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- 📌 11 AI startups raise $350M+
📌 11 AI startups raise $350M+
BONUS: AI Bubble Signals Intensifying From Activant Research
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Inference raises a $11.8M Seed — Custom LLMs
Airbound raises a $8.65M Seed — Drone logistics
Trove AI raises a $7.1M Seed — Private-equity agents
Flint raises a $5M Seed — Autonomous websites
7 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $11.8M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Multicoin Capital, a16z CSX
Inference offers infrastructure to train and deploy custom AI models for repeatable business tasks.
The platform supports hosted inference and model training, letting teams run open-source models such as Llama 3.3 and DeepSeek V3 and trains optimized models tailored to use cases like document parsing, image captioning, and content classification. Models can be self-hosted or deployed on Inference’s infrastructure, which aggregates underutilized compute across data centers in a spot-market model.
2/4
Amount: $8.65M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Physical Intelligence
Airbound builds ultra-light, blended-wing-body autonomous drones for low-cost logistics.
Their aircrafts combine vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) with the aerodynamic efficiency of fixed-wing flight, yielding a payload-to-vehicle mass ratio of 1.5:1. The system targets repeatable, high-frequency missions such as medical specimen transport, test kits, and essential supplies for last-mile and middle-mile logistics.
3/4
Amount: $7.1M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Menlo Ventures
Trove AI builds AI agents for private equity workflows.
The platform integrates into a firm’s internal systems to index deal files, portfolio reports, emails, and CRM data without manual uploads. A finance-specific knowledge graph unifies this information into a context layer so agents can retrieve metrics, analyze data rooms, and produce outputs in the firm’s style. Beyond basic enterprise RAG, Trove’s agents plan and execute multi-step workstreams by screening deals, drafting investment memos, and handling quarterly reporting.
4/4
Amount: $5M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Accel
Flint offers autonomous websites that generate, optimize, and adapt themselves in response to market dynamics and visitor behavior
The platform ingests a brand’s design system from a URL and automatically publishes fully coded branded pages to the customer’s root domain. Sites then iterate in production, testing layouts, reacting to events, and personalizing for visitors, including AI agents like ChatGPT. Once parameters are set, Flint assembles layout, interactivity, tracking, and ad optimization, evolving with user and market signals.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Lila Sciences raises $350M Series A — Autonomous science labs for life, chemical, and materials science
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