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- 📌 12 AI Startups raise $300M+
📌 12 AI Startups raise $300M+
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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
LMArena raises a $100M Seed — LLM benchmarking
Siro raises a $50M Series B — AI coach for field sales reps
Legora raises a $80M Series B — Legal assistant
Filed raises a $17.2M Pre-Seed + Seed — Tax preparation
8 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $100M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Andreessen Horowitz, UC Investments
LMArena provides a crowdsourced benchmarking platform where users can test and evaluate LLMs in head-to-head matchups.
Users submit prompts, receive anonymous responses from two different models, and vote on which reply is superior. These user-generated evaluations are then aggregated into performance leaderboards, including 100s of models submitted by players like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. This structure enables open-source labs and commercial giants alike to compare model performance, showcase capabilities, and collect community feedback.
2/4
Amount: $50M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: SignalFire
Siro offers a mobile-first AI platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes field sales conversations.
It records and transcribes face-to-face sales conversations through a mobile app and uses LLMs to analyze these interactions, extracting coaching insights and performance data. The platform surfaces specific details like how objections were handled or how rapport was built and delivers coaching suggestions to improve rep performance. They also customise models for specific verticals like HVAC or solar installation.
3/4
Amount: $80M 🎉
Valuation: $675M
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: General Catalyst, ICONIQ Capital
Legora is an AI legal assistant for tasks like contract reviews, document drafting and redlining, legal research, and the retrieval of precedents.
The platform integrates with a firm's internal documents, playbooks, templates, and public legal information for its outputs. It also features a Microsoft Word add-in for document editing, a "tabular review" function for large-scale document analysis, and agentic web search capabilities.
4/4
Amount: $17.2M 🎉
Round: Pre-Seed + Seed
Lead Investor: Northzone
Filed offers an AI tax preparer for tax firms.
The platform automates the end-to-end lifecycle of a tax return, including reading and extracting data from documents, reasoning through each firm’s unique tax strategies, and inputting that data into the firm’s existing systems. The platform mirrors real tax workflows, flags ambiguous cases for human review and provides auditable architecture is compliant with IRS standards.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Catena Labs raises a $18M Seed — Financial infrastructure and services for AI agents
→ Greenlite raises a $15M Series A — AI agents for financial crime compliance
→ Yoodli raises a $13.7M Series A — AI roleplay coach for sales calls, interviews, pitches
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