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Stuut raised a $52.5 million Series B led by Insight Partners to sell AI that runs the entire order-to-cash process, citing a 47% average cut in DSO. ZoomInfo, the only customer with before-and-after figures in the launch coverage, saw less than half that, a check any buyer can run against its own books.
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Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110M for AI agents that source and screen job candidates. Its sourcing agent already works in Slack, so teams can trial it on one role before reorganizing recruiters.
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H.I.G. Growth Partners took majority control of Rewind after the Ottawa backup firm spent nearly a year looking for a way to let its early investors cash out. For the venture funds it is a partial exit, and what they kept is a minority bet on how far H.I.G. can grow the company.
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Quartermaster raised $140 million, a $100 million Series B led by Insight Partners plus $40 million of debt, to put sensors on ships' masts. Its case is that insurers will return to routes such as Hormuz once they can see where ships really are.
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Confido raised a $55 million Series B led by Insight Partners for AI software that automates deductions and trade spend for consumer packaged goods brands. Its chief executive says most customers end up buying the whole suite, and the case for the round depends on that bundle.
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Numeral raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, almost three times the Series B it closed a year earlier. California's SaaS tax from 2027 adds buyers to a category that Avalara, Vertex, Anrok and Zamp already sell into.
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The $550 million Series C buys roughly a tenth of a company with 650 employees and no published revenue, and the cash is going into engineers who sit inside customers' offices rather than into compute.
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Kiteworks has told customers to shut down servers over a possible attack, and Heise reports a six-hour worldwide window starting Saturday. Its 9.5.1 update fixes only known flaws, so self-hosted operators are weighing downtime against a threat the company has not described.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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Insight Partners and S32 led $350 million into a business that ships graded tasks, rubrics and reinforcement-learning environments to frontier labs. The price works out near ten times a company-reported run-rate.
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Insight Partners and S32 co-led the round, and the product they are funding is expert-built agentic environments and rubrics that Snorkel says take qualified humans hours or days to construct.
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Insight Partners and S32 co-led $350m at a valuation nearly 2.7 times the one Snorkel took in May 2025. The $375m figure underneath it is an annualized run rate, and the company's own launch dates for the service that produced it do not agree.
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The $350m Series E values Snorkel AI at $3.5b, roughly nine times the annualized revenue it reports. What a customer buys now is a written evaluation rubric, a graded dataset and a sandbox to train in.
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Crowdfund Insider's nine disclosed fintech rounds last week add to $401.4m. Grab is paying $1.49bn for a majority of Atome's lending and buy-now-pay-later book. The largest raise, Kaiko's $110m extension, was led by S&P Global.
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Blackstone, Khosla and Sequoia backed a $200M round pricing Factory at $5B, five months after a $150M round at $1.5B, and the volume figure the company put behind it is a count of developers, not dollars.
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Glass Imaging trains a separate neural network for each lens and sensor pairing, so the reported purchase hands OpenAI a bench measurement job on every camera it eventually ships. Neither company has confirmed the deal.
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NewView Capital led the Series C at a valuation above $500 million and lifted total funding to $225 million, with the falls and length-of-stay evidence behind that price coming from Inspiren's own customers.
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Insight Partners manages more than $90 billion and holds late-stage co-investment exposure to both OpenAI and Anthropic, but its direct AI money goes to vertical applications. The legal AI round it skipped is now priced at $5.55 billion.
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Attack Chaining ships in OpenAEV v3 and reads each action's output at runtime rather than following a script, which changes what a validation report is for and how much of it you should expect to receive.
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Brinqa says PlexTrac will keep operating standalone. That is the sentence PlexTrac customers should get into their next renewal in writing.
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