Today Graphite is joining forces with Cursor to build the ultimate engineering platform for the AI era.
When we first partnered with Merrill, Tomas, and Greg, we saw a massive opportunity to re-imagine code collaboration, starting with review. Code review’s core primitives had not been re-thought for decades, and the pressure on this “outer loop” was made obvious as AI increased code volume tenfold. Graphite was tackling these problems head-on with infrastructure that supported the fastest-moving engineering organizations at scale.
Similarly, our conviction in Cursor came from the belief that owning the core flywheel of code generation would be the richest source of intent and context for downstream workflows. We believed this “inner loop” would continue to compound, evolving from a mere text editor to an AI-native operating system engineers would live in every day.
Fast forward to today, and these theses have converged. Code generation and review are rapidly blending together, and collaboration is becoming fluid across teams of humans and agents.
The refrain we now hear from engineering leaders is simple: the “inner loop” and “outer loop” should be connected.The ultimate software engineering platform will combine the raw horsepower of code generation with the reliability, contextual understanding, and collaboration of a code review platform. This combination is exactly what Graphite and Cursor make possible together.
From our time working with both teams, we see a lot of shared DNA: distinctive product taste, exceptional talent density across New York and San Francisco, and a relentless commitment to building tools developers absolutely love. Together, these qualities form a uniquely powerful foundation that is hard to replicate, and even harder to beat.
Congratulations to the entire Graphite team on this milestone. We couldn’t be more excited to continue to partner and build the platform to define engineering in the years to come.
Boston, MA – December 19, 2025:HBox (“HBox” or the “Company”), a leading virtual care platform for specialty practices, announced that it has received a growth investment from Charlesbank’s Technology Opportunities Fund (“TOF”) II. Amid rising chronic disease prevalence, expanding reimbursement for outcome-focused virtual care and innovative new ways for treating patients between visits, specialty practices are seeking scalable ways to extend treatment beyond the clinic. Charlesbank’s investment provides capital to help HBox advance key initiatives, including expanding its virtual care capabilities, furthering its mission to transform care delivery for patients with high-risk chronic conditions, and positioning itself as the virtual care partner to the specialty practice of the future. The transaction closed on December 17, 2025.
HBox is led by BanuPrasad Dhanakoti (Chief Executive Officer), Sandeep Subramanya (Chief Operating Officer) and Mohammed Ali (Chief Revenue Officer), who co-founded the Company. HBox delivers an integrated, AI-powered virtual care platform that leverages connected medical devices, next-generation patient-engagement tools and care services that create a virtual clinic within a clinic, enabling cardiology, pulmonology, nephrology and other specialty clinics to continue care seamlessly outside of in-person care settings. HBox aggregates real-time vitals, patient actions and clinical documentation into a unified system that allows physicians to efficiently manage large chronic populations while maintaining high-touch patient care.
“Today marks an important step forward for HBox and for the patients and clinicians we support,” said Banu Dhanakoti. “For cardiac patients in particular, timely monitoring and personalized care plans can help prevent hospitalizations and provide families with greater confidence in day-to-day condition management. With Charlesbank’s TOF team behind us, we can continue strengthening our offering and advancing a virtual care model that seeks to bring the cardiology clinic of the future into today’s specialty practices – enhancing quality and continuity of care without adding burden to clinics.”
Since its founding, HBox has delivered a fast pace of innovation and high service quality to customers, resulting in rapid customer growth and high patient compliance rates. Today, HBox is a mission-critical partner to independent specialty practices across the country.
“Preventative, virtual and continuous care is the future of healthcare for both improving outcomes and managing costs,” said Michael Zirngibl, Principal at Charlesbank. “We are excited to back Banu, Sandeep, Mo and the team as they continue to expand HBox’s innovative virtual ‘clinic within a clinic’ offering.”
“Remote monitoring and virtual care are becoming standard in many specialties, yet most practices lack the technology and staff to run these programs on their own,” added Hiren Mankodi, Co-Head of Charlesbank’s Technology Opportunities team. “HBox’s combination of software, services and specialty focus positions the Company to be that infrastructure at scale.”
Kaizen Equity Partners served as exclusive financial advisor to HBox, with K&L Gates serving as its counsel. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company served as financial advisor to Charlesbank, with Mintz and McDermott Will & Schulte as counsel.
Chai Discovery, the AI company that predicts and reprograms the interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced its $130 million Series B financing round co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst. This round of financing values the company at $1.3 billion.
The news comes on the heels of Chai’s most recent announcement, where the company showed their latest models can now design molecules with important “developability” properties and tackle “hard-to-drug” targets that have historically been challenging for traditional techniques.
The round also comes just months after Chai Discovery announced a $70 million Series A and revealed Chai 2, the first zero-shot generative platform that achieves double digit experimental success rates in de novo antibody design – a 100-fold improvement over previous computational methods.
“We’re standing on the precipice of a new era for the biopharmaceutical industry,” said Josh Meier, co-founder and CEO of Chai Discovery. “We’re in awe of the rate of progress on the models – what looked like five-year problems just months ago are now getting solved in weeks. Our latest models can design molecules that have properties we’d want from actual drugs, and tackle challenging targets that have been out of reach. These models will unleash a new wave of first-in-class and best-in-class therapeutics, and the early adopters in pharma will be the big winners.”
The fundraise was co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst, with participation from Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Dimension, Menlo Ventures, Lachy Groom, Yosemite, Neo, and SV Angel. New investors Emerson Collective and Glade Brook also joined the round.
“We believe biology is becoming programmable, rewiring what was once an empirical art into an engineered discipline,” said Elena Viboch, Managing Director at General Catalyst. “Chai’s team is leading this transformation – advancing the technical frontier and expanding what’s possible in therapeutics.”
By converting what has traditionally been a lengthy iteration cycle into a computational process, Chai can materially compress the time to first-in-human studies, tackle hard to drug and “undruggable” targets, and accelerate the overall time to commercialization.
“Nowhere is AI transformation more needed than in drug development – the process is slow, expensive, and imprecise,” said Annie Lamont, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT. “It can take over a decade and cost upwards of a billion dollars to bring a medicine from bench to bedside. The Chai Discovery team is rewriting that story, fusing world-class AI and biological expertise to dramatically accelerate how medicines are discovered. We’re thrilled to support them as they push the boundaries of what’s possible in this field.”
The company will use the funding to accelerate research and product development, and expand commercialization efforts as they continue to execute on the vision of building a “computer-aided design suite” for molecules.
The Series B round brings Chai’s total funding to more than $225 million. As part of the fundraise, Annie Lamont from Oak HC/FT and Hemant Taneja from General Catalyst will be joining the board.
Chai Discovery builds frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules, the fundamental building blocks of life. Its mission is to transform biology from science into engineering. The team hails from pioneering research and applied AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta FAIR, Stripe, and Google X, and is backed by top investors including OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Menlo Ventures, and Dimension.
About Oak HC/FT
Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity firm specializing in investments in fintech and healthcare. Using partnership as a foundation, Oak HC/FT guides companies and founders at every stage, from seed to growth, to create businesses that make a measurable and lasting impact. Founded in 2014, Oak HC/FT has invested in more than 100 portfolio companies and has over $5.3 billion in assets under management. Oak HC/FT is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with an office in San Francisco, CA. Follow Oak HC/FT on LinkedIn and X and learn more at https://www.oakhcft.com/.
About General Catalyst
General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation company that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI.
We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond.
With offices in the U.S., Europe, and India, we have supported the growth of 800+ businesses, including Airbnb, Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Commure, Glean, Gusto, Helsing, Hubspot, Kayak, Livongo, Mistral, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Sword, and Zepto.
For more: www.generalcatalyst.com, @generalcatalyst
We’re proud to announce our support of Bobyard: as lead investors in their $35mm Series A and as partners pursuing an American building renaissance.
The building trades turn design into reality, are integral to our civilization, and remain vastly underserved by technology. The chart below tells the story: US labor productivity has nearly tripled since 1950, while construction has flatlined, and then declined. This creates a natural win-win opportunity: the trades need modern tools, and Silicon Valley needs meaningful, real-world missions.
Bobyard addresses a defining challenge of construction: adding intelligence to plans and drawings in order to build faster. This requires pushing the state of the art forward – clever applications of existing AI aren’t enough. Bobyard is a deep talent bet, conducting foundational computer vision research and solving problems not well-articulated in literature today.
Specifically, Bobyard brings previously unheard-of speed and accuracy to takeoff (calculating material, labor, and equipment quantities from project plans) and estimation (using those quantities to assign costs and create project bids). Drawings are the source of truth for every project, but they’re inconsistent & non-standard, hard to interpret, and prone to errors that compound as they pass from GCs to subs.
Conventional takeoff + estimation requires headcount, and takes hours, often days, to complete. For smaller firms, this means stretched employees juggling too many hats; for larger ones, it caps bid volume and growth. Bobyard resets the timeline by optimizing for what modern AI does best (counting materials; extracting structured information; synthesizing data into decisions) and what humans do best (coordinating with subs and GCs; high-end labor; customer relationships).
Bobyard’s first focus is commercial landscaping, one of the toughest trades for takeoff and estimation. These drawings are dense and non-standard: planting sheets can include thousands of shrubs across dozens of species, with arbitrary symbols that vary from project to project. Estimators have traditionally placed color-coded dots on each item by hand, tracing polygons for sod, mulch, and pavers, measuring irrigation lines, and plugging it all into spreadsheets.
Bobyard replaces that workflow entirely. Contractors upload a PDF, select a legend, run analysis, and receive takeoff quantities in seconds. Under the hood, the platform runs dozens of proprietary computer vision models simultaneously—symbol counting, linear measurement, area detection, text parsing—each built from scratch and optimized for construction drawings. First-run accuracy exceeds 95%+ and automates 90%+ of the task, with fast inference times. Results are displayed visually for instant review, editing, or adjustment, keeping users in control.
The platform also handles the full estimation workflow: material costs, labor, customizable templates, and flexible export formats. Historical costs, vendor quotes, and completed assemblies are stored and organized for easy querying, replacing the paper-chasing that’s long defined document management in the trades.
The results speak for themselves: Bobyard customers see a 50–70% reduction in takeoff time, submit 5x more bids per estimator, and unlock an average of $1.1 million in additional revenue per employee annually.
Customers like Chopper Landscaping project manager/estimator John Barrett immediately see fewer mistakes, more accurate quantities, and more consistent margins. These advantages add up quickly, helping contractors win more bids, prevent costly change orders, and increase revenue an average of 27%, with no additional headcount.
Bobyard has scaled to hundreds of customers, with thousands more in sight. Contractors stay because the product automates their most tedious work, slashes errors, and frees them to spend time where it matters: onsite and with clients. Superusers log 30+ hours a week on the platform, and Bobyard has become their core workspace.
From landscaping, Bobyard will expand to framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, drywall, and more. The playbook mirrors Bedrock, another 8VC investment: win the hardest problem first, then use that technical and operational edge to scale across verticals. Each new trade is a greenfield opportunity, and a chance to compound network effects between subs and GCs.
At 8VC, we’ve long believed that building well is a moral responsibility. “The world is broken. Let’s fix it” is both a practical and aesthetic commitment: elevated spaces and elevated ideals are inseparable. As people who’ve built homes, offices, and a university, we’ve wanted a platform like Bobyard for years. Early in the AI wave, we explored building something ourselves, but CV capabilities weren’t ready, and we hadn’t yet found the right leader.
Then we met Michael Ding: a mathematician, scholar of history, and one of the youngest students to complete Stanford’s advanced AI coursework. He obsesses over details that conceal enormous value, and he’s assembled a team of CV PhDs, top-tier engineers, and high-performing salespeople that rivals the best AI companies.
This funding will allow Michael and the Bobyard team to advance their models, deepen landscaping capabilities, and expand into new trades. What’s needed now is talent to match these ambitions. If you’re passionate about solving hard problems at the intersection of AI and the physical world, Bobyard is hiring in engineering, sales, and customer success. And if you’re a contractor ready to transform how you bid and build, you can see it for yourself.
By mastering the critical stages between design and dirt, Bobyard is helping to reverse a 70-year productivity decline, and proving that the trades and technology can move forward together.
KKR joined by Sixth Street Growth, TenEleven, and Carrick Capital as Principal Investors
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Saviynt, a leading identity security company, today announced a $700M Series B Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion. Funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm, led the round with participation from Sixth Street Growth and TenEleven, as well as new funding from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners. The multi-firm investment underscores a shared conviction that identity management is the foundational infrastructure for organizations deploying AI at scale.
Saviynt’s AI-powered platform manages, secures, and governs access for human, non-human, and AI agent identities across an organization’s applications, data, and infrastructure. By converging identity management and governance (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), application access governance (AAG), identity security posture management (ISPM), and access gateways across all types of identities, Saviynt simplifies compliance, reduces risk, and improves efficiency for companies moving to cloud and AI-driven infrastructure.
As enterprises adopt copilots, autonomous agents, MCP servers, and AI-driven workflows, the need for an AI-driven Identity Security platform that addresses all posture, lifecycle, access, and privilege use cases across these non-human identities and their interactions with human identities is foundational.
“This is a defining moment for Saviynt and the industry,” said Sachin Nayyar, Founder & CEO of Saviynt. “The demand for secure, governed identity has never been greater, and this growth investment gives us the resources to meet it head-on. We chose to strategically partner with KKR and Sixth Street Growth because they understand how central identity has become to enterprise AI strategies, and they have long track records of helping category leaders scale globally. We’re excited to work with them to accelerate innovation and bring identity security to every organization operating in the AI era.”
AI Has Accelerated Identity’s Scale Problem
Legacy identity and access management tools were designed for human users and static access patterns. Today’s enterprises must govern:
Employees and contractors
Machine identities and workloads
Service accounts, certificates, keys, secrets
Partners, contractors, and other supply chain identities
And now, AI agents that operate continuously and make real-time decisions
AI-generated identities are the newest and fastest-growing type of identity class, and the one with the greatest potential to reshape how work, productivity, and operations function across the enterprise.
Identity security provides AI the important guardrails it needs to deliver real value and control risk. This shift has transformed identity governance from a security and compliance function into a strategic requirement for AI adoption.
“Saviynt has built one of the most advanced and comprehensive identity security platforms in the market, purpose-built for the AI era,” said Ben Pederson, Managing Director at KKR. “The Company is redefining how organizations secure their digital ecosystems, and we look forward to strategically partnering with Sachin and the Saviynt team to help further scale their platform globally, advance their next-generation AI capabilities, and leverage KKR’s proven experience supporting leading cybersecurity businesses to accelerate growth and innovation.”
Saviynt’s Market Momentum
Saviynt’s growth reflects the rising urgency around governing human, machine, and AI-agent identities at scale. Recent events driving momentum include:
Expanded to 600+ global enterprise customers, representing more than 20% of Fortune 100 companies
Extended its platform, adding innovative new products for AI Agent Identity Management, Non-Human Identity Management, Privileged Access Management, and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)
Added AI-enabled intelligence across its core Identity platform, resulting in significant efficiency gains in application onboarding, access certification, access reviews, and provisioning / deprovisioning processes
Delivered significant integrations with major ecosystem players, including AWS, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Wiz, and Cyera
Capital to Accelerate Research & Development
The funding will be used as growth capital to increase, expand, and accelerate product development; generate additional AI-based utilities, methodologies, and programs that facilitate the migration from legacy solutions to Saviynt’s platform; and enable deeper integration with hyper-scalers, software/SaaS platforms, professional services firms, and value-added resellers.
New and Existing Investor Alignment Signals Category Definition
KKR’s investment builds on its extensive experience supporting leading businesses across the cybersecurity landscape, including identity and access management, threat detection, and security software. With a 20-year track record, KKR has backed category-defining cybersecurity platforms such as Darktrace, ReliaQuest, and KnowBe4, and has deep identity-security expertise through its work investing in and partnering with industry leaders like Ping Identity, ForgeRock, and Semperis. This breadth of experience, combined with KKR’s technical insight and industry relationships, provides strong validation of Saviynt’s platform and positions KKR to help the company scale its identity security offering globally. The investment will be made primarily through KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth Fund III.
Piper Sandler served as exclusive financial advisor to Saviynt, and Cooley LLP served as legal counsel to Saviynt. Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to Carrick Capital Partners. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal advisor to KKR & Co. Inc. Moelis & Co served as financial advisor to Sixth Street Growth, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to Sixth Street Growth.
About Saviynt
Saviynt’s AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organization’s applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI today. Saviynt is recognized as the leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions. For more information, please visit www.saviynt.com.
About KKR
KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries. For additional information about KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR), please visit KKR’s website at www.kkr.com. For additional information about Global Atlantic Financial Group, please visit Global Atlantic Financial Group’s website at www.globalatlantic.com.
About Sixth Street Growth
Sixth Street Growth makes investments in mid- and late-stage technology companies. Sixth Street Growth is the dedicated growth investing platform of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm with over $115 billion in assets under management and committed capital. Sixth Street has invested over $10 billion in more than 70 companies through its Growth franchise since inception. For more information, and additional disclosures, visit www.sixthstreet.com/growth, and follow Sixth Street on LinkedIn.
Utrecht/ Stockholm: Valcon, a leading European consultancy specialising in AI and data-driven business transformation, is pleased to announce it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Bricobomba, a Stockholm-based Swedish firm specialising in data and AI. The acquisition will significantly strengthen Valcon’s capabilities in the Nordics, enhancing its ability to deliver end-to-end data and AI-enabled transformation services across Europe.
Bricobomba, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Stockholm, brings deep expertise in data infrastructure, cloud-based platforms, business intelligence, data analytics and machine learning. Its ‘data platform framework’ supports cloud native architecture, spanning Azure, AWS and GCP and enables clients to build scalable, cost efficient and future proof data foundations.
With an established consulting base in Sweden, the integration of the Bricobomba team, technology and frameworks into Valcon’s broader data and AI capabilities will significantly expand the company’s offering in the Nordic region and bolster its pan European reach, to support its goal of accelerating growth across Europe.
The acquisition marks the first add-on since Rivean completed its controlling investment in Valcon in February 2025. Completion of the transaction is still subject to approval by competent authorities.
Geert van den Goor, CEO of Valcon commented: “This agreement marks an important milestone in Valcon’s strategic growth journey. By joining forces with Bricobomba, we are combining their sharp technical expertise and innovative cloud-native data platforms with Valcon’s proven track record in delivering enterprise-scale transformation. This union strengthens our ability to help organisations across Europe to build future proof, AI-ready data foundations and derive real business impact and value.”
Björn Leufstedt, CEO of Bricobomba commented: “We are very excited to become part of Valcon’s European organisation. Our team believes in delivering value add to clients, giving them the tools and knowledge they need to transform how they use data. Valcon’s scale, resources and ambition make it the right moment for us to take the next step, and we look forward to combining nimble Nordic innovation with pan-European delivery capability.”
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About Valcon
Valcon is a leading European consultancy specialising in AI and data-driven business transformation. A trusted partner for multiple European enterprises, Valcon’s 1700 skilled consultants are experts at connecting the critical links between strategy and operations, helping organisations create value in their transformation programmes. Valcon’s four core capabilities are data, AI, technology and consulting. Valcon’s clients include large organisations across multiple sectors, including financial services, retail, public sector, industrials and infrastructure. Valcon is backed by private equity firm, Rivean Capital. For more information, please visit: www.valcon.com
About Bricobomba
Bricobomba is a Stockholm-based AI and data consultancy, founded in 2019. With a growing team of 35 data professionals, Bricobomba specialises in data engineering, cloud data platform architecture, business intelligence, analytics and machine learning. Building end to end data solutions, Bricoboma focuses on helping clients unlock actionable insights and create value from their data. For more information please visit: https://www.bricobomba.se/en
Our portfolio company Orq.ai, a generative AI collaboration startup built for companies to model, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade AI applications, has raised €5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion.exe, with continued backing from Curiosity and other existing investors Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The round brings Orq.ai’s total funding to €7.3 million.
The investment marks a strong vote of confidence in Orq.ai’s mission to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents efficiently, maintain control over workflows and data, and scale across any infrastructure. With the launch of its new Agent Studio, Orq.ai now enables businesses to design agents in their own way, configuring behaviors, workflows, and decision rules while the platform handles the entire execution layer. Orq.ai already supports forward-thinking organizations across Europe and the US, including Afas, Moneybird Keyrus, and Helloprint, as they move from isolated experiments to operational AI systems running at scale.
With the new capital, Orq.ai will expand its 25-person team across engineering, enterprise sales, and customer success, while deepening its presence in key European markets and accelerating its North American growth. The round also introduces new strategic angels and advisors such as Sam Bourton, co-founder of QuantumBlack/McKinsey, Adriaan Mol, founder of Mollie, and Daniel Gebler, CTO of Picnic, who will support Orq.ai’s expansion into more advanced enterprise and data governance capabilities.
“Enterprises are no longer experimenting with AI for curiosity. They want to implement it fast, but most of them are stuck passing real systems into production. We believe Orq.ai is the solution for their needs, as it for us. it accelerates our development process daily and is even used by non-technical profiles. Orq.ai’s unified agent lifecycle platform shortens iteration time, reduces friction and brings stability to deploy agents at scale.” says Kevin Kuipers, Founding Partner of Galion.exe.
“AI agents are becoming a foundational layer of enterprise and B2B software, much like cloud infrastructure in the last technology cycle. Companies will need a reliable way to orchestrate, govern, and scale these agents across operations, and Orq.ai is building the platform that will enable that shift.“ says Alexander Kölpin, Managing Director, seed + speed Ventures.
The investment comes at a pivotal moment for enterprise AI. Despite growing interest, many companies remain stuck at the prototype stage due to fragmented tools and the lack of governance needed to operate AI reliably in production, a gap Orq.ai directly addresses. “Most companies can build a great demo. The real challenge is getting that demo into production without losing control over quality, compliance, or costs,” said Sohrab Hosseini, Co-founder of Orq.ai. “Orq.ai exists to close that gap.”
Once AI systems encounter real-world data, regulatory obligations, and operational complexity, performance and control often break down. Orq.ai provides a full enterprise control layer to manage, secure, and scale AI systems across teams and environments. It is the only platform that combines experimentation, evaluation, observability, AI gateway, governance, and agent runtime into a single environment.
“Leading enterprises have moved past AI experimentation. Their focus now is production,” said Herman Kienhuis from early investor Curiosity VC. “Orq.ai supports that transition by reducing iteration time, cutting operational friction, and giving engineering teams a stable foundation for scaling agents.”
With stricter requirements under the EU AI Act, GDPR, and broader data governance rules, European companies increasingly need AI systems that can run securely within their own infrastructure. Orq.ai’s infrastructure-agnostic design, spanning cloud, hybrid, and fully on-prem deployments, provides a practical path to meeting sovereignty and residency needs. US organizations benefit from the same flexibility, allowing easier integration with existing architectures and compliance frameworks.
Orq.ai’s unified platform includes an AI gateway with access to more than 300 models, built-in evaluation and monitoring, knowledge-base integration, and collaboration tools that reduce agent development time by 67% and free more than 10% of engineering capacity.
The funding coincides with a full rebrand and redesigned platform experience, reflecting Orq.ai’s evolution from a developer-focused tool into a comprehensive enterprise solution trusted across industries. More than 100 organizations now rely on Orq.ai as they operationalize AI at scale.
About Orq.ai
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Orq.ai is the enterprise control platform for the full AI agent lifecycle. The company’s Platform 4.0 enables organizations to experiment, evaluate, deploy, observe, and optimize AI agents through a unified interface that prioritizes safety, collaboration, and scalability. Orq.ai supports over 300+ LLM models and offers flexible deployment options, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises configurations, to meet enterprise data sovereignty requirements. The company serves forward-thinking enterprises and AI-native startups across Europe and the United States. For more information, visit orq.ai.
Boston, MA and London, UK – October, 28th, 2025, Indico Data, the leader in AI-powered automation for insurance operations, today announced a strategic investment from Aviva Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund for Aviva plc, one of the UK’s largest insurers. The investment reinforces Indico’s growing leadership in the London Market and its expanding adoption among global property and casualty carriers.
As part of the investment, Arslan Hannani, Chief Innovation Officer at Aviva, will join Indico’s Board of Directors as a Board Observer and Advisor.
“This partnership underscores the increasing demand for intelligent automation that transforms how insurers handle the critical ‘front door’ of their business, from submission ingestion to claims intake to policy servicing and beyond,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of Indico Data. “Aviva’s investment and Arslan’s participation on our board validate Indico’s vision for the agentic insurance enterprise and our mission to help carriers turn unstructured data into competitive advantage.”
Aviva Ventures invests in companies driving transformation across insurance and financial services through emerging technologies and new business models.
“Indico’s technology is reshaping how insurers operate by bringing AI deeper into core workflows,” said Arslan Hannani, Chief Innovation Officer at Aviva. “We’ve seen firsthand the impact Indico is having in streamlining operations and unlocking new efficiencies, particularly in complex markets like London and beyond. We’re excited to support its continued growth.”
This investment builds on Indico’s growing footprint among top global carriers, who leverage its Agentic AI platform to automate underwriting, claims, and operations processes that depend on unstructured data. Aviva’s investment follows a strategic investment from Guidewire earlier in 2025.
About Indico Data
Indico Data is the leading provider of AI solutions that automate complex insurance operations by transforming unstructured data into actionable insights. Trusted by leading carriers across North America and the London Market, Indico’s Agentic AI platform enables insurers to streamline underwriting, claims, and policy operations while improving accuracy, speed, and compliance.
www.indicodata.ai
About Aviva Ventures
Aviva Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund for Aviva plc, one of the UK’s leading insurance, wealth, and retirement businesses. Aviva Ventures invests in early- and growth-stage companies driving innovation across insurance, financial services, and sustainability. www.aviva.com
Boston, MA and London, UK – October, 28th, 2025, Indico Data, the leader in AI-powered automation for insurance operations, today announced a strategic investment from Aviva Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund for Aviva plc, one of the UK’s largest insurers. The investment reinforces Indico’s growing leadership in the London Market and its expanding adoption among global property and casualty carriers.
As part of the investment, Arslan Hannani, Chief Innovation Officer at Aviva, will join Indico’s Board of Directors as a Board Observer and Advisor.
“This partnership underscores the increasing demand for intelligent automation that transforms how insurers handle the critical ‘front door’ of their business, from submission ingestion to claims intake to policy servicing and beyond,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of Indico Data. “Aviva’s investment and Arslan’s participation on our board validate Indico’s vision for the agentic insurance enterprise and our mission to help carriers turn unstructured data into competitive advantage.”
Aviva Ventures invests in companies driving transformation across insurance and financial services through emerging technologies and new business models.
“Indico’s technology is reshaping how insurers operate by bringing AI deeper into core workflows,” said Arslan Hannani, Chief Innovation Officer at Aviva. “We’ve seen firsthand the impact Indico is having in streamlining operations and unlocking new efficiencies, particularly in complex markets like London and beyond. We’re excited to support its continued growth.”
This investment builds on Indico’s growing footprint among top global carriers, who leverage its Agentic AI platform to automate underwriting, claims, and operations processes that depend on unstructured data. Aviva’s investment follows a strategic investment from Guidewire earlier in 2025.
About Indico Data
Indico Data is the leading provider of AI solutions that automate complex insurance operations by transforming unstructured data into actionable insights. Trusted by leading carriers across North America and the London Market, Indico’s Agentic AI platform enables insurers to streamline underwriting, claims, and policy operations while improving accuracy, speed, and compliance.
www.indicodata.ai
About Aviva Ventures
Aviva Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund for Aviva plc, one of the UK’s leading insurance, wealth, and retirement businesses. Aviva Ventures invests in early- and growth-stage companies driving innovation across insurance, financial services, and sustainability. www.aviva.com
Acquisition empowers property managers with AI-powered rent analysis and smart pricing tools
ESTERO, FL—October 15, 2025 — Rentvine announced today that it has acquired RentFinder.ai, an AI-powered rent analysis platform that helps property managers and owners make faster, smarter pricing decisions.
The acquisition adds AI-powered rent intelligence and predictive pricing tools that analyze comps, trends, and lease performance. As a leader in AI innovation for residential property management, Rentvine will integrate RentFinder’s machine learning technology directly into its platform, to deliver smarter, real-time pricing insights exactly where property managers work.
“Rentvine’s commitment to building the most intelligent, AI-connected platform in the industry is now stronger with RentFinder,” said Dave Borden, CEO of Rentvine. “Bringing them into the Rentvine family aligns perfectly with our belief that property managers deserve real intelligence – not just information—and AI solutions exactly when and where they need it.”
Smarter leasing decisions, built into the platform
Property managers will soon be able to:
Instantly view market-aligned rent recommendations when creating or renewing leases
Analyze real-time pricing trends by unit type, location, and performance
Eliminate manual rent research with AI-sourced rental comps
Empower teams with tools that reduce vacancy loss and maximize NOI
These new capabilities will complement Rentvine’s existing end-to-end lifecycle automation, from lead to lease to renewal, streamlining operations for leasing teams while driving better outcomes for owners.
A continued focus on AI and innovation
The RentFinder acquisition builds on a series of AI-powered features, product rollouts, and strategic partnerships aimed at giving property managers more control, smarter insights, and less operational friction. By doubling down on artificial intelligence, Rentvine is helping property managers streamline decisions, improve accuracy, and scale with confidence.
“We built RentFinder to simplify and strengthen rent analysis for property managers,” said Charles Thompson, CEO of RentFinder. “We’re grateful to Rentvine for recognizing that vision and excited for them to lead the path forward. Our clients are in great hands with a company that shares our vision and commitment to AI-driven innovation.”
Key highlights
Rentvine acquires RentFinder.ai in October 2025
AI-driven pricing and rental comp tools will be embedded directly into Rentvine
Streamlines leasing workflows and improves pricing confidence for property managers
Part of Rentvine’s ongoing investment in smarter, more connected property management
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