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Bites

Bites provides personalized training for frontline employees who may not work at a desk. Its platform turns company procedures and source materials into short, branded videos, then delivers them through familiar channels including WhatsApp, SMS, Microsoft Teams and Slack. The Tel Aviv-founded company has raised $40 million in Series A funding led by PeakSpan Capital, bringing total funding to $55 million. Vertex Ventures, Horizon Capital, Rittenhouse Ventures and Lyra Ventures also participated, while PeakSpan partners Phil Dur and Charlie Reinkemeyer will join Bites’ board. Founded in 2020 by Eran Heffetz, Tal Nagler Almog and Hagai Horovitz, Bites serves customers including Unilever, Coca-Cola, Shake Shack, Wynn Resorts and Compass Group. Its AI Studio creates training content from materials such as standard operating procedures, with lessons available in more than 150 languages and without requiring a separate employee app. Bites will use the funding to expand in the United States, develop its platform and hire across sales and customer success. It also plans to build partner and reseller channels and enter banking, insurance and businesses that depend on external workers, alongside its existing customer base in hospitality, retail, consumer goods and manufacturing. The company has 30 employees across its Tel Aviv development center and New York headquarters.

Mintive

San Francisco-based Mintive provides infrastructure that gives AI agents governed access to enterprise tools, systems, and data. Its platform helps IT and security teams manage agent identity, permissions, security, and observability as companies deploy more software-based coworkers. Mintive has raised $7 million in a round led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing its total funding to $11 million. Coatue, Operator Collective, Burst Capital, Maven Ventures, and Hustle Fund also participated, alongside individual investors including Frederic Kerrest, Michael Grinich, Scott Belsky, Jeff Dean, and Andrej Karpathy. The company says its platform now supports 2.5 million agent calls each day across more than 50 paying enterprise customers. That usage underscores the operational challenge of controlling what AI agents can access and do across business systems. Mintive was founded by Jiquan Ngiam, Vijay Vasudevan, Bo Zhi See, and Phillip Bensaid. It will use the funding to scale its infrastructure platform, expand agent identity and governance capabilities, strengthen security and observability, and develop coworker agents as enterprise adoption grows.

Easol

London-based Easol provides experience businesses with one system for bookings, payments, marketing, customer support, and guest data. Its platform brings these operational and customer-facing functions together, giving operators a connected way to manage the experience journey. The company has raised €26.78 million in a Series A round. The financing includes €17.85 million in equity led by Y Combinator, alongside an €8.92 million debt facility from Viola Credit. Tiger Global, Foundation Capital, FMZ Ventures, Notion Capital, and Eight Roads also participated in the round. Easol was founded by Ben Simpson and Lisa Simpson, and operates from offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles. The funding supported the development and launch of Teammates, Easol’s agentic AI tools for sales, support, and operations. Built natively inside the platform, the tools extend Easol’s existing workflow across the functions experience businesses use to attract customers, answer requests, and run day-to-day operations.