Palo Alto-based Silence Laboratories, co-founded by Jay Prakash, builds multi-party computation and zero-knowledge tools that let organisations work with sensitive data without exposing it — and is planning to raise more capital.
Seattle-based Scowtt, a predictive AI platform that optimises advertising and sales towards future customer outcomes, has appointed Ben Trenda as chief revenue officer after doubling ARR in the first half of 2026.
New York-based ORION Security, an agentic data loss prevention platform, has been named one of 16 SINET16 honorees for 2026, selected from 158 applicants across 10 countries.
San Jose-based Realset AI and Flatkey have announced a $10 million Series A to expand real-world training-data capture for frontier models and embodied agents, and to scale Flatkey’s single-key AI developer platform.
Ema, founded by Surojit Chatterjee and Souvik Sen, has raised a $77 million Series B led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis, with Accel, Section 32 and Prosus increasing their stakes, taking total funding to $140 million.
Global startups have raised at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more in 2026, collectively worth about $33 billion, with more than 70% going to AI-focused companies, according to Crunchbase.
As AI agents gain access to enterprise data, systems and tools, they are emerging as a new class of active identity that needs its own permissions, monitoring and governance — reshaping the cybersecurity market.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the White House on September 24 with advanced chips, rare-earth export controls, AI safety and data-centre power among the technology issues shaping the talks.
A public financial disclosure shows President Trump bought $15,001–$50,000 of SpaceX shares on July 10 and sold $1,001–$15,000 a week later, Reuters reported, weeks after the company’s June market debut.
The US and China agreed to extend their trade truce to January 10, 2027, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, as President Trump greeted Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews for a three-day state visit.