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Agentic AI marks a new frontier in artificial intelligence, where autonomous agents not only process data but also make context-aware decisions across dynamic environments. These systems go beyond traditional AI by combining reasoning, planning, learning, and real-time adaptability. The process helps them to perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention. Agentic AI is now rapidly emerging as a transformative force across industries, from enterprise automation and digital assistants to software development, operations, and intelligent customer engagement.
This technological shift is also reflected in the investment landscape. Capital is increasingly flowing into startups and platforms building agent-based systems designed for real-world deployment. Investors are prioritizing companies that demonstrate practical use cases, robust infrastructure, and the ability to scale autonomous workflows within enterprise settings. The focus has shifted from experimentation and foundational research to scalable Agentic AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
The Agentic AI market has seen a shift in merger-and-acquisition dynamics, primarily driven by strategic transactions focused on acquiring proprietary agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, and domain-specific language models, as well as continued acqui-hires to acquire niche talent in reasoning systems, LLM integration, and AI-native orchestration. That said, the tenor of these M&A activities is changing, and growing areas of concern related to data governance, model interpretability, agent alignment, and compliance with evolving AI regulations are increasingly factors in the deal-making process.
In addition to the challenges of operating in an evolving Agentic AI market, understanding investment and M&A activity requires staying current on the technology architecture and regulatory environment surrounding Agentic AI as a concept and its interactions with other AI markets at the enterprise level.
And given the velocity of Agentic AI, much of success will depend on identifying and distinguishing high-value capabilities, alignment with changes in public policy, and navigating innovation to safeguard operational guardrails that require human oversight. Overall, Agentic AI is reshaping how work gets done, and at the same time, it is providing a new lens for investment priorities in an age of autonomous intelligence.
The following report captures the major mergers, acquisitions, and investments in Agentic AI through 2025, providing an overview of related dynamics, major strategic priorities, and emergent issue sets that will define the future of autonomous intelligence, particularly in terms of enterprise-grade usage of AI.
In 2025, agentic AI is fundamentally redefining the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape, ushering in a new era of deal-making. Agentic AI operates autonomously in sophisticated environments to reach specific goals. The emergence of agentic AI enhances deal sourcing, structuring, and closing with greater speed, greater accuracy, and improved risk management. Agentic AI is different from previous "static" AI because it can remember information, react to context, and complete multi-step tasks with limited human assistance. Agentic AI can be exceptionally useful for high-volume workflows like reviewing documents or integrating acquired companies post-merger.
The ongoing challenge to shorten the deal cycle provides another reason to embrace agentic AI as a critical competitive advantage. More than two-thirds of worldwide dealmakers plan to utilize AI tools in 2025, enhancing automation of M&A processes, including content summaries, risk reviews, and workflow support. In addition, the use of AI in M&A comes with challenges, such as data privacy, legal considerations, and AI error, which make human judgment necessary.
M&A activity will also shift toward acquiring agentic AI startups, usually pre-commercial transformations of intellectual property and the associated research capacities that comprise an asset. Successful acquisition of AI companies will require technical sophistication, interdisciplinary transactions, and strong attention to changing standards of ethics in AI. Ultimately, firms that strategically adopt agentic AI and align it with business goals will dominate the future M&A landscape.
The investment environment for agentic AI is at a pivotal inflection point, and capital increasingly views it as an industry-defining transformation rather than simply a next step along the innovation thread. According to reports from CB Insights, global AI funding jumped to a whopping $66.6 billion across 1,134 deals in Q1 2025, exceeding 2024 quarterly averages. During this investment wave, agentic AI platforms and multi-agent systems became targeted investments primarily for early-stage startups focused on developing orchestration layers, contextual reasoning engines, and specialized agents for regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and logistics.
Investors see value in the potential for agentic AI to replace traditional enterprise solutions, such as ERP, robotic process automation, and Software as a Service automation, with a framework for adaptive, proactive decision making. A mix of institutional investor participants, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate ventures, and strategic investors have shown enough conviction to participate alongside traditional venture investors, showing truly exceptional long-term sentiment. According to Stanford's AI Index 2025, US private investment in AI reached $109.1 billion for 2024, of which generative AI and agentic AI represented $33.9 billion globally, an 18.7% increase year-over-year and showing the continued rapid adoption cycle of this sector.
According to PitchBook's 2025 report, AI and machine learning startups secured a record-breaking $73.6 billion across 1,603 deals in Q1 2025, marking the highest quarterly total ever recorded by deal value. This surge also represented the most active quarter for deal volume since Q1 2024, reflecting growing investor confidence and momentum in the AI sector.
Horizontal AI platforms dominated funding by value, raising $50 billion across 426 deals, which accounted for nearly 70% of the total AI and ML investment. Meanwhile, vertical application startups led in deal volume, accounting for 1,025 transactions, about 60% of all deals, and totaling $19.2 billion.
Throughout 2025, the global technology landscape witnessed unprecedented M&A activity and funding rounds centered on agentic AI adoption. From January through October, strategic acquisitions, including ServiceNow's $2.85B purchase of Moveworks and NiCE's $955M acquisition of Cognigy, reshaped enterprise automation.
Simultaneously, emerging startups secured substantial funding: LangChain raised $125M, and AppZen raised $180M. These transactions spanned healthcare, cybersecurity, financial services, and customer experience sectors.
Major enterprises such as Microsoft, IBM, EY, and Infosys launched platforms that integrate autonomous AI agents. At the same time, venture capital invested heavily in startups building intelligent automation solutions, marking agentic AI's evolution into mission-critical infrastructure
In October 2025, leading technology and AI organizations fast-tracked agentic AI adoption with major acquisitions, funding, and flagship product launches across various industries such as healthcare, cloud, e-commerce, and automation. The key strategic partnership acquisitions are summarized below.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has acquired ListEngage, one of the premier Salesforce Summit partners. This acquisition brings great enhancement to TCS’s Salesforce capabilities, as over 100 highly-trained IT consultants with 400+ Salesforce certifications are now part of TCS. This aligns longitudinally with TCS’s increased focus on AI, Cloud, Cyber, Digital Engineering, and Enterprise Solutions, providing a force multiplier for inorganic growth in the company’s high-potential technology solution offerings.
Salesforce, a global cloud software company based in the U.S., acquired Apromore, which specializes in process intelligence software, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition enhances Salesforce's Agentforce platform with process intelligence capabilities, which improve enterprise process visibility, increase efficiency of automation, and enrich both agentic AI, process mining, and task-optimization capabilities in its AI-driven solutions.
OpenAI, an AI platform based in the U.S., launched its Agentic Commerce Protocol in partnership with Stripe. This initiative allows users to purchase directly from Etsy and Shopify merchants in chat, enhances e-commerce capabilities and customer engagement through AI, and establishes ChatGPT as a key player in agency commerce in both retail and digital payments.
IBM, a multinational technology company based in the U.S., made significant announcements at TechXchange 2025, including watsonx Orchestrate for agentic AI workflows, Project Infragraph for infrastructure observability, and Project Bob, an AI-first development environment. This strategic expansion enhances IBM’s AI orchestration, hybrid cloud integration, and enterprise automation capabilities, accelerating digital transformation globally.
In partnership with NVIDIA, Ernst & Young (EY), a global professional services firm located in the UK, launched the EY.ai Agentic Platform. The EY.ai Agentic Platform, built upon NVIDIA's AI stack, deploys 150 AI agents to help 80,000 professionals seamlessly transform tax compliance, while enabling EY's AI-driven transformation across finance, risk, and an abundance of industry verticals.
Microsoft, a multinational technology corporation in the US, featured Agentic AI as depicted at Gitex Global 2025 in Dubai. Microsoft, in collaboration with 37 governments and global organizations, developed autonomous AI systems that offer government and enterprise decision-making assistance. The initiative's Copilot and AI Agent capabilities support the UAE's AI strategy to deliver secure, ethical, and human-centric AI solutions to enable global digital transformation.
Dialpad, an AI-powered cloud communications company from San Francisco, presented the launch of its Agentic AI platform to change how brands elevate the customer experience. The no-code platform allows for the rapid creation of autonomous voice and chat experience agents to extend automation in retail, recruiting, and automotive, while reinforcing Dialpad's position through enhanced AI-driven conversational capabilities and scalable enterprise solutions.
Kyndryl, a New York-based global enterprise technology services provider, was also able to demonstrate advanced agentic AI capabilities through an expanded use of its resiliency-focused Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework. This strategic enhancement enables secure AI agent orchestration at scale, accelerates AI adoption, boosts operational efficiency, and drives business outcomes, reflecting Kyndryl’s commitment to AI-native enterprise transformation.
Shuttle Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that it has entered a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Molecule.ai, an AI startup, for $10 million. The strategic acquisition will integrate Molecule.ai’s large language model and agentic AI platform to expedite drug discovery, increase drug-target modeling, and develop autonomous therapeutic design workflows.
ANS Group, a technology solutions organization based in the UK, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Oxford-centered Sci-Net Business Solutions, a leading Microsoft Gold Partner, which will help to strengthen its AI and Microsoft offering. The strategic acquisition will increase the team size by 65 experts and enhance its Microsoft Business Central capabilities by adding extra capacity to its digital infrastructure services across the retail, e-commerce, and wholesale sectors within the UK.
TabSense, an artificial intelligence startup based in Saudi Arabia, announced that it has raised $5 million led by Jasoor Ventures. The investment will support the launch of the first AI Agentic PoS for multi-branch restaurants and cafés, enabling operators to leverage AI agents to streamline operations autonomously. The funding will also be used to accelerate product development, grow the engineering and AI teams, and support regional expansion.
Lette AI, a Dublin-based agentic AI operating system for property teams, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding led by Pitchdrive. The strategic funding was used to grow the team, build its presence in Ireland, and support expansion to the UK and the USA. Lette AI automated leasing workflows, reduced administrative tasks by up to 90% and enhanced tenant services.
In October 2025, Nexos AI, a new startup based in Lithuania, rose to prominence in the enterprise AI space by raising €30 million in Series A funding, led by Evantic Capital and Index Ventures, that would accelerate the use of AI by tackling enterprise issues like security, observability, governance, and cost. Founded by the founders of cybersecurity unicorn Nord Security, nexos.ai aims to make the deployment of AI secure, compliant, and scalable across industries.
Peer AI, an agentic AI platform based in San Francisco for life sciences regulatory documentation, received $12.1 million in funding led by Flare Capital Partners and SignalFire. This strategically pulled funding will build on Peer AI's automated compliance documentation solutions for pharmaceuticals and biotech companies to scale and improve healthcare regulatory compliance and efficiency.
LangChain Inc., a leading provider of tooling for AI agents, raised $125 million in Series B funding at a valuation of $1.25 billion. The funding was led by IVP with CapitalG, ServiceNow Ventures and others. The funding will help strengthen LangChain's open-source platform which builds on and simplifies building AI agents using prebuilt modular components and a common API.
Boom, a Miami-based AI-powered property management platform, raised $12.7 million led by Avenue Growth Partners. The funding supports international expansion, team growth, and further development of its agentic AI technology, which automates up to 80% of hospitality operations. Boom serves operators in 20 countries, aiming to revolutionize short-term rental and hotel management.
September 2025 marked significant activity in the agentic AI space. Growth of the sector was bolstered by acquisitions and investments, allowing companies to develop their platforms and speed up the deployment of autonomous solutions across sectors worldwide. Here are some noteworthy M&A and investment deals in September.
SoundHound AI, a worldwide leader in voice and conversational AI, acquired Interactions, an artificial intelligence leader for customer service enterprises, for about $60 million. This strategic acquisition extends SoundHound’s position as an Agentic AI leader, expands its enterprise customer base and technologies, and speeds up the deployment of omnichannel AI across sectors.
Hitachi, Ltd., a globally based multinational technology company, through its U.S. subsidiary GlobalLogic acquired synvert, a German data and AI services company. This acquisition will expand GlobalLogic’s data and consulting capabilities across Europe and the Middle East, and speed up Agentic and Physical AI development and deployment capabilities using Hitachi’s HMAX platform, signaling Hitachi’s commitment to AI-driven social innovation and enterprise transformation.
EverCommerce, a Denver based SaaS provider serving SMBs, acquired ZyraTalk, an AI-powered customer engagement and agentic automation platform. This strategic acquisition strengthens EverCommerce’s AI capabilities, enhances autonomous workflows in its EverPro vertical, and expands AI-driven engagement across scheduling, payments, and customer interactions, reflecting its commitment to scalable, service-focused digital transformation.
Emergent, a startup based in India which specializes in agentic AI, raised $23 million in Series A funding, with Lightspeed Ventures leading the round and other investors including Together Fund, Y Combinator, Prosus Ventures, Jeff Dean, and Balaji Srinivasan. This funding is aimed at accelerating Emergent's R&D and platform development while establishing a global presence in custom AI-generated applications.
AppZen, a California-based AI finance automation company, raised $180 million in Series D funding led by Riverwood Capital, which will allow the company to expedite the launch of its Mastermind AI Studio, enabling enterprises to deploy agentic AI with finance workflows. AppZen aims to cut manual work by 50% while advancing the global adoption of autonomous operation in finance departments across major enterprises.
yasp, a Munich- and Montreal-based deep tech start up developing an Agentic AI Compiler, raised $5 million in seed funding led by Capnamic. The funding is aimed at accelerating product development ahead of a planned launch in late 2025. yasp's compiler optimizes AI training and inference by generating extremely hardware-optimized kernels for deployment on any supported framework such as PyTorch.
DRUID AI, a New York-based enterprise agentic AI platform, raised $31 million in a Series C round led by Cipio Partners, with participation from TQ Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig, and Hoxton Ventures. The funding aimed to fuel global expansion and product innovation as DRUID scales its AI agents across sectors, including banking, healthcare, and government.
Climaty AI, an India-based company, raised $2 million in funding led by Turbostart to advance its Agentic AI ecosystem for sustainable marketing. The startup empowers brands to build carbon-conscious strategies using AI-powered media agents. Climaty AI aims to reduce media waste and emissions, with plans to expand internationally and scale its proprietary climate-tech platform.
WorkFusion, a US-based pioneer in AI agents for financial crime compliance (FCC), raised $45 million in a round led by Georgian to scale its agentic AI platform for FCC. The funding supports growth in the $155 billion FCC operations industry. WorkFusion’s AI Agents automate alert reviews, KYC, and fraud monitoring, already serving 10 of the world’s top 20 banks.
Mycroft Technologies, a company based in Canada, raised $3.5 million in order to delve deeper into its agentic AI-based cybersecurity platform, with Luge Capital leading the investment. This platform leverages autonomous AI agents that monitor, remediate, and enforce security and compliance policies in real time across any system or application. Mycroft effectively replaces non-integrated "bunches of security stacks" with what it claims is an operationally-effective, all-in-one AI-native solution for real time protection and oversight.
Quack, a startup based in the US that is providing AI-powered support tools for software and engineering teams, raised $7 million in seed funding, with Hanaco Ventures and Storytime Capital leading the funding. This funding is aimed at accelerating the development of Quack's platform, which has been designed to help engineering teams be more productive through intelligent assistance and better collaboration.
Paar Autonomy, a robotics startup based in India, raised ₹3.5 crore (approximately $420,000) in a pre-seed round led by Venture Catalysts. According to the company, it is developing perception hardware and "agentic AI" for unmanned aerial, land and marine vehicles for the defense, law enforcement and industrial inspection sectors. This funding is aimed at helping to support R&D and expand product deployment across critical infrastructure sectors.
August saw significant consolidation in the agentic AI space, with major enterprises making strategic acquisitions to enhance their platforms. These moves advanced autonomous solutions for customer service, enterprise workflows, and data security.
NiCE, a Multinational Software Company based in the United States, acquired Cognigy, an agentic AI platform provider, for $955 million. This acquisition enriches NiCE's CXone platform by incorporating an advanced conversational AI experience along with multichannel automation and data security. It also boosts AI customer service workflows and further cements NiCE's status as a global leader in intelligent autonomous digital labor.
Workday, Inc., a United States-based enterprise software company, acquired Flowise, a premier low-code agent builder AI platform. This acquisition enhances Workday's AI innovation by enabling customers to design, deploy, and manage AI agents quickly and flexibly as enterprise workflows demand, further supporting its vision of responsible, scalable, and customizable AI solutions for enterprise work.
Rubrik, Inc., a security and AI company based in Palo Alto, launched Agent Rewind following its acquisition of Predibase. This initiative enhances Rubrik's agentic AI capacity to provide context-enriched visibility, safe rollback, and broad platform compatibility while solidifying its focus on AI recoverability, secure operations, and enterprise resilience for continued operational continuity.
Cohere, an international AI firm, raised $500 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with a valuation of $6.8 billion. The firm developed secure, agentic AI tools to increase effectiveness of hybrid work practices for both enterprises and the government, with the ability to complete messy, low-value tasks, while protecting and securing data. The funding round will speed global expansion and help accelerate next-generation sovereign AI technology.
Wyser, based in India, launched AgentikX, India’s first agentic AI fund to invest in Enterprise B2B startups. The fund will select and invest in the top 10 agentic AI startups, which will participate in an expert acceleration program over 5 days called the AgentikX Primer to accelerate their Go-To-Market strategy. The program will fund or invest in founders solving verified enterprise-level problems by connecting them to CXOs and leading AI experts in India and around the world.
July continued the momentum with strategic acquisitions and another record-setting funding round for agentic AI. These developments sped up the adoption of autonomous solutions in all sectors, including healthcare, finance, and enterprise data.
Capgemini, a French multinational corporation that provides technology services, acquired Whistle, a US-based provider of business process services, for $3.3 billion. This strategic acquisition expands Capgemini's Agentic AI capabilities, enhances its intelligent operations expertise, expands its sector knowledge, enhances its US footprint, and builds on its reputation as a leader in AI-powered business process transformation.
Datasite, a global SaaS provider for M&A and investment, acquired Blueflame AI, a leading agentic AI company, for an undisclosed amount. This strategic acquisition strengthens Datasite’s AI capabilities with Blueflame’s LLM-agnostic platform to provide intelligent document processing, enterprise search, and workflow automation, accelerating AI-driven innovation in financial services.
Oraion, a US and Ireland-based agentic AI enterprise platform, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed financing led by Studio VC. The strategic investment was to triple Oraion’s staff, accelerate product development, and provide support for geographical expansion to the US and Latin America. The funding underpins Oraion’s mission to democratize access to instant, insight-driven decision-making with actionable data from raw enterprise data.
UgenticAI, an AI stand-alone holding company, raised $4 million to fuel its growth in agentic AI businesses. UgenticAI's goal is to become a leader in automating complex functions such as sales, content creation, and customer support. UgenticAI has executed four acquisitions and is focused on building an AI ecosystem that delivers real business results for small and medium enterprises.
Composio, a US-based agentic AI startup, raised $25 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Elevation Capital and Together Fund, along with angel investors like Gokul Rajaram and HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah, also participated. This round brings Composio’s total funding to $29 million as it scales its AI platform.
To help address the issues of alert overload and operational drag present in security teams, Prophet Security raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Accel and will now launch its Agentic AI SOC Platform. The SOC Platform autonomously investigates alerts, surfaces threats, reduces false positives, all while allowing analysts to spend time on actual threats, speeds up onboarding without requiring an additional head count.
Autonomize AI raised $28 million in a Series A round led by Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, and Tau Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $32 million. The company has an Agentic AI Orchestration platform that focuses on healthcare, alleviates administrative pain points by saving 36,000 clinical hours each month and automating over 100,000 care plans, improving patient care and clinical efficiency at large healthcare enterprises.
Xelix raised $160 million in a Series B round led by Insight Partners to further its agentic AI platform for Accounts Payable. Xelix has some of the largest companies as customers, such as AstraZeneca and Virgin Atlantic, and automates invoice auditing, fraud detection, supplier queries, and processes 115 million invoices per year. Funds will be used for product innovation, growth in market, and to further the company's opportunity as a strategic partner to customers in finance operations.
June continued the momentum of agentic AI fueled by strategic acquisitions as well as significant investment. These investments hastened the implementation of solutions with increasing levels of autonomy, as they spread further into procurement, healthcare, and enterprise services. Here are notable merger, acquisition, and investment transactions:
Genpact, a global technology services firm headquartered in New York, acquired a strategic stake in XponentL Data, a leading AI solutions company. This acquisition enhances Genpact's AI and data expertise, adding deep domain experience and talent, and furthers Genpact's focus on agentic AI, advanced analytics, and AI solutions across industries.
Pactum, a US-based agentic AI startup, raised $54 million to scale its agentic AI platform focused on enterprise procurement led by Insight Partners in a Series C round. Pactum has raised over $100 million and its AI agents autonomously negotiate supplier contracts all while improving procurement efficiency. Pactum's clients include customers such as Walmart, Novartis and Honeywell as well as over 50 Global 2000 clients.
RSM US LLP, a leading accounting and consulting firm serving middle-market companies, announced a commitment of $1 billion over the next three years to integrate agentic AI into its products and services, improving assurance, tax and consulting engagements through advanced AI enabled automation and insights.
VoiceCare AI raised $4.54 million in seed funding round led Founded by Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya and Anirudh Badam, Adopt AI has created a no-code platform that empowers businesses to accelerate the conversion of their existing apps into agentic AI-powered systems that can perform complex tasks through natural language, transitioning business models through the SaaS and B2C sectors.
Centific secured $60 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its mission of powering advanced, scalable, and trustworthy agentic AI systems globally. Since 2020, Centific has provided critical AI infrastructure supporting leading model builders and enterprises. This investment fuels its transition from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, emphasizing safety, resilience, and seamless integration.
Moments Lab raised $24 million in funding led by Oxx, with participation from Orange Ventures, Kadmos, Supernova Invest, and Elaia Partners. The investment was used to fuel U.S. expansion and R&D for its patented MXT-2 multimodal AI and new agentic AI focused on video discovery and storytelling. Serving the media, sports, and brand sectors, Moments Lab enabled rapid video indexing, search, and monetization, and counted major clients such as Thomson Reuters and Amazon Ads among its clients.
May saw strategic acquisitions and funding fuel agentic AI capabilities. These moves enhanced development tools and expanded autonomous solutions for industries ranging from software engineering and financial compliance to food service robotics.
Circus SE, a leader in AI-robotics for the food service industry based in Germany, has completed the acquisition of FullyAI, an agentic AI company. This acquisition will strengthen Circus' AI capabilities and enable it to modify real time data to better inform operational decisions, as well as advance Circus' focus on autonomous food systems, precision nutrition and intelligent robotics towards effective global AI-powered food service solutions.
OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company located in the United States, has entered into a deal to acquire the AI Integrated Development Environment, Windsurf, for $3 billion. This acquisition will enhance OpenAI's AI coding and agent development, include Windsurf's Cascade AI and code indexing, as well as bolster its focus on AI-native developer tools and automating software lifecycle development.
Bengaluru, India-based Infosys, a global leader in digital services, has launched the Infosys Agentic AI Foundry, part of its Topaz™ suite to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. This will enhance AI agentic, incorporate extendable/ customizable enterprise AI agents, and bolster its focus on ethical and scalable AI automation to improve efficiency, customer experience and productivity across industries.
Stockholm and Bengaluru-based EvoluteIQ has raised $20 million in funds to deepen and expand its global reach while also increasing its product features and agentic and generative AI capabilities. The development of multi-agent collaboration, bias detection, and transparency is possible through this funding.
Stockholm and Bengaluru-based EvoluteIQ secured $20 million to expand its global reach and advance agentic and generative AI capabilities. The funding supports the development of multi-agent collaboration, bias detection, and transparency features. Serving sectors like healthcare, banking, and insurance, EvoluteIQ’s low-code platform drives intelligent automation for complex enterprise processes worldwide.
Adopt AI, a Silicon Valley and Bengaluru-based startup, raised $6 million in seed funding led by Elevation Capital. Founded by Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya, and Anirudh Badam, Adopt AI offers a no-code platform that enables businesses to rapidly convert existing apps into agentic AI-powered systems that perform complex tasks via natural language, targeting the SaaS and B2C sectors.
Greenlite AI raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Greylock to expand its agentic AI platform for automating compliance in financial services. Its AI agents streamline KYC, AML, and sanctions workflows with embedded regulatory guidance via its proprietary Trust Infrastructure. Customers report 3x-4x ROI in 12 weeks, scaling compliance without adding headcount.
The agentic AI landscape has been dominated by strategic acquisitions and partnerships since April. These have consistently focused on enhanced capabilities for immersive experiences, customer operations and real-time data infrastructure, all accelerating enterprise adoption.
Infinite Reality (iR), a US-based digital media and e-commerce company, representing immersive technology (XR and AI), announced the acquisition of agentic AI solutions from Touchcast for $500 million in cash and stock. This acquisition reinforces iR's AI-rich capabilities and adopts the acquisition strategy to enhance globally for advanced agents in a new Touchcast Mentorverse platform for enterprise customers with iR's vision for immersive, personalized and conversational digital experiences across the globe.
TP created a joint partnership with agentic AI leaders Ema and Parloa to embed autonomous AI in customer experience and back-office integration. TP is Ema's exclusive global partner, bringing multilingual AI voice engagement to life through human engagement and qualities of intelligence vs. decision making. independent humanized and insightful features to grow efficiencies, secure accelerated digital transformation and personalization at scale for enterprise.
Redpanda raised $100 million in a Series D round led by GV, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The company launched its Agentic AI Service, a real-time data platform designed for enterprise multi-agent applications with full traceability, explainability, and data sovereignty. Its Model Context Protocol ensures AI-ready internal systems, supports over 300 connectors, and enables secure cloud deployment.
March saw strategic acquisitions and new services broaden the scope of agentic AI applications. Enterprises strengthened automation and vertical solutions while addressing the growing need for secure, sovereign AI deployments.
In March 2025, ServiceNow, a multinational technology business based in the U.S., announced the acquisition of Moveworks, a notable AI assistant and enterprise search platform, for $2.85 billion. With this acquisition, ServiceNow strengthens its agentic AI and automation capabilities, enhances enterprise productivity tools, and accelerates innovation related to CRM, HR, finance, and IT for global AI-based transformation.
Wipro Limited, a leading technology services company based in India, announced the launch of new agentic AI services in partnership with NVIDIA. The services bolster AI capabilities designed for local infrastructure and cultures in Banking, Healthcare, Emergency, and Education industries, and continue Wipro's commitment to ethical, secure, and sovereign AI that enable global innovation and growth.
UiPath, a leader in enterprise automation and AI software, acquired Peak, a UK-based native AI company specializing in inventory and pricing optimization, for an undisclosed price. The acquisition continues to bolster UiPath's vertical AI capabilities, augment driving the incorporation of Peak's agentic applications, improve Decision Intelligence, and additional deployment of AI-driven automation in retail and manufacturing.
SplxAI, a Delaware-based agentic AI company, raised $7 million in seed funding that was led by LAUNCHub Ventures, to secure agentic AI systems. The platform assists organizations with testing, monitoring and protecting AI agents against advanced attacks, such as prompt injection and hallucinations. As enterprise adoption of agentic AI rises, SplxAI aims to be the go-to solution for scalable AI security.
Strategic acquisitions and funding drove agentic AI advancements in February. These developments accelerated scalable AI orchestration and expanded the use of no-code platforms, driving significant growth in financial services and cybersecurity automation.
DataRobot, an AI platform provider in Boston has acquired Agnostiq, a startup that has developed the open-source platform called Covalent. Acquiring Agnostiq, provides DataRobot with an accelerated path to agentic AI capability development, enhances multi-cloud compute orchestration, simplifies infrastructure complexity, and strengthens DataRobot's commitment to being a vendor of scalable, autonomous AI capabilities to accelerate innovation and unlock measurable business impact.
Zurich-based Unique raised €28.6 million in a Series A round led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to expand its agentic AI platform for financial services. The funding supports global growth and enhances the deployment of specialized AI agents for back and middle-office functions, already used by institutions managing over €2.1 trillion in assets.
Integrail, an agentic AI startup, raised $10 million in seed investment to quickly develop and deploy AI agents to automate processes and complete tasks. The mission of the no-code AI Studio platform is to increase productivity, reduce contractor expenditure, and foster a higher rate of innovation without attempting to recruit an AI engineer or investing in complex wiring or engineering.
7AI, an agentic cybersecurity startup, raised $36 million from Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, and CRV in seed funding. Their platform uses autonomous AI agents to automate the triage of alerts and investigate potential threats, which improves response times and reduces false positives. In an interview, the CEO, Lior Div, said, the operation of 7AI - alongside other agentic AI capabilities, enables human teams or organizations to eject from less high-value security-centric tasks.
January 2025 set the tone for the year with a strategic acquisition and significant funding rounds. These moves accelerated the development of autonomous AI agents for enterprise workflow automation and security platforms.
ServiceNow, a provider of enterprise cloud computing services in the U.S., recently announced that it has acquired Cuein, an AI-native data analysis and insights developer. The move was intended to infuse Cuein’s technology into the Now Platform, which further enhances ServiceNow’s agentic AI roadmap. The acquisition will allow ServiceNow to strengthen its autonomous AI agent capabilities, provide real-time insights on customers, and develop smarter, scalable workflow automations across industries.
Atomicwork has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round from Khosla Ventures and Z47, with assistance from Battery Ventures, Blume Ventures and Peak XV Partners. The capital is intended to support the scaling of its agentic AI-based IT service management platform, improvements in integration and go to market efforts with the primary goal to reduce enterprise IT costs while increasing productivity.
Conifers.ai completed a $25M funding round from SYN Ventures to develop its agentic AI-enhanced Cognitive SOC platform. The Cognitive SOC leverages adaptive learning and institutional knowledge to autonomously handle complex security incidents by mapping them to use cases and creating context-specific response plans. It can be integrated seamlessly with existing SOC tools to augment investigations, help develop metrics and effectively support enterprise security teams using the built-in incident playbooks.
The agentic AI ecosystem of 2025 exhibited exceptional activity from strategic transactions and impact funding rounds from January to October. The year saw historic transactions, including ServiceNow's acquisition of Moveworks for $2.85 billion in March and NiCE's $955 million acquisition of Cognigy in August. These transactions demonstrate an increase in enterprise activity toward the consolidation of AI capabilities and autonomous AI into core business processes such as customer service, workflow automation, and productivity of firms.
Concurrently, the funding landscape through the same time frame showcased confidence in the transformative capability of agentic AI, with financing rounds being raised at unprecedented levels. Notable amounts in funding included LangChain's $125 million Series B financing round at a $1.25 billion valuation, AppZen's $180 million Series D financing round, and Xelix's $160 million Series B financing round, showing that capital and institutional investors have a tolerance for scalable autonomous solutions. Upstart companies focused on healthcare, cybersecurity, financial services, and enterprise automation sectors attracted considerable amounts of investment in validating AI technology's potential in alternative use-cases.
Renowned tech players like Microsoft, IBM, EY, Infosys, and Wipro launched all-encompassing agentic AI frameworks and platforms, suggesting mainstream enterprise adoption. Partnerships like ChatGPT's Agentic Commerce Protocol with Stripe and EY's partnership with NVIDIA extended the technology into e-commerce and professional services. Funding and investment flowed internationally, with high geographic diversity to startups in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, demonstrating a global recognition of agentic AI's strategic relevance.
The steady deal flow through 2025, from infrastructure and orchestration platforms to vertical solutions in procurement, compliance, and customer experience, demonstrated that agentic AI's time has come as a technology that has evolved from experiment status into an essential mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. As more organizations begin to prioritize autonomous decision making functions, agentic AI has well-positioned itself as a foundational pillar for digital transformation, operational efficiencies, and a competitive advantage worldwide across industries.
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