Alta AI raises Series A, Horizon Trade launches agentic platform, a new episode of AI-Native podcast, and more...

Last month, we argued that AI’s biggest battleground was shifting from raw capability to efficiency. This month, that picture became more geopolitical…

Chinese labs are advancing on two different fronts. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a one-million-token context window, and independent testing places it alongside several leading proprietary models on a range of reasoning and agentic tasks. DeepSeek’s V4 Pro and Flash models combine competitive performance with first-party API prices that remain substantially below those of leading U.S. frontier models.

At the same time, policy is making model choice more strategic. The U.S. continues to restrict exports of advanced computing hardware to certain Chinese entities and China-linked recipients. China is reportedly considering restrictions on overseas access to its most advanced AI models and model weights, but no final measures have been announced.

Our take for founders: model selection is becoming part of infrastructure strategy. The decision now touches cost, performance, deployment options, customer procurement, compliance exposure, and the ability to switch providers if the economics or regulatory environment change.

Alta announced its $25M Series A to redefine the Go-to-Market architecture for revenue teams.

Over the last year, Alta built a "Company Brain" that maps how a business's entire GTM engine works, then lets a coordinated network of agents run on top of the stack teams already use. Today, Alta is already running GTM for Snowflake, Deel, Atlassian, and Atoms, at a $15M run rate on its way to $30M by year end!

We are excited to lead Horizon’s pre-seed financing as it launches its agentic platform which will revolutionize market strategies for professional and day traders investing in equities and crypto stocks, options and more.

Horizon Trade abstracts the complexity of systematic trading so that investors and a professionals can build, back test and stress test any market strategy just by typing a few sentences. These strategies can then be actioned by a press of a button across multiple exchanges and brokers with automated execution.

Empathy was recognized as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Life Insurance, 2026, within the Bereavement and Estate Management Solutions category. Empathy now serves more than 50 million policyholders across North America and the U.K. through its platform.

AIR unveiled its most advanced personal eVTOL aircraft, “AIR ONE,” built specifically to support piloted flight testing planned for later this year. CEO Rani Plaut walked the crowd through the foldable eVTOL's design and the thinking behind it: a 115-knot cruise, roughly an hour of flight time, and wings that fold down to fit a standard parking space.

On Episode 2 (Hebrew), we took a deep look at Harvey AI, the pioneer in the Vertical AI world that holds an impressive $11B valuation.
Here is some of what we covered: