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π 12 AI Startups raise $360M+
BONUS: Mistral x Microsoft
Todayβs 1 min recap:
Glean raises a $200M+ Series D for its enterprise-search platform
Reveleer raises $65M for its health plan analytics tool
Inkitt raises a $37M Series C for its self-publishing platform
Brain AI raises $30M for its app-less AI phone
NLX raises a $12M Series A for its conversational AI platform
7 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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A detailed highlight
Amount: $200M+ π
Valuation: $2.2B
Round: Series D
Lead Investor: Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Glean's offers an AI-driven search and knowledge discovery platform designed for the enterprise workspace.
Here's how it works:
Connects data sources: Slack, Gmail, Confluence, etc., centralizing scattered information.
AI-powered understanding: Deeply understand content within these connected sources.
Intuitive search: Search interface similar to consumer search engines, but tailored to finding workplace information.
Proactive insights: Goes beyond search, surfacing relevant information and answers related to employees' work.
Amount: $65M π
Round: Venture Round
Lead Investor: Hercules Capital
Reveleer uses NLP and AI to provide health plans and providers with tools for quality improvement, risk adjustment, and member management, enhancing control over various healthcare programs.
The company has grown its revenue by more than 3x year-over-year in each of the past two years.
Amount: $37M π
Valuation: $400M
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: Khosla Ventures
Inkitt offers a self-publishing platform that employs AI to sift through user-generated stories, predicting their success based on reader engagement metrics like Netflix for books.
With an understanding of user engagement and tastes, the platform then uses AI to produce more content. They produce versions of fiction personalized for specific readers, games, audiobooks, and videos.
Amount: $30M π (Not confirmed)
Round: Convertible Note
Lead Investor: N/a
Brain AI unveiled a revolutionary app-less smartphone at the Mobile World Congress 2024 with Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile).
The phone is powered by "Natural", a generative computer interface app that uses AI to provide solutions across different services, aiming for a seamless integration of web, search engines, and apps.
Amount: $12M π
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Cercano Management
NLX offers an end-to-end enterprise AI platform for creating, managing, deploying, and analyzing chat, voice, and multimodal conversational applications.
Their customers include Red Bull and Copa Airlines.
Other Rounds π€
FlowGPT raises a $10M Seed - Building the largest open platform for AI apps
Composable Prompts raises a $4M Seed - Application platform for LLMs
Talus raises a $3M Seed - Blockchain platform to decentralize AI
Myko AI raises a $2.7M Seed - Conversational AI built for sales and revenue teams
Darwin AI raises a $2.5M Seed - Self-learning plug & play AI employee for SMBs
Adrenaline raises a $2.4M Seed - Tools for understanding and modifying large codebases
Kusho raises $0.6M Pre-Seed - AI agents to test code
Bonus π₯
For the most curious minds!
This is a mind-blowing announcement. Mistral AI, the French company that has been fighting tooth and nail to water down the #AIAct's foundation model rules, is partnering up with Microsoft. So much for 'give us a fighting chance against Big Tech'. A π§΅1/8
β Luca Bertuzzi (@BertuzLuca)
7:25 PM β’ Feb 26, 2024
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