Lightfield, an AI-native CRM startup, raised early-stage funding to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce and other legacy CRMs. The Series A round raised $47 million. Lightfield plans to ship a rebuilt CRM architecture that continuously ingests interaction data and structures it for AI agents, aiming to replace or reduce the need for traditional Salesforce-style systems of record.
Harvey AI Corp. raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation to expand its cloud platform of AI tools for legal teams. The round followed 6 months after its last nine-figure funding and came from Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, joined by backers including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Goldman Sachs. The company plans to deploy more computing infrastructure for AI research, especially “new generalist models,” and it will use the funding to support custom large language model development and broader legal benchmarking via LAB.
Ramp reported that AI tool spending by businesses slowed in August, with fewer customers adding spend than the prior month. In the top 1% of firms, AI spend per employee fell nearly 10% to $7,205. The slowdown suggests lower token usage and spend as price cuts take effect, pushing firms toward older, cheaper models and making the inflection less certain for model builders and hyperscalers.
Igor Tulchinsky is backing the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum. He donated £5m ($6.8m) to support the show. The funding ties the exhibit to WorldQuant’s push for applied AI and education, aiming to give people long-lasting skills alongside viewing history.
TRM Labs raised an add-on to its September Series C round and said the move doubled its valuation as the company scaled AI-focused crime-fighting services.
The valuation went from a reported $1 billion to $2 billion.
The company is rolling out a new platform it says will help law enforcement identify and stop AI-driven scams, with an additional focus on fraud, sextortion, and child sexual abuse investigations.
Harvey raised a $550 million funding round, valuing the company at $15.5 billion while building an operating system for legal and corporate advisory workflows. The round’s valuation is $15.5 billion. The funding supports growth of Harvey’s proprietary knowledge base and the company also added Guardrails AI to improve the reliability of agentic AI.
Euno, an Israeli AI startup, raised $23 million to build an AI-native “context brain” for autonomous agents. The round was led by N47 as part of Euno’s early-stage Series A. Euno says the approach will cut time to prepare the context layer for agentic deployments from up to a year to a few weeks and help enterprises deploy more trusted agents.
Sequoia Capital backed startup Cymphony to address enterprise security risks from AI agents accessing corporate systems at machine speed. The funding round is a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, valuing Cymphony at over $100 million after investment. As a result, Cymphony will expand its workforce-graph approach that tracks identities and data access for humans and non-human agents, helping security teams investigate incidents and remediate access exposure.
MSK Innovation Accelerator opened applications for its fourth six-month programme dedicated to musculoskeletal innovation in the UK. Each fully funded venture receives more than £80,000 of specialist support, and applications close on 4 October 2026. The accelerator adds a focus area that welcomes AI-related work and offers pitching for investment, with continued support to move technologies from research toward commercialisation.
Actionable, a Paris startup, raised a $10 million round to expand its predictive customer experience platform beyond survey-based scoring. It found that waiting 6 minutes and 12 seconds at a click-and-collect counter lowered Net Promoter Score, and stores now monitor that metric. The funding will be used to hire product, engineering, and sales staff and expand into the US through reseller partners, shifting customers toward more actionable customer intelligence.
The pricing consultancy hy Consulting Group, OMR Reviews, and Appinio released the SaaS & AI Pricing Report 2027, mapping how AI-driven compute costs are changing software companies’ pricing plans.
Implicity raised €35M from IRIS and Five Arrows to scale its AI platform for cardiac monitoring, which ties to a patient mortality reduction. The funding follows a reported 26% reduction in patient mortality. The company plans to expand in the United States and pursue acquisitions, while adding teams in the US and Germany.
HelmGuard raised $7.3 million in seed funding to launch AI agents for enterprise governance, risk, and compliance instead of checklist-based automation. The company grew its team from 3 to 10 in two months. It will use the money for hiring, expanding the product, and expanding go-to-market efforts while planning a Series A in 12 to 18 months.
HelmGuard raised $7.3 million in seed funding to expand its platform for automating risk and compliance assessments using AI agents that pull risk signals from companies’ systems. The round was co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with the company planning a US expansion that includes New York and San Francisco. As a result, HelmGuard will broaden coverage beyond paperwork toward workflows like third-party risk management, control gap assessments, and agent assurance with citations and reasoning traces under human oversight.
CloudNC raised $20 million to expand its AI software used for precision CNC machining workflows. The funding round was led by Nimble Ventures and includes participation from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital fund. CloudNC will scale CAM Assist adoption and go-to-market, develop products like Quote Agent for later in 2026, and pursue FedRAMP certification with Knox Systems.
Cognition raised more than $2 billion in a Series E, valuing the AI coding agent Devin developer at $48 billion and bringing its investors close to the Cursor parent’s pricing. The round’s valuation is $48 billion, up from $26 billion in its spring financing. Cognition’s funding and fast growth support expanding Devin’s autonomous agent features and multi-model tooling as it scales revenue toward about $900 million annualized run rate.
Forus raised a $150 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3 billion in four months. The company’s AI agent network reaches patients in 85% of US residential ZIP codes across all 50 states. Forus will use the funding to expand into more specialties and care settings and add capabilities to its per-prescription AI agents, aiming to speed the paperwork and start of high-cost or complex treatments.
CloudNC raised $20m in new investment capital for its precision machining software and AI-powered CAM automation platform CAMAssist. The funding round totals $20m and includes support from Nimble Ventures alongside Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and Lockheed Martin’s corporate venture fund LM Ventures. CloudNC plans to use the money to expand CAMAssist adoption, enter new markets, and launch new AI products including Quote Agent this year.
Actionable raised $10 million to expand its platform that predicts customer behaviour and the operational factors behind churn, satisfaction, complaint risk, and repeat purchases. The funding round was led by Hi Inov with participation from existing investor Axeleo Capital. The company will use the money to grow product, engineering, and sales teams and push international expansion, including into the US.
Fundcraft secured €12 million in growth financing to expand its European fund operations platform and technology for alternative investment funds. The round adds to a total of €40 million in capital secured since the company’s founding. Fundcraft plans to use the funding to grow into more jurisdictions and expand AI-enabled workflow automation across investor, fund, and portfolio operations.
Limetax raised €36 million to build an AI platform for German tax advisers and acquired multiple tax firms to deploy it. The funding includes €6 million in early-stage equity and a €30 million bank loan. Its AI bookkeeping tools reduced monthly processing time per client from 20 hours to 6, supporting a roll-up model of tax firms that keeps human review for legal responsibility.
Anemo Labs raised £700,000 in pre-seed funding to develop an electronic nose that detects disease-related volatile organic compounds from body emissions. In early tests, its machine-learning models classified scent categories 84.15% across 12 categories using the Sniffin' Sticks protocol. The company will use the funding to expand its smell data collection and sensor development and to continue clinical validation for urine-based, non-invasive screening.
Wall Street research finds AI exposure has mostly not led to job losses, while wage growth has slowed most for lower-paid workers and data-center backlash reflects public concern about local costs. A Morgan Stanley analysis reports that workers in high-exposure jobs face median pay of $97,000 versus $46,000 in low-exposure work, alongside a model where a top household needs portfolio gains of about 4% to offset a 1% labor-income drop. The net result is that AI appears to reinforce existing class advantages through reduced raises and easier price-and-profit gains, while data-center conflicts expand and investment returns continue to concentrate with equity holders.
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