📌 6 AI Startups raise $200M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• WaveForms AI raises a $40M Seed — Audio LLMs

• Friend raises a $5.4M Seed — AI companion

• Ask Sage raises a $16M Series A — AI for the government

• 3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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→ WaveForms AI

Amount: $40M 🎉

Valuation: $200M

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Andreessen Horowitz

WaveForms AI is building audio-based AI models to facilitate emotionally intelligent conversations between humans and AI.

By processing audio inputs natively, the model captures the subtleties of human speech, including context, allowing it to generate responses that mirror human conversational patterns.

Notably, the founder is also the creator of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode.

Why a16z invested in them

2/3

→ Friend

Amount: $5.4M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Pace Capital

Friend offers AI companions capable of engaging in deeply emotional and interactive conversations.

The service is accessible via its website and through a wearable pendant. The pendant is a microphone-equipped device linked to the Friend mobile app via Bluetooth, allowing users to speak directly to their AI companion and receive text-based responses.

3/3

→ Ask Sage

Amount: $17M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Sapphire Ventures

Ask Sage is an AI platform for government and regulated industries, with a focus on defence teams.

The platform is LLM-agnostic, allowing integration with over 150 leading AI models, including Azure OpenAI Gov GPT, AWS Bedrock, Mistral, and Anthropic Claude, thereby avoiding vendor lock-in. It features a customizable natural-language interface that enables real-time data access, automation, and decision support across various workflows such as compliance, contracting, and cybersecurity.

Why Sapphire Ventures invested in them

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Nscale raises a $155M Series A — AI hyperscaler

→ Scalestack raises a $3M Seed — AI-powered RevOps

→ Nowadays raises a $2M Seed — AI copilot for corporate events

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