Profitmind has raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by Accenture Ventures to expand its AI platform, which helps retailers make smarter pricing and inventory decisions.

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Scottish EDGE returns for Round 27 with £3 million in funding for early-stage businesses and social enterprises, offering grants and loans up to £150,000, along with mentoring and support networks. The competition supports diverse categories including social enterprise, youth founders, circular economy, and creative ventures, all aimed at strengthening Scotland’s startup ecosystem.

Gushwork, an India-founded AI startup, has raised $9 million in a seed round to build AI-powered tools that help businesses capture customers from platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity by enhancing their visibility in AI-driven search channels. The company shifted its focus to AI-led marketing after observing strong demand for improved online discoverability amid growing competition from AI search tools.

Guidde has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG to scale its AI-powered digital adoption platform for global enterprises.

Trace, a new startup from Y Combinator’s 2025 summer cohort, raised $3M to solve enterprise AI agent adoption by providing context through workflow orchestration and knowledge graphs. It enables users to define high-level tasks and generates step-by-step workflows, delegating sub-tasks to AI agents with precise data prompts.

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Anthropic acquired Vercept, an AI startup known for developing cloud-based computer-use agents like Vy, which allowed remote operation of Apple MacBooks. The acquisition follows Anthropic’s earlier move to integrate coding tools and comes amid growing efforts to reimagine PCs through AI agents, with Vercept’s co-founders previously linked to Meta and the Allen Institute for AI.

CUDIS has launched a new health ring featuring an AI ‘coach’ that tracks user behaviors and provides personalized fitness programs, recovery protocols, supplement recommendations, and medical referrals. The device incentivizes healthy habits with a points system redeemable for discounts and offers insights into Pace of Aging based on tracked metrics.

Bumble has launched AI-powered tools to provide personalized feedback on user profiles, photos, and prompts to help foster authentic connections. The company also tests a non-AI feature, ‘Suggest a Date,’ to reduce friction in transitioning from online chats to real-life meetings.

Google has launched Nano Banana 2, an upgraded version of its image generation model that offers faster processing, higher realism, and support for complex prompts with up to 14 objects and five character consistency. It is now the default in Gemini’s Fast, Thinking, and Pro modes and supports resolutions from 512px to 4K.

Figma has partnered with OpenAI to integrate Codex, allowing users to seamlessly transition between design in Figma and coding in Codex using Figma’s MCP protocol. This enables engineers to iterate visually and designers to work closer to implementation without needing full coding expertise. The integration broadens access to AI-powered development tools across non-specialist teams.