Upwind Closes $400M to Scale Cloud AI Security
Upwind closed its $400M Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners to scale its real-time cloud and AI security platform for enterprises.
- Amount
- $400M
- Valuation
- $3.8B
- Led by
- Bessemer Venture Partners
AIPressRoom — the AI industry, on the record
Interview·No. 84Vlad Gozman on Incentive Design and AI Discipline
Interview·No. 85Tobias Antonsson on the Constraints Shaping Micro-Robotics
Funding·GrantCaravel Bio Wins $1.25M Grant to Expand Protein Engineering
Funding·Series AGeneral Compute Lands $100M to Build Neocloud
Funding·Series AHyphenate Raises $45M to Scale Autonomous Finance
Funding·SeedMachenta Raises $40M to Train Robots in Simulation
Interviews
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Chuck Lee
On bringing AI Humans Into Real-World Interaction
Fangzheng Wang
On the Constraints Shaping Hybrid Robotics
Asad Tirmizi
On why Factories Are Moving from Programs to Models
Ryan Saavedra
On why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability
Christian Duriez
On the Constraints Shaping Soft Robotics
Julius Kümmerle
On why Autonomous Driving Still Needs Boundaries
Fabio Bonomo
On why Robotic Hands Break at Durability
Marco Prata
On why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability
Rich Walker
On the Trade-Offs Shaping Robot Dexterity
Sicheng Yang
On why Embodied AI Breaks at the Hand
Funding
$13.6B across 196 verified rounds in October
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$30MHyperbolic Raises $30M to Build Global Compute Grid
$28.5MVera Health Raises $28.5M to Scale Clinical AI Search
$14MSimplismart Secures $14M to Optimize AI Inference
$12.5MAtlas Bio Raises $12.5M to De-risk Drug Development
$10MKivo Health Closes $10M to Expand Virtual COPD Care
$10MOmnichat Raises $10M to Scale AI Agents
$6.5MLette Raises $6.5M to Expand UK Operations
€4.48MQuerio Secures €4.48M to Unify AI Analytics
More rounds·Oct 28–29
- $100MFoundry Robotics Closes $100M to Expand Autonomous Manufacturing
- $20MRendezvous Robotics Closes $20M to Develop Modular Spacecraft
- $16MPlato Raises $16M to Build AI Simulations
- $12.5MAmerican Advanced Materials Raises $12.5M to Restore Critical Materials Production
- $10.5MBlue Arbor Secures $10.5M to Advance Prosthetic Control
- $45MCoherence Neuro Raises $45M to Develop Cancer Treatment
- $40MInfisical Raises $40M to Expand AI Agent Security
- $30MAvante Raises $30M to Expand AI Benefits Platform
Intelligence
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StepFun releases STEPX Neo agent phone for about $600
Bundling models, an operating system, and monthly tokens into a phone turns consumer hardware into StepFun's distribution layer. - Models & Infrastructure
REA passes 110,000 GitHub stars linking models to decompilers
The tool shows that standardized agent interfaces can automate static binary reconstruction, but its effectiveness remains bounded because it cannot parse virtualized code or conduct dynamic debugging. - Consumer
Utopai ranks second globally using post-trained MiniMax model
Domain-specific post-training can push an open-source base model past dedicated foundation labs on standard video benchmarks. - Models & Infrastructure
StartLux open-sources decision models outscoring Jev on benchmark index
Local decision weights shift agent routing from proprietary cloud APIs directly onto client machines.
Events
32 in the next 30 days
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webinale Munich 2026
- Oct 26–30
International PHP Conference Munich 2026
- Oct 26–30
International JavaScript Conference Munich 2026
- Oct 27–29
ODSC AI West 2026
- Oct 28–29
Conversational AI & Customer Experience Summit 2026
- Oct 29
J On The Beach 2026
- Nov 1
AI Expo Europe 2026
- Nov 2–6
FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026
- Nov 2–6
W-JAX 2026