📌 12 AI Startups raise $150M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Adaptive Security raises a $43M Series A — AI attack simulations & training

• SchoolAI raises a $25M Series A — Personalised education

• Actively AI raises a $17.5M Series A — Reasoning models for sales teams

• Opsera raises a $20M Series B — DevOps orchestration

• 8 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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→ Adaptive Security

Amount: $43M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI Startup Fund

Adaptive Security provides an enterprise cybersecurity platform that simulates AI-generated social engineering attacks for employee training.

The platform uses AI to create dynamic phishing campaigns across multiple channels — including email, SMS, and even voice. Once employees engage with these simulations, the platform tracks their behaviour in real-time to deliver moment-of-failure training to reinforce secure behaviour. A centralized administrative dashboard provides visibility into attack simulations, highlighting which tactics were effective and revealing weak points within the organization.

Why a16z invested in them

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→ SchoolAI

Amount: $25M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Insight Partners

SchoolAI’s platform combines AI assistants for teachers to help with classroom preparation/administrative work and personalized AI tutors for students.

For teachers, their assistants can auto-generate lesson plans, create tailored quizzes, recommend syllabi, and manage classroom logistics. For students, the platform offers interactive learning environments that act like personalized tutors. These AI tutors take the form of subject-matter experts or historical figures while adapting the content to each student’s unique pace, style, and interests.

Why NextView Ventures invested in them

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→ Actively AI

Amount: $17.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Bain Capital Ventures

Actively AI builds custom reasoning for sales teams to identify and prioritize high-value prospects.

The platform works by building customized “reasoning models” that analyze millions of data points, including CRM records, call transcripts, Salesforce fields, web behavior, and even subtle buyer signals. Instead of automating outreach or suggesting who to call next, Actively’s platform formulates and tests hypotheses about deal viability, timing, and buyer readiness. It then surfaces those insights directly to sales teams as actionable plays.

Why BCV invested in them

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→ Opsera

Amount: $20M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Prosperity7 Ventures

Opsera is a DevOps orchestration platform that integrates across the entire software development lifecycle to optimize and automate delivery workflows.

At the core of the platform are its AI agents which continuously monitor developer activity and pipeline executions to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. These agents analyze millions of data points in real-time — including telemetry from various development tools and platforms to offer recommendations to streamline processes, improve release velocity, and ensure system reliability.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Parasail raises a $10M Seed — AI deployment network with on-demand GPUs

→ Linguana raises a $8.5M Seed — Content localisation for video creators

→ RapidClaims raises a $8M Series A — AI-powered revenue cycle management for healthcare

→ Sturdy raises a $6M Seed — AI to analyze customer conversations to identify risks

→ Further AI raises a $5M Seed — AI for commercial insurance underwriting, claims & compliance

→ Ropes raises a $3.1M Seed — AI to evaluate engineering talent for recruitment

2 more rounds in the Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Etched is raising a $85M Round at a $1.5B post-money valuation (NEW)

→ Cursor is raising a $625M Round at a $9.6B post-money valuation led by Thrive Capital & a16z, $200M ARR (NEW)

→ OpenArt is raising a Series A, $12M ARR

→ Interview Coder is raising a $5M Seed from Abstract & Susa Ventures

→ DeepJudge is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Felicis, $2M ARR

Arfur Rock →

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