📌 3 AI Startups raise $14B+

BONUS: MCP Is The New WWW From Scale VP

June 14, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Yupp raises a $33M Seed — Crowdsourced AI model evaluation

  • 2 more round caught by my funding tracker

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Amount: $33M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: a16z crypto

Yupp is a consumer-facing platform that enables users to evaluate and compare responses from multiple AI models at the time.

Users submit prompts, view several model-generated outputs side by side, and select their preferred response. These preference selections are bundled into digitally signed data packets that serve as high-quality human feedback for training and evaluating AI models. The platform is free to use and rewards users with incentives for their feedback. Blockchain infrastructure ensures the evaluation process is open, tamper-proof, and traceable.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Scale AI raises a $14.3B Round — AI and humans to provide high-quality training data for AI models

→ Sorcerer raises a $3.9M Seed — AI-powered weather forecasting

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

MCP is the new WWW - Scale Venture Partners

Over the past year, agentic AI has been loosely defined to mean anything from RAG to function calling and computer use. But what is an agent exactly? We now have an answer: agent = LLM + MCP. Primer For LLMs, MCP serves the same goal that web browsers accomplished for humans 30 years ago: it…

www.scalevp.com/insights/mcp-is-the-new-www

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