Author: Antoine Tardif

Inna Tokarev Sela, the CEO and Founder of Illumex, is transforming how enterprises prepare their structured data for generative AI. Illumex enables organizations to deploy genAI analytics agents by translating scattered, cryptic data into meaningful, context-rich business language with built-in governance. The platform automatically analyzes metadata to locate and label structured data without moving or

Aditya K Sood (Ph.D) is the VP of Security Engineering and AI Strategy at Aryaka. With more than 16 years of experience, he provides strategic leadership in information security, covering products and infrastructure. Dr. Sood is interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud security, malware automation and analysis, application security, and secure software design. He has

UVeye, the global leader in AI-driven vehicle inspection technology, has secured a $191 million extension to its Series D funding round, bringing total funding to $380.5 million. This latest infusion—combining equity and debt—aims to solidify UVeye’s position as the market leader and support its rapid global expansion to meet surging demand for its cutting-edge technology

BOW, the trailblazing universal robotics software company, has secured £4 million in a seed funding round led by Northern Gritstone. The round included co-investors Finance Yorkshire and Praetura Ventures, as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II. This pivotal investment will accelerate the development of BOW’s innovative platform and software development kit (SDK), making

Alan Ranger is the VP of Marketing at Cognigy, with a career spanning 30 years, Alan has held a variety of sales, marketing and leadership roles, both in start-up and large enterprise software companies. Before joining Cognigy, he led global market development at LivePerson where, during his six-year tenure, revenues doubled from $223m to $470m.

Qsic, the intelligent in-store audio platform redefining the retail experience, has announced the successful close of a $25 million Series B funding round led by Hedosophia. The funding will be used to accelerate the platform’s AI-driven capabilities, expand into new retail locations, and enhance its ability to boost in-store sales while unlocking new revenue streams

Boston-based dental AI innovator VideaHealth has successfully raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round, further cementing its position as a leader in artificial intelligence solutions for the dental industry. This milestone funding round, led by Threshold Ventures with participation from Avenir Ventures, BAM Ventures, and existing backers like Spark Capital, Zetta Venture

DeepSeek-R1 is the groundbreaking reasoning model introduced by China-based DeepSeek AI Lab. This model sets a new benchmark in reasoning capabilities for open-source AI. As detailed in the accompanying research paper, DeepSeek-R1 evolves from DeepSeek’s v3 base model and leverages reinforcement learning (RL) to solve complex reasoning tasks, such as advanced mathematics and logic, with

David Driggers is the Chief Technology Officer at Cirrascale Cloud Services, a leading provider of deep learning infrastructure solutions. Guided by values of integrity, agility, and customer focus, Cirrascale delivers innovative, cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. Partnering with AI ecosystem leaders like Red Hat and WekaIO, Cirrascale ensures seamless access to advanced tools, empowering customers to

Applied Labs, an emerging leader in AI-powered support and operations solutions, has raised $4.2 million in a seed funding round to address a pressing issue for businesses: unreliable AI solutions. Founded by Scale AI veterans Michael Woo and Soham Waychal, the company is creating highly reliable AI agents that can handle complex, critical workflows with