📌 5 AI Startups raise $350M+

BONUS: The Agentic Era Of Commerce From Bain Capital Ventures

March 12, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Cartesia raises a $64M Series A — Real-time voice AI

  • Norm AI raises a $48M Series B — AI agents for compliance

  • Opus Clip raises a $20M Series B — Video clipping

  • 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

  • NEW unannounced deal 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: $64M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Kleiner Perkins

Cartesia is an AI research company building multimodal models using an architecture known as state space models (SSM).

Their flagship product, Sonic, is a voice generation model for low-latency, real-time applications like AI assistants and voice agents. Sonic can run locally without an internet connection and offers controllability features like emotion, speed, and prompting.

2/3

Amount: 48M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Coatue

Norm AI offers AI agents to ensure compliance with necessary rules and policies.

The platform employs a proprietary programming language that structures corporate policies and government regulations into decision trees for LLMs to understand. This enables businesses to create "Regulatory AI Agents" that assist compliance teams by automatically scanning and evaluating business documents for adherence to legal and regulatory guidelines.

3/3

Amount: $20M 🎉

Valuation: $215M

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: SoftBank

OpusClip is a multimodal AI video-editing tool to create short videos for social media.

The platform works by allowing users to input text prompts, which the AI uses to analyze video content and identify clips that align with trending topics on social media. The platform provides features like animated captions, reframing, audio cleaning, and AI-generated B-rolls.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Celestial AI raises a $250M Series C1 — Photonic Fabric™ optical interconnect technology

→ Podqi raises a $3.2M Seed — Automated IP protection platform for brands

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

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BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

OpenAI Operator Signals the Agentic Era of Commerce is Here

The launch of Operator with consumer-facing partners like Uber, Priceline, Stubhub and DoorDash is a signal the Agentic Commerce Era is here.

baincapitalventures.com/insight/openai-s-operator-signals-the-agentic-era-of-commerce-is-here

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