Tech managers are losing ground as AI rewards leaner teams – Startup Fortune
Tech companies are cutting management layers as AI takes over more coordination work, but startups should be careful before copying…
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Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
For the week ending May 1, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the…
Nimble companies are succeeding in the AI era: YC’s Jared Friedman – The Economic Times
AI startup founders are pivoting faster and more often in the era of AI, and strong engineering talent in India…
London-based Ralio raises €2.1 million to make it safe and easy for AI agents to make payments | EU-Startups
Ralio, a London-based FinTech startup building a payments platform tailored for business AI agents, has announced a €2.1 million ($2.5…
Cisco To Snap Up AI Observability Startup Galileo Technologies To Expand Splunk Platform
Cisco says it will acquire Galileo Technologies Inc. to add agentic AI observability and protection capabilities to its Splunk platform.…
Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over | TechCrunch
Bret Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, is convinced that…
12 Agentic AI Startups To Watch In 2026
Early-stage vendors are focused on providing secure identity and governance for AI agents and delivering agentic-powered automation for security operations.…
Agentic AI startup Sycamore raises $65 million led by Coatue, Lightspeed
Agentic AI startup Sycamore has raised $65 million in seed round on Monday led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners,…
YScope closes $3.9 million USD to track computer activity amid the rise of agentic AI | BetaKit
Two Small Fish backs U of T spinout’s logging infrastructure technology. As AI agents put an ever-growing strain on…
Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing | TechCrunch
AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous,…
Cybersecurity FinTech Onyx Security secures $40m funding
Onyx Security has launched with $40m in funding as it seeks to address emerging risks tied to the rapid adoption…
Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup | TechCrunch
Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022,…
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TelevisaUnivision is the latest TV publisher to join the self-serve trend that’s rising in popularity across connected TV advertising. Its…
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models | TechCrunch
AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and…
Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch
Lio’s co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a…
AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare | TechCrunch
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare…
“Claude Killed My Startup”: The AI Update That Shook Silicon Valley Founders
In the startup world, founders are taught to fear competition. What they are not prepared for is extinction by update.…
Kana Emerges From Stealth With $15M to Deploy AI Agents for Marketing Operations
Marketing technology startup Kana has emerged from stealth with $15 million in seed funding led by Mayfield, introducing a platform…