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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rebar, a vertical AI platform building the core operating system for the HVAC, Electrical, and Plumbing industries, announced the closing of a $14 million Series A financing. The round was led by Prudence, an early-stage venture firm investing in vertical AI companies leading the global transformation of the built world, with participation from Zero Infinity Partners, Founder Collective, Villain Capital and Optimist Ventures. Rebar’s proprietary vertical AI platform a...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Signaling a major industry shift, leading FP&A software provider Datarails has declared that traditional FP&A software is dead, as AI-era finance teams increasingly demand speed, flexibility and the ability to leverage modern AI tools – something closed enterprise software was never designed to provide. Datarails has released FinanceOS, an AI-ready financial operating system that enables companies to consolidate and collect all of their financial and operation...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SG Promotes Jens Talbert and Blake Tilley to Principal...

SINGAPORE & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd. (“Horizon Quantum”), a pioneer of software infrastructure for quantum applications, has recently achieved a number of important milestones as it seeks to complete its proposed business combination (the “Business Combination”) with dMY Squared Technology Group, Inc. (“dMY”) (OTC: “DMYY”, “DMYYU” and “DMYYW”). “Horizon has made great progress in recent months in strengthening our operations and governance and further adva...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dify, an open-source platform that helps teams build, deploy, and operate production-grade AI applications and agentic workflows, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series Pre-A funding at a $180 million valuation. The round was led by HSG, with participation from GL Ventures, Alt-Alpha Capital, a new spin-out from Bessemer Venture Partners, 5Y Capital, Mizuho Leaguer Investment and NYX Ventures. As organizations move from AI experimentation to pro...

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. (“Horizon Quantum”), which will become the holding company of Horizon Quantum Computing Pte. Ltd., a pioneer of software infrastructure for quantum applications, today announced expected new members of its board of directors and a key addition to its leadership team. Following the completion of Horizon Quantum’s merger (the “Business Combination”) with dMY Squared Technology Group, Inc. (“dMY”), the company expects to make the following...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI today announced a strategic partnership to enable frontier AI in wearable technology without the latency and privacy compromises of cloud computing. Currently AI inference, such as audio or image analysis, relies on models hosted in the cloud, creating unnecessary latency and risking user data exposure. This partnership fixes this by moving processing directly into consumer hardware, protecting sensitive point-of-view data and e...

GALWAY, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siren today announced Siren Fusion 2026, its inaugural global summit convening senior investigators, national security leaders and AI innovators for a high-trust forum on the future of investigative intelligence. Taking place in Galway, Ireland, Fusion is the deliberate convergence of people, technology and ideas within a national security frame. Structured as an educational and strategic forum rather than a conventional conference, Fusion 2026 focuses on the i...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Circadence today announced the successful close of a $16.4 million investment round led by Seneca Partners, reinforcing its position as a category defining leader in AI driven cyber readiness and resilience. The financing follows strong revenue growth and accelerating adoption across defense and enterprise markets and coincides with the launch of RangeGPT and Project Ares GEN3, a unified AI powered platform reshaping how organizations prepare for modern digital...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIBC Innovation Banking announced today that it has provided growth capital financing to Gradient AI (Gradient). This financing will support Gradient’s growth plans and development efforts to better serve clients and address evolving challenges across the insurance industry. Gradient is a leading enterprise software provider of artificial intelligence solutions in the insurance industry. The company’s solutions help improve loss ratios and profitability by predicting un...