Today Eon announced 3 funding rounds for its next-generation cloud backup solution. Vine Ventures seeded the team at their founding in Jan ‘24, alongside Sequoia, in a $20M round. Subsequently, Lightspeed led a $30M Series A and Greenoaks led a $77M Series B.

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Maven Robotics launches with $100 million in Series A funding to scale its industrial robot business. Its robots operate autonomously across multiple shifts at a Fortune 250 consumer packaged goods company, with up to eight deployed and reported uptime of at least 99% during 16-hour workdays; the system uses two vacuum-gripper arms and a wheeled base. The funding supports 250 third-generation robots and early design work on a fourth as Maven expands from palletizing into material handling and assembly.

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Wonderful AI BV raises $550 million in a Series C round at a $5 billion valuation to expand its enterprise AI agent platform. Insight Partners leads the round, joined by Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer. The Amsterdam-based company offers agent-building tools, an AI Gateway that routes requests to suitable language models, and professional services; it plans to accelerate product development and expand its international forward-deployed engineering teams.

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Wonderful raises $550 million in a Series C at a $5 billion valuation, more than doubling its $2 billion valuation from nearly six months earlier. Insight Partners leads the round, existing investors participate, and Salesforce invests for the first time. The Israeli-Dutch startup says it operates in more than 35 countries and now offers Wonderful AI OS, a platform for coordinating agents, workflows, and AI applications with company data and existing integrations.

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Qodo raises a $40 million Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg to expand its quality-focused code generation and testing platform. Its tools include IDE extensions, a Git agent supporting GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, and code review and test-generation services. The company says more than 1 million developers have tried its products, Fortune 100 companies use its enterprise platform, and the round brings its total funding to $50 million.

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