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Empirik launched as an independent company with $21M in seed funding, offering an autonomous infrastructure engineer that predicts outages before they occur. It targets infrastructure leaders and SREs, with early customers including Guardant Health.
Keenable emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding, claiming a web search index of over 100 billion documents and production API usage by undisclosed AI labs and inference providers.
Starcloud has extended its March Series A with an additional $250 million, valuing the company at $2.3 billion, to advance orbital AI data centers. It plans to launch its first 8 kW compute satellites in 2027, but has not yet secured launch contracts for its larger Starship missions.
Router by Ramp has launched, offering AI developers a single API endpoint that routes requests to the lowest-cost model meeting performance thresholds, backed by Ramp's financial visibility.
Bloomberg reports Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, potentially reshaping AI model access. The deal is not officially confirmed.