Aragorn AI,, a Dallas-based HR technology startup, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by LiveOak Ventures, with participation from Dallas Venture Capital, bringing its total funding to $5.5 million. Founded in 2022 by siblings Ed and Gladys Adjei, the company is building a People Ops Operat

Helios has rebranded as Globalli and launched the world’s first-ever Global People Operating System (OS), designed to unify payroll, compliance, and HR across more than 125 countries. The platform integrates employees and contractors into one payroll core, supports multiple currencies—including

The Talent Studios has launched Determined People™, an agentic AI-enabled cognitive engine designed to transform recruitment into a precise, evidence-driven science. Built by veteran executive search consultants and technology teams across Israel and North America, the platform integrates decades

Valence, the company behind Nadia—the world’s first enterprise AI coach—has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. With deployments across Fortune 500 companies like Experian, Delta Air Lines, Kraft Heinz, and General Mills, Nadia has already facilitated over

Draup has launched Etter.ai, an agentic AI platform designed to help enterprises transform their workforce strategies. Built on Draup’s extensive global labor and market data, Etter decomposes job roles into individual tasks, classifying them as human, AI, or human+AI, and models their automation

RADICL, founded by workplace technology veterans Dan and Patrick Riley, has launched an AI-native platform designed to redefine how people and teams collaborate in the modern workplace. Unlike traditional top-down systems, RADICL takes a bottom-up approach to empower individuals, strengthen teams, a

Radancy, a global leader in talent acquisition software, has acquired myInterview to enhance its AI-powered Talent Acquisition Cloud. The integration adds recruiter and candidate AI agents designed to reduce manual work by 90%, cut hiring time by over 70%, and improve efficiency across the hiring pr

Brainbase Labs launched Kafka Workforce, an enterprise platform on AWS that lets companies onboard highly-specialized AI employees—in under an hour via natural language. Each AI worker has its own computer, persistent storage, browser, terminal, access to 1,000+ apps, and can be reached by email,

hireEZ appointed Dr. Tianlong Chen (UNC Chapel Hill) as Chief AI Scientist to lead the hireEZ AI Lab and accelerate its Agentic AI roadmap. Building on hireEZ’s early AI-sourcing work (since 2016) and its all-in-one platform, the new research group will convert cutting-edge work on reliable, effic

Darwinbox, a fast-growing AI-powered human capital management (HCM) platform, has secured US$40 million from Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), part of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The funding will accelerate the company’s North American expansion and advance its agentic AI innovations,