📌 10 AI Startups raises $100M+

BONUS: The Evolution Of AI Coding From Obvious Ventures

September 20, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Numeral raises a $35M Series B — Sales tax compliance

  • Extuitive raises a $20M Seed — AI ads for Shopify

  • Phia raises a $8M Seed — AI shopping agent

  • 7 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $35M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Mayfield

Numeral automates entire lifecycles of sales tax compliance for e-commerce and SaaS companies.

It tracks economic nexus thresholds, registers businesses in the appropriate states, manages exemption certificates, receives and interprets tax-related mail, and files and remits taxes automatically while handling monthly, quarterly, and annual obligations across 11,000+ U.S. jurisdictions. The platform adapts as laws shift and handles filings across 60+ countries.

2/3

Amount: $20M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Flagship Pioneering

Extuitive enables entrepreneurs to rapidly create, test, and refine consumer products and targeted creative content.

The system of agents that replicate the roles of consumer researchers, product designers, and marketers to generate product concepts, model real-world behavior with adaptive simulations, and validate creative strategies in real time.

3/3

Amount: $8M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Kleiner Perkins

Phia is an AI shopping agent that unifies purchasing decisions across more than 40,000 online retailers.

The platform indexes billions of fashion products and maintains a database of 300 million secondhand items. Phia then surfaces discounted or secondhand alternatives while tracking price drops, resale value, policies, and key product details.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Sevaro raises $39M Series B — AI virtual neurology and workflow automation

→ Centari raises $14M Series A — Deal intelligence platform

→ Vibranium Labs raises $4.6M Seed — AI agent for SREs and on-call teams

→ Nolla Health raises $4.5M Seed — AI dermatology and virtual care

→ ShopVision raises $4.1M Seed — E-commerce AI for campaigns and merchandising

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

From Autocomplete to Autonomy: The Evolution of AI Coding

Coding is moving from copilots to autonomous agents. We explore use cases, the Lovable signal, and how review becomes the new trust gate.

https://obvious.com/ideas/from-autocomplete-to-autonomy-the-evolution-of-ai-coding/

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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