State of Venture Q3’26
Venture funding is reaching new highs even as deal activity continues to shrink. Through Q3’26, funding is on pace to shatter the 2021 annual record. Mega-rounds drove the funding, especially in AI.
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Venture funding is reaching new highs even as deal activity continues to shrink. Through Q3’26, funding is on pace to shatter the 2021 annual record. Mega-rounds drove the funding, especially in AI.
AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI Data Platform designed to manage this new paradigm.
AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Retaining that context and making it available when needed puts pressure on memory capacity and data movement.
AI infrastructure built on dense graphics processing unit clusters and high-speed AI networking is no longer reserved for frontier model labs. The same compute behind the industry’s push into physical AI is now reaching engineers designing machines for competitive combat.
IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit said today that their Lightwell open-source security program has found and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The companies also made Lightwell Clearinghouse generally available.
Endpoint management and security company Tanium Inc. today expanded its Security Operations portfolio with new detection, response and threat-hunting tools built on its Tanium Atlas agentic artificial intelligence platform.
Data management software company Precisely Software Inc. today introduced the Precisely Platform, a unified system designed to make enterprise data ready for artificial intelligence. Developers also get Precisely AI Studio, a library of ready-made AI agents and apps.
Dell Technologies Inc. today expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with a semantic layer and a knowledge graph intended to give artificial intelligence agents trusted context from a company’s own data. Dell is also speeding up data processing on Nvidia Corp. graphics chips.
Dutch offensive security startup Hadrian Security B.V. today announced that it has raised $40 million in new funding to expand its business internationally.
Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. today introduced AI Range Enterprise Edition to let security teams test whether their own artificial intelligence agents can do the jobs they have been assigned. The release is seeking to take on a problem in how security teams vet their agents.
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 million in funding to build what it believes is the first personal computer that’s dedicated to running personal AI agents.
AI coding spend is growing fast. But teams shouldn't have to choose between giving developers access to frontier intelligence and keeping token costs under control.
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