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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
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

Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million to Build Voice AI That Passes the Turing Test

Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024, has raised $13 million in Series A funding to develop ultra-fast voice AI models that aim to make conversations with AI agents indistinguishable from human interactions. The round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing total funding to over $21 million. The company focuses on small, specialized voice models that listen, think, and speak simultaneously, reducing response lag. It targets enterprise voice agents, with customers like RingCentral and Truecaller, and plans to break the Turing test.

Jul 314 minNeura News
Funding

Dili raises $15M Series A to automate construction compliance for federally funded projects

Dili, an AI startup specializing in compliance software for construction projects, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures. The company's platform automates compliance with federal and state regulations for infrastructure projects receiving government funding, using AI for data extraction and deterministic rules for compliance checking. Currently used at about 700 projects, Dili reduces compliance tasks from days to minutes, helping avoid costly fines for prevailing wage and apprenticeship rule violations.

Jul 304 minNeura News
Industry

Glow cybersecurity startup hits $1.2B valuation in stealth exit

Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $180 million in Series A funding. The company is building an AI-powered endpoint security platform designed to prevent risky software, AI agents, and developer tools from entering enterprise environments, challenging established players like CrowdStrike and Microsoft.

Jul 224 minNeura News
AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google has released three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and knowledge work with 17% fewer output tokens and lower costs. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in the series at 350 tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber model, available only to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, focuses on finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Google also noted that Gemini 3.5 Pro is being tested with partners and that pre-training for Gemini 4 has begun.

Jul 215 minNeura News
AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google DeepMind has introduced three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and multimodal performance with 17% fewer output tokens and lower cost. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in its series at 350 output tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber, fine-tuned for cybersecurity, will be available exclusively to governments and trusted partners via the CodeMender agent.

Jul 216 minNeura News