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| 11.03.2026 | Zendesk announces deal to acquire customer support AI startup Forethought
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Cookies | Customer service and sales software provider Zendesk Inc. today announced that it plans to acquire artificial intelligence software for customer support teams startup Forethought Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed price.
Founded in 2017, ... |
| 13.02.2026 | Anthropic raises $30 billion: Is this the largest capital raise in AI? 5 key questions answered | - |
| 16.01.2026 | WitnessAI Secures $58M for Global AI Security Expansion | WitnessAI, an AI security and governance leader, secured $58 million in strategic funding. This significant capital infusion propels global market expansion and accelerates critical product development. The focus: securing the burgeoning la... |
| 15.01.2026 | WitnessAI: $58 Million Closed To Expand AI Agent Security And Governance Platform | WitnessAI announced it has raised $58 million in strategic funding to accelerate global go-to-market efforts, expand its product portfolio, and deepen security and governance controls for enterprises building and deploying AI agents.
The ro... |
| 13.01.2026 | WitnessAI: $58 Million Raised To Expand Globally And Roll Out New Security Controls For AI Agents | WitnessAI, an enterprise AI security and governance vendor, said it has raised $58 million in a strategic funding round to accelerate global go-to-market efforts and broaden its product portfolio as more companies deploy autonomous, agent-b... |
| 13.01.2026 | WitnessAI Raises $58M in Funding | WitnessAI, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an AI security platform, raised $58M in funding.
The round was led by Sound Ventures, Anthropic, and SentinelOne, with participation from Fin Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and... |
| 13.01.2026 | After raising $59M, WitnessAI debuts Agentic Security as enterprises deploy more autonomous AI agents
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Cookies | Artificial intelligence safety platform startup WitnessAI Inc. today announced the launch of Agentic Security, which extends its “confidence layer” for enterprise artificial intelligence beyond large language models to cover autonomous and ... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Secures $75M at $1B Valuation, Propelling Enterprise AI Automation | Serval announced a $75M Series B funding round, pushing its valuation to $1 billion. This AI-native ITSM platform transforms enterprise IT. It deploys AI agents to automate help desk requests, access management, and complex workflows. Serva... |
| 17.12.2025 | Serval Soars to $1 Billion Valuation with $75 Million Series B Funding | Serval, an AI-native enterprise automation leader, secured $75 million in Series B funding. The company now boasts a $1 billion valuation. This milestone fuels its mission to transform enterprise service management. Serval's AI agents autom... |
| 12.12.2025 | Serval raises $75M at $1B valuation to automate help desk request processing
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Cookies | Serval Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to process help desk requests, has raised $75 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation.
Sequoia led the Series A investment. Serval said in its announcement of the round on Thursday t... |
| 12.12.2025 | Serval: $75 Million Series B At $1 Billion Valuation Raised For Enterprise Automation Platform | Serval has secured $75 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, bringing the company’s valuation to $1 billion and marking a significant milestone in its evolution from an IT automation tool to a horizontal enterprise platform. T... |
| 12.11.2025 | GC AI Raises $60 Million Series B At $555 Million Raised To Empower In-House Legal Teams Worldwide | GC AI, the rapidly growing AI platform designed specifically for in-house legal teams, has raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone, with participation from Sound Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, SilverCir... |
| 12.11.2025 | GC AI Raises $60M in Series B Funding | GC AI, a San Francisco, CA-based AI workspace company for in-house legal teams, raised $60M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone, with participation from Sound Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, SilverCircle... |
| 06.11.2025 | fomo Raises $17M in Series A Funding | fomo, a NYC-based company that builds a social-first crypto trading app, raised $17M in Series A funding.
The round, which brought the total raised to date to $19M, was led by Benchmark, with participation from Luca Netz (CEO, Pudgy Penguin... |
| 24.10.2025 | Landbase’s AI Lab launches GTM-2 Omni | Landbase, the agentic AI company transforming how businesses go-to-market (GTM), today announced the launch of GTM-2 Omni, its next-generation model for targeting and messaging that powers the Landbase platform. GTM-2 integrates the proven ... |
| 04.08.2025 | Knit Raises $16.1M Series A to Advance AI-Driven Enterprise Insights | Knit, the AI-powered platform transforming how enterprises conduct consumer research, today announced it has raised $16.1 million in Series A funding. The round was led by GFT Ventures and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures with continued part... |
| 01.08.2025 | Knit Secures $16.1Million Series A to Redefine Enterprise Insights with Researcher-Driven AI | With $30M+ in total funding, Knit delivers human and AI-powered insights to leading enterprises including Amazon, NASCAR, Mars Wrigley, and Overtime to make smarter, faster data-powered decisions
Knit, the AI-powered platform transforming h... |
| 01.08.2025 | Knit: $16.1 Million Series A Closed For Changing How Enterprises Conduct Consumer Research | Knit, an AI-based platform transforming how enterprises conduct consumer research, announced it has raised $16.1 million in Series A funding. The round was led by GFT Ventures and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures with continued participation... |
| 31.07.2025 | Knit Raises $16.1M in Series A Funding | Knit, an Austin, TX-based AI-powered platform to conduct consumer research, raised $16.1M in Series A funding.
The round was led by GFT Ventures and Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures with participation from Silicon Road Ventures, Osage Ventur... |
| 12.06.2025 | Landbase Raises $30 Million Series A to Help Businesses Find Their Next Customer | Landbase, the agentic AI company transforming how businesses grow, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Sound Ventures — the AI-focused fund co-founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary — and... |
| 06.06.2025 | GC AI: Transforming Legal Work with Smart Automation | In the fast-paced world of legal services, time is money. Legal teams are often bogged down by repetitive tasks, drowning in paperwork, and struggling to keep up with the demands of their roles. Enter GC AI, a game-changer in the legal tech... |
| 05.06.2025 | GC AI: Series A Funding Raised To Help Legal Teams Find AI To Automate Tasks | GC AI, a legal AI platform designed for in-house counsel, has announced nearly three times the revenue growth this year. And GC AI has grown an average of 21% month-over-month (MoM) in revenue in 2025, now serving more than 350 enterprise c... |
| 02.06.2025 | Conduit: $36 Million Series A Secured For Cross-Border Payments Platform | Conduit, a leading cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. This funding round was co-led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures, with participation from Sound Ventures, Comme... |
| 23.05.2025 | Forethought: $25 Million Series D Raised To Advance Agentic AI For Customer Experiences | Forethought, a leader in agentic AI for customer experience, announced it had introduced the industry’s first multi-agent and omnichannel AI for customer experience. For driving the growth of its agentic CX system, the company secured a $25... |
| 15.05.2025 | The Dawn of Omnichannel AI: Forethought's Game-Changer for Customer Experience | In the bustling world of customer service, a new player has emerged, ready to change the game. Forethought has unveiled the first multi-agent, omnichannel AI designed specifically for customer experience (CX). This innovation is not just a ... |
| 14.05.2025 | Forethought Pioneers Multi-Agent, Omnichannel AI for CX— Raises Series D | Forethought, the leader in agentic AI for customer experience, today introduced the industry’s first multi-agent, omnichannel AI for customer experience. With Forethought, enterprises can deploy AI agents on every channel, including chat, e... |
| 14.05.2025 | Forethought Raises $25M in Series D Funding | Forethought, a San Francisco, CA-based company which specializes in agentic AI for customer experience, raised $25M in Series D funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $115M, was led by Blue Cloud Ventures with participation f... |
| 14.05.2025 | Forethought Pioneers First Multi-Agent, Omnichannel AI for CX | Forethought, the leader in agentic AI for customer experience, today introduced the industry’s first multi-agent, omnichannel AI for customer experience. With Forethought, enterprises can deploy AI agents on every channel, including chat, e... |
| 28.03.2025 | Arcade: $25 Million Raised For AI Physical Product Marketplace | Arcade, a generative AI (GenAI) marketplace where what can be dreamed can be made, announced a $25 million Series A fundraising, bringing the total fundraise to $42 million. The Series A was raised from Laura Chau of Canaan Partners and Kir... |
| 05.03.2025 | Ad giant WPP invests in Stability AI | Advertising giant WPP has made a financial investment in UK AI startup Stability AI, as part of a broader partnership.
WPP says the partnership will see it use Stability AI's AI models to create image, video, 3D, and audio for its clients.
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| 26.01.2025 | Reshop: $17 Million Raised And Anthony Eisen Named As CEO | Reshop, a platform redefining refunds for consumers and merchants, announced the appointment of Anthony Eisen as Chief Executive Officer. Eisen has been a part of Reshop since its founding, serving as Chairman of the Board and a founding in... |
| 23.09.2024 | Arcade Announces First-Ever AI Product Creation Platform | Arcade, a generative AI marketplace where what can be dreamed can be made, was announced publicly and opened its doors in beta. The platform, a place for self-expression, social discovery, and shopping, will launch initially with jewelry an... |
| 10.07.2024 | Form Health: Obesity Care Company Raises $38 Million | Form Health, a leading provider of science-based obesity care in the US, announced it has raised a $38 million Series B with Sound Ventures serving as the lead investor. M13, SignalFire, and Next View Ventures also participated in the round... |
| 27.06.2024 | Form Health Revolutionizes Obesity Care with $38M Funding Boost | Form Health, a trailblazer in science-based obesity care, has secured a whopping $38M in Series B funding. Led by Sound Ventures, this round also saw participation from M13, SignalFire, and Next View Ventures. The company's mission? To make... |
| 26.06.2024 | Form Health Secures $38M to Expand Science-Based Telehealth Obesity Care | What You Should Know:
– Form Health, the leading provider of science-based obesity care in the United States raised $38M in Series B funding led by Sound Ventures, the round also included participation from M13, SignalFire, and Next View Ve... |
| 11.06.2024 | Alma Announces Generative AI-Powered Progress Notes to Reduce Therapist Burnout and Improve Client Outcomes | Alma's comprehensive EHR enables therapists to scale their practice and deliver high-quality care, with over 80% of clients seeing improvement
NEW YORK, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alma, a membership-based network that helps independent m... |
| 17.01.2024 | Lousy U.S. economic conditions dampen 2023 venture investments, but not for generative AI | It's a race for generative AI applications among the big techs and the smaller players alike
If the year 2022 was a sluggish year for private equity deals, 2023 was outright lethargic. Rising interest rates, inflation, and fears of a recess... |
| 11.08.2023 | Matter raises $10M to scale its microplastics filtration technology for commercial use | Bristol-based start-up Matter has developed technology which removes microplastics from white goods in use, for example, Gulp works with a washing machine, to stop microplastics fibres from clothing getting into waterways and beyond. It pro... |
| 10.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bactolife raises $33m, FAO scoops up $27 million, irrigation tech in the spotlight | This week, Danish startup Bactolife raised funds to develop gut microbiome-strengthening proteins and the UN’s FAO scooped up funding from the EU for its Sustainable Wildlife Management program. CPG giant Campbell made a new acquisition, as... |
| 07.07.2023 | The A-List Investors: Top Celebrities Diving into the World of Startups | USA ~
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| 09.05.2023 | Sound Ventures has already plugged half its new $240 million AI fund into three companies | Sound Ventures, the eight-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein, announced a new $240 million AI fund just last week.
Turns out half of it is already inve... |
| 03.05.2023 | Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates 3rd May 2023 | This is our AI Daily Roundup . We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and human-s... |
| 02.05.2023 | Sound Ventures Closes Oversubscribed AI Fund, Announces Investments in Generative AI Leaders | Sound Ventures invests in category-defining artificial intelligence (AI) companies with first three investments in OpenAI, Anthropic & StabilityAI
Sound Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in transformative technologie... |
| 03.02.2023 | Lithuanian Contrarian VC joins $15M round for Norwegian climatetech CHOOOSE | Lithuanian Contrarian VC joins $15M round for Norwegian climatetech CHOOOSE
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| 13.01.2023 | Shell CVC backs $15 million fundraise for Norwegian climate SaaS platform Chooose | Energy company Shell's CVC unit is backing a $15 million financing of Norway-based fuel emissions calculations platform Chooose aimed at product enhancements, operational growth into new geographies and entering more verticals with its tech... |
| 16.02.2022 | Embracing aluminum containers, Uni wants to completely remove plastic packaging from your home | We’ve been hearing it for 30 years — reduce, re-use, recycle. Most personal care brands barely get caught in the third of those ecological safety nets, but Uni is picking a fight with the industry to change all that.
It’s a cursed misfortun... |
| 22.11.2021 | 1kx leads $5m funding round for NFTfi expansion | Innovative NFT-based marketplace NFTfi has secured $5 million in a funding round supported by day one investor 1kx and attracted Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures VC firm. Other participants like Reciprocal Ventures and Scalar Capital put the... |
| 22.11.2021 | 1kx leads $5m funding round for NFTfi expansion | Innovative NFT-based marketplace NFTfi has secured $5 million in a funding round supported by day one investor 1kx and attracted Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures VC firm. Other participants like Reciprocal Ventures and Scalar Capital put the... |
| 07.10.2021 | Ashton Kutcher Invests in MeaTech to Help Push Israeli Cultivated Meat to Market | In today’s most unlikely news, a collective called Sound Ventures led by actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, the Israeli-American businessman and investor known for Maverick Records and his work with Madonna and U2, has announced a partner... |
| 18.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Wendy’s plans 700 parking lot ghost kitchens; Knowde nets $72m | AFN‘s weekly Agrifoodtech Digest is our selection of the top funding, partnership, and product launch headlines reported by us and other sources these past seven days.
🇺🇸 Burger chain Wendy’s plans 700 ghost kitchens by 2025 in partnership ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches | Evan Fisher Contributor
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Founder of Unicorn Capital and Minimal Capital, Evan Fisher's pitching and investor strategy has helped startups raise more than $2.5 billion.
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| 30.06.2021 | This Ashton-Kutcher Backed Startup Is Helping The Self-Employed Get Organized | It’s hard to juggle creative freelance work with managing the back-office tasks that support it—like accounting and completing legal documents. |
| 28.06.2021 | Starfunding: 10 European startups funded by celebrities | Bono. Ashton Kutcher. Leonardo di Caprio. Madonna. Snoop Dog. What do they have in common aside from being mega-celebrities and Hollywood A-listers? These celebrities are also investors in startups, and not only that, but they also invested... |
| 01.06.2021 | Berlin’s insurtech wefox pulls home $650 million, now valued at $3 billion | Berlin-based digital insurance company wefox has raised $650 million in a Series C round led by Target Global. The record-setting round also saw participation from new investors FinTLV, EDBI, LGT via Lightrock, Partners Group, Jupiter, Deci... |
| 06.04.2021 | Have a great idea for an NFT startup? Pitch it to Ashton Kutcher, Snoop Dogg, Mark Cuban for a share of a $1 million. | Ashton Kutcher Michael Kovac/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 20.11.2020 | Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures Aims for New $150M Fund | Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures is trying to raise another $150 million fund, according to paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Founded in 2015 by Kutcher and former talent scout Guy Oseary, the VC firm was created w... |
| 22.10.2019 | Medinas Raises $5M to Expand Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Marketplace | – Medinas close $5M seed funding round led by NFX to expand pre-owned medical equipment marketplace and asset management software for hospitals.
– Pre-owned medical equipment marketplace and asset management software has helped hospitals re... |
| 09.10.2019 | Papa Raises $10M to Expand “Grandkids on Demand” Platform to Address Social Isolation in Seniors | – Papa raises $10M in Series A funding to expand “grandkids on-demand” platform to help reduce social isolation in seniors.
– Adds partnerships with multiple large health insurance plans, including Humana, Aetna, Priority Health and Alignme... |
| - | 170 seconds to pitch: handy lessons for impactful startup presentations from the pros | Two people is not enough, three is the perfect number for a successful pitch. In the minutes and seconds before the first word and the first slide, entrepreneurs are hoping that every phrase, graph or pause they make will be worth the long ... |
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Toyota has transformed its facility in Gardena, CA, into a hydrogen research and development center to capitalize on the expanding market for hydrogen technology in California. With three decades of experien... |
| - | Ashton Kutcher’s Venture Firm Leads $15 Million Investment in Climate Tech Startup | Actor (and travel tech investor) Ashton Kutcher is at it again, as his Sound Ventures venture capital firm has co-led a $15 million investment in climate tech company Chooose.
It’s the latest in a long chapter of travel investing for Kutche... |
| - | Berlin’s insurtech wefox pulls home $650 million, now valued at $3 billion | Berlin-based digital insurance company wefox has raised $650 million in a Series C round led by Target Global. The record-setting round also saw participation from new investors FinTLV, EDBI, LGT via Lightrock, Partners Group, Jupiter, Deci... |
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The integration of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare in Los Angeles, with hospitals increasingly employing these technologies to enhance patient care... |
