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📌 11 AI Startup raises $3.5B+
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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Cognition raises a $400M Series C — Autonomous coding
Motion raises a $38M Series C — AI agents for SMB workflows
Interaction raises a $15M Seed — Personal assistant for messaging
8 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/3
Amount: $400M 🎉
Valuation: $10.2B
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: Founders Fund
Cognition offers an agentic coding assistant that plans and executes software tasks.
Their agent, Devin, proposes a step-by-step plan and a confidence score, scans repositories, writes patches, and runs unit and integration tests to reduce bugs. The enterprise version allows companies to deploy tailored Devin agents embedded within their existing SDLC, complete with audit logs, compliance controls, and stack-specific customization. In July, Cognition acquired Windsurf to add an IDE that complements Devin’s async agent.
2/3
Amount: $38M 🎉
Valuation: $550M
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: Scale Venture Partners
Motion builds an integrated suite of agentic AI workers for SMB workflows.
The bundle comprises of specialized agents, including an executive assistant that automates scheduling, note-taking and email replies, a sales representative, customer support rep, and a marketing assistant that drafts blog and social posts. Each agent shares context with the others and has native integrations across Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce and more.
Notably, the company has crossed $10 million in ARR since launching its integrated agent suite in May.
3/3
Amount: $15M 🎉
Valuation: $100M
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: General Catalyst
Poke is an AI personal assistant that integrates into messaging platforms like iMessage and SMS.
Once connected to a user's email, calendar, and files, Poke acts autonomously to monitor for important signals, draft and send responses, reschedule meetings, handle invoices, book travel, and manage follow-ups. The system carries memory across platforms and contexts, allowing it to track tone, obligations, and history.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Databricks raises a $1B Round — Data intelligence platform
→ Datacrunch raises a $64M Series A — GPU cloud
→ Atolio raises a $24M Series A — AI enterprise search engine
→ Cassidy raises a $10M Series A — AI automation assistant
→ Dazl raises a $10M Seed — Turn AI prototypes into production-ready applications
BONUS 🔥
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