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Okta made Agent SSO and agent-to-agent connection controls generally available, with Agent SSO included in core Okta SSO at no extra charge, and set Q3 to Q4 2026 dates for its agent gateway and kill switch.
Brahma AI, which sells an AI platform for managing and producing enterprise video and audio content, raised $150M in a preferred share round led by India's Multiples Alternate Asset Management.
Ema, which uses teams of AI agents to automate HR, IT and finance processes inside companies, raised a $77M Series B led by Bengaluru firm Creaegis. It says the round more than quadruples its valuation.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.