Talkdesk has launched proactive AI agents designed specifically for retail and financial services, moving the company from a platform that handles inbound customer queries to one that initiates outbound engagement autonomously. The new agents sit within Talkdesk’s Customer Experience Automation (CXA) platform and can be configured, tested, and deployed using templatised multi-agent workflows. The pitch […]
Capchase, a New York-based vendor financing platform for enterprise technology companies, has raised more than $200 million in new funding to scale its embedded lending infrastructure globally. The round, a mix of debt warehouse facilities and equity from institutional investors, is the company’s largest to date and reflects growing demand for financing tools that […]
Amazon Web Services has launched a product that lets retailers build their own AI-powered shopping assistants using the same technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages architecture guidance, starter code, and hands-on support from AWS’s Generative AI Innovation Center into a solution that the company says can be deployed in […]
Robinhood has launched a platform that lets users connect AI agents to their brokerage accounts to execute stock trades autonomously. The company is also introducing a virtual credit card designed specifically for AI agents, making it the first major consumer brokerage to open both trading and spending to autonomous software. The agentic trading system […]
Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The company last raised $36 million in July 2025. Moment builds infrastructure that allows wealth management firms to deploy […]
Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more than a third of total revenue by 2028, supported by plans to hire […]
The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside.\ RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platform co-founded by Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi, has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, […]
Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously. motif, an AI wealth advisory company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, is betting it can do better. […]
John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than […]
For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]
