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Alchemist Chicago — the deep tech accelerator partnership between the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Alchemist — today announced the startups selected for Phase 2 of its inaugural cohort.

Strategic investment will make it easier for product teams to design & build apps by simply telling AI what they want.

This is the year AI adoption will accelerate, and enterprises will stop experimenting and start executing.

We are not just investing in the future. We are building it—and these technologies will define the future of enterprise performance.

By supporting innovators such as QEDMA, IBM is building a robust quantum ecosystem that brings the promise of a quantum advantage closer to reality.

Driving the future of enterprise technology by investing in AI-focused startups, fostering strategic partnerships, and accelerating innovation through a capital-plus model.

Atolio, the private AI-powered platform for enterprise search, announced it has closed its Series A led by Translink Capital, with participation from IBM Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Acorn Pacific Ventures, and Parameter Ventures.

IBM Ventures has invested in Not-Diamond, a startup focused on dynamic AI model routing. Supporting the mission to build foundational infrastructure for a multi-model AI future, enabling smarter, more efficient AI systems that adapt in real time.

QEDMA has raised Series A funding, with participation from IBM, to reduce quantum computing errors using software that adapts to each device’s unique noise profile. Their solution boosts performance without requiring massive qubit overhead.

AuthMind has secured seed funding to expand its observability-driven platform that protects human, non-human, and agentic AI identities across hybrid and cloud environments.

Backed by IBM Ventures, Microsoft, and others, OX’s AI-powered platform filters out noise from traditional AppSec tools, enabling teams to pinpoint and fix vulnerabilities that pose real-world threats.

Unstructured and IBM watsonx.data now make it easy to turn unstructured files into AI-ready data. Users can build no-code pipelines to extract and load content from sources like Azure Blob Storage directly into watsonx.data.

IBM has joined Not Diamond's latest funding round to support the company's mission of building the foundational infrastructure for the multi-model AI future.

The fund will fuel innovation, strategic partnerships and generate returns by investing in enterprise AI-focused startups.

The investment by IBM® Ventures enables further collaboration to accelerate the adoption of modernized identity-based connectivity for today’s digital organizations.

JPMorgan Chase, Mitsui, Amgen and Honeywell invest to support Quantinuum’s growth and innovation.

IBM and SingleStore are taking the next step with SingleStoreDB’s powerful vector database support of IBM® watsonx.ai®.

Quantinuum announces a new investment by IBM, extending capabilities with IBM Quantum systems in a joint commitment to grow the Quantum ecosystem.

IBM Ventures' investment in QunaSys is being used to further develop quantum computing application services and intuitive software in chemical simulation and material research development.

Integration with IBM® QRadar® provides improved threat detection and analysis across critical industrial environments.

The investment will help QunaSys explore new application areas, develop practical technologies and build the foundational technologies needed to fully unlock the power of quantum computing.

The IBM Ventures investment represents the company's intent to collaborate on expanding the frontiers of software supply chain security and create value for developers of cloud-native solutions.

It is time for security operations to enter the cloud era. Learn how the acquisition of Gem Security will help Wiz reinvent SecOps, together.

The investments are intended to advance work in open source AI, accelerating technology innovation.

AuthMind Identity SecOps Platform uniquely provides end-to-end identity security posture management and real-time threat detection.

A new funding round led by M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures accelerates company growth as demand for solutions to secure AI increases globally.

Gem Security's CDR platform significantly shortens the time to detect, investigate and contain cloud-native threats—redefining security operations for the cloud era.

AuthMind announces an OEM agreement with IBM, bringing AuthMind’s identity security posture management and threat detection platform to IBM’s Security Verify customers.

The investment accelerates the commercialization of RAIC, a dual-use model-independent classification and detection platform for image data.

The new capital will help cement the company’s leadership in the enterprise generative AI category.

Unstructured is using this new capital injection to grow its team and accelerate its development of data preprocessing tools for LLMs.

These investments fuel Rohirrim's mission to help businesses grow by streamlining and strengthening their RFP response strategy.

RSA Innovation Sandbox-winning AI-generated media detection platform accelerates development as part of a new upsized round led by Illuminate Financial.

To support its rapid growth and ongoing development, Ceramic.ai secured USD 12 million in seed funding from NEA, IBM, Samsung Next, Earthshot Ventures and Alumni Ventures.