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Factory and Carahsoft partner to bring agent-native software development to the Public Sector. Factory's autonomous software agents now available to Federal, State and Local Government agencies through Carahsoft's contract vehicles and reseller network. SAN FRANCISCO and RESTON, Va. - September 3, 2026 - Factory, the pioneer of agent-native software development, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider(R), today announced a strategic partnership to bring agent-native software development to the Public Sector. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Factory's Master Government Aggregator(R), making the company's autonomous software development platform available to Federal, State and Local agencies through Carahsoft's reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS), E&I Cooperative Services Contract and The Quilt contracts. "Autonomous software development has the potential to fundamentally change how organizations build, maintain and modernize software. Government teams should be able to realize that potential without compromising the security, compliance and control their environments demand. This partnership is about making that possible," said Matan Grinberg, CEO and co-founder of Factory. Factory enables organizations to build and operate their own software factory, turning requirements and operational signals into production software, autonomously executing work across planning, development, testing, review, security and release. Engineers remain in control through policies, guardrails and approval gates. Factory is built for model independence and the open ecosystem. Teams can choose supported open or closed models, bring their own keys or endpoints, or use Factory Router to match each task with the right model for its performance, cost and reliability requirements. Factory Router decreases cost for customers by more than 50% at the same quality of outcome. Factory deploys from the cloud to fully air-gapped environments, giving enterprises control over their models, infrastructure, data and autonomy. Through Carahsoft, Factory's SOC 2 certified platform is now accessible to Government agencies that need to create, maintain and evolve software under strict security and compliance requirements. The partnership places Factory on established procurement pathways for agencies to evaluate and deploy agent-driven development without introducing new purchasing processes. Agencies can deploy Factory in the cloud, on their premise or in fully air-gapped environments for the highest-security labs. The platform supports single-tenant deployments within sandboxed environments, SSO and SCIM provisioning, role-based access controls, zero data retention mode, customer-managed encryption keys and comprehensive audit logging. By embedding autonomous development within the tools and environments agencies already use, teams can accelerate delivery, improve code quality and reduce reliance on manual development processes. "Government teams are responsible for delivering and maintaining complex systems under strict requirements," said Michael Adams, Program Executive for AI Solutions at Carahsoft. "Factory's approach gives agencies a new way to manage that work within environments they already trust. By making the platform available through our contracts and reseller ecosystem, we look forward to providing a direct path for Public Sector customers to adopt autonomous software development agents." Factory's solutions are available immediately to Public Sector customers through Carahsoft's SEWP V contracts NNG15SC03B and NNG15SC27B, TIPS Contract #220105, E&I Contract #EI00063~2021MA and The Quilt Master Service Agreement Number MSA05012019-F. Agencies can deploy the platform within existing environments, with support for standard integration and compliance requirements. For more information, contact the Carahsoft Team at (571) 662-3222 or [email protected]; or learn more about Factory's solutions here. About Factory Factory is the platform enterprises use to build and operate their Software Factory: a 24/7 system that continuously turns signals into production software across the entire lifecycle. Factory is model independent, deploys anywhere from cloud to fully air-gapped environments, and keeps engineers in control as the governance layer. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, investors include Sequoia Capital, NEA, NVIDIA, J.P. Morgan. For more information, visit Carahsoft Technology Corp. at www.factory.com. About Carahsoft's AI Portfolio Carahsoft's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portfolio includes leading and emerging technology vendors who are enabling government agencies and systems integrators to harness the power of AI and ultimately meet mission needs; from creating efficiencies within agencies to bolstering national security and defense. Supported by dedicated AI product specialists and an extensive ecosystem of resellers, integrators, and service providers, Carahsoft Technology Corp. help organizations identify the right technology for unique environments and provide access to technology solutions through its broad portfolio of contract vehicles. Its AI portfolio spans solutions for AI Infrastructure, Generative and Agentic AI, Autonomous Systems & Robotics and more. Learn more about Carahsoft's AI Solutions for Government here. About Carahsoft Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator for its vendor partners, Carahsoft Technology Corp. deliver solutions for Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Customer Experience and Engagement, Open Source and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, its sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Visit Carahsoft Technology Corp. at www.carahsoft.com.

2026 venture funding highlights: biotech AI, lab AI platforms and humanoid robotics. A roundup of 2026 financing activity across biotech, artificial-intelligence lab platforms and humanoid robotics, detailing investors, amounts and strategic aims. Compiled automatically from the sources listed below and checked against Hyperuranios' own capital and research data. Every figure here traces to a linked source. Artificial intelligence. Transfyr announced a $25 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures, Factory, Neo, SV Angel, MVP Ventures, Underscore VC, Lyda Hill and a group of angel investors. Co-founders Anna Marie Wagner, former Head of AI at Ginkgo Bioworks, and Renee Wegrzyn, founding Director of ARPA-H, aim to build a physical AI platform that captures laboratory actions, environmental conditions, equipment telemetry and tacit troubleshooting knowledge via integrated sensors and multimodal AI models. The data pipeline is intended for root-cause analysis, process optimisation, training, technology-transfer procedures and robotic instruction generation. Transfyr operates a wet-lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is already engaged with diagnostics, academic research, workforce development, robotics and frontier AI projects, including a near-$1 million Massachusetts Life Sciences Center grant and participation in the NSF's $400 million Programmable Cloud Labs initiative [1]. Suzhou Miwei Technology raised 100 million CNY (approximately $14.9 million) in a Series A round backed by Bohua Industrial Investment, Matrix Partners China, Hillhouse GL Ventures, Yushi Space, CSSD Group, BV Capital and USTC Silicon Valley Venture Capital, with IO Capital acting as sole financial adviser. The spin-out from the University of Science and Technology of China develops high-reliability space-based computers, an on-satellite operating system and a distributed "star-island" architecture supporting CPU, GPU, NPU and FPGA chips, delivering computing capacity from tens of TOPS to POPS. Its products already fly on four satellites, one of which has been in orbit for nearly five years, and the round will fund expansion of its space-computing and smart-satellite core-system business, positioning Miwei as the sole Chinese provider of fully domestic space-computing solutions across low, medium and high orbits [2]. Robotics. Nau Robotics reported a 172.7 % increase in first-half 2026 revenue, reaching 9.183 billion won, driven by the integration of Hanyang Robotics acquired earlier in the year. The acquisition broadened Nau's portfolio to include injection-automation and factory-automation robots alongside its existing Cartesian, articulated, SCARA and autonomous mobile logistics platforms. Revenue growth outpaced cost increases, with selling and administrative expenses rising only 106.9 % versus a 172.7 % revenue jump, improving the expense-to-revenue ratio from 103.26 % to 78.32 %. Despite a net loss caused by non-operating derivative valuation adjustments, the company highlighted a new focus on physical-AI and industrial humanoid development, participating in a domestic AI semiconductor pilot and building an industrial humanoid robot on a mobile dual-arm platform valued at roughly 2.4 billion won [3].