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Guidewire agreed to buy London-based Hyperexponential, which makes AI underwriting and pricing software for commercial insurers, for $1.7 billion in cash plus up to $400 million more if recurring revenue targets are met.
Read full story →Lumaril, a startup that connects AI software to the control systems factories already have, has raised a $66 million Series A at a $400 million valuation. Returning investor Elad Gil led the round. Its co-founders wrote that capturing the know-how of veteran plant operators is the fastest path to reindustrialization at scale. Co-founder Ben Duffield appeared in a photograph with the Wall Street Journal's report, alongside Kim Lear, an operator at Lumaril. The two were watching an Arthur Cos. employee at work on a computer terminal. According to the launch post, Lumaril learned everything it
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