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📌 7 AI Startups raise $200M+

📌 7 AI Startups raise $200M+

BONUS: A Path Toward Physical Intelligence From Obvious Ventures

January 16, 2025

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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Synthesia raises a $180M Series D — AI video avatars
qbiq raises a $16M Series A — Interior architectural design
Ranger raises a $8.9M Round — Software QA
4 more round caught by my funding tracker

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→ Synthesia

Amount: $180M 🎉

Valuation: $2.1B

Round: Series D

Lead Investor: New Enterprise Associates

Synthesia enables the creation of AI video avatars from simple text inputs.

Users can generate avatar-based videos tailored to corporate training, sales, marketing, and internal communications, etc. The platform offers multi-language support, collaboration tools for simultaneous editing, and features for creating personalized avatars with emotions.

Why NEA invested in them

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→ qbiq

Amount: $16M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Insight Partners

Qbiq offers an AI tool for interior architectural design.

For professional architects, the platform provides optimized floor plans, 3D visualizations, CAD modelling tools, and material quantity estimates. Nonprofessionals, such as brokers, landlords, and contractors, can use the AI system to create detailed layouts and visualizations without prior architectural knowledge. Users can input their design vision or create a rough sketch, and the platform transforms these inputs into 3D models.

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→ Ranger

Amount: $8.9M 🎉

Round: Pre-Seed + Seed

Lead Investor: General Catalyst, XYZ Venture Capital

Ranger uses AI agents to automate the entire QA process.

It writes, runs, and maintains tests autonomously while also identifying bugs. The platform proactively tests code changes and handles all the infrastructure required for running tests, including spinning up browsers to execute tests.

Why XYZ invested in them

Why General Catalyst invested in them