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.
Visiby launched as a tool for brands to measure and improve visibility across AI search platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It offers up to 2 years free for startups. Brands can track their mentions, recommendations, and citations in AI-generated answers and spot competitor gaps to target improvements.
TheCUBE Research is framing its Sept. 11 “AI ROI in Contact Centers Summit” around whether contact center AI produces measurable economic value instead of broad automation claims. 92% of organizations now have AI integrated into at least one stage of operations, up from 71% in early 2024. Coverage will focus on tying deployments to KPIs like cost-to-serve, resolution quality, and customer experience, plus the operational steps needed to avoid false savings.
Estee Lauder appointed Brian Franz to a newly expanded chief technology and transformation officer role to broaden AI use across the company and support its turnaround plan. Franz’s mandate includes giving all 14,000 employees access to AI productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. The move expands partnerships and adds AI use cases in manufacturing, formulation, demand forecasting, and consumer shopping while also tasking Franz with enterprise initiatives to improve productivity and revenue growth.
Amazon made its agentic AI assistant and enterprise AI agents platform, Quick, generally available on desktop for macOS and Windows. It also added an updated mobile activity feed for iOS and Android. Quick will keep running in the background across desktop and mobile while consolidating email, calendar, messaging, and CRM into a single priority view for teams.
Apple introduced a redesigned Apple Health app alongside Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, adding an Insights tab plus personalized assessments and guidance using Apple Intelligence. It includes a readiness score and a “Health Age” calculation, and Apple is partnering with Quest for a 50-biomarker panel priced at $119. The app adds a longevity tab and can incorporate lab results, and it will roll out later this year starting in U.S. English.
John Ternus said Apple’s iPhone is already the best AI device and emphasized Apple’s privacy-first approach for its AI strategy. He described an “intelligent personal hub” that should have powerful on-device AI processing plus an internet connection to reach cloud models. Apple’s focus shifts to positioning the iPhone as the core interface for AI rather than launching separate AI-focused hardware.
Amazon Quick describes how to automate user-level custom permissions as AI-powered capabilities and user actions expand, using least-privilege controls that can be enforced per user, role, or account. One concrete example is a 125,000-employee company that applies distinct permission profiles when users are added to Quick or IAM Identity Center groups via an EventBridge + AWS Lambda workflow. The guidance changes by offering four architectural patterns—including RegisterUser provisioning, account/role defaults, event-driven group-based assignment, and a Python-based retroactive bulk update script—to reduce permission gaps during onboarding.
Anomalo launched an “Analyst” product that monitors Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery data, flags trends and anomalies, and lets users investigate using plain-language follow-up questions. It says it is launching today and shows 133 followers on the page. The change is that users get proactive, data-verified insights intended to separate real business changes from broken data.
Writer Inc. launched Enterprise Brain in early access to provide a governed enterprise context and memory layer for its AI agent across teams and systems, and added Writer Meet for connecting video calls to enterprise context and automated actions. It said its ecosystem-related video network reaches 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos. As a result, teams can share standardized branding and logic via a team-level memory layer instead of relying on one-person sessions, with meeting and workspace conversations fed into agent workflows.
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.
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.
Ayven launched as project and team collaboration software that automates workflow planning and execution in systems like Jira and YouTrack.
It is launching today.
The product claims it will run and track work over weeks by coordinating through Slack and updating the project board automatically.
Harness rebuilt its Code Repository and launched an AI Code Review product to handle the surge of pull requests from coding agents. Harness says it cut more than 10,000 hours of manual review time per month and sometimes saw teams at 10x pull-request volume (up to 50x). The pipeline shifts toward deterministic test results while reviewers get prioritized context from a delivery knowledge graph so humans focus on what actually changes.
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.
Geordie AI Ltd. launched Cost Intelligence to connect enterprise AI spending to the agents and workflows that generate it. It reported cases of a retailer losing $1 million a month and a bank agent consuming 50% of the monthly AI budget in a single day. Teams can now attribute token spend to specific agents, tasks, owners, and workflow metrics, enabling cost tracing and more agent ROI evaluation.
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.
Business leaders at the Fortune Leaders Forum argued that executives should stop trying to predict turbulence and instead build organizations that adapt quickly.
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.
Naoma AI Demo Agent V2 was launched to replace B2B SaaS “book a demo” forms with an in-browser video AI agent that runs live, personalized product demos and routes qualified leads to CRM, sales scheduling, or checkout. The agent is available as a self-serve option and the product claims 50,000+ demos have already run for B2B SaaS teams. As a result, SaaS teams can deploy the demo agent without custom setup and prospects can get a demo immediately in any language while it logs sessions back to their CRM.
The article says the enterprise AI security firm Cymphony is partnering with Sequoia to help enterprises deploy AI agents with proper governance and accountability. It cites that 40% of enterprises are expected to demote or decommission autonomous AI agents over governance concerns by next year. As a result, the companies position Cymphony’s continuous mapping of what agents can access and recommend remediation as the infrastructure that makes agent adoption possible at scale.
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