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- 📌 9 AI Startups raise $70M+
📌 9 AI Startups raise $70M+
BONUS: How AI Will Modernize Enterprise Code From NEA
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Yutori raises a $15M Seed — Web agents for consumers
DeepIP raises a $15M Series A — Patent filing
Ethos raises a $3.25M Seed — Expert network
Hakimo raises a $10.5M Series A — Security monitoring
5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker & 1 NEW unannounced deal
Read time: 3 minutes
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: $15M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Radical Ventures
Yutori is building AI agents to automate everyday digital tasks on the web for consumers.
The company is building the entire system—models, interfaces, and infrastructure. The use cases include simple activities like ordering groceries or tracking reservations, as well as more complex scenarios such as planning and coordinating a group trip.
2/4
Amount: $15M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Resonance
DeepIP is building an AI copilot for intellectual property (IP) professionals.
The first core product focuses on patent drafting from inputs such as inventor interviews or other contextual documentation. This draft can then be refined by human experts. Building on this initial wedge, DeepIP has also launched a second product: Patent Prosecution, which helps lawyers manage correspondence and workflows with global patent offices during the approval phase. With this second tool, DeepIP aims to move further down the patent lifecycle.
3/4
Amount: $3.25M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: General Catalyst
Ethos offers an expert network platform that uses AI to identify and engage with relevant experts.
Users can search across millions of profiles in seconds, with the system evaluating atypical data points such as academic papers, code, and patent filings. The platform enables users to conduct expert calls directly for a fee and provides royalties for citations of their knowledge.
4/4
Amount: $10.5M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Vertex Ventures, Zigg Capital
Hakimo’s flagship product is the AI Operator, an autonomous security agent to work with existing security systems.
It continuously ingests live video feeds from security cameras, alarm systems, and door sensors to identify and respond to security threats in real-time. The AI Operator can detect complex scenarios, including tailgating, loitering, unauthorized access, intrusion into restricted areas, and unusual behaviour. Once a potential threat is identified, the AI Operator initiates real-time audio alerts through connected speakers and follows predefined response protocols.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Straiker raises a $21M Round — Security platform to protect enterprise AI apps and autonomous agents
→ Taxo raises a $5M Seed — AI to automate payer-provider communication tasks for healthcare administration
→ Flagright raises a $4.3M Seed — AI-powered AML compliance platform
→ experial raises a $2.1M Pre-Seed — AI to conduct market research
UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK
→ Interview Coder is raising a $5M Seed from Abstract & Susa Ventures (NEW)
→ 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
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