The Estonian company raised a $100M Series C led by AVP. It sells traffic security through hosts and cloud providers, who rebrand it for their customers. With agents now a large share of web traffic, it is a quiet but lucrative business.
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The four-year-old startup builds agents for biotech operations such as finance and clinical trial scheduling. Its team joins Rosalind and Rosalind Workbench. The price wasn't disclosed, and Orchestra had raised about $20M.
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Co-founded by MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and ex-DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, Eka pairs a force-sensitive hand with a model linking vision, force and action, trained largely with simulated reinforcement learning. The $150M Series A was led by a16z and F-Prime.
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The meeting-notes company passed $100M ARR last year and is drawing on General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund instead of selling equity. It will spend the money on enterprise sales and international growth. No valuation was given.
TechCrunchA contributor lists 2026's arrivals: a next-generation trait solver that fixes soundness bugs, the Polonius borrow checker, a parallel front end close to stable, LLVM 23 speedups, and Cargo sharing artifacts between check and build. Target directories should also shrink by up to 30%.
yoyo-codeExpecting his first child, the Val Town founder draws on Neil Postman to argue that schools outlived radio and film because education's purposes change. If earning a living is no longer the point, he suggests choosing new purposes together with our children.
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