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📌 5 AI Startup raises $100M+
BONUS: The State of AI 2025 From BVP
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Squint raises a $40M Series B — Manufacturing intelligence
Mecka AI raises a $8M Seed — Large-scale video datasets
Continua raises a $8M Seed — AI text agent for group chats
2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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RAISED A $32M SERIES A
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/3
Amount: $40M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: The Westly Group, TCV
Squint is an AI manufacturing intelligence platform for frontline industrial operators.
The system ingests existing manuals, tribal knowledge, live video and uses AI to auto-document workflows. It then generates real-time interactive guidance accessible via a mobile-first app that works offline and with glove-on usage. On top of the knowledge base, they provide agentic workflows for Q&A, guided procedures, and computer-vision verification of steps.
2/3
Amount: $8M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Neo
Mecka AI builds large-scale video datasets to train physical AI and humanoid robotics models.
It sources data by paying skilled operators like baristas, line cooks, mechanics to record themselves performing granular tasks like pulling espresso shots to operating deep fryers or manipulating household objects. The company provisions recording hardware rigs for trusted “higher tier” contributors, runs a consumer app with gamified daily quests for broader capture, and labels the footage so it can be ingested directly by robotics and world-model training stacks.
3/3
Amount: $8M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Google Ventures
Continua brings AI agents into group chats on SMS, iMessage, and Discord.
Users add Continua’s phone number or Discord handle to the chat. The agent monitors conversation context and intervenes only when helpful. On cue or automatically, it can set reminders, launch polls, create calendar invites, and spin up Google Docs with checklists and to‑dos.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Evertune raises a $15M Series A — AI brand monitoring
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