Market Moves edition

Market Moves · 17 Sep 2026

17 Sep 2026 · 15 articles

Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding

Startups across sales, marketing and customer management have raised $7.5 billion so far this year, according to Crunchbase data. The largest rounds span everything from advertising and customer data to sales software, e-commerce and customer support — reflecting just how many companies are still trying to build a better way to market and sell.

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Open-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B-plus valuation with new funding

Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than $1 billion. The Series B round was led by Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and Emergence Capital, and saw participation from A10 Ventures, Hitachi, IAG, […]

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Ex-Infosys chief Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten raises $53M more for enterprise AI services

Enterprise artificial intelligence services startup Hang Ten Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $53 million in a second seed round, less than three months after announcing its first. Hang Ten provides advisory, transformation and applied AI services, and its customers are large enterprises trying to get AI working inside their businesses. The delivery model […]

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Noetive launches with $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories and logistics

Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with $41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the company says design partners in manufacturing, logistics, energy and data centers already use it. Most AI products to date “were designed for information work […]

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CADDi raises $114M at $1.2B valuation to bring manufacturing AI to North America

Manufacturing artificial intelligence startup CADDi Co. Ltd. today announced it has raised $114 million in new funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion, partly to expand in North America. CADDi builds software that lets manufacturers put the information locked inside their engineering drawings to work. CADDi Drawer, released in 2022, reads blueprints and lets engineers […]

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CEO Interview: Quantos Systems

Asheesh Chaturvedi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Quantos Systems, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Every enterprise that …

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TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M to build AI for use by software

TypeSafe AI Inc., a startup founded by a former OpenAI Group PBC researcher who helped develop ChatGPT, emerged yesterday with $40 million in seed funding and a model designed to put artificial intelligence directly inside software applications. The San Francisco-based company says its first model, called Jev, differs from conventional large language models by producing […]

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U.S. and U.K.-based Expanse raises €4.5 million for predictive AI infrastructure platform

Expanse, an AI infrastructure company, today announced a €4.5 million ($5.3 million) Seed funding round in order to expand its engineering team, accelerate product development and reach wider industry adoption. The round was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from PXN Ventures, AIP Seed, and angel investors including former DeepMind researchers. “Today, every AI […]

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“Vulnerability tsunami” prompts France’s Hackuity to land €16 million for automated cyber remediation

Hackuity, a Lyon-based AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC), today announced a €16 million ($19 million) funding round to accelerate product innovation, AI capabilities, and international expansion across Europe and Asia. The round was led by Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners – bringing…

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HumanX 2026: Europe’s AI moment moves from hype to execution (Sponsored)

European AI is entering a different phase. In August, new provisions of the EU AI Act came into effect, including transparency requirements covering interactions with AI systems and certain AI-generated content. For Europe’s startups, investors and business leaders, the conversation around AI is increasingly moving from what the technology could do to how it must […]

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Bucharest-based Veridion raises €17.5 million to scale its real-time map of the world’s businesses

Veridion (formerly known as Soleadify), a Bucharest-based business intelligence startup, has raised €17.5 million ($20 million) in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered, continuously updated digital replica of the world’s 642 million businesses.  The round was led by Hoxton Ventures, with participation from existing investors including Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, Gapminder, Day One…

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Connected data emerges as the foundation for trusted AI: theCUBE’s keynote analysis from Amplify

Connected data gives artificial intelligence agents the context required to handle critical business work. Enterprises are beginning to assign AI more consequential tasks, but fragmented records and undocumented human knowledge limit what those systems can do reliably. Enterprise software company Workiva Inc. is positioning its platform as a connective layer across business systems while…

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Factory raises $200M for its self-improving software development platform

Factory, a startup using artificial intelligence agents to speed up software projects, today announced that it has raised $200 million in funding. The round was backed by Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, NEA and several other prominent investment firms. They were joined by a group of angel investors that included Marc Benioff. Factory is now […]

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CEO Interview: Veridom

Tolulope Adebayo, CEO of Veridom, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company.   How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We define our market as enterprise …

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