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📌 8 AI Startups raise $80M+

📌 8 AI Startups raise $80M+

BONUS: Consumer AI's Tipping Point From Bessemer

March 05, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Firsthand raises a $26M Series A — Brand agents for marketers
LlamaIndex raises a $19M Series A — Knowledge agents
Auxia raises a $23.5M Series A — Hyper-personalized experiences
Momentic raises a $3.7M Seed — Software testing
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/4

→ Firsthand

Amount: $26M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Radical Ventures

Firsthand allows publishers to create and distribute their own AI agents and chatbots directly with consumers everywhere online.

These agents can be deployed on the brands' own websites or as paid media on other platforms. At the core of Firsthand is Lakebed, the company’s AI rights and data management platform. With Lakebed, publishers and brands can protect their knowledge assets and retain complete control over where, when, and by whom their content surfaces through AI.

2/4

→ LlamaIndex

Amount: $19M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Norwest Venture Partners

LlamaIndex enables enterprises and developers to build custom knowledge agents.

Their product consists of both its open-source framework and its enterprise solution, LlamaCloud. The open-source framework provides developers with tools to process, index, and retrieve unstructured data to ingest into LLMs. LlamaCloud builds upon this by offering a fully managed, cloud-hosted version that allows enterprises to create and deploy AI agents capable of working with complex data formats, including PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and other unstructured files.

Why Norwest invested in them

3/4

→ Auxia

Amount: $23.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: VMG Partners

Auxia offers multiple specialized AI agents working together to analyze customer data and deliver hyper-personalized experiences.

The platform includes a decisioning system that determines the right content for each user, an attribution analyst that helps measure effectiveness, and an experimentation agent that tests multiple approaches simultaneously. Auxia’s AI agents process real-time behavioral data to create dynamic, user-specific interactions, which is a shift from campaign-centric marketing to consumer-centric personalization.

4/4

→ Momentic

Amount: $3.7M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: FundersClub

Momentic offers a software testing platform that automates end-to-end testing for web applications using AI.

Users can provide natural language instructions, which the platform translates into browser interactions to capture screenshots, view accessibility data, read network logs, and ingest console logs.