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- 📌 10 AI Startups raise $150M+
📌 10 AI Startups raise $150M+
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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Tera AI raises a $7.8M Seed — Spatial reasoning for robots
Pluralis Research raises a $7.6M Seed — Open-source training & model ownership
Spangle raises a $6M Seed — Self-optimizing shopping
AMT raises a $3.5M Seed — Influencer marketing outreach
6 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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RAISED A $9M SEED
Chief AI Office: Tezi offers Max, its autonomous AI recruiting agent.
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Add unlimited recruitment capacity for a fraction of the cost while Max works 24/7 to accelerate time-to-hire
Focus on selling, evaluating, and closing rather than rote busy work
TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $7.8M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Felicis, Inovia Capital, Naval Ravikant
Tera AI is a spatial reasoning AI system to offer affordable visual navigation for autonomous robots.
Their zero-shot navigation technology allows robots to operate in environments without prior mapping or retraining. The software is platform-agnostic and can be deployed via over-the-air updates to any robot equipped with a camera and a GPU. This approach eliminates the need for costly hardware like high-precision GPS receivers or lidar systems.
2/4
Amount: $7.6M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: CoinFund, Union Square Ventures
Pluralis is developing a protocol that facilitates decentralized training and ownership of foundation models.
Their protocol allows large neural networks to be trained across distributed nodes of heterogeneous hardware connected via standard internet connections. A key innovation is that the resulting models remain within the protocol, preventing any single entity from extracting the full model weights. This ensures that contributors retain an economic stake in the models they help create.
3/4
Amount: $6M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Madrona, Streamlined Ventures
Spangle creates custom landing pages for shoppers based on what they searched for or clicked on in real-time.
At the heart of this platform is ProductGPT, a proprietary AI model that interprets customer intent at the moment of engagement. By analyzing consumer behavior, Spangle’s AI agents make intelligent decisions to customize landing pages and site interactions instantly so that shoppers see the most relevant products and content.
4/4
Amount: $3.5M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: NFX
AMT is building an Autonomous Marketing Team of AI agents.
Their first product is Lyra, an AI agent to automate various aspects of influencer marketing. Lyra interacts with influencers, handling tasks such as booking campaigns, tracking results, processing payments, and responding to inquiries. Additionally, Lyra autonomously identifies influencers that align with a brand's campaign objectives by analyzing content and tone using a combination of AI models.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Dataminr raises a $85M Round — AI to discover signals of events, risks and threats from within public data
→ Prezent AI raises a $20M Round — AI to build slide decks
→ ClearGrid raises a $10M Seed + Series A — AI to improve debt collection in MENA
→ Cortea raises a $3.4M Seed — AI-powered audit software for EU
→ Swish Robotics raises a $2.5M Pre-Seed — Countertop robot that cooks full meals from fresh ingredients in 20 minutes
→ CaseBlink raises a $2M Pre-Seed — AI for immigration case prep
UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK
→ Interaction Labs is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Kleiner Perkins
→ Adaptive Security is raising a $40M Round from a16z & OpenAI
PITCH DECKS & TOOLS ⚒️
New Pitch Decks
Reducto $8.4M Seed - AI to turn PDFs and spreadsheets into data LLMs can use
Mako AI $1.55M Seed - AI private equity associate
StackGen $12.3M Seed - AI to auto-generate infrastructure from code
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