May 9, 2026

SolveAI: Training engineers on Rust internally to bet on ten-year durability

New Intel: SolveAI is building in Rust and training new technical staff on it internally. That is unusual for AI tooling, and it points to durable systems over demo speed.

SolveAI

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Enterprise AI

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Series A

May 9, 2026

SolveAI: Running the Palantir playbook in a PLG category

New Intel: SolveAI is sending engineers on-site with customers instead of selling purely self-serve AI tools. Slower to scale, but much harder to rip out once deployed.

SolveAI

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Enterprise AI

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Series A

May 9, 2026

Deepgram: Working toward models that skip text entirely

New Intel: Deepgram is working on voice models that skip text entirely, going straight from audio-in to audio-out. If it works, today's voice agent stack starts to look slow.

Deepgram

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Voice AI / Speech Recognition

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Series C

May 9, 2026

SolveAI: Occupying the gap between demo-ware and consulting firms

New Intel: SolveAI is positioning between AI code tools and big consulting firms. The bet is that enterprises want production help, not another demo or another services army.

SolveAI

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Enterprise AI

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Series A

May 9, 2026

Unify: Betting on Clay's agency network instead of building a sales team

New Intel: Unify is using agencies and consultants as a distribution channel instead of building a classic sales team. That puts it closer to Clay’s partner-led growth playbook.

Unify

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GTM Automation

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Series B

May 9, 2026

Deepgram: Building a second deployment surface for defense and IoT

New Intel: Deepgram is building voice AI that can run closer to the edge on Qualcomm chips. That opens defense and IoT markets where cloud-only voice APIs are a weaker fit.

Deepgram

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Voice AI / Speech Recognition

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Series C

May 9, 2026

Deepgram: Engineers close enterprise deals here not salespeople

New Intel: Deepgram is splitting into a self-serve developer platform and a high-touch enterprise motion. Technical depth shapes the sale, which is a different model than most AI API companies.

Deepgram

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Voice AI / Speech Recognition

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Series C

May 9, 2026

Unify: Quietly building their own ZoomInfo

New Intel: Unify appears to be building its own contact database instead of buying from ZoomInfo and Apollo. If that works, a margin drag becomes a competitive weapon.

Unify

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GTM Automation

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Series B

May 9, 2026

Jampack: Multi-agent architecture with human-in-the-loop guardrails.

New Intel: Jampack is building separate agents for ordering, freight, reconciliation, and exceptions, with humans supervising the workflow. Wholesale ops may be too risky for one generalist agent.

Jampack AI

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Wholesale Automation

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Seed

May 9, 2026

Moonvalley: Becoming Infrastructure Inside Other People's Tools

New Intel: Moonvalley wants to become the video model layer inside tools like Adobe, fal.ai, ComfyUI, and API workflows. That is infrastructure distribution, not a Runway clone.

Moonvalley

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Generative Video

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Series A