đź“Ś 5 AI Startups raise $40M+

BONUS: AI Phone Calling For Verticals From Scale VP

March 27, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Brisk Teaching raises a $15M Series A — AI assistant for teachers

  • GetReal raises a $17.5M Series A — Synthetic media detection

  • SplxAI raises a $7M Seed — Security testing for agentic systems

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

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RAISED A $9M SEED

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $15M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Bessemer Venture Partners

Brisk is an AI assistant that integrates into the daily workflows of K-12 educators through a Chrome browser extension.

Its core value proposition is built on saving teachers time by automating repetitive and manual tasks such as grading, content creation, feedback generation, and lesson planning. The platform offers a suite of over 40 tools—ranging from personalized grading comments to adaptive learning content, all of which are accessible within Google Docs, PDFs, YouTube, etc

2/3

Amount: $17.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Forgepoint Capital

GetReal offers a forensics platform to detect deepfake and synthetic media across audio, video, and still images.

The platform includes three key tools - “Inspect” monitors and protects high-profile individuals from impersonation attempts, “Protect” enables media screening, and “Respond” involves expert-led forensic investigations by GetReal’s team. Their technology identifies the “tells” of synthetic media by detecting subtle violations of physical laws and is accessible through a web interface, APIs.

3/3

Amount: $7M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: LAUNCHub Ventures

SplxAI offers an automated offensive security platform built to test, simulate, and defend against the threats introduced by agentic AI systems.

Their platform operates by continuously running red-team simulations that mimic sophisticated adversarial attacks to expose weaknesses like prompt injection attacks. They also released an open-source tool called Agentic Radar to map dependencies, identify blind spots, and assess the overall security posture of agentic environments.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Hook raises a $3M round — AI to remix songs from top musicians

→ Differential Bio raises a $2.1M Pre-Seed — AI-based modeling to optimize how industry-relevant microbes grow and produce

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Interview Coder is raising a $5M Seed from Abstract & Susa Ventures (NEW)

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

→ Summation is raising a $21M Series A at a $100M post-money valuation from Kleiner Perkins

→ Interaction Labs is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Kleiner Perkins

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BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

AI phone calling for verticals - Scale Venture Partners

Over the past year, AI phone calling has leapt from Hayes Valley hackathon project to remarkable market traction. Today, most of this revenue is concentrated in upmarket customer service organizations. This concentration is reflective of the historic implementation demands of AI calling and also of the product approaches that venture dollars have flowed towards to…

www.scalevp.com/insights/ai-phone-calling-for-verticals

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