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Copenhagen-based Spektr, which uses AI to tackle the manual drudgery of financial compliance, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Read full articleFazeshift, a startup that uses AI agents to automate accounts receivable, has raised $17 million in a Series A round of funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Ghent-based Tekst has raised €11.5M in a Series A led by Elephant to automate back-office processes using AI agents.
Crunchbase News interviews Kevin Tsang, managing director of Amex Ventures, about the firm’s investment thesis, the kinds of startups it aims to back, and how it works with founders to build and scale projects with a vision toward becoming a "global agentic concierge."
Anthropic is expanding Claude into financial services with AI agents for banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintech teams.
PayPal CEO Enrique Lores used the company’s first-quarter earnings call to outline an AI-driven turnaround, telling investors the fintech giant must recommit to its technology roots by aggressively adopting AI across development, customer service, and risk management. Lores announced a dedicated AI transformation team reporting directly to him, tasked with redesigning core processes function by […]
Seattle-based CopilotKit has closed a $27 million Series A led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, backing its mission to move AI beyond chatbots and into the fabric of applications themselves. Co-founders Atai Barkai and Uli Barkai argue that text-based AI interfaces fall short, and that agents should instead generate dynamic, interactive UIs tailored to […]
The Seattle-based startup's Series A round was led by Glilot Capital, NFX and SignalFire, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Firestorm Labs, the San Diego defense startup behind a containerized drone manufacturing platform, has raised $82 million in Series B funding led by Washington Harbour Partners, with participation from Lockheed Martin, In-Q-Tel, Booz Allen Ventures, and NEA, bringing total funding to $153 million. The company’s xCell platform fits inside a standard shipping container and can […]
