📌 4 AI Startups raise $500M+

BONUS: How Verticalized Voice AI Is Becoming The Next Killer App From Madrona

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • PhysicsX raises a $135M Series B — Engineering simulation

  • Decagon raises a $131M Series C — Customer support

  • Botpress raises a $25M Series B — Agent development & deployment

  • 1 more round caught by my funding tracker

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1/3

Amount: $135M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Atomico

PhysicsX is an AI engineering simulation platform.

Their platform integrates foundational models trained on the physics and geometries of real-world systems to simulate high-fidelity, multi-physics processes fast. Teams can embed PhysicsX APIs directly into existing toolchains and reuse results across domains. Applications include workflows in aerospace & defence, semiconductors, and automotive.

2/3

Amount: $131M 🎉

Valuation: $1.5B

Round: Series C

Lead Investor: Accel, Andreessen Horowitz

Decagon builds fully autonomous AI agents that handle customer support for enterprises.

These agents respond to customer inquiries and execute end-to-end resolutions across complex service flows. The agents sit on top of a proprietary “agent operating procedure” framework that interprets user intent, triages each conversation, applies business-specific logic, accesses relevant data and executes workflows to reach resolution.

Notably, the company has scaled to $100M ARR+ in the last year.

3/3

Amount: $25M 🎉

Valuation: $120M

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Framework Venture Partners

Botpress is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents.

They provide the infrastructure layer that enables businesses and agencies to create conversational agents that can reliably operate at production scale. These agents are capable of complex orchestration, multi-modal memory management, execution environment control, and integration with external tools. The platform supports both no-code and developer-level customization, and provides interfaces for auditing, monitoring, and iterating on agent performance.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

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