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What stands out in this raise isn’t the number itself—$8.5 million is tidy but not flashy—it’s the signal. When Ferguson Ventures leads a round, it’s basically the industry’s quiet way of saying: enough with clipboards, text-message purchase orders, and the “did anyone reorder that?” chaos that still defines too many job sites. Ply slots right into that tension. The trades live … [Read more...] about Ply secures $8.5M to automate inventory for the trades, partners with Ferguson Ventures

LizzyAI just pulled in a fresh $5 million seed round, led by NEA with Speedinvest and Zero Prime Ventures joining in, and the timing feels spot-on for a hiring market that’s still tripping over its own inefficiencies. The money is heading straight into expanding engineering and go-to-market firepower, tightening integrations, and pushing its AI interview engine into deeper, … [Read more...] about LizzyAI Secures $5M to Rebuild the Interview From the Ground Up

Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) just tightened their partnership in a way that hints at where large-scale AI is actually heading, especially for companies that need stability, cost control, and flexibility rather than hype. The short version: Red Hat is making its AI platform fully compatible with AWS’s custom AI chips — Inferentia and Trainium — so enterprises can run … [Read more...] about When Open Source Meets Custom Silicon: Red Hat and AWS Shift the AI Infrastructure Game

Sometimes a funding announcement lands that feels less like another step in the fintech hype cycle and more like a company finally hitting the moment it’s been building toward — and today, that note belongs to Sokin. The company revealed it has closed a $50 million Series B round led by Prysm Capital, joined by Watershed Ventures and existing backers including Morgan Stanley … [Read more...] about Sokin Secures $50M Series B to Scale Global Payments Ambitions

Something about this story feels like a milestone — not hype, not sci-fi polish, but one of those subtle turning points where an idea stops being futuristic and simply becomes part of how things work. Tutor Intelligence, the MIT-born robotics company teaching warehouse robots to think and adapt more like people, has closed a fresh $34 million Series A led by Union Square … [Read more...] about Tutor Intelligence Raises $34M to Scale Human-Like Warehouse Robots

There’s a certain shift happening in AI right now — one that feels quieter than the hype around chatbots and image generators, yet arguably far more consequential. Harmonic, the company pushing the frontier of Mathematical Superintelligence, just crossed the unicorn threshold after securing a $120 million Series C round at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation. The round was led … [Read more...] about Harmonic Reaches Unicorn Status as Mathematical Superintelligence Moves Into the Real World

There’s a certain irony in how much money the world spends on software that barely anyone loves. ERP systems are the backbone of industrials, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing — practically every enterprise sector we rely on — but they’ve barely evolved in decades. They’re rigid, consulting-heavy, and astonishingly expensive to maintain. Yet companies don’t really … [Read more...] about CoPlane Raises $14M: Reinventing the Most Boring — and Most Expensive — Part of Enterprise Software

Sometimes a press release lands that doesn’t feel routine corporate PR, but rather a quiet signal shift in global digital power structures. This one sits firmly in that category. NATO’s tech arm, the NCI Agency (NCIA), has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Google Cloud—specifically for sovereign, AI-capable infrastructure built to operate even in disconnected … [Read more...] about Google Cloud Secures New NATO Cloud Contract: Sovereign AI Meets Military-Grade Security

There’s a moment every so often in tech where you can almost feel the ground shifting beneath the industry, and Profluent’s newly announced $106 million financing round has that sort of energy. The funding was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with continued backing from Spark Capital, Insight Partners, and Air Street Capital. With this round, Profluent now … [Read more...] about Profluent’s $106 Million Raise Marks a Turning Point for Programmable Biology

Something about today’s announcement from Cloudera feels like the moment the market finally stops pretending that scattered data strategies are sustainable. The company rolled out a major platform update at EVOLVE25 in Dubai, weaving together Trino federation, SDX governance, and Octopai Data Lineage into a single architecture meant to solve a problem everyone acknowledges but … [Read more...] about Cloudera EVOLVE25: Unified AI Data Access Takes Center Stage in Dubai