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📌 3 AI Startups raise $40M+

📌 3 AI Startups raise $40M+

BONUS: The Rise Of AI-Native User Research From Greylock

June 12, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

Outset raises a $17M Series A — Customer research
Farsight AI raises a $13M Series A — Deal-making assistant
1 more round caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

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→ Outset

Amount: $17M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: 8VC

Outset is an AI-moderated research platform to gather primary user insights.

The platform enables companies to design multilingual 1:1 interviews conducted by AI agents—via video, voice, text, or screen-sharing. The system then ingests these multimodal interactions to generate quantitative reports. These interviews probe deeply into participant responses using researcher-defined goals and instructions. Researchers can also run usability tests, market strategy interviews, or longitudinal sentiment tracking in days, not weeks.

Why 8VC invested in them

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→ Farsight AI

Amount: $13M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: SignalFire

Farsight AI is an AI agents that embed directly inside Excel and PowerPoint to automate core deal-making workflows.

Farsight automates core deal workflows such as financial modeling, valuation analysis, pitch deck creation, and buyer list generation while tailoring outputs to each firm’s exact style guides, branding, and strategic priorities. Deep integrations with existing file structures, strict on-prem or VPC deployment options, and granular permission controls ensure security and compliance.

Why SignalFire invested in them