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📌 5 AI Startup raises $250M+
BONUS: Enterprise Search Is Entering a New Era From Activant Capital
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Exa raises a $85M Series B — Search engine for AI agents
Orchard raises a $22M Series A — Tractor-mounted camera system for farms
HappyRobot raises a $44M Series B — Logistics and supply chain operations
1 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: $85M 🎉
Valuation: $700M
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Benchmark
Exa is a search engine for AI agents.
They expose an API that lets developers and LLMs retrieve titles, URLs, full pages, or AI-generated summaries. Developers can run custom algorithms on the fetched data to filter and refine results which enable automated end-to-end pipelines. Its second product, Websets, supports more complex, multi-step queries and uses AI agents to verify the results.
2/3
Amount: $22M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Quiet Capital, Shine Capital
Orchard is a tractor-mounted camera system paired with AI software for farm operators.
As farm operators drive through fields, ultra-high-resolution images are captured and analyzed for fruit size, color, and health. The resulting data is centralized in Orchard’s cloud platform to make operational decisions about fertilization, pruning, thinning, labor planning, and marketing. The system is now operational in U.S. apple and grape farms, and has expanded to cover blueberries, cherries, almonds, pistachios, citrus, and strawberries.
3/3
Amount: $44M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Base10 Partners
HappyRobot builds AI agents for logistics and supply chain operations.
The platform is structured in three layers: first, communication bots that field, route, and respond to customer and vendor interactions; second, AI workflows that trigger tasks like negotiating contracts, booking appointments, or checking on parts and personnel; and third, proactively analyzing workflows and suggesting process improvements based on customer data. Underneath, the company fine-tunes open-source and proprietary LLMs on logistics-specific tasks and integrates into software ecosystems like Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Human Behavior raises a $5M Seed — AI to watch user web sessions to see how they use every part of your product
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