📌 8 AI Startups raise $50M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Adaptive Computer raises a $7M Seed — Web-app builder

• Deep Infra raises a $18M Series A — Inference cloud

• Lace raises a $14M Seed — Call analytics for home service businesses

• 5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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1/3

→ Adaptive Computer

Amount: $7M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Pebblebed

Adaptive Computer is a no-code web application builder.

Users describe what they want using natural language prompts and then the platform generates full-fledged, shareable web apps with back-end infrastructure, authentication, file systems, and optional integrations like Stripe payments or AI features (image generation, speech synthesis, web research, etc.). It is distinct in that it is designed explicitly for true non-programmers—people with no background in code.

2/3

→ Deep Infra

Amount: $18M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Felicis

Deep Infra provides a high-performance AI inference cloud that enables developers and companies to run open-source AI models through an API.

The platform handles the ownership and optimization of physical hardware and models, abstracting away the complexities of setting up and managing GPUs, fine-tuning, latency optimization, and scaling. Their infrastructure is optimized for inference, not training, making it ideal for production use cases where consistent performance and cost-efficiency are critical. They allow companies to run standard or fine-tuned models, including LoRAs, for text and image tasks, and support the orchestration of multiple custom models in parallel.

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3/3

→ Lace

Amount: $14M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Bek Ventures

Lace AI helps home service businesses improve revenue conversion from phone-based customer interactions.

he platform uses AI to analyze 100% of incoming calls in real time, identifying lost revenue opportunities and providing insights to improve sales outcomes. It tracks call outcomes, flags missed leads, and provides actionable recommendations to improve booking rates and customer service performance. It is designed specifically for industries like HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and home remodeling.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Ascertain raises a $10M Series A — AI case management assistant for healthcare

→ Terra Security raises a $8M Seed — AI agents built for web application penetration testing

→ Cluely raises a $5.3M Seed — AI desktop assistant to help users in virtual meetings and sales calls.

→ Capably AI raises a $4M Seed — Agentic business automation platform

→ Zeno raises a $2.3M Seed — AI-native workspace for legal work

Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Browserbase is raising a Series B at a $300M post-money valuation led by Notable Capital (NEW)

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

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

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

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