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EvoluteIQ, which offers a low-code AI platform for companies to design, deploy, and scale business processes, raised $53M led by Baird Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/17/evoluteiq-raises-53m-led-by-baird-capi…

EvoluteIQ raises $53M led by Baird Capital to scale its agentic AI platform
EvoluteIQ, a native AI platform, secured $53 million in minority growth capital from Baird Capital to accelerate global expansion and strengthen its leadership in enterprise-grade agentic AI automation. Baird Capital’s Daina Spedding and Mark Donnelly will join the EvoluteIQ Board of Directors.Founded in 2019, EvoluteIQ develops the EIQ platform for automating complex business processes. Built on its Agentic Mesh Architecture (aMa) and an AI Workbench, EIQ orchestrates end-to-end workflo…

Bengaluru-based FinBox, which provides B2B digital lending infrastructure, risk intelligence, and orchestration tools, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…

Digital credit infra startup FinBox raises $40 million from WestBridge Capital, others
FinBox, a digital credit infrastructure platform, secured $40 million in a funding round led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from A91 Partners and Aditya Birla Ventures. The company intends to utilise the funds to develop AI-driven solutions and expand its product offerings. Founded in 2017, FinBox enables enterprises and financial institutions to integrate financial services into their ecosystems.

Fairfax County expands its bikeshare network to 94 stations, with more to come. While Montgomery County has been shrinking its 77-station network, despite having urbanized areas more conducive to bikeshare use than anywhere in Fairfax. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/08/08/capit…

Capital Bikeshare expands to Herndon area, Huntington Metro station | FFXnow

Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate
ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding
as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier
started to flow downstream toward the capital city.
Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone
to be ready to evacuate.
On Tuesday morning they confirmed water had started escaping the ice dam,
with flooding expected into late Wednesday.
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Punchbowl News plans to launch weekly YouTube show Fly Out Day, aiming to be a "modern political show that is very in the moment" with "sharp interviews" (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/punchbowl-news-ex…

Punchbowl News expands to video
The Capitol publication is launching a weekly YouTube show called “Fly Out Day.”

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
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Foundation EGI, an "engineering general intelligence" startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/10/fo

A profile of 6-year-old Ramp, which has grown to a $22.5B valuation as it expanded beyond corporate cards to tools for expense reporting, bill payment, and more (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/ramp-american-express-corp…

Ramp is taking aim at American Express by upending corporate credit cards. Can the $22.5 billion startup live up to the hype?
With $1 billion in revenue, Ramp has grown at hyperspeed amid the AI boom and corner-office financial anxiety.

Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure for financial institutions on Ethereum, raised $40M in a round co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/09/03/etherealize-vi…

Exclusive: Etherealize raises $40 million to expand Wall Street’s use of Ethereum
Electric Capital and Paradigm led the round, which builds on an earlier grant from Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation.

The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/03/telegram-…

Exclusive: Telegram blockchain startup TOP raises $28.5 million as messaging platform expands crypto footprint
Ribbit Capital led the Series A fundraise, with participation from Pantera Capital.