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Top picks

A quick highlight

Databricks

Amount: $500M 🎉

Valuation: $43B

Round: Series I

Investors: T. Rowe Price, Nvidia

Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering, and Business. They provide a Unified Analytics Platform powered by Apache Spark for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products.

Its product is a unified open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform integrates with cloud storage and security in your cloud account, and manages and deploys cloud infrastructure on your behalf.

Here’s the problem they solve 👇

Helsing

Amount: $223M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: General Catalyst

Helsing provides an AI platform that claims to be able to boost defense and national security, specifically for liberal democracies, by making them more efficient, using live data.

It processes data from multiple sensors directly on vehicles and systems, providing an integrated view of the operational environment with the aim of faster and more accurate decision-making.

Pixis

Amount: $85M 🎉

Round: Series C

Lead Investor: Touring Capital

Pixis provides a full-stack marketing platform that uses AI to monitor and orchestrate marketing campaigns.

The platform can be divided into three core pillars: Targeting, Creative, and Performance. On the targeting side, Pixis uses AI to identify and ideally convert audiences for a given brand, product, or ad campaign. On the creative end, Pixis can generate assets including texts, images, and emails. And when it comes to performance, Pixis offers automated ad bid and budget pacing tools that attempt to mitigate the impact of short-term fluctuations and seasonality.

Lastmile AI

Amount: $10M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Gradient Ventures

The mission of LastMile AI is to empower builders by providing a new class of AI developer tools built for software engineers, not machine learning research scientists.

LastMile AI provides a platform that helps software engineers develop and integrate generative AI models into their apps. It allows customers to create generative AI apps leveraging text- and image-generating models from both open- and closed-source model providers. Developers can personalize these models with their proprietary data, and then incorporate them into their new — or existing — apps, products and services.

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