📌 5 AI Startups raise $130M+

BONUS: AI's Undervalued Asset From Activant Capital

April 11, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • LiveKit raises a $45M Series B — Voice agents infrastructure

  • Incident raises a $62M Series B — Incident response

  • Outtake raises a $16.5M Series A — Social engineering defence

  • 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker & 1 NEW stealth deal

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RAISED A $9M SEED

Chief AI Office: Tezi offers Max, its autonomous AI recruiting agent.

Max proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.

  • Add unlimited recruitment capacity for a fraction of the cost while Max works 24/7 to accelerate time-to-hire

  • Focus on selling, evaluating, and closing rather than rote busy work

TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $45M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Altimeter

LiveKit enables developers to integrate real-time audio and video into their applications with low latency.

Its offerings include LiveKit Cloud for ultra-low latency audio/video delivery, LiveKit Agents for developing voice-based AI agents, and Cloud Agents for managing large-scale deployment of these voice agents globally. The platform supports both open-ended agents like ChatGPT Voice Mode and closed-loop agents that replicate structured workflows such as debt collection or patient onboarding. They provide end-to-end tools including SDKs, APIs and orchestration tools to support complex, multi-agent voice AI applications.

2/3

Amount: $62M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Insight Partners

Incident offers an incident management platform to help software teams resolve outages and failures in real-time.

Their AI agents integrate directly with Slack and Microsoft Teams to manage the full incident lifecycle. It investigates root causes, recommends fixes, takes notes, writes postmortems, and executes tasks during active incidents.

3/3

Amount: $16.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: CRV

Outtake offers cyber AI agents to search, classify and respond to threats.

Its agentic system actively identifies, classifies, and responds to social engineering threats across digital platforms like social media, websites, and email. These AI agents integrate directly with platforms such as LinkedIn, Meta, and X (formerly Twitter), to enable fast takedowns of fake or malicious content. Each interaction trains the system further which constantly improves the precision and speed of threat remediation.

Notable customers include OpenAI, Pershing Square and Scicomm Media.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ 8Flow raises a $10M Series A — Enterprise workflow mapping for AI agents

→ Rematiq raises a $6.1M Seed — AI to automate product compliance for medical device development

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Goodfire is raising a $50M Series A at a $250M post-money valuation led by Menlo Ventures & Anthropic (NEW)

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

→ 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

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

AI's Undervalued Asset — Activant

Discover how data is emerging as the critical pillar for AI’s future, alongside compute and software. Learn why investments in data infrastructure, like Databricks’ historic $10B round, are reshaping AI’s trajectory toward a $288B market potential.

activantcapital.com/research/ai-s-undervalued-asset

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