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The company ingests fragmented data from warehouses, enterprise resource planning (ERPs) and transport management systems, structures it and runs automated decisions around cost and working capital. Loop began in freight audit and payment and has used that foundation to build a broader intelligence layer for supply chain finance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealth.com\/\">Wealth.com<\/a> took the same approach in financial advisory. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260416563869\/en\/Wealth.com-Raises-%2465-Million-Series-B-to-Power-AI-Future-of-Wealth-Management\">raised<\/a> $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B to extend its estate and tax planning platform, which now supports advisory firms managing more than $15 trillion in client assets. At the center of the platform is Ester Intelligence, a proprietary AI engine trained on estate and tax scenarios. In 2025, Ester processed more than 100,000 estate documents and performed more than 1,000 deterministic calculations per estate distribution. Wealth.com reported 664% year-over-year growth in AI-powered workflows and secured approvals from the three largest broker-dealers in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/\">American Express<\/a> moved from partnership to acquisition. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/acquisitions\/2026\/amex-acquires-hyper-to-boost-ai-and-expense-management-offerings\/\">acquired<\/a> Hyper, founded in 2022, which built native AI agents that auto-categorize expenses, check them against policy and route reminders. Amex and Hyper had co-launched the Hypercard Rewards American Express card in 2024. The acquisition, expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, gives Amex in-house agentic AI talent ahead of a new expense management platform set to launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>This wave of vertical AI targets areas where inefficiency is expensive. It focuses on workflows that tie directly to revenue, cost or risk. That focus makes the value easier to measure and the adoption easier to justify.<\/p>\n<h2>AI-Native Platforms Rebuild Workflows From Scratch<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside established players acquiring AI capabilities, a separate class of companies is drawing capital by building the entire operating stack as AI-first, with no legacy architecture to carry.<\/p><div id=\"pymnt-1399878827\" class=\"pymnt-content pymnt-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 50px;\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"dianomi_context_script\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/js\/contextfeed.js\"><\/script> \r\n<div class=\"dianomi_context\" data-dianomi-context-id=\"4329\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>AI-native systems rely on continuous feedback loops. Data flows from operations back into the model. Performance improves over time. This creates an advantage that compounds. 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The round brings total raised to $160 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factory.ai\/\">Factory<\/a>, an autonomous software engineering platform used by enterprises including Nvidia, Adobe and Adyen, raised $150 million in a Series C led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Blackstone and Insight Partners, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/factory.ai\/news\/series-c\">announced<\/a>. Its platform handles multi-step engineering tasks across entire development cycles. The company said it doubled revenue each month for the past six months. 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