Freshworks

Layoffs · Americas

Major tech and financial services companies (Amazon, Block, Cisco, Cloudflare, Meta, IBM, Google) are announcing significant workforce reductions (10-40%) driven by AI infrastructure investment and AI replacement initiatives. Tech sector has seen 37,638 job cuts year-to-date, with 47.9% attributed to AI strategy.

Partnership · Americas

The Corcoran Group, a luxury real estate firm, partnered with AI-based startup mktg.ai to analyze ad performance and reduce ad waste through AI-driven creative and performance insights.

Strategic Hiring · Americas

Tailscale appointed Mike Shaver as Vice President of Engineering. Shaver brings experience from Facebook, Fastly, Mozilla, and Shopify to guide the company through scaling, with focus on making the platform frictionless for AI agents and humans while maintaining security and performance.

Capital Raising · Americas

Prosper AI raised $30m in Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Base10, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, and Company Ventures. The AI platform coordinates patient scheduling, insurance verification, and billing across 150,000+ healthcare providers.

Partnership · Americas

Observe.AI announced a collaboration with DoorDash and AWS to scale AI-driven customer experience optimization across 19,000 agents, delivering nearly 100% automated quality coverage with real-time behavioral analysis.

Capital Raising · Americas

Emergent, a vibe-coding (AI-powered code generation) startup founded in 2025, has raised $100 million as of January 2026. The company is experiencing exponential growth and the CEO is speaking publicly about hiring and scaling.