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Boston-based Maven, which builds autonomous AI agents for enterprises' customer support, raised a $50M Series B led by Dell, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw…

Exclusive: Maven AGI raises $50M Series B
The Series B was led by Dell Technologies Capital.

Kodezi Chronos: A Debugging-First Language Model for Repository-Scale, Memory-Driven Code Understanding
Ishraq Khan, Assad Chowdary, Sharoz Haseeb, Urvish Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12482

Kodezi Chronos: A Debugging-First Language Model for Repository-Scale, Memory-Driven Code Understanding
Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced code generation and software automation, but are fundamentally constrained by limited inference-time context and lack of explicit code structure reasoning. We introduce Kodezi Chronos, a next-generation architecture for autonomous code understanding, debugging, and maintenance, designed to operate across ultra-long contexts comprising entire codebases, histories, and documentation, all without fixed window limits. Kodezi Chronos leverages a multi-level…

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Seyed Ali Akhavani, Behzad Ousat, Amin Kharraz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12995

Open Source, Open Threats? Investigating Security Challenges in Open-Source Software
Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to increased exposure to vulnerabilities and attack surfaces. This paper investigates the trends and patterns of reported vulnerabilities within OSS platforms, focusing on the implications of these findings for security practices. To understand the dynamics of OS…

Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/saas-ai-scheduling-startup-boule…

Salon Software Platform Boulevard Nearly Doubles Valuation To $800M With $80M Series D
Los Angeles-based Boulevard, a business management software platform for self-care businesses, has raised $80 million in Series D funding led by JMI Equity, the company announced on Thursday.

A Conceptual Framework for Requirements Engineering of Pretrained-Model-Enabled Systems
Dongming Jin, Zhi Jin, Linyu Li, Xiaohong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13095

A Conceptual Framework for Requirements Engineering of Pretrained-Model-Enabled Systems
Recent advances in large pretrained models have led to their widespread integration as core components in modern software systems. The trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Unlike traditional software systems governed by deterministic logic, systems powered by pretrained models exhibit distinctive and emergent characteristics, such as ambiguous capability boundaries, context-dependent behavior, and continuous evolution. These properties fundamentally challenge long-standing a…

Israeli subterranean mapping startup Exodigo raised a $96M Series B led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners, taking its total funding to $214M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/16/investors-dig-75m-fundi…

Investors dig up $96M in funding for underground intelligence startup Exodigo - SiliconANGLE
Investors dig up $96M in funding for underground intelligence startup Exodigo - SiliconANGLE

Large Language Models for Unit Testing: A Systematic Literature Review
Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Siqi Gu, Ye Shang, Zhenyu Chen, Liang Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15227

Large Language Models for Unit Testing: A Systematic Literature Review
Unit testing is a fundamental practice in modern software engineering, with the aim of ensuring the correctness, maintainability, and reliability of individual software components. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), a rapidly growing body of research has leveraged LLMs to automate various unit testing tasks, demonstrating remarkable performance and significantly reducing manual effort. However, due to ongoing explorations in the LLM-based unit testing field, it is…

Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra

Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Guardz locks up $56M Series B for cybersecurity
The new round brings Guardz's total funding to $84 million in just more than two years.

Saudi startup Lucidya, which develops customer experience software, raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46, marking the largest AI funding round in the kingdom (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20