πŸ“Œ 16 AI Startups raise $300M+

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πŸ—“οΈ Today’s 1 min recap:

  • Physical Intelligence raises a $70M Seed to build robotic foundational models

  • Empathy raises a $47M Series B for its bereavement platform

  • CodaMetrix raises a $40M Series B for its medical coding platform

  • NanoNets raises a $29M Series B for its no-code workflow automation platform

  • Cognition raises $21M Series A for its fully autonomous software engineer

  • Tavus raises a $18M Series A for its personalized video platform

  • 10 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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Amount: $70M πŸŽ‰

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

They are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the future.

Amount: $47M πŸŽ‰

Valuation: $400M

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Index Ventures

Empathy offers a platform that combines AI with human guidance to assist in various aspects of bereavement.

This includes anything from counselling and writing obituaries to automating the shutdown of the deceased's cloud services and handling complex financial affairs.

Notably, Empathy reduces time and effort spent on logistics by 82%.

Amount: $40M πŸŽ‰

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Transformation Capital

CodaMetrix offers an AI-powered platform for efficient and reliable medical coding, targeting a $20B annual market.

The platform is used by over a dozen leading healthcare systems, aiming to enhance coding quality, generate clinically enriched claims data and reduce care costs.

The company currently serves over 200 hospitals and 50,000 providers.

Amount: $29M πŸŽ‰

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Accel

Nanonets offers a no-code AI workflow automation platform that can extract actionable insights from documents, emails, and databases, significantly improving efficiency in accounts payable, supply chain optimization, and other areas.

The company has seen a 3x revenue increase YoY and serves over 10,000 customers globally.

Amount: $21M πŸŽ‰

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Founders Fund

Cognition AI is developing a fully autonomous AI software engineer, Devin, that can perform complex coding tasks, from bug fixing to building and deploying applications.

I highly recommend checking out the demos here.

An evaluation on SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark to resolve real-world GitHub issues found in open-source projects, Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%.

Amount: $18M πŸŽ‰

Valuation: $80M

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Scale Venture Partners

Tavus enables the creation of realistic, personalized video campaigns through a user-friendly, no-code platform.

Businesses can customise faces, voices, and content, without the need for expensive production or advanced technical skill.

The company also launched its developer API to integrate Tavus into their own applications.

OTHER ROUNDS 🀏

Essential introductions

β†’ Axion Ray raises a $17.5M Series A - AI-powered observability for manufacturers

β†’ AIsphere raises a $14M Series A - Text-to-video model for China

β†’ Tierra Biosciences raises a $11.4M Series A - AI-guided cell-free technology for custom protein synthesis

β†’ Pienso raises a $10M Series A - No-code tools for training AI models

β†’ Loop raises a $6M Seed - AI-powered restaurant back office platform

β†’ HawkCell raises a $5.5M Series A - AI-powered MRI’s for humans and animals

β†’ Cogna raises a $4.8M Seed - AI-powered custom software builder

β†’ Milu raises a $4.8M Seed - AI-powered health savings platform

β†’ SOUNDRAW raises a $3M Round - AI music generation

β†’ Paraspot AI raises a $1.32M Seed - AI-powered inspections for real estate

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