๐Ÿ“Œ 10 AI Startups raises $400M+

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TODAYโ€™S FUNDING RECAP ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

  • Circuit & Chisel raises a $19.2M Seed โ€” Agentic payments

  • Rocket raises a $15M Seed โ€” App development

  • 8 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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1/2

Amount: $19.2M ๐ŸŽ‰

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Primary Venture Partners, ParaFi Capital

Circuit & Chisel is building ATXP, an open protocol purpose-built for payments between AI agents.

ATXP embeds into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers so agents can independently discover and pay for services, coordinate multi-party transactions, and delegate payment decisions up the chain when needed. It abstracts over stablecoins and multiple chains, acting as the โ€œwallet layerโ€ of the agentic web,

2/2

Amount: $15M ๐ŸŽ‰

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Salesforce Ventures, Accel

Rocket turns natural-language prompts into production-ready web and mobile applications.

Its multi-agent orchestration engine decomposes prompts into subcomponents to generate and merge code across frameworks like Next.js, React, and Flutter. Their system was trained on a proprietary dataset of 10 million Figma-to-code pairs, enabling the production of high-fidelity frontends.

OTHER ROUNDS ๐Ÿค

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

โ†’ Distyl AI raises $175M Round โ€” Tailored AI systems for enterprises

โ†’ AppZen raises $180M Series D โ€” AI finance automation for AP and expense auditing

โ†’ Salt AI raises $10M Seed โ€” Contextual AI platform for life sciences

โ†’ Howie raises $6M Seed โ€” AI scheduling assistant

โ†’ OnFinance AI raises $4.2M Pre-Series A โ€” AI agents for financial regulatory compliance

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