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Japan-based CADDi, which turns manufacturers' engineering drawings and production records into searchable data for staff and AI agents, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation and plans to expand in North America.
Arcee AI, which builds open-weight AI models that companies can run on their own infrastructure, raised a Series B co-led by Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and Emergence Capital, making it a unicorn.
Ridgeline, which sells an AI-based cloud platform for investment managers covering trading, portfolio accounting and compliance, raised a $250M Series E led by its founder and chairman Dave Duffield, who also founded PeopleSoft and co-founded Workday.
Real-estate software company Yardi acquired Sidero Labs, the company behind Talos Linux and the Omni fleet manager, for undisclosed terms. Sidero will run as a standalone unit and keep Talos open source.
Italian firm Exein, which sells embedded runtime security to device makers and chip vendors, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation, aiming at security for robots, drones and other physical AI systems.
Thatch, whose platform lets employers give workers a fixed pre-tax health budget to pick their own plans, raised $108M at a $1B valuation. It says it serves more than 5,000 employers.
Salesforce introduced Koa, its first reasoning model for CRM tasks inside Agentforce, post-trained from Nvidia's open Nemotron 3 Super on synthetic CRM scenarios rather than customer data. It is in pilots now, with US general availability expected in winter 2026.
Profound, whose software helps brands track and improve how they appear in AI search answers, raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins less than seven months after its Series C.
Factory, which sells autonomous coding agents to enterprise engineering teams, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, more than three times the valuation it reported in April.
At Dreamforce, Salesforce introduced AIforce, a layer that lets agents in tools such as Claude and Slack read and act on Salesforce data and workflows under existing permissions, so users need not open Salesforce itself.
Swedish startup Tandem Health, whose AI assistant writes medical notes and referrals for clinicians, raised a $100M Series B led by the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund. It says about 10,000 care organisations in 14 European markets use it.
Temporal, which makes a platform for running long-lived workflows and AI agents, closed a $550M Series E led by Lightspeed, one of the largest developer-infrastructure rounds of the year.