🧐 A QUIET week in funding for AI Startups

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Top picks from last week 🚀 (July 3 - 9th)

A quick highlight

Leverage EDU

Amount: $40M

Round: Series C

Valuation: $150M

Leverage Edu, a study abroad platform based in Noida, India, has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Educational Testing Service (ETS), a Princeton-based language testing conglomerate. Other investors include angels Ankur Warikoo, Kunal Shah, etc.

Founded in 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, Leverage Edu assists students from emerging countries in accessing higher education opportunities abroad. The AI-enabled platform provides a range of services, including counseling, application support, college admissions assistance, education loans, international money transfer, and student accommodation.

Quantagonia

Amount: $4.7M

Round: Seed

Valuation: N/a

Quantagonia, a German quantum computing software startup founded in 2021 by Dirk Zechiel, Andreas Baumbach, and Michael Marthaler, has raised €4.3 million in seed funding led by Tensor Ventures.

Quantagonia's platform provides a unified interface for accessing different quantum computing hardware and software, making it easier for developers to build and run quantum applications. The company's goal is to make Europe "quantum ready" by providing businesses and researchers with the tools they need to develop and deploy quantum computing applications.

Pillar

Amount: $4.4M

Round: Seed

Valuation: N/a

Pillar, founded in 2021 by Mark Simpson, raised $4.4 million in funding for its interview intelligence platform that coaches and guides teams to hire faster, better, and more equitably.

The platform uses AI and in-interview coaching to provide companies with a more reliable way to assess a candidate's fit for a role during the interview process. Pillar enables teams to hire more equitably while saving time and money.

The platform's features include:

• AI-generated interview highlight clips and recordings

• Robust and flexible integrations with a variety of major applicant tracking systems and platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google

• In-interview coaching to help interviewers ask better questions and assess candidates more effectively

Web3Go

Amount: $4M

Round: Seed

Valuation: N/a

Web3Go, a Singapore-based blockchain data firm, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

Web3Go provides data and AI services to blockchain projects and public chains. The company's products include a real-time full-chain data aggregator for the BNB Chain and Polkadot ecosystems, as well as an AI-powered platform for verifying the ownership of digital assets.

Immersive Fox

Amount: $3.6M

Round: Seed

Valuation: N/a

Immersive Fox, a London-based AI video generation startup, has closed a €3.3 million seed funding round to help advance its proprietary AI technology that allows clients to create unlimited video content using their face and voice. The round was led by Redseed VC, with participation from Monte Carlo Capital and Altair.

Immersive Fox's technology is based on the concept of "AI twins," which are digital representations of people that can be used to create personalized video content. The company's AI twin technology is able to learn a person's facial expressions, voice, and mannerisms, and then use this information to generate realistic and engaging video content.

Other Events 📢

• Distil.ai, a software platform that helps businesses to understand their customers’ behavior and identify buying signals raises a $1.4M Seed Round.

• Needle, your personal AI marketer raises a $1.2M Pre-seed Round.

• ZuAi, an AI-Powered Personal Tutor for Students raises a $500K Seed Round.

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