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- 📌 8 AI Startups raise $300M+
📌 8 AI Startups raise $300M+
BONUS: Foundation Capital on OpenAI's $157B valuation
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Sierra raises a $175M Round — AI agents for enterprise support
Read AI raises a $50M Series B — Copilot for meetings, emails, messages
Reflexivity raises a $30M Series B — Investment research copilot
Moondream raises a $4.5M Pre-Seed — Small vision models
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $175M 🎉
Valuation: $4.5B
Lead Investor: Greenoaks
Sierra offers conversational AI agents for enterprise customer service needs.
Their platform integrates deeply with companies' existing systems, allowing AI agents to autonomously execute tasks on behalf of customers, such as managing account details or updating preferences, reducing the need for human intervention.
2/4
Amount: $50M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Smash Capital
Read AI offers an AI copilot that summarizes and manages meeting notes, emails, and other communications from tools like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Its features include real-time meeting transcription, automated summaries, action item identification, and personalized coaching. The platform also provides a Chrome extension for Gmail, enabling users to access meeting data, messages, and emails in one consolidated view.
3/4
Amount: $30M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Greycroft, Interactive Brokers Group
Reflexivity is an AI investment research copilot for hedge fund managers, traders, and other financial professionals.
The platform integrates over a dozen data sources, including Refinitiv, S&P Global, and the London Stock Exchange Group, covering around 40,000 securities. Their proprietary knowledge graph and generative AI-powered interface assist users in identifying relationships between data points, allowing for proactive decision-making.
4/4
Amount: $4.5M 🎉
Round: Pre-Seed
Moondream has built a vision-language model with only 1.6 billion parameters, designed to perform tasks traditionally handled by much larger models.
Their AI model is capable of delivering competitive performance on standard benchmarks, with applications in object detection, image captioning, and data analysis.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Aignostics raises a $34M Series B — AI-powered insights for precision medicine development
→ paretos raises a $9.2M Series A — AI to run supply chain operations
→ Pharos raises a $5M Seed — AI to automate reporting in hospitals
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