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- 📌 9 AI Startups raise $150M+
📌 9 AI Startups raise $150M+
BONUS: Global Deepfake Explosion From Illuminate Financial
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
TollBit raises a $24M Series A — AI training data marketplace
Highlight raises a $10M Seed — On-screen AI assistant
CrewAI raises a $18M Round — Multi-agent systems
Genmo raises a $28.4M Seed — Text-to-video model
Attention raises a $14M Series A — AI insights from sales calls
5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/5
Amount: $24M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Lightspeed Venture Partners
TollBit is a two-sided marketplace platform that allows publishers to monitor and monetize AI bot traffic when it scrapes their verified content.
The platform facilitates management between publishers and AI companies, allowing AI firms to access content without having to broker long, complex deals with each publisher.
2/5
Amount: $10M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: General Catalyst
Highlight is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant that can interpret context from users’ screens, documents, or audio inputs, and provide tailored responses using LLMs.
It allows users to ask questions, perform actions like summarizing, rewriting, explaining content based on the active screen/files or transcribe meetings in real-time.
3/5
Amount: $18M 🎉
Valuation: $100M
Round: Seed + Series A
Lead Investor: Insight Partners, Boldstart Ventures
CrewAI offers a platform that enables users to design, deploy, and iterate multi-agent AI systems with their open-source framework.
Their platform simplifies multi-agent system deployment and provides tools to manage agent access, track performance, and measure ROI. These systems have been adopted for complex workflows that involve extracting, validating, and processing unstructured data for internal automation, marketing, legal analysis, and even creative tasks like video editing and content production.
4/5
Amount: $28.4M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: New Enterprise Associates
Genmo just launched Mochi 1, an open-source AI model to generate high-quality videos from text prompts.
Mochi 1 is available under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows users to freely use, download, and modify the model's code. The model is built to capture superior motion quality, realistic scenery, and strict adherence to detailed user prompts. While outputs are currently limited to 480p resolution, a higher-definition version, Mochi 1 HD, is set to be released later this year.
5/5
Amount: $14M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Alven
Attention automates the extraction of actionable insights from sales calls.
Their platform also automates CRM entry, generates follow-up emails, and provides real-time performance coaching, helping sales teams close more deals efficiently.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Tennr raises a $37M Series B — Document automation platform for healthcare
→ Neysa raises a $30M Series A — AI/ML infrastructure and platform as a service for enterprises
→ Interface.ai raises a $20M Round — AI support agents for banks
→ Reality Defender raises a $18M Series A-2 — AI to detect text, video and image deepfakes
PITCH DECKS & TOOLS ⚒️
New Pitch Decks
Reducto $8.4M Seed - AI to turn PDFs and spreadsheets into data LLMs can use
Mako AI $1.55M Seed - AI private equity associate
StackGen $12.3M Seed - AI to auto-generate infrastructure from code
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