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✨ Get ready for "billions of AI agents operating simultaneously."✨ Naptha AI is making this a possibility, with $6 million in pre-seed funding, led by Arche Capital and cyber•Fund, with participation from Seed Club Ventures. Read about them here: https://lnkd.in/dzwwdxv3

🔥 Totango accelerated Unison’s dev following its acquisition of Parative 🔥 , an AI-powered #customerintelligence platform (backed by Bain Capital Ventures). Keith Frankel assumes CPO role to bring enterprise-grade AI to revenue teams worldwide, regardless of whether they use Totango today.

“Our collaboration with GoCardless is a game-changer for #SMEs in the #UK,” said Luke Voiles, CEO of Pipe. “By making capital accessible where businesses already operate, we’re simplifying financial access and enabling entrepreneurs to focus on growth rather than managing complex funding applications.” ➡ https://lnkd.in/dUTWMAkC

Qpoint picks up $4 million pre-seed from Mango Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Preface Ventures, and Scribble Ventures. “Qpoint offers the visibility and control needed to prevent vendor issues from becoming operational bottlenecks, giving teams the tools to proactively manage dependencies.” Tyler Flint, co-founder and CEO. https://lnkd.in/d7kvCw-9

“With our automated pipelines and robust data management, developers can effortlessly create powerful AI systems and seamlessly deploy them on-device using Qualcomm AI Hub,” said Siddhika N., Senior Director of Product Management at Qualcomm on their partnership with Dataloop AI. https://lnkd.in/d4Br3Miz

We've never seen such a stacked investor group. Founders of Shopify/OpenAI/Yahoo/Twilio/Replit/ + Elad Gil 👑 Socket just raised their $40M Series B. They detect and prevent threats in open source code. Gooo Feross Aboukhadijeh!! https://lnkd.in/dPaS2SxV

$35M Series A in June -> $65M Series B in October 😯 “AI is often seen as destroying jobs, but at Decagon, we believe the opposite. Our AI Agents are enhancing jobs, not replacing them,” said Jesse Zhang, CEO of Decagon. “In a few years, every company will have AI Agents running their customer experiences. Customer support staff are no longer fielding routine tasks; they are now becoming AI managers—configuring, training, and overseeing the AI Agents that handle repetitive work.” https://lnkd.in/dTshBE3R

The fastest AI inference engine on the market just raised $7 million from the co-founder of Notion, Accel, Shastra VC and Titan Capital. 👇👇👇

This video shows the iso-surface of Q-value, which represents the surface of vortices. The Q-value is increased from purple to yellow. It's from researchers at Chiba University that uncovered how silkworm moths use wing fanning to enhance pheromone detection. This discovery could inspire advancements in robotic systems for odor source localization, with potential real-life applications in drones for search and rescue operations. The findings offer new design guidelines for odor-sensing technology in robotics.

“AI is a tool to assist humans, not replace them," commented Aaron Marks on his startup's fundraising of $2.3M to enable sales representatives to practice and perfect their pitch with a realistic AI respondent. The round was led by BoxGroup, MaC Venture Capital, and NOMO Ventures, with additional backing from Greylock and Sequoia Capital’s scout funds. https://lnkd.in/dE9fRQij