📌 4 AI Startups raise $20M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Gradial raises a $13M Series A — Marketing operations

• Featherless raises a $5.5M Seed — Inference cloud

• 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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RAISED A $9M SEED

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→ Gradial

Amount: $13M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Madrona

Gradial offers an agentic AI platform to automate various aspects of marketing operations.

Their product integrates directly with Content Management Systems (CMS) to automate content updates, create and redesign pages natively within the CMS, ensure quality assurance and localization, and perform brand and compliance checks.

Why Madrona invested in them

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→ Featherless

Amount: $5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Airbus Ventures

Featherless is a serverless AI inference platform that provides access to over 4,000 open-source AI models.

The platform operates on a flat capacity pricing model to ensure cost predictability for casual AI users and small businesses. Their proprietary hot-swapping technology allows AI models to be switched in under five seconds which brings inference costs down — faster than the 30 minutes typically required to load a new model onto a standard GPU.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ ResiQuant raises a $4M Seed — AI-powered property intelligence platform for real estate underwriting

→ Nimblemind raises a $2.5M Seed — AI-powered data infrastructure platform to help healthcare providers structure and leverage their clinical data

Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Adaptive Security is raising a $40M Round from a16z & OpenAI

→ Krea is raising a Series B at $500M valuation from Bain Capital Ventures, $8M ARR

→ Maven AGI is raising a $30M+ Series B, $7M ARR

→ Render is raising a $10M Series A, $5M ARR

Arfur Rock →

PITCH DECKS & TOOLS ⚒️

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