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- 📌 6 AI Startups raise $150M+
📌 6 AI Startups raise $150M+
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TODAY’S RECAP 🗓️
Black Forest Labs raises a $31M Seed — AI models for images, video
Hedra raises a $10M Seed — AI video model to generate characters
Healx raises a $47M Series C — Drug discovery for rare diseases
3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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Amount: $31M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Andreessen Horowitz
Black Forest Labs is building state-of-the-art generative models for images and videos.
They just released their first product FLUX.1, a suite of text-to-image models. These models set new standards in image detail, prompt adherence, style diversity, and scene complexity for text-to-image synthesis.
Notably, the founders are the creators of Stable Diffusion and will be launching a text-to-video model next.
2/3
Amount: $10M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: A16Z GAMES Speedrun, Abstract Ventures, Index Ventures
Hedra is building video foundational models.
Their primary product is Character-1, the fastest video foundation model. It offers speed and expressive control for generating character-centric videos, enabling content creators and marketers to produce long-form, high-quality videos. The platform integrates story, sound, and video generation, facilitating the creation of customizable digital avatars and characters.
Notably, Hedra has more than 350,000 users who have created over 1.6M video generations since their launch in June.
3/3
Amount: $47M 🎉
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: Atomico, R42 Group
Healx uses AI to identify potential drugs for rare diseases by analyzing public and proprietary data sources.
Their platform creates a biomedical knowledge graph that reveals hidden connections between existing chemical compounds and rare diseases. Healx's approach involves understanding complex biological disease signatures and matching them with suitable small molecules through computational techniques such as virtual screens and generative chemistry. This method contrasts with traditional drug discovery, which typically focuses on a single molecular target for a disease.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Protect AI raises a $60M Series B — LLM security platform
→ Global Predictions raises a $2M Seed — AI-powered personal financial advisory
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