📌 5 AI Startups raise $180M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Krea raises a $47M Series B — AI media generation

• SigIQ raises a $9.5M Seed — AI tutor for exam prep

• PyannoteAI raises a $9M Seed — Speaker diarisation

• 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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RAISED A $9M SEED

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→ Krea

Amount: $47M 🎉

Valuation: $500M

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Bain Capital Ventures

Krea is a creative suite to generate, refine, and iterate on images, videos, 3D objects and animations using AI models.

The product integrates models such as Flux, Wan 2.1, Veo 2, Kling, and Hailuo, and constantly adds the latest ones. Users can also upload reference images to train their own models for a specific visual style, character, or object. Once generated, content can be upscaled, edited, converted into video, or synced with sound.

Why a16z invested in them

Why BCV invested in them

2/3

→ SigIQ

Amount: $9.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: GSV Ventures, The House Fund

SigIQ offers AI tutors to provide personalized learning experiences for students in India.

The platform functions similarly to a Zoom call where the user can engage in real-time conversations with an AI tutor. They offer 2 products - EverTutor for standardised exams like the GRE and PadhAI for UPSC aspirants (civil services exam).

3/3

→ PyannoteAI

Amount: $9M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Crane Venture Partners, Serena

PyannoteAI offers an open-source AI toolkit for transcribing speech.

The platform is language-agnostic and can perform speaker diarisation — the process of identifying who is speaking and when in an audio stream. Under the hood, their neural networks disentangle every word of a conversation to the correct speaker even when they involve interruptions, overlapping dialogue, varied emotions, mumbling, and non-linear narratives.

Why Crane Venture Partners invested in them

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Rescale raises a $115M Series D — Accelerated computing for AI-powered simulation and R&D

→ Sagittal AI raises a $2.2M Pre-Seed — AI teammate for the software development cycle

Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

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

→ 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

→ DeepJudge is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Felicis, $2M ARR

Arfur Rock →

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