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Nebius , building vertically integrated AI infrastructure that accelerates AI innovation globally and at scale, led by Arkady Volozh and the team, has announced  an agreement to acquire Tavily , delivering high-quality, fresh, and structured web context, making it easy for agents to stay grounded as they scale from prototypes to production, led by Rotem Weiss and the team. The Tavily team, led by founder and CEO Rotem Weiss, will join Nebius and continue developing the Tavily

Upwind , building the world’s best cloud security platform, led by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, Tomer Hadassi, Rinki Sethi, and others, has raised  $250M in a Series B funding round, from Bessemer Venture Partners , Picture Capital , Greylock Partners , Cyberstarts , Craft , Leaders Fund , Swish Ventures , Cerca Partners, Alta Park Capital , TCV , and Penny Jar Capital , bringing the total investment in Upwind to over $430M. Upwind has raised $250M in Series B, bringing total fun

Porter , platform as a service, led by Justin Rhee, has raised  a $20M Series A, led by FirstMark Capital  with participation from Y Combinator  and strategic angels including Dalton Caldwell and Ali Rowghani. Porter was founded to remove the burden of cloud infrastructure for startups. Today, hundreds of fast-growing AI companies, including Series A startups like ModelML and Giga, and growth-stage firms like Nooks, Tennr, Homelight, and Getaround, use Porter to manage infras

Infracost , enabling engineers to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues, led by Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, and Alistair Scott, has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Pruven Capital  with participation from Y Combinator , Sequoia Capital , Mango Capital, Alumni Ventures , TIAA Ventures  (a strategic investment from TIAA’s venture arm), and angel investors Paul Copplestone (co-founder of Supabase) and Timothy Chen (Essence VC).  Sudip Chakrabarti  has

Crusoe , the AI infrastructure company led by Chase Lochmiller, Cully Cavness, Matthew DeNezza, Nitin Perumbeti, Chris Dolan, Tara Green, and others, has announced  the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company's expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners  and Mubadala Capital , with participation from 137 Ventures , 1789 Capital , Activate Capital , Alt

Nscale , a full-stack, scalable, and sustainable AI cloud platform, led by Josh Payne, Alex Sharp, David Power, Daniel Bathurst, and...

EcoDataCenter , a data and digital infrastructure company, led by Peter Michelson , Mikael Svanfeldt , Johan Östlund , PJ Andersson ,...

DataCrunch , the AI Cloud providing model inference services, led by Ruben Bryon, Arturs Polis, Lena Belozerova, and others, has secured...

osapiens, a sustainable growth platform led by Alberto Zamora(Co-Founder & CEO), Matthias Jungblut(Co-Founder & CPO), Stefan...

Blaxel AI, Developer of Cloud Infrastructure for AI Agents, led by Paul Sinaï(CEO & Co-Founder), Thomas Crochet(Founder), Charles...

Founded by Michael Louis(CEO) and Jonathan Irwin(CTO), Cerebrium  raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Gradient , with...