Market Moves edition

Market Moves · 24 Sep 2026

24 Sep 2026 · 15 articles

The Emerging M&A Map For AI Agent Security

As AI agents gain access to enterprise data, systems and tools, they are emerging as a new class of active identity requiring specialized permissions, monitoring and governance, writes guest author Itay Sagie. He believes the market, and its M&A opportunities, will likely form around specific control points, making precise positioning crucial for startups.

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Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite

The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits, where people create the most value and how productivity gains should be reinvested. At IBM Corp., that convergence is creating what SVP and CFO Jim Kavanaugh (pictured, left) calls a new discipline of […]

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AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M

Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised $140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. S32, a fund affiliated with Google LLC co-founder Bill Maris, led the Series C round. It was joined by more than a dozen other investors. The group included NATO, Nvidia Corp. and the Anthology Fund, a […]

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How AI data foundations are rewriting enterprise architecture

In the quest to deploy artificial intelligence at scale, enterprises are discovering a basic truth: Model capability is no longer the only issue, but data access and control can determine success or failure for AI initiatives. This realization has led to a focus on AI infrastructure, the buildout of a data foundation that can provide […]

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Executive Interview: MarvelX AI

Mark Pannekoek, VP of Sales at MarvelX AI, 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? In terms of …

Summary published by CB Insights Research · 23 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗

Executive Interview: Maximizer AI

Thomas Brosnan, Vice President and Director of US Strategy and Partnerships of Maximizer AI, 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 …

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Expanding to the US? What European founders should prepare first (Sponsored)

The question of expanding to the US often comes up early, while the team is still raising seed capital and still arguing about product-market fit at home. What makes it expensive is rarely the answer. It is the order. Customers, founder presence, immigration, fundraising, structure, banking and the evidence file all wait on each other. […]

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Executive Interview: Penguin Ai

Glenn Herzberg, Head of Marketing of Penguin Ai, 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 the …

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Flux expands its platform to show whether AI coding investments are paying off

Code-first engineering intelligence startup Flux Cyber Inc. today expanded its platform with tools meant to show engineering leaders whether their investment in artificial intelligence for software development is paying off. The release takes on a problem Flux says has come up again and again with engineering leaders over the past year. Adoption is easy enough […]

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Ema raises $77M in funding to deploy AI employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance departments

Agentic artificial intelligence employee startup Ema Unlimited Inc. is prepping for a massive expansion of its autonomous workers in the enterprise after raising $77 million in funding today. The Series B round was led by Creagis and saw the participation of existing backers including Accel, S32 and Posus, which each returned with a substantially larger […]

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Ekai raises $1.7M to give enterprise AI agents verified business context

Enterprise data startup Ekai Inc. today announced $1.7 million in new funding for software that builds the business context artificial intelligence agents need before they can be trusted with corporate data. Ekai provides a platform that writes the semantic models and data transformation code AI tools rely on to read a company’s data warehouse correctly. […]

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Jumbo-Sized Series A Rounds Are On The Rise

So far this year, global startups have secured at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more, per Crunchbase data. That’s the highest annual total in years and on track to top the all-time peak. We take a look at where the money is going.

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The companies that were never fundable are now buildable

Ask a European founder how the company is going and you’ll usually hear a number of answers. Ask an investor how a portfolio company is progressing and headcount will often be among the first three metrics. For thirty years, that shorthand worked because software output was closely tied to the number of people building it. […]

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