đź“Ś 4 AI Startups raise $400M+

BONUS: The Race To Secure Enterprise AI From Insight Partners

July 18, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Lovable raises a $200M Series A — Idea-to-App

  • Empirical Security raises a $12M Seed — Cybersecurity

  • 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/2

Amount: $200M 🎉

Valuation: $1.8B

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Accel

Lovable enables non-technical users to build full-stack software products using natural language.

A user describes the desired product and Lovable’s system orchestrates design, generates front-end interfaces, provisions back-end infrastructure, integrates databases and external APIs, and returns a runnable application complete with deployment and collaboration features. The platform continuously refines code through its new “agent mode,” supports custom domains, and offers native version control so projects can evolve from prototype to production without leaving the Lovable environment.

Notably, they have more than $75M+ in ARR and 2M users.

2/2

Amount: $12M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Costanoa Ventures

Empirical Security offers a cybersecurity AI platform that creates individualized models tailored to each enterprise’s infrastructure, configuration, and threat profile.

The system operates on a dual-model architecture: a global threat intelligence model trained on more than two million daily exploitation events and a customer-specific local model fine-tuned on curated internal telemetry such as vulnerability data, configurations, and detection signals.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Hadrian raises a $260M Series C — AI-powered factories

→ Confident Security raises a $4.2M Seed — AI inference engine for businesses with sensitive data or strict regulatory requirements

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

The race to secure enterprise AI

Scroll down to see full market map. Adopting generative AI is no longer optional — it’s becoming essential to stay competitive. As usage surges across the enterprise, security teams are under pressure to keep pace. CISOs are already grappling with an 890% increase in genAI-related traffic through 2024. LLM-powered applications are surging, and we’re sprinting […]

www.insightpartners.com/ideas/securing-ai

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