đź“Ś 9 AI Startups raise $150M+

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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

→ ReactWise raises a $3.4M Pre-Seed — AI copilot for chemical process optimization

→ hypergro raises a $0.8M Pre-Series A — AI ad maker

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ DeepJudge is raising a Series A at a $300M post-money valuation from Felicis, $2M ARR

→ Summation is raising a $21M Series A at a $100M post-money valuation from Kleiner Perkins

→ 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

→ Krea is raising a Series B at $500M valuation from Bain Capital Ventures, $8M ARR

→ Maven AGI is raising a $30M+ Series B, $7M ARR

→ Render is raising a $10M Series A, $5M ARR

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