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📌 14 AI Startups raise $800M+

📌 14 AI Startups raise $800M+

BONUS: A Few Charts on AI Adoption From Tanay Jaipuria & Charles Rubenfeld

February 19, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Saronic raises a $600M Series C — Autonomous vessels for defence
Stacks raises a $7M Seed — AI agents for accounting
Valid raises a $5.5M Seed — AI-enabled ad agency
Lingo raises a $4.2M Seed — Software localization
10 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

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→ Saronic

Amount: $600M 🎉

Valuation: $4B

Round: Series C

Lead Investor: Elad Gil

Saronic specializes in the development of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) to enhance maritime operations.

The company's fleet includes three primary ASVs: the Spyglass, Cutlass, and Corsair. Operational capabilities of these vessels encompass persistent command and control, movement and maneuver, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), fires, and sustainability.

Why General Catalyst invested in them

2/4

→ Stacks

Amount: $7M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: General Catalyst, EQT Ventures

Stacks offers AI agents to streamline financial closing workflows.

The platform is fully integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and eliminates inefficiencies in month-end financial closing by automating transaction matching, data ingestion, journal entries, and reconciliation workflows.

Why EQT Ventures invested in them

3/4

→ Valid

Amount: $5.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Canaan Partners

Valid is an AI-enabled advertising agency.

Their platform consists of a front-end dashboard combined with back-end automations to optimize every aspect of ad campaigns, from creative development to media buying and strategic execution. Its LLM-powered system makes real-time strategic decisions to optimize ad spend and creative execution.

Why Canaan Partners invested in them

4/4

→ Lingo.dev

Amount: $4.2M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Initialized Capital

Lingo is an AI localization engine to fully automate the translation of software applications.

Lingo operates through a simple API that can be used in two ways: locally via a Command Line Interface (CLI) or automatically through direct integration with CI/CD systems like GitHub and GitLab. This means that whenever developers push a code update, Lingo automatically detects text changes and generates pull requests with updated translations.

Why Initialized Capital invested in them