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📌 7 AI Startups raise $150M+

📌 7 AI Startups raise $150M+

BONUS: The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups 2024

October 25, 2024

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Nooks raises a $43M Series B — AI sales assistants
Boardy raises a $3M Pre-Seed — AI networking friend
Oboe raises a $4M Seed — Educational platform
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

Read time: 2 minutes

RAISED A $100M SERIES B

Escaping AI POC purgatory: Techniques for enterprise AI engineers

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Join us Oct. 29 at 9am PT. Sam Julien, Writer's Director of Developer Relations, will share practical strategies to overcome enterprise AI engineering challenges using a full-stack approach.

Topics include:

Managing project scope
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Navigating AI application development
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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

→ Nooks

Amount: $43M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Kleiner Perkins

Nooks offers an AI sales assistant platform (ASAP).

Initially, they launched the AI Dialing Assistant, which manages phone-based workflows like parallel dialing, skipping voicemails, and recording notes. Now, they’ve expanded to include:

AI Coaching Assistant - transcribes calls, offers training through roleplay, and helps sales managers identify areas for improvement.
AI Prospecting Assistant - automates research and builds targeted prospect lists.

2/3

→ Boardy

Amount: $3M 🎉

Round: Pre-Seed

Lead Investor: HF0

Boardy is an AI networking friend.

Users speak to their AI voice bot named Boardy about their professional projects or work. The AI then connects them with others in its growing network of potential customers, investors, or co-founders. Introductions are facilitated through double-opt-in agreements to ensure a thoughtful and mutually beneficial connection.

3/3

→ Oboe

Amount: $4M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Eniac Ventures

Oboe is building an AI-powered educational platform focused on personalized learning journeys that utilize audio, video, and interactive content.

They’re building a distinct backend infrastructure to optimize and tailor curricula per user which will also use synthetic AI voices, video, etc. It will be designed to adapt content delivery, providing audio-based learning on the go and video or app-based learning at home. Oboe will initially target adult learners and individuals seeking to upskill in specific fields.