📌 9 AI Startups raise $200M+

BONUS: UX Decisions For Gen AI From Emergence Capital

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Listen Labs raises a $27M Seed + Series A — Customer research

  • Ravenna raises a $15M Pre-Seed + Seed — Internal help desk

  • Endor Labs raises a $93M Series B — Code remediation

  • Scamnetic raises a $13M Series A — Socially engineered scam protection

  • 5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TURN CALL RECORDINGS INTO PODCASTS

Chief AI Office: Retellio takes all your company's customer calls, finds the moments that matter, and turns them into short podcasts.

Their AI extracts key insights on objections, pricing, and discovery

  • Sales leaders, RevOps teams gain instant access to trends & actionable insights without endless searching.

  • One-click integration from Gong, Zoom, Fireflies, etc

TOP PICKS 📢

1/4

Amount: $27M 🎉

Round: Seed + Series A

Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital

Listen Labs uses AI to conduct thousands of voice interviews simultaneously for customer research.

It handles the entire research workflow: crafting targeted questions, sourcing relevant participants across geographies and demographics, conducting interviews at scale, and synthesizing responses into insights. The platform turns customer stories into summary reports, video highlight reels, and ready-to-use presentation decks.

2/4

Amount: $15M 🎉

Round: Pre-Seed + Seed

Lead Investor: Madrona, Khosla Ventures

Ravenna is an AI help desk for internal IT and Operations teams.

Instead of using ticketing systems and help desks, Ravenna’s AI embeds directly into collaboration tools like Slack. It eliminates context-switching, automates repetitive queries, preemptively addresses common support requests, and integrates with enterprise systems to surface real-time insights. Employees interact with Ravenna through conversations within Slack, making requests, getting resolutions, and triggering workflows without logging into separate portals.

3/4

Amount: $93M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: DFJ Growth

Endor Labs detects, assesses, and remediates vulnerabilities introduced into codebases by AI coding assistants.

Endor Labs’ platform integrates with these AI coding tools, scanning code as it is written, flagging potential risks in real time, and suggesting or applying precise fixes using proprietary AI security agents. The system maps an organization’s entire codebase, including AI-generated segments, and monitors for vulnerabilities, supply chain weaknesses, and integration risks.

4/4

Amount: $13M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Roo Capital

Scamnetic detects and prevents digital scams across various communication channels, including emails, texts, social media, QR codes, and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.

The platform employs a process called “Scan&Score,” which evaluates incoming communications in real time, assigning a risk level to help users identify suspicious content. Another feature, “IDEveryone,” verifies identities across video, voice, and text to reduce the risks of scams in high-risk scenarios such as online dating and financial transactions. If a scam bypasses these defenses, Scamnetic provides “Scam Intervention,” a 24/7 hotline staffed with experts who assist victims in recovering assets and securing their digital lives.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Noxtua raises a $92M Series B — Legal AI assistant for Germany

buster raises a $2.4M Seed — Open-source AI data analyst

→ Bagel AI raises a $5.5M Seed — AI to turn scattered data into insights on product gaps, user pain points, and market trends

→ Neurolabs raises a $7.8M Series A — Computer vision for retail management

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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