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đź“Ś 9 AI Startups raise $150M+
BONUS: The Next $100B Cybersecurity Opportunity From Menlo Ventures

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Augment raises a $25M Seed — Logistics assistant
Distributed Spectrum raises a $25M Series A — Radio signal intelligence
Graphite raises a $52M Series B — Code review
Arcade raises a $12M Seed — AI tool-calling
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker & 3 NEW unannounced deals
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RAISED A $9M SEED
Chief AI Office: Tezi offers Max, its autonomous AI recruiting agent.
Max proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball.
Add unlimited recruitment capacity for a fraction of the cost while Max works 24/7 to accelerate time-to-hire
Focus on selling, evaluating, and closing rather than rote busy work
TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $25M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: 8VC
Augment offers an AI logistics assistant for shippers, brokers and carriers.
It is capable of responding to messages, making and receiving phone calls, negotiating and coordinating freight bookings, and managing routine workflows such as updating shipment status, tracking freight movements, and generating reports.

2/4
Amount: $25M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Conviction, Shield Capital, Nat Friedman
Distributed Spectrum provides real-time radio frequency (RF) intelligence to military operators.
The platform consists of modular RF sensors that can be attached to various military assets, including drones, ground vehicles, ships, and aircraft. These sensors continuously scan the electromagnetic spectrum, detecting nearby jamming, spoofing, and other forms of electronic interference in real-time.
3/4
Amount: $52M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Accel
Graphite is an AI code review and collaboration tool. They just launched Diamond, an automated code reviewer.
Diamond provides instant in-depth feedback, suggest code improvements, summarize code changes, and flag potential errors or security risks. The tool gathers context directly from a developer’s codebase to deliver suggestions that are specific to the project’s structure, standards, and requirements.
4/4
Amount: $12M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Laude Ventures
Arcade provides an authenticated tool-calling platform that enables AI agents to securely act on behalf of users across various applications.
The platform offers hundreds of pre-built "agent tools” with OAuth, for commonly used enterprise and consumer apps. Additionally, they also offers an SDK that allows engineers to create and test custom tools.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ TurinTech AI raises a $15M Series A — AI to analyze, optimize, and validate codebases at scale
→ Halliday raises a $20M Series A — AI agents that can safely operate on blockchain networks
→ LimitlessCNC raises a $4M Seed — AI agents for your CAD/CAM systems
→ hypergro raises a $0.8M Pre-Series A — AI ad maker
UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK
→ Interaction Labs is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Kleiner Perkins
→ Adaptive Security is raising a $40M Round from a16z & OpenAI
→ Render is raising a $10M Series A, $5M ARR
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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