Market Moves edition

Market Moves · 2 Nov 2026

2 Nov 2026 · 15 articles

EXCLUSIVE: London’s Ares Intelligence raises €2.9 million to turn employee insights into AI adoption plans

Ares Intelligence, a London-based startup building what it describes as an evidence-based platform for AI transformation, has secured €2.9 million (£2.48 million) in funding. The round was backed by Creandum and Lakestar, with participation from angels connected to Google DeepMind. “Enterprise AI today is mostly coding, and that’s only the start. The opportunity across the […]

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Can enterprise AI pay for the boom?

The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicator to watch is productive utilization by enterprise customers. Specifically, we said at the time, if infrastructure supply catches up […]

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Extreme Networks wants the network to run AI, not just be run by it

At its recent AI Summit in Amsterdam, Extreme Networks Inc. shared early Agent ONE Coworker results and previewed Exchange zones, which put spare access points and switch compute to work as on-premises artificial intelligence infrastructure. Here’s what it means and what information technology pros should do about it. Most of the conversation about AI and […]

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Intuit targets the mid-market ERP gap with AI

Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial intelligence is now giving financial software providers a way to close that gap without forcing businesses through a risky migration. Intuit Inc. is pushing finance toward […]

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Madrid’s Talky raises €1.5 million to teach AI the unwritten rules of accounting

Talky Labs, a Spanish startup developing AI-powered technology to automate accounting and financial operations, has raised €1.5 million in a pre-Seed funding round to support team expansion, further product development and improvements to the company’s technical infrastructure. The investment, closed in September 2026, saw participation from venture capital firms HelloWorld, Silence…

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AI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results

Enterprise data platforms must turn AI pilots into measurable business returns while overcoming the data access, sovereignty and cost barriers that stand between experimentation and production. The conversation is shifting from what AI can do to how companies make it pay off. One data platform provider has responded by folding its post-sales teams under a […]

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Executive Interview: Andesite AI

Christopher Bechtel, Vice President, Marketing of Andesite 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? Andesite operates in …

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AI architecture startup Dream launches with $17M in funding

Dream Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to generate building designs, launched today with $17 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the seed round. It was joined by SV Angel, XYZ, Zigg Capital and several others. San Francisco-based Dream was founded last year by former Palantir Technologies Inc. executives Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur. […]

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Cloudera builds its AI strategy around deployment flexibility

Deployment flexibility is changing the enterprise technology equation as businesses weigh new model options against existing data and development investments. Open-weight models and open-source clouds are renewing interest in on-premises deployment. Cloudera Inc.’s data analytics heritage gives it a foundation for addressing that demand, according to Paul Gillin (pictured, right), enterprise…

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AMD and Cloudera look beyond hardware in right-sizing infrastructure

Right-sizing infrastructure starts with understanding what a business needs its technology to accomplish. For enterprises moving AI into production, cost pressures are sharpening the need to connect technical performance with business value. Performance figures alone don’t tell customers what an investment will mean for their business, according to Jeremy Girven, AWS technical enablement…

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Series B Funding Is Up, But Fewer Deals Are Getting Done

Crunchbase data shows that so far this year, investors have poured around $48 billion into financings around the Series B stage, the highest tally in years. Yet round counts are below year-ago levels and are on track for a multiyear low. We take a look at the data.

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