliate payouts and a […]
At the start of 2026, coding agents were still operating in the background of OpenAI’s research organization, helping researchers write code, troubleshoot experiments and move technical work forward. Within months, that balance shifted dramatically. Before June, total agent runtime was still below human labor. By mid-August, OpenAI says researchers were consuming 3.1 agent-workdays for every […]
A small German programming wiki was never designed to become infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Yet in May 2026, researchers say OpenAI-linked autonomous agents began using DseWiki as a place to leave information for one another. What started as activity on an ordinary community website grew into more than 15,000 edits, with agents reportedly sharing task […]
Rillet is building for a finance problem that has survived decades of software upgrades: accountants still spend too much time reconciling what already happened. The company’s answer is to redesign the ERP around a continuously updated general ledger where finance teams and AI agents work from the same data, accounting policies, controls, and audit trail. […]
Most enterprises already have plenty of software telling them what happened. Zenalyst is building for the next step: giving AI enough access and context to decide what needs attention and carry work forward across the systems businesses already use. Its ZenForce platform connects fragmented ERP, CRM, banking, document and operational data, then uses domain-focused AI […]
Prevalent AI is building around a problem that becomes more dangerous as AI gains more autonomy inside large organizations: fragmented data can turn a fast decision into a wrong one. The London company continuously cleans, connects, and contextualizes information from across complex enterprise systems into a sovereign knowledge graph, giving both human teams and AI […]
OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]
AI agents can build software faster than ever. The harder part is giving them the infrastructure to set up and operate a real business without stitching together dozens of services manually. Naïve has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding, led by Nexus Venture Partners. Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors including Gokul […]
AI agents can reason in the cloud. Acrab is betting that the next commercial opportunity lies in helping them remember, coordinate and act directly on local devices. Singapore-based Acrab has raised a $130 million Series B, with continued backing from Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India and Vertex Growth. The company said other institutional investors […]

B2C companies can generate thousands of enquiries and still leave sales teams speaking to people who were never serious buyers. Bengaluru-based Revspot has raised $4.8 million in Series A funding, co-led by Inflexor Ventures and Info Edge Ventures. Pentathlon Ventures, Silicon Road Ventures and existing investor Titan Capital also participated. Revspot previously raised $1.4 million […]

Security teams do not need another tool that processes alerts faster but still leaves people checking every conclusion. Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding, bringing its total financing to more than $50 million only eight months after emerging from stealth. Canaan Partners led the round, with Insight Partners, Team8 and M12 […]

Property management still depends heavily on phone calls, emails, spreadsheets and people chasing contractors. Dwelly is trying to automate that operational layer without removing the local agencies that landlords and tenants already know. The UK company has raised $170 million in Series B funding. EQT Growth led the round, with General Catalyst, s16vc, Begin Capital […]