Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It …

London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour
London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour

Unit1 Studio has raised £20M to stage concerts performed by digital recreations of musicians, in an oversubscribed round led by Balderton Capital. The company was founded in February 2025 and is based in Tileyard, north London. The money comes as a mix…

Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead
Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first Marketing Lead. She is the company’s first marketing hire in the United States. Th…

Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His co…

Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production
Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens…

Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong
Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong

“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Ta…

Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power
Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chief executive of Crusoe. He was describing what he called an era of abundance brought by AI. The Denver company announced the initial…

Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder of Comp AI. The Miami company has raised a $34m Series A led by Roo Capi…

Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing
Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing

“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík co…

Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for its AI coding agents
Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for its AI coding agents

“Across the world’s largest enterprises, we are seeing a move from individual coding agents to software factories that serve as the core foundation from which an entire software company operates,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. The…