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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%.
: AI financial data infrastructure company Daloopa announced the completion of a $47 million Series C funding round, led by Brighton Park Capital, with participation from Squarepoint Capital, Touring Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners. The funds will be used to accelerate platform expansion and expand the engineering, product, and marketing teams.Daloopa provides structured and traceable financial data for financial institutions. It has currently expanded data access through MCP connectors with OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, and Rogo, and offers APIs, cloud delivery, and partner APIs, enabling third-party developers to use its high-quality financial data in their own products. (PRNewswire)
Dune co-founder and CEO Fredrik Haga stated that Dune is laying off 25% of its staff this week as part of a restructuring aimed at further concentrating efforts on developing the industry's core data products.Haga noted that the company is increasing investment in AI-driven tools, using Dune MCP to enable teams and agents to build dashboards and workflows without requiring knowledge of SQL or data infrastructure. Additionally, as assets like currencies, stocks, and bonds accelerate their migration on-chain, the company is heavily investing in the data layer and providing services to institutions. Dune currently has ample financial reserves, having completed a $69.42 million Series B funding round led by Coatue in 2022. (theblock)
According to official announcements, Web3 intelligence-layer project Claw Intelligence has raised $3 million in seed funding. Investors include Castrum Istanbul, Titans Ventures, Super Labs, and Genesis Capital. Claw Intelligence is simplifying user interaction with the Web3 ecosystem and underlying computing resources through its unified intelligence layer, lowering operational barriers. The platform leverages an encryption-native Model Context Protocol (MCP) service to transform fragmented data endpoints into conversational workflows. New features include a secure, isolated large language model (LLM)-powered code execution sandbox that safely runs code directly within the chat interface—enabling real-time computation, data processing, and script prototyping; and LLM-driven cross-device/multi-computer control, allowing users to centrally manage multiple devices and servers via natural-language commands.