Higharc secures $95M Series C to scale AI homebuilding platform
Higharc announced on July 3, 2026 that it raised a $95 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding above $170 million to expand its AI-driven homebuilding and estimating platform. The company also unveiled a partnership with US LBM to push its AI estimating tools into the building materials supply chain. ([constructionowners.com](https://www.constructionowners.com/news/higharc-secures-95-million-to-expand-ai-platform-for-homebuilding-and-materials-estimating))
Source: Construction Owners
Gradial secures $65M Series C to scale agentic AI marketing OS
Seattle-based AI marketing startup Gradial raised $65 million in a Series C round led by Insight Partners, valuing the company at about $675 million. The funding, reported June 20, 2026, will be used to expand Gradial’s agentic AI operating system that automates complex enterprise marketing workflows.
Source: Harian Basis
Torq secures $140M Series D to scale agentic AI SOC platform
On January 11, 2026, Israeli‑founded cybersecurity startup Torq announced a $140 million Series D round at a $1.2 billion valuation to expand its AI‑driven security operations center (SOC) platform. The round was led by Merlin Ventures with participation from Evolution Equity Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Insight Partners and Greenfield Partners, bringing Torq’s total funding to $332 million.([torq.io](https://torq.io/news/torq-seriesd/?utm_source=openai))
Source: Torq
Databricks raises $4B+ Series L at $134B valuation for AI apps
On December 16–17, 2025, Databricks announced it is raising more than $4 billion in a Series L round valuing the company at $134 billion. Reuters reports the funding is led by Insight Partners, Fidelity and J.P. Morgan Asset Management and will be used for R&D, go‑to‑market expansion and talent retention.
Source: Reuters
Runware secures $50M to build one API for all AI models
Inference startup Runware has raised a $50 million Series A round to accelerate its vision of providing "one API for all AI" across image, video and audio generation. The San Francisco– and London-based company says it has already powered more than 10 billion outputs for 200,000+ developers and 300 million end users, routing workloads through a unified API backed by its custom Sonic Inference Engine. Dawn Capital led the round, joined by Comcast Ventures, Speedinvest, Insight Partners, a16z Speedrun and other backers, bringing Runware’s total funding to $66 million and cementing it as one of Europe’s most heavily backed AI infra plays. The company claims its tightly integrated hardware–software stack can deliver up to 10x faster, cheaper inference than conventional data-center setups, while aggregating hundreds of thousands of model variants behind a single integration. Strategically, Runware is positioning itself as a neutral layer above the model wars, promising to onboard millions of additional open-weight models by 2026 so developers can swap and combine models without re-architecting their stacks.
Source: AI Business
Runware lands $50 million Series A to power real-time image and video generation APIs
Developer tools startup Runware raised a $50 million Series A round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Comcast Ventures, Speedinvest, Insight Partners and a16z Speedrun, bringing total funding to $66 million. The company offers an API and custom inference infrastructure that lets developers generate images, video and audio in real time using hundreds of thousands of open‑source models, positioning itself as a lower‑cost, unified alternative to other generative media platforms. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runware-raises-50m-series-a-from-dawn-capital-comcast-ventures-to-become-the-api-for-all-ai/))
