Aily Labs raises $80M for AI decision intelligence platform

AILY LABS is Scaling AI that Drives Performance across Fortune 500 Companies. Aily Labs, a real-time enterprise decision intelligence platform for every employee, led by Bianca Diana Anghelina, Kristina Walcker-Mayer, Bettina Vogel, Pau Ferrer Puig, and others, has secured $80 million in funding, led by FPV Ventures with participation from existing investor Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan, and other strategic investors. Read More At: https://lnkd.in/gb7r6GY9 X: https://lnkd.in/gZX__CvS Source: https://lnkd.in/g2rtP6pf

A big challenge we hear time and again centres around moving AI from pilots and prototypes to full-scale rollouts. While the technology often holds up, many projects still stall... In his new Op Ed for BusinessCloud, our Technical Director James Heggs explores one of the biggest challenges in modern tech adoption: how to sustain momentum as AI moves from experimentation to real operations. He argues that continuity, keeping the people who built and understood the system close to it, is key. And that the traditional consultancy model, built on short-term engagements and handovers, often breaks that continuity right when it’s needed most. At Counter, we’re rethinking what consultancy looks like. At the end of an engagement, clients can retain any of the associate consultants as their own employees, at no additional cost. This ensures that the people who conceived the experiment, navigated the rollout, and understand the system’s nuances can remain, forming the kind of long-lived teams that AI demands. 🔗 Read James’ full article on BusinessCloud, link in the comments.

Everyone’s been sharing the news — congrats to nexos.ai! 👏 nexos.ai raised €30M Series A to tackle one of the biggest challenges in modern business: unlocking the full potential of AI in the enterprise. While many companies are eager to adopt AI, nexos.ai’s founder and CEO, Tomas Okmanas, points to four persistent barriers: ➡️ Fragmented and insecure deployments ➡️ Uncontrolled costs ➡️ Zero visibility ➡️ Failed governance nexos.ai addresses these issues head-on with a unified, web-based AI Workspace for employees and an AI Gateway for developers. The platform replaces scattered tools with a secure, centralized environment that offers built-in guardrails, full observability, and flexible access controls. With this new funding, nexos.ai will accelerate platform development, expand operations across Europe and North America, and launch educational partnerships.

UnifyApps, the company building the Enterprise Operating System for AI, has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by WestBridge Capital with participation from ICONIQ and others, bringing total funding to $81 million. Ragy Thomas joins as Chairman and Co-CEO alongside Pavitar Singh as the company accelerates its mission to make enterprises truly AI-native — unifying data, workflows, and intelligence at scale. https://lnkd.in/eGk6BiNq #AI #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #Funding #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #TechNews #Automation #EnterpriseSoftware

Hyperlayer's programmable platform enables financial services firms to leverage their data assets to deploy #AI for hyper-personalized products without replacing their core systems. That’s why Iona Star joined other leading investors to participate in the company’s recent funding round. Read our blog post for more detail - link in first comment. Gerry Buggy Kevin McGivern Mike Powell Graham Ferguson Neil Saulters Robert Rooney Tricia Beaumont

Banks and other financial services players have masses of data but more often than not it's buried in legacy core systems and so not available for use by personalized #AI services that are expected by today's end user customers. That's where Hyperlayer adds value with its programmable platform that extracts data and processes it so it's ready for AI apps - and without requiring existing systems to be ripped and replaced. There's more info in the blog I authored for Iona Star, which participated in the company's recent funding round. See https://lnkd.in/eQjc_TFS

Where’s real defensible value in AI right now? In a recent VC Best Practices panel I moderated, Kristin McDonald of Eniac Ventures talked about where she thinks value is actually showing up vs. hype: • Enterprise / vertical AI: Founders who plug into boring manual workflows and drive ROI are getting real pull. • Consumer: Still choppy. Spikes of excitement, weak retention, low moat. • Infra: Massive. Model serving / inference is so fragmented that we could see “15–20 decacorn AI infra companies,” because every business will need to run models its own way. Not all AI is the same opportunity and infra + vertical workflows look most durable right now. Thanks to our sponsors KPMG US, Cooley LLP and Stifel Financial Corp. for making this panel possible! Rob May, Kira Noodleman #AIInfrastructure #EnterpriseAI #VerticalSaaS #AIWorkflow #VCBestPractices

Salesforce is set to acquire Doti, the AI startup building an “Organizational Brain” for unified enterprise search and real-time knowledge access. The deal will bring Doti’s team, led by Matan Cohen and Opher Hofshi, into Salesforce’s AI R&D hub in Israel to accelerate Slack-powered agentic search capabilities. More at: https://lnkd.in/epzQFPVu #AI #EnterpriseSoftware #Acquisition #IsraelTech

Check out this brilliant interview with David Friedman on VC, startups, corporate governance and a practical approach to implementation of AI… Science needs to structure its data to be built on with proper providence; same goes for data guiding the pivot towards consumer desire.

AI presents both uncertainty and immense opportunity—a theme that defined our Forthlane Forum session on “Canada’s AI Advantage: Industry, Innovation, and Impact.” Shannon Bell, Yang Han and Mark Shulgan joined Forthlane's founder, Ken Grewal, to discuss how Canada can lead not just in developing AI, but in deploying it responsibly. With our strong regulatory frameworks, ethical research community, and culture of inclusion, Canada is uniquely positioned to balance progress with purpose. In an age of accelerating change, responsible leadership may be our greatest competitive advantage. #AI #ResponsibleInnovation #TechnologyLeadership #CanadaAI #ForthlaneForum #DigitalTransformation