With $50M in funding, Frame Security takes aim at AI-powered social engineering

With $50M in funding, Frame Security takes aim at AI-powered social engineering

Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it had raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform that uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks. Frame pitches its platform as a replacement for quarterly slide decks and canned phishing simulations that still…

Funding Fixed and Five Chain Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership to Launch All-in-One Business Starter Bundle

Funding Fixed and Five Chain Announce Strategic Marketing Partnership to Launch All-in-One Business Starter Bundle

Boston, MA – April 6, 2026 — Funding Fixed has announced a strategic marketing partnership with Five Chain, a digital marketing and business infrastructure company, to launch a new all-in-one Business Starter Bundle designed to give founders a complete foundation for building and scaling a business. The bundle combines financial education and operational systems…

Indian AI-focused start-ups bag nearly $650 million in funding in 2025, says report

Indian AI-focused start-ups bag nearly $650 million in funding in 2025, says report

India’s AI ecosystem is continuing to witness strong capital support, with AI start-ups collectively raising $643 million in funding in 2025, a slight increase of 4.1 per cent in 2024, an analysis of the top 100 Indian AI start-ups from management consulting firm Zinnov, shows. The top 100 AI start-ups have also posted a combined…

Venture Funding To Foundational AI Startups In Q1 Was Double All Of 2025

Venture Funding To Foundational AI Startups In Q1 Was Double All Of 2025

Funding to foundational AI startups, also known as generative AI companies or frontier labs, has doubled in the first quarter of 2026 so far compared to all of 2025, Crunchbase data shows. That funding is increasingly concentrated in a handful of foundational giants, including OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. In 2025 and early 2026, the market…

AI startups dominate VC interest even as funding slips

AI startups dominate VC interest even as funding slips

Artificial intelligence-led startups continued to dominate investor attention in FY26, even as overall funding activity moderated during the year. Total funding fell 9% to $10.1 billion across 977 deals in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, compared with $11.3 billion raised across 1,020 deals in FY25, reflecting a broader cooling in capital deployment. Despite…

As Singapore Pushes AI Nationally, Agnes AI Raises Tens of Millions in Funding and Nears $20M ARR

As Singapore Pushes AI Nationally, Agnes AI Raises Tens of Millions in Funding and Nears $20M ARR

Singapore AI Platform Strengthens Position as a Model Company Powering Multiple AI Applications Singapore, March 18, 2026 — As Singapore accelerates its national AI strategy — including plans announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to establish a National AI Council and expand the country’s AI ecosystem — a new generation of AI companies is emerging…

Digital health funding increases in 2025, spurred by AI: report

Digital health funding increases in 2025, spurred by AI: report

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Digital health funding spiked in 2025 as investors poured a growing amount of cash into artificial intelligence companies, according to a report released Monday by Rock Health.  U.S. digital health startups raised $14.2 billion last…