Mirror Security picked up USD 2.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures and Atlantic Bridge. Some strategic angel investors joined in too. The funds will go toward adding people to engineering and AI security teams in Ireland, the US, and India. They will also help move faster on encrypted inferencing and secure fine-tuning products. Part of it will push sales in US enterprise markets.

Pankaj Thapa, co-founder and CEO, said AI is changing work and industries but loose data can slow things down. Their VectaX tool keeps data locked even when AI uses it, with hard math proof instead of just promises. He said the goal is to make a trust base for AI and give companies and governments a safe way to build with it.

Barry Downes from Sure Valley Ventures said Mirror is making an encryption layer for AI. It brings a new way to guard data in AI setups.

Weili Wang from Atlantic Bridge said data safety is a big roadblock for AI. Mirror’s FHE tech offers a clean fix for secure AI without cuts.

Mirror Security is a cybersecurity firm spun out from University College Dublin. It works on keeping data safe during AI training and use with fully homomorphic encryption. The company has people in Pune, India, and Dublin, Ireland, plus the US.

Aikido has raised $60 million in a Series B round, pushing its valuation to $1 billion just three years after launch. The round was led by DST Global, with participation from PSG Equity, Singular, and Notion Capital, along with several new and existing backers.

Founded by former developers, Aikido builds security software aimed at engineering teams rather than compliance teams. The company says most security tools slow developers down and flood them with alerts that don’t matter.

Aikido’s platform pulls code, cloud, runtime, and supply chain security into one place. Instead of just flagging issues, it also helps teams fix them faster by adding context and automated remediation.

Over the past year, the company says revenue grew five times and its customer base more than tripled. Aikido is now used by over 100,000 teams worldwide, including the Premier League, SoundCloud, Niantic, and Revolut.

The company recently launched an AI-driven penetration testing product that runs simulated attacks using autonomous agents. The goal is to test and fix security issues continuously, without slowing down product releases.

Aikido employs around 180 people and ships product updates multiple times a day. The company says it plans to keep building toward software that can secure itself as code is written and deployed.

Zynap closed EUR 6 million in a Seed extension. The cash came from existing investors Kibo Ventures and Kfund who added to their stakes. The money will help push forward AI-based threat modeling and automated analysis. It will also go to product work, growing the team, and reaching more customers in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Zynap makes an AI-driven platform for preventive cybersecurity. The software spots potential threats early and helps stop them before they get worse. The company is based in Barcelona and was founded in 2024.

Google has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, a fast-growing cloud security company based in New York, for USD 32 billion in an all-cash transaction. Once the deal closes, Wiz will become part of Google Cloud.

The acquisition shows Google Cloud’s growing focus on cloud security and multicloud use, especially as artificial intelligence changes how companies build and protect software. Google said security risks are rising as more data and systems move to the cloud.

Wiz is known for its simple security platform that connects across major cloud providers and code environments. It helps companies spot and fix risks before they turn into serious breaches. Wiz serves a wide range of customers, from startups to large enterprises and government bodies.

Google Cloud said bringing Wiz into its ecosystem will help customers design and manage security in a more automated way. The goal is to reduce costs, ease pressure on security teams, and respond faster to new threats linked to AI.

Wiz will continue to support all major cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Google Cloud said customers will still have freedom to choose tools from different partners through its marketplace.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said the deal builds on Google’s long history in online security and responds to growing demand for stronger protection and more choice in cloud providers. Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said the partnership will give Wiz more resources and deep AI expertise while keeping its mission focused on preventing breaches.

The deal is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

SimpleClosure, founded in 2023, has raised just over $20 million from investors including Infinity Ventures, TTV Capital, Anthemis, The LegalTech Fund, and Carta. The company's founder and CEO, Dori Yona, came up with the concept after experiencing the complexity of shutting down a company.

SimpleClosure is expanding its vision with the launch of Asset Hub, a marketplace designed to help founders recover value from their assets, such as source code, operational data, domain names, and equipment.

According to Yona, the company has seen strong year-over-year growth in startup shutdown activity, with 2.6x more companies closing in Q1 2026 compared to Q1 2025. The Asset Hub aims to capture the value of these assets, which often evaporate during the shutdown process.

X-energy has raised over $1 billion in capital investment through its IPO and a simultaneous private investment.

This funding will be used to hasten the placement of its Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors as the world searches for clean, sustainable baseload power.

The Xe-100 reactor utilises "pebbles", graphite spheres containing thousands of "TRISO" particles, which are essentially indestructible and capable of withstanding high temperatures.

X-energy intends to use the proceeds to fund the final stages of licensing, supply chain development, and the construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility.

The company is currently managing a pipeline of over 11 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity through various commercial partnerships, including a project with Dow Inc. to provide high-temperature steam and power for industrial processes.

Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding. Congruent Ventures led the raise, which included participation from First In, Overline, Bull City Venture Partners, and St. Elmo Venture Capital.

The idea for Cloneable traces back to a bottleneck its founders encountered years earlier while working in the field. The startup's founders realized that heavy industries face a “knowledge crisis” as experienced workers retire faster than they can be replaced.

Cloneable aims to capture and preserve that kind of institutional knowledge. The funding will also support expansion into infrastructure-heavy industries such as public utilities, vegetation management, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.

The company claims that a process that typically takes a human engineer eight hours can be completed by a Cloneable agent in under two minutes.