📌 6 AI Startups raise $350M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Runway raises a $308M Series D — AI media generation

• Unframe raises a $30M Series A — Custom AI apps for enterprises

• Phonic raises a $4M Seed — Voice AI agents

• 3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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RAISED A $9M SEED

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1/3

→ Runway

Amount: $308M 🎉

Valuation: $3B

Round: Series D

Lead Investor: General Atlantic

Runway offers a suite of AI media tools & APIs to generate images and videos from textual prompts or reference visuals.

Their latest product, Gen-4, is a video-generating model that can create consistent characters, locations, and objects across scenes, maintain coherent world environments, and regenerate elements from different perspectives and positions within scenes. The company also launched Runway Studios, a film and animation production arm that partners with Hollywood studios to support AI-driven production pipelines.

2/3

→ Unframe

Amount: $30M 🎉

Round: Series A

Unframe enables enterprises to deploy custom AI solutions across any use case with minimal setup time.

The product delivers fully functional, enterprise-grade AI deployments within days. They give businesses a self-contained ecosystem which supports integration with a wide array of enterprise assets, including SaaS applications, APIs, internal databases, and static files.

3/3

→ Phonic

Amount: $4M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Lux Capital

Phonic is a speech-to-speech AI platform to power voice agents that are realistic, reliable, fast, and self-improving.

Their offering is not just a model or an API—it is an end-to-end voice stack built from the ground up. The company has developed proprietary text-to-speech and speech-to-speech models trained in-house, giving them control over performance, voice realism, and cost. These models are optimized for edge-case robustness, including handling accented, muffled, or interrupted speech.

Why Lux invested in them

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ HeyLibby raises a $4.5M Seed — AI to do inbound/outbound calls, emails, chats, and texts for gyms, recreation centers, wellness centers

→ Autonomy AI raises a $4.5M Pre-Seed — AI agents for front-end development

→ Parallel raises a $3.5M Seed — AI agents to streamline healthcare admin workflows

Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Etched is raising a $85M Round at a $1.5B post-money valuation (NEW)

→ Cursor is raising a $625M Round at a $9.6B post-money valuation led by Thrive Capital & a16z, $200M ARR (NEW)

→ OpenArt is raising a Series A, $12M ARR

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

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

Arfur Rock →

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