San Francisco stories
AI trainer jobs are booming as NZ firms tap global talent, while startups abroad chase specialists and remote staff drift back to cities.
DNSFilter has launched CyberSight, a behaviour analytics tool adding full user activity visibility on web and SaaS beyond DNS blocks.
San Francisco startup Multiply raises USD $9.5m to power self-learning B2B ad campaigns across Google Search, LinkedIn and emerging AI formats.
RateGain and Juspay unveil RG Pay, an embedded payments layer to boost cross-border checkout performance for global travel brands.
BrightEdge launches AI tools to show brands how they appear in generative search answers and how AI agents crawl and interpret their sites.
Replit secures USD $400m funding, lifting its valuation to USD $9bn as it bets on AI coding agents and rapid global expansion.
Entrust unveils cloud-based cryptographic security platform to centralise key, certificate and secrets management across hybrid IT estates.
Unlimit appoints Irene Skrynova CEO of global payments to unify its processing, product and tech as it pivots to financial infrastructure.
DataBench and First Person team up on privacy-first digital IDs to prove users are human online without central biometrics or surveillance.
Airwallex hits USD $1bn in assets for its Yield product as it launches in the US, targeting SMEs seeking returns on operational cash.
Leaked Sama staff logins tied to stealer malware spark fresh alarm over security of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses video review pipeline.
Origami unveils a chat-based AI that builds sales lead lists from plain-English prompts, starting at USD $80 a month on flat pricing.
Diverse teams are reshaping the payments industry, turning personal insight into the hidden infrastructure behind global growth.
Legal AI firm Ivo opens London and New York offices and plans to triple headcount, after 600% annual recurring revenue growth.
Accel and Google's AI Futures Fund have picked five startups for the 2026 Atoms AI Cohort, each offered up to USD $2 million and compute.
Edinburgh fintech Legado nears 500,000 users as financial firms pour into digital document controls under rising regulatory scrutiny.
Vijil has unveiled a platform to test, monitor and adapt enterprise AI agents, aiming to harden them against attacks, failure and drift.
Airwallex launches Yield for US firms after topping USD $1bn in assets, offering instant-access treasury via a J.P. Morgan money market fund.
Fast-growing fintech Mercury seeks a US national bank charter to hold deposits and lend directly after scaling to 200,000 business customers.
Wilbe launches flexible life sciences lab hub in White City to tackle early-stage startup space crunch and back scientist founders.