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Small Business Daily Podcast — December 4, 2025
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Meridian Credit Union partners with Personetics to embed intelligent financial support into its enhanced advice experience, OnYourWay
Meridian, Ontario’s largest credit union, has launched OnYourWay with Personetics’ AI to turn its app into a proactive financial coach. Members receive categorized spend insights, bill and subscription alerts, budgeting and savings tools, and small-business-specific dashboards in a unified UI across devices. The move reflects strong demand for personalized money tools and aims to deepen member relationships during economic uncertainty.
Unlimited Industries’ AI-powered construction raises $12 million seed round
Unlimited Industries raised $12M led by Andreessen Horowitz and CIV to bring an AI-first, vertically integrated approach to engineering and construction. Its platform explores tens of thousands of design options to optimize cost, safety, and performance, compressing pre-construction timelines and offering fixed-price contracts that eliminate change-order friction. Early work spans mining, power, and data centers, with rapid hiring and a Texas build-out underway.
Healthify upgrades its AI assistant Ria with real-time conversation capabilities
Healthify added live, multilingual voice and vision to Ria so users can converse in real time, scan food with the camera, and pull insights from fitness, sleep, and glucose data. A new memory layer personalizes guidance, while Ria also supports coaches and call transcriptions; a $20/month U.S. AI plan is rolling out. The company is widening integrations and using gallery detection to backfill missed meal logs.
Security startup Verkada hits $5.8 billion valuation in latest funding round led by CapitalG
Verkada raised $100M led by CapitalG, boosting its valuation to $5.8B as it surpasses $1B in annualized bookings across 30,000 customers. The company is layering AI into physical security with features like an AI-powered unified timeline that synthesizes multi-camera footage, while positioning AI as a force multiplier—not a replacement—for guards. Funds will expand AI capabilities as Verkada targets a legacy $60B market.
Marvell bets big on optical interconnects, buying Celestial AI for up to $5.5B
Marvell will acquire Celestial AI for at least $3.25B (up to $5.5B with milestones) to accelerate AI-scale data center connectivity with Photonic Fabric optical interconnects. By enabling higher bandwidth and longer reach than copper, Marvell aims to support larger, faster AI clusters and pair the tech with custom XPUs and switches for cloud players like AWS. The deal signals an aggressive bid to lead AI connectivity as Marvell guides steady near-term revenue.
AI Marketing with Kourtney launches human-centered AI content and automation agency for overwhelmed small business owners
Florida-based AI Marketing with Kourtney debuted a boutique, human-centered agency that implements AI “piece by piece” across websites, Google Business Profiles, CRM/email automation, and reputation management. Blending mindset coaching with done-for-you execution, the shop focuses on reducing tech overwhelm while driving more bookings and reviews for service-based SMBs. The emphasis is on protecting owners’ time and brand as automation runs in the background.
Zafran Security nabs $60M for its vulnerability management platform
Zafran Security raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures to scale its platform that normalizes telemetry across tools, deduplicates findings, and recommends fixes. Its new Agentic Exposure Management uses AI agents to triage zero-days via SBOM checks, identify system owners automatically, and generate temporary mitigations to speed remediation. The company says ARR has more than tripled since its prior round as it expands globally.
Lemurian Labs raises $28M for its efficiency-optimized AI model compiler
Lemurian Labs secured $28M to launch Tachyon, a compiler that makes AI models portable across Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs while improving efficiency. By reducing data movement and applying operator fusion, Lemurian claims it can cut inference costs by 60%–80% and boost utilization, with a dynamic runtime tuning performance in production. A beta is slated for next summer alongside hiring and partner expansion.
