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📌 7 AI Startups raise $120M+

📌 7 AI Startups raise $120M+

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November 19, 2024

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Moonvalley raises a $70M Seed — Generative video models
Pruna AI raises a $6.5M Seed — AI model compression
SuperAnnotate raises a $36M Series B — Data management
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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→ Moonvalley

Amount: $70M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners

Moonvalley is building generative video models for professional use in media, advertising, and film production industries.

Moonvalley’s models are trained on carefully curated and licensed content while the platform combines highly precise object control, clean data models, and intuitive workflow tooling. The goal is to enable a level of customization and accuracy that professional users require.

2/3

→ Pruna AI

Amount: $6.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: EQT Ventures

Pruna AI offers an optimization engine that makes AI models smaller, cheaper, faster, and greener.

The platform incorporates advanced compression techniques, including pruning, quantization, compilation, and caching, which enable engineers to quickly adapt and enhance models without extensive reengineering. By compressing models, Pruna AI reduces the amount of energy and computational power needed to run AI applications at scale.

3/3

→ SuperAnnotate

Amount: $36M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Socium Ventures

SuperAnnotate provides a data management and annotation platform that enables AI developers to create, organize, and evaluate large datasets for model training.

Users can connect data from local sources and cloud environments to build collaborative data projects and track the impact of data changes on model performance. Additionally, SuperAnnotate includes a marketplace of crowd-sourced workers who can perform data annotation tasks, adding labels and metadata to raw data.