🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-10
AI funding in search and security is growing, hinting at a likely convergence ahead.
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💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI in search and security continues but on a long enough timeline they will likely converge.
Techmeme: London-based Maze, which uses AI agents to stop cloud security breaches, launches with $31M in total funding, including a $25M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
By Chris Metinko / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington, taking its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in September 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
By Afshan Musani / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
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