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# ElevenLabs hits $22B valuation with employee tender As part of the tender, EQT, Goldman Sachs, GIC, OTPP, Sapphire Ventures and BDT & MSD became first-time investors in ElevenLabs, alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, ICONIQ, D.E. - [No-code tools can help clinicians build custom AI agents](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/video/no-code-tools-can-help-clinicians-build-custom-ai-agents)
Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures, the company said in a [statement](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260930945523/en/Restate-Raises-%2420M-Series-A-to-Define-the-Infrastructure-Layer-for-AI-Agents-and-Workflows) on Wednesday. Its total funding is now $27m. ## Up against Temporal In July, Runta raised a seed round led by a16z for its [AI agent infrastructure](https://thenextweb.com/news/runta-a16z-seed-ai-agent-infrastructure).
Metaview, a London and San Francisco startup that builds AI agents for recruiting, has raised a $60m Series C led by Insight Partners. “The best engineering teams have already moved from writing code by hand to orchestrating AI agents that do the work. ## From interview notes to agents It started by capturing job interviews and has recorded more than 6 million to date. In August, it bought Reval, an AI-native recruiting startup. ## What the money is for The company is also building new agents, including a dedicated AI screening agent, Magos wrote in a [blog post](https://www.metaview.ai/resources/blog/metaview-raised-an-additional-60m-to-lead-the-shift-to-agentic-recruiting). Spott raised a [$21m Series A](https://thenextweb.com/news/spott-raises-21m-series-a-balderton-recruitment) led by Balderton, and Jack & Jill [raised $40m](https://thenextweb.com/news/jack-and-jill-40m-series-a) to put an AI agent on both sides of hiring.
# Vercel-backed Photon raises $4.5M to put AI agents inside iMessage and WhatsApp ## **Rivals, and a channel Photon does not own** On WhatsApp, [Wassist](https://techfundingnews.com/openai-wants-shopping-in-chatgpt-wassist-raises-1-1m-to-keep-it-on-whatsapp/) raised $1.1 million and [Jelou](https://techfundingnews.com/elou-whatsapp-ai-agents-funding/) raised $10 million. ## [German smart green energy startup Ostrom loads €9.3M funding to drive transition with smart meters](https://techfundingnews.com/german-smart-green-energy-startup-ostrom-loads-e9-3m-funding-to-drive-transition-with-smart-meters/) - [AI News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/ai/)
# Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents. The AI startup [Photon](https://photon.codes/) is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything.
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# $13.2 billion in nine months: Inside Israel's AI-fueled funding surge ## Three quarters of funding data suggest 2026 will comfortably exceed 2025's total of $15.6 billion.  Among the 192 rounds counted here, a striking number describe the same basic premise: that the rise of autonomous AI agents, software capable of taking actions inside corporate systems without constant human oversight, has created an entirely new category of risk that didn't meaningfully exist two years ago, and an entirely new market to address it. Companies like Oasis Security, Zenity, Neo, Mate Security, Hush Security, Onyx Security and A Security have each raised rounds in the tens to low hundreds of millions this year, all pitching some version of the same idea: that enterprises deploying AI agents by the thousands need tools to monitor, govern or intercept them before something goes wrong. # z.calcalist.co.il is blocked Among the largest disclosed in this nine-month window: Wonderful, an enterprise AI agent platform, raised $550 million in a round that valued it at $5 billion. Island, the enterprise browser company pivoting toward securing AI agents, raised $400 million at a $6.4 billion valuation in late September alone. Cyera, a data-security company expanding into AI-agent governance, raised money on at least three separate occasions this year alone, pushing its valuation to more than $12 billion and its 2026 funding total past $1.4 billion by September.
# Security startup finds more than 13,000 internal company screenshots that AI agents uploaded publicly [](https://the-decoder.com/author/manuel-uth/) [Manuel Uth](https://the-decoder.com/author/manuel-uth/) Oct 1, 2026 **AI agents quietly posted thousands of internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos.** Security startup [Glow Security](https://www.glow.io/blogs/how-ai-agents-exposed-developer-screenshots-from-leading-tech-companies) found more than 13,000 images from internal software projects at 343 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, financial firms, and AI labs. These images normally go into pull requests, which on private projects only authorized team members can see. But GitHub only lets you attach images to pull requests through the browser, not through the command line the agents work in. So the agents came up with their own workaround. They created public repositories, usually in the developer's personal GitHub account, and uploaded the images there, where anyone could access them. The screenshots showed customer data, login credentials, and unreleased features, among other things. Because the images weren't stored in company accounts, security teams never noticed. About a third of the affected organizations used gitshot, an open-source tool that stores screenshots publicly. In some cases, the agents found the tool on their own. Ad Ad ### AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans BETA-TEST × Start new search ×| Send wpDiscuz Insert BETA-TEST × Start new search ×| Send wpDiscuz Insert
In today's ACT Brief, we examine AI's role as trial design advisor with human leadership, how to govern autonomous agents in regulated operations,...
# RapidAPI co-founder raises $15 million for AI marketing startup enso ## Mickey Haslavsky’s company has raised $23 million to build what it calls “Agentic Growth Hacking.” 14:00, 01.10.26 Israeli startup enso, which develops AI agent systems for marketing and sales, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by MoreTech Ventures, with participation from existing investor NFX, Phenomen VC, and Gil Hirsch. The new capital will be used to expand enso’s operations in what the company calls “Agentic Growth Hacking,” as businesses increasingly rely on AI tools to reach customers. 1 View gallery  (Photo: enso) z.calcalist.co.il # z.calcalist.co.il is blocked - [Wiz veteran raises $12 million Seed to secure AI agents at Rig Security](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byxasxfcgl)
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents for continuous task management, aimed at reshaping workplace software amid safety concerns.
# OpenAI bets enterprises are ready to delegate real work to autonomous agents news This week at [OpenAI Dev Day](https://openai.com/devday/), the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam Altman described as “remarkably capable, always-on” agents powered by GPT‑6 Astra. ## More from this author - [news\ **A maximum severity GitLab flaw could turn your CI/CD server into an attacker’s treasure trove** \ Sep 14, 2026 5 mins](https://www.infoworld.com/article/4221942/a-maximum-severity-gitlab-flaw-could-turn-your-ci-cd-server-into-an-attackers-treasure-trove-2.html)
Researchers at Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) are rethinking how intelligent systems recognize and...
## Build the next big thing SummaryWazari.ai gave Ezra, its Azure expert agent, a memory a person can read and a review gate for proposed skills. Wazari.ai ran into that problem while building Ezra, a Microsoft Azure expert agent on its m8t platform. [Building an AI agent](https://learn.microsoft.com/startups/build/ai/agents/build-agent?wt.mc_id=githubwazari_learn_blog_mfsmktg) of your own? ## Building agents with Microsoft for Startups [Microsoft for Startups](https://www.microsoft.com/startups/?wt.mc_id=githubwazari_signup_blog_startups) helps founders build fast, scale smart, and sell more with Startup credits, AI tools, technical guidance, and go-to-market support. If you’re building an agent or AI application on Azure, apply to get started with Startup credits and unlock more as you build and scale. ## Related posts ### [Build AI agents for real enterprise workflows: 6 lessons from Datox](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/blog/build-ai-agents-for-real-enterprise-workflows-6-lessons-from-datox/) - 
Factory AI and Cognition, two high-profile San Francisco-based AI startups building coding agents, are publicly feuding over the departure of a former...
Ric Smith, president of products and technology at Okta, explained that this move signifies a significant shift for the company, allowing them to be inline...
# OpenAI Faces Stunning Lawsuit Over Rogue AI Agent Microsoft-backed ( **MSFT**) OpenAI is facing fresh legal scrutiny after a California nonprofit sued the ChatGPT maker over allegations that hundreds of its autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and hacked Hugging Face.
The lawsuit centers on a July incident in which OpenAI agents hacked AI firm Hugging Face without authorization.
# Rogue Agent Incidents Add New Wrinkle to Delaware Plan for AI-Run Companies Delaware’s first-in-the-nation proposal to create [companies managed by artificial intelligence](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/delaware-ai-company-plan-draws-questions-over-who-is-accountable/) agents is confronting a new complication. ## Get the Full Story The draft legislation, expected to be considered when Delaware lawmakers return in January, would create an “ [artificial intelligence company](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/delaware-proposes-new-legal-framework-for-autonomous-agents/),” or AIC, whose day-to-day business could be managed by an AI agent without routine human supervision. In July, a swarm of [OpenAI](https://openai.com/) agents hacked AI startup [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) while attempting to cheat on a [cybersecurity test](https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/openai-models-breach-hugging-face-during-cyber-evaluation/).
AI agents have evolved from experimental chatbots into practical systems that can plan tasks, use tools, and complete multi-step workflows.
# Reco Announces $55M in Funding to Tackle AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises  AI security startup Reco has raised $55 million, extending a $30 million Series B from February, with participation from AT&T’s venture arm, Forestay and Quadrille Capital. It enters a crowded field of at least two dozen agent security vendors and will use the capital for hiring, sales, partnerships and customer support. ## More in Business & Markets [\ \ Business & Markets · Startups\ \ **Peak XV Raises Surge Seed Cap to $5M as AI Startups Dominate 18-Company Cohort**\ \ 12 hours ago](https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/09/30/peak-xv-raises-surge-seed-cap-to-5m-as-ai-startups-dominate-18-company-cohort/)
Founded by incident response veterans, Evoke Security's Agentic AI-powered platform enables security teams to continuously inventory, threat model, and monitor AI agents.
The AI research startup will bring customer interviews, analysis, and simulated customer behavior closer to Salesforce's CRM and AI agents.
# Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents The Berlin-based startup had set out to build an execution engine that made multistep workflows resilient to crashes and network interruptions — something that made it a fit for the agentic era. The explosion of AI agents has provided a powerful tailwind for the startup. Ewen said that in addition to providing durability for AI companies, the startup is serving Fortune 500 customers, including in the financial space. Marina Temkin is a venture capital and startups reporter at TechCrunch.
Bitdefender announced the public beta launch of AI Guardian, a new consumer offering that adds a powerful security layer between AI agents.
Following Meta's blockbuster release of its Muse AI agent earlier this month, OpenAI jumped into the personal agent market with Dots.
OpenAI faces lawsuit over its agents' attacks, and Anthropic warns that liability for autonomous AI remains an open legal question.
**Berlin’s AI startup ecosystem is witnessing a significant shift as more companies develop and deploy their own AI agents in-house.** Startups throughout Berlin are increasingly adopting [self-hosted AI agents](https://www.dogado.de/server/hermes-agent-server-hosting) to manage core business operations and drive innovation. ## The rise of local AI agent adoption among Berlin startups Berlin’s startup scene is renowned for its focus on cutting-edge technology and rapid product iteration. By running AI agents within their own environments, startups improve their ability to experiment with novel use cases. ## Navigating challenges and future opportunities Looking ahead, Berlin’s embrace of self-hosted AI agents may set standards for urban startup ecosystems globally.
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