📌 10 AI Startups raise $150M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Chalk raises a $50M Series A — Real-time data inference

• Creatify AI raises a $15.5M Series A — Video ad generation

• Rillet raises a $25M Series A — General ledger & ERP system

• Flora raises a $6.5M Seed — AI creative canvas

• 6 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

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→ Chalk

Amount: $50M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Felicis

Chalk is a real-time data inference platform.

The platform delivers fresh, low-latency, real-time data to AI models at inference time. It provides a real-time feature engine that allows developers to create pipelines that execute end-to-end in milliseconds at scale, and supports computationally intensive inference tasks as well. The platform also provides integrated testing, debugging, unit testing, and data caching tools to ensure data quality and reliability.

Why Felicis invested in them

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→ Creatify AI

Amount: $15.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Kindred Ventures, WndrCo

Creatify offers AI agents to generate video ads at scale.

Their agent, AdMax, handles the lifecycle of a video ad campaign from concept ideation and scripting to automated generation, platform-specific optimization, A/B testing, and performance analysis. The platform combines LLMs, video generation models, and video understanding systems to produce native UGC-style video ads in minutes. Brands can create 100s of unique ad variants at scale while maintaining creative quality and brand consistency through built-in controls.

Why Kindred Ventures invested in them

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→ Rillet

Amount: $25M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital

Rillet is an AI-native general ledger and ERP system for mid-sized companies.

It automates financial operations and enables near-instantaneous monthly or quarterly closings. The platform uses AI to ingest data from platforms like Salesforce, Stripe, Ramp, Brex, and Rippling, and outputs auditable reports including income statements and balance sheets. The software also supports complex functions like multi-entity management and revenue recognition.

Why Sequoia invested in them

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→ Flora

Amount: $6.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Hanabi Capital

Flora is an AI creative canvas built for professional designers, artists, and agencies who seek generative speed and fine-grained control.

The product is an “infinite canvas” interface that integrates AI models and allows users to visually orchestrate and manipulate AI-generated outputs—text, image, and video—into an editable creative workflow. The focus is on enabling iterative exploration and visual mapping of ideas.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Hex raises a $70M Series C — AI-powered analytics workspace

→ Context raises a $11M Seed — AI office suite for presentations, research, spreadsheets, and team communication

→ Ankar raises a $4M Seed — AI for IP search, patent filing, freedom-to-operate analysis and infringement detection

→ Spott raises a $3.2M Seed — AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & executive search firms

2 more rounds in the Funding Database →

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