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- 📌 8 AI Startups raise $50M+
📌 8 AI Startups raise $50M+
BONUS: Microsoft Copilot Demos
TODAY’S RECAP 🗓️
Neros raises a $10.9M Seed — Autonomous drones for defence
Overland AI raises a $10M Seed — Autonomous navigation in off-road terrain
QA .tech raises a $3.25M Seed — Autonomous QA engineer
5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/3
Amount: $10.9M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital
Neros designs, manufactures, and ships autonomous drones tailored for defence applications.
These drones are deployed for military operations such as tracking enemy forces, guiding artillery, and bombing targets.
Manufacturing is within America while being cost-effective.
2/3
Amount: $10M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Point72 Ventures
Overland AI enables autonomous navigation in off-road terrain in any environmental conditions at speeds up to 45 mph.
Their software is designed to be adaptable to various platforms, including heavy tracked vehicles and lightweight wheeled vehicles, providing robust capabilities for defence applications.
3/3
Amount: $3.25M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: byFounders, PROfounders Capital
QA .tech is building an autonomous QA engineer.
Their AI AGENT replaces manual and scripted tests with fully autonomous user-centric testing, covering all functions and flows of a website. This includes tasks like logging in, account creation, and shopping cart interactions.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Kudos raises a $10.2M Series A — AI-powered wallet that automatically chooses the best credit card for a purchase based on rewards
→ Brain-CA Technologies raises a $2.2M Seed — Building “brain-on-a-chip”
PITCH DECKS & TOOLS ⚒️
Grasp $1.9M Pre-Seed - AI assistant for financial advisory
ViralMoment $2.5M Seed - AI to analyze short-form social videos on platforms like TikTok
Crosby Health $2.2M Seed - Clinical LLM to automate insurance appeals
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BONUS 🔥
FOR CURIOUS MINDS
TLDR: Microsoft is ALL IN on desktop assistants
- Microsoft builds AI for Windows & OpenAI for Mac.
6 wild demos of the Copilot desktop assistant:
1. A new feature, Recall, that can search across anything you see, hear on your PC (like @RewindAI)
— Chief AI Officer (@chiefaioffice)
9:19 AM • May 21, 2024
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