Upwind buys AI agent security startup Aegis
Cloud security company Upwind, valued at about $3.8B, acquired nine-month-old Israeli startup Aegis. Aegis's founders will run a new Upwind lab focused on security risks from AI agents and plugins.
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Jamf acquires browser security startup Keep Aware
Jamf bought Keep Aware, an Austin startup that monitors and controls what employees do in the browser. Jamf announced the deal at its JNUC 2026 conference along with an AI governance push.
Paychex posts $1.63B Q1 revenue and raises PEO growth outlook
Paychex reported fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $1,630.5M and diluted EPS of $1.21. It kept its total revenue growth outlook at 5% to 6% and raised its PEO and Insurance Solutions outlook.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 and cuts Opus API prices to $4/$20 per million tokens
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, lowering Opus pricing to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens from $5 and $25, and said typical workloads should cost about 40% less.
Hg takes majority stake in Greek ERP vendor Entersoftone at about €1B valuation
Hg agreed to take a majority stake in Entersoftone, a Greek supplier of ERP, business software and payroll products. Reports value the company at about €1B. It is Hg's first investment in a Greek company.
Progress Software closes $400M purchase of Domo's data platform business
Progress Software completed its $400M cash purchase of substantially all of Domo's AI and data platform assets, adding more than 2,400 business customers to its data products lineup.
Clinical AI firm Heidi raises $340M, including $100M Series C, at $900M valuation
Melbourne-based Heidi, which sells AI clinical documentation tools to health systems, raised $340M. That is a $100M Series C led by Blackbird plus a $240M growth investment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. The round values Heidi at $900M.
Finnish AI cloud Verda raises $189M Series B led by Emergence Capital
Helsinki-based Verda, formerly called DataCrunch, raised a $189M Series B led by Emergence Capital. The company says the round values it at over $1B. It runs its own data centers and an inference-focused AI cloud.
BlackLine buys credit risk startup NetNow for undisclosed sum
BlackLine acquired NetNow, which makes AI-based software for B2B customer onboarding and credit risk checks, adding steps that come before invoicing to its invoice-to-cash products.
Priority Technology agrees to $1.6B take-private led by CEO Thomas Priore
Payments and banking software provider Priority Technology Holdings agreed to be taken private by an investor group led by chairman and CEO Thomas Priore at $8.05 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about $1.6B.
AI cloud provider Nscale files publicly for NYSE IPO
UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale has filed an S-1 with the SEC to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker NSCL. The filing shows first-half 2026 revenue of $140.6M and a net loss of $1.02B.
MIND raises $72M Series B led by Crosspoint for AI-era data loss prevention
Israeli startup MIND, which sells data loss prevention software covering SaaS apps, generative AI tools, AI agents, endpoints and email, raised a $72M Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing total funding to $112M.