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Funding

Aranya launches with $11M to turn bare-metal servers into GPU clusters in under 48 hours

Aranya Inc. launched with $11M in funding to convert bare-metal servers into production-ready GPU clusters for AI inference in under 48 hours. Its open-source clusterdOS, built on Kubernetes, automates hardware discovery, diagnosis, and remediation, addressing Kubernetes' blind spot in hardware failures. The company has managed over $500M in GPU hardware and promises a 48-hour deployment timeline, with security and natural-language interface features.

Sep 14 minNeura News
Funding

Visko Raises $10M, Debuts Orbis "Live Model" for Real-Time Interactive Video

Visko Platform Inc. announced a $10 million pre-seed funding round led by Llama Ventures and the public debut of Orbis, its first foundation model for generating long-form, real-time interactive videos. Orbis streams 4K video at 24 fps using a 'live model' paradigm based on Neural SDEs, maintaining coherence over time. The company claims superior performance on benchmarks, but experts caution about real-world costs and verification.

Sep 17 minNeura News
Product Launch

Orchestra Launches Agentic Control Plane for Enterprise Data and AI Workflows

Orchestra Technologies has launched its Agentic Control Plane, a platform that provides a single, context-aware interface for managing enterprise data and AI workflows. The platform integrates with existing data infrastructure and AI tools, offering a low-code builder and automated failure investigations. With $4.6 million in funding and customers like Experian and the San Francisco Giants, Orchestra aims to reduce operational overhead and accelerate AI adoption.

Sep 16 minNeura News
Industry

Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter in $7.5B Bet on the AI Economy

Stripe has agreed to acquire AI model routing gateway OpenRouter in a deal reported at roughly $7.5 billion, signaling a shift toward treating model selection as a financial decision. The acquisition is part of Stripe's plan to build an economic operating system for AI, combining payments, billing, token metering, and model routing. The move comes as competitors like Ramp launch similar routing services, and as inference hardware startups like Etched and Groq raise significant funding.

Aug 238 minNeura News
Funding

Skan AI Raises $63M to Turn Observed Work Into Enterprise AI Agents

Skan AI, a Menlo Park startup, raised $63 million in Series C funding to advance its AI agents that learn from observed employee work. The round was co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures. The company also launched two new products, Skan AI Blueprint and Skan AI Agents, completing a platform built on a 'context graph of work.' Skan AI reports over $500 million in cumulative customer value and a 300% year-over-year revenue growth, serving major U.S. banks and Fortune 50 companies.

Aug 125 minNeura News
Funding

Edgify Raises $9 Million to Bring AI to the Retail Edge

Edgify, a London-based company specializing in edge AI for physical retail, has secured $9 million in Series A+ funding, bringing its total to $25 million. The investment will accelerate deployments in grocery retail and expand its platform into a broader infrastructure layer for managing AI models across distributed devices. Edgify's technology runs AI directly on edge devices like cameras and scales, enabling loss prevention and waste management without relying on cloud processing.

Aug 106 minNeura News
AI Tools

CFOs Turn AI Budgeting Into an Infrastructure Discipline for 2026

Chief financial officers are shifting AI spending from experimental funding to disciplined, infrastructure-like management for 2026. The change comes as AI costs escalate rapidly across departments, with pilots expanding into complex, multi-vendor systems. CFOs are now prioritizing high-ROI areas like operational automation and governance, while consolidating fragmented AI infrastructure to maintain financial control.

Aug 76 minNeura News
Funding

Naïve raises $28.5M to let AI agents run entire businesses

Naïve, a startup building infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. The company claims over 30,000 developer customers and has scaled annual run-rate revenue 10x in six months. Its platform handles incorporation, payments, cloud infrastructure, and more, with a serverless runtime that cuts agent costs significantly.

Aug 67 minNeura News
Funding

Ex-Spotify engineers raise $10M for Malachyte, an e-commerce personalization startup

Malachyte, an e-commerce personalization startup founded by three former Spotify engineers, has raised $10 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient, with participation from Harpoon Ventures. Malachyte adapts Spotify's Vector AI recommendation system to predict shopper intent in real time, using behavioral signals like clicks and hovers to personalize storefronts without requiring accounts or purchase history. The platform is live on Shopify and via API for larger retailers.

Aug 64 minNeura News