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📌 AI Startups raise $190M+
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Amount: $80M 🎉
Valuation: $715M
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins
Harvey offers a generative AI platform designed for professional services. This includes the development of domain-specific foundation models in partnership with OpenAI.
The end users are top-tier law firms, in-house teams, professional service providers, and private equity firms. The platform addresses the need for sophisticated AI tools to handle complex, sensitive tasks, enhancing productivity, and streamlining workflows.
Amount: $65M 🎉
Valuation: $592M
Round: Private Equity Round
Lead Investor: Verdane
Meltwater enhances global services in media monitoring and analysis using AI and big data analytics techniques.
They offer media intelligence solutions, focusing on media monitoring and analysis, leveraging technology to provide comprehensive insights. The company analyzes around 1 billion documents daily for clients in communications, marketing, and PR.
Amount: $40M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Bain Capital Ventures
Halcyon focuses on developing tools to combat ransomware attacks.
Their platform includes anti-tamper protections, anti-data exfiltration software, and key material capture, leveraging AI models for disrupting and decrypting ransomware attacks.
Amount: $3M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Apollo Projects (Sam Altman’s VC firm)
Shelpful help people stay on task using a blend of AI and human support, targeting habit building and daily task management.
The service operates primarily through text messages, where AI and human coaches provide reminders, nudges, and encouragement. This approach aims to keep users on track with their daily tasks and long-term goals, promoting better task management and habit formation. It's particularly useful for individuals seeking structured support in their day-to-day activities and personal development goals.
Amount: $2.2M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Dreamcraft Ventures, People Ventures
Proemial aims to democratize scientific knowledge, making it easy to read, discuss, and engage with recent discoveries.
The platform uses AI to summarize, explain, and interrogate research papers, targeting a broader audience for scientific insights.
Other Rounds 🤏
Algor Education raises a $1.5M Seed - Concept maps and automatic summaries starting from any document with AI.
Magic Feedback raises a $1.3M Seed - Unify and categorize user feedback with AI.
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— NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI)
7:10 PM • Dec 18, 2023
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