Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero
Databricks announced Thursday that it has acquired Row Zero, a startup whose cloud spreadsheet handles more than 1 million live rows. Its finance team had been using Row Zero alongside Genie, Databricks' AI agent for asking questi...
Higgsfield says current sales pace exceeds $1 billion annualized
AI video startup Higgsfield says its current performance puts it on track for more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, Bloomberg reported. Founded by a former Snap executive, the company serves businesses adopting AI-generated ...
Zero Infinity Partners announces $156 million infrastructure technology fund
Zero Infinity Partners announced $156 million in commitments for its second fund, which will invest in early-stage companies applying technology to physical infrastructure. The firm said the fund is 50% larger than its predecessor...
BottleCap releases reasoning model with shorter outputs and an accuracy tradeoff
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a version of Qwen3.8-27B tuned to use fewer tokens while working through answers. BottleCap reports an average 37.2% reduction in thinking tokens across 12 benchmarks, while avera...
PicoJool raises $27.5 million to commercialize optical links for AI clusters
PicoJool raised $27.5 million in a Series A round led by Socratic Partners, bringing its total funding to $39.5 million. The startup plans to use the money to expand its teams in the United States and Taiwan, qualify products with...
Clastix raises €2.9 million for Kubernetes infrastructure software
Italian infrastructure software company Clastix has raised €2.9 million in its first external funding round, led by CDP Venture Capital with participation from Mistral and Vertis SGR. Clastix plans to use the seed capital for prod...
