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- 📌 11 AI Startups raise $300M+
📌 11 AI Startups raise $300M+
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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Writer raises a $200M Series C — Generative AI for enterprises
11x raises a $50M Series B — AI employees for GTM teams
Fastino raises a $7M Pre-Seed — Task-optimised LLMs
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1/3
Amount: $200M 🎉
Valuation: $1.9B
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: ICONIQ Growth, PremjiInvest, Radical Ventures
Writer offers a full-stack generative AI platform for large enterprises built on its proprietary family LLMs called Palmyra.
These models specialise in text generation and can be connected directly to a business’s internal data sources, allowing them to generate outputs that align closely with the company’s specific needs and preferences. Writer’s focus also extends to building "AI agents" capable of planning and executing workflows across various business systems and team structures.
2/3
Amount: $50M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Andreessen Horowitz
11x is building AI employees that autonomously perform tasks for GTM teams.
Their two primary offerings are Alice, who manages sales prospecting, and Jordan, who handles inbound and outbound calls with 30+ language support. Their digital workers handle tasks such as prospecting, lead qualification, and follow-up without needing training, onboarding, etc.
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3/3
Amount: $7M 🎉
Round: Pre-Seed
Lead Investor: Insight Partners, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
Fastino is creating a suite of task-specific AI models to perform efficiently on standard CPUs.
These models are tailored for critical enterprise use cases, including text structuring, summarization, and task planning. By focusing on specific tasks, Fastino's models achieve high performance without the need for specialized hardware, thereby reducing energy consumption and operational costs.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Cogna raises a $15M Series A — Custom enterprise software development
→ Glint Solar raises a $8M Series A — AI to identify and analyze solar sites
→ Eidon AI raises a $3.5M Seed — Decentralized network to collect data to train AI
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