This week, we start with news that n8n has raised USD 180mn in Series C funding, bringing its total funding to USD 240mn and valuing the company at USD 2.5bn. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures, the venture arm of NVIDIA, and T.Capital also joined the round, alongside follow-on investments from Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Highland Europe and HV Capital. n8n operates a platform that enables businesses to build, orchestrate and deploy AI agents in production. 

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In other news:

• Vulcan Technologies raises $10.9mn seed round
  Vulcan Technologies, a U.S. reg-tech company using AI to assist government agencies and legal professionals with regulatory drafting and compliance, has raised USD 10.9mn in seed funding. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Cubit Capital, with participation from Chief Oil & Gas founder Trevor Rees-Jones, SV Angel, A*, Liquid 2 Ventures, Transpose, 468 Capital, Y Combinator, the founders of Dropbox, and other strategic investors.
  Vulcan plans to expand its engineering team and extend its reach into the private sector following the raise.
• HiOctave launches with $15mn to bring AI-driven customer tools to SMBs
  HiOctave, a US-based AI software company focused on small and mid-sized businesses automate and personalize customer experiences, has launched with USD 15mn in funding led by Vinod Khosla and Khosla Ventures. Other investors include Celesta Capital, Anthology Fund—run jointly by Anthropic and Menlo Ventures—and Carya Venture Partners. SMBs make up over 90% of U.S. businesses, employ 45% of the private workforce, and generate 44% of U.S. GDP – yet, most lack modern, AI native tools to maintain high touch customer relationships at scale.
• Titan Cloud to acquire Urgent and Techniche EV from Techniche Limited
  Titan Cloud plans to acquire Urgent and Techniche EV, maintenance software solutions from Techniche Limited, as part of its strategy to expand its AI-driven energy asset optimisation platform. The deal, expected to close in early Q4 2025, will extend Titan Cloud’s coverage beyond fuel assets to include site equipment and EV infrastructure. The acquisition aims to strengthen Titan Cloud’s global maintenance capabilities and broaden its customer base amid growing digitalisation, tighter regulations and the shift to alternative energy.
• BlastPoint raises $10.6mn for AI-driven customer intelligence growth
  BlastPoint, a U.S.-based AI customer intelligence platform, has raised USD 10.6mn in growth funding led by MissionOG, with participation from Curql Fund, Michigan Capital Network and existing investors. The funding will support the further development and deployment of BlastPoint’s predictive technology, which the company said is auditable for equity, avoids hallucination, and uses only permission-granted data. BlastPoint also plans to expand solutions that help customers facing payment difficulties access assistance programmes such as income-based billing and balance forgiveness.
• Increase Alpha raises $3.5mn to launch predictive AI platform for hedge funds
  Increase Alpha, a U.S.-based fintech startup founded by former government AI policy adviser Sid Ghatak, has raised USD 3.5mn in seed funding to launch its predictive signal engine for hedge funds and institutional investors. The round was led by Bartt Kellermann, CEO of Battle of the Quants. Proceeds from the round will support product rollout and client onboarding as the company targets wider adoption among hedge funds and institutional investors. Increase Alpha said its Predictive AI platform does not use large language model technology and was purpose-built for financial markets. Trained on public and compliant data, it generates institutional-grade predictions while avoiding hallucination, hindsight bias and other data distortions common in backtesting.
• Energy Robotics raises $13.5mn Series A to scale AI-powered inspection platform
  Germany-based Energy Robotics has raised USD 13.5mn in Series A funding to expand the deployment of its AI and robotics platform for autonomous industrial inspections. The round was co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment, with participation from Futury Capital, Hessen Capital, Kensho VC and TADTech. The funding will accelerate commercial rollout across energy, chemicals, industrial and security sectors. Energy Robotics said its technology reduces operational costs by up to forty percent while improving worker safety and reliability by enabling robots and drones to handle inspection, thermal imaging and leak detection tasks in hazardous environments.

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