EnFi raised $15 million in Series A funding to deploy AI agents that function as virtual credit professionals, addressing a fundamental scaling crisis where commercial lending demand is growing faster than the human talent pool can accommodate.

The Boston-based startup represents a shift from AI-assisted tools to autonomous agent workforces, with customers deploying targeted agents across deal screening, documentation, and portfolio monitoring within 60 to 90 days. This timeline reflects a new deployment velocity for financial services AI, where traditional implementations often require 12-18 months.

79% of enterprises now deploy AI agents, but 97% lack proper security controls—a gap that’s created a new category of infrastructure risk as organizations race to automate everything from database queries to payment processing.

Virtue AI just launched AgentSuite, the industry’s first multi-layer security and compliance platform purpose-built for enterprise AI agents. While traditional security tools were designed for predictable application workflows, AgentSuite addresses the dynamic, multi-tool nature of autonomous agents that can trigger complex actions across enterprise systems in real time.

Ricursive Intelligence has raised $300 million in Series A funding at a $4 billion valuation, just two months after the company’s formal launch. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from DST Global, Nvidia’s NVentures, Felicis Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and others.

The funding milestone reflects investor confidence in what the company calls “recursive AI-hardware co-evolution”—AI systems that design and continuously improve the chips that power them. For an industry where chip design cycles have become a critical bottleneck to AI advancement, Ricursive’s platform promises to collapse months-long design processes into hours while achieving superhuman layout optimization.