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According to the official press release, AI security company Neo officially announced today the completion of $100 million in financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Neo was co-founded by former executives from SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks, positioned as an "Intelligent Software Control Company", aiming to provide enterprises with a real-time control layer, helping SecOps teams conduct comprehensive inventory, risk assessment, behavior attribution, and policy enforcement on AI agents, AI applications, browser extensions, MCP servers, and traditional software. According to Gartner's forecast, only 5% of enterprise applications will have agent capabilities in 2025, while by the end of 2026 this proportion will rise to 40%.
Odaily AI security startup Neo announced the completion of a $100 million funding round, led by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. It is reported that the company positions itself as an "Agentic Software Control" company, dedicated to building a real-time control layer for enterprises to help security operations teams (SecOps) manage and protect the rapidly proliferating intelligence capabilities of AI Agents, AI applications, browsers, identity systems, and traditional software. The new funds will be used to expand engineering and marketing teams and accelerate enterprise customer acquisition. (Globenewswire)
According to PR Newswire, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) management platform QIZ Security announced the completion of a $17 million seed funding round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, with participation from Evolution Equity Partners, Qbeat Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Qino Cyber Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and market expansion. QIZ's core capabilities lie in providing enterprises with continuous crypto asset discovery, risk modeling, and remediation governance, helping organizations complete the migration to quantum-safe architecture before "Q-Day" (the point in time when quantum computers are expected to possess the capability to break existing encryption systems, anticipated around 2029) arrives. Currently, QIZ has established strategic partnerships with Cisco, AWS, Google, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, EY, and IBM, among others, with services covering the finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and critical infrastructure sectors. The company was co-founded by cybersecurity industry veterans Ben Volkow, Lenny Ridel, and former head of Deloitte's Global Quantum Cybersecurity team, Dr. Itan Barmes.
Odaily Odaily News: Voice AI company ElevenLabs, founded in Poland, has released Music v2. This model can switch genres within the same track, generate songs by sections such as intro, verse, and chorus, and supports local redrawing of specified segments. Music v2 is now available on ElevenMusic and ElevenCreative, with early access to the ElevenAPI currently provided through the sales team. Stability AI has launched Stable Audio 3.0, which includes four models: Small SFX, Small, Medium, and Large. Three of these variants have open weights on Hugging Face. The series is trained on licensed data. The Medium model supports generating tracks up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long, while the Large model is only available via the Stability AI API. ElevenLabs has signed licensing agreements with Believe, Kobalt, and Merlin. Stability AI has established partnerships with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. In November 2025, Suno was valued at $2.45 billion, with an annual recurring revenue exceeding $300 million, approximately 100 million users, and generating an average of about 7 million songs daily.