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- 📌 5 AI Startups raise $25M+
📌 5 AI Startups raise $25M+
BONUS: Agentic Commerce From Acrew Capital
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
ConductorAI raises a $15M Series A — Government approvals
TheStage AI raises a $4.5M Seed — Model fine-tuning
Plastic Labs raises a $5.35M Pre-Seed — Personal identity for AI
2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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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: $15M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Lux Capital
ConductorAI helps government agencies with document review, compliance and approval processes using AI.
Their software ingests thousands of pages of policy documents, regulations, prior approvals, institutional heuristics, and then breaks these down into atomized rules. It then operates as a research assistant and compliance reviewer to determine what is allowable or non-compliant. Its biggest use case now is the automation of security classification workflows, though its scope is expanding to include export licensing, ITAR compliance, document declassification, and interagency information transfer.
2/3
Amount: $4.5M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Mehreen Malik
TheStage AI’s product is ANNA (Automatic NNs Analyzer), a software platform that leverages AI and discrete mathematics to automatically fine-tune PyTorch models.
ANNA applies a combination of quantization, pruning, and sparsification techniques to “trim the fat” from large AI models to make them leaner, faster, and cheaper to run. Through this system, developers can fine-tune models for specific needs like latency, compute power, cost, or size. In addition, they also offer “Elastic models,” which are pre-optimized open-source models of various sizes.
3/3
Amount: $5.35M 🎉
Round: Pre-Seed
Lead Investor: Variant Fund
Plastic Labs has developed Honcho, a plug-and-play personalization layer for LLM-powered apps.
Honcho replaces traditional approaches to user modeling — such as session-based logs or RAG over vector databases — with persistent, richly structured user representations. Honcho enables LLMs to query this user data, allowing them to adjust tone, context, and preferences based on who they’re interacting with. They also plan to build a shared user data layer across apps, which leverages crypto to align incentives.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Octolane AI raises a $2.6M Seed — Self-driving AI CRM that writes, updates, and moves deals
UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK
→ Goodfire is raising a $50M Series A at a $250M post-money valuation led by Menlo Ventures & Anthropic (NEW)
→ Cursor is raising a $625M Round at a $9.6B post-money valuation led by Thrive Capital & a16z, $200M ARR
→ Interview Coder is raising a $5M Seed from Abstract & Susa Ventures
BONUS 🔥
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