📌 5 AI Startups raise $80M+

BONUS: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies From The Hype

May 06, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Recraft raises a $30M Series B — Image generation & editing

  • Rork raises a $2.8M Seed — Mobile app development

  • Doppel raises a $35M Series B — Social engineering protection

  • 2 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $30M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Accel

Recraft is an AI design platform for graphic designers and creative professionals.

The platform enables the generation and editing of raster and vector graphics, including logos, illustrations, and advanced 3D visuals, with precision and brand fidelity. The core of the platform is its proprietary image generation model, Recraft V3, which offers image generation of any size or text length, and precise control over the placement and appearance of visual elements, vector graphics generation, and more.

Notably, the company has 4M+ users and $5M+ in ARR.

2/3

Amount: $2.8M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: a16z Speedrun

Rork is an AI mobile app development tool that allows users to generate fully functional iOS apps by describing them in natural language.

Under the hood, Rork handles the complexity of native mobile app development, integrating with frameworks like React Native and Expo to compile real apps directly from text prompts. Users can generate complete app UIs, features, intuitive navigation, user authentication, and other functionality in minutes.

3/3

Amount: $35M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Bessemer Venture Partners

Doppel is an AI cybersecurity platform to combat social engineering threats at scale.

The platform, Doppel Vision, continuously scans both the surface and dark web, digesting over 100M signals per day from domains, emails, ads, apps, and social profiles. Using proprietary ML models and fine-tuned AI agents, it identifies threat infrastructure in real time and initiates proactive takedowns. The platform spans multiple use cases, including brand protection, executive impersonation detection, phishing defense, and fraud mitigation.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ EdgeRunner AI raises a $12M Series A — Domain-specific, air-gapped, on-device AI agents for military and enterprise

→ Skillvue raises a $6.3M Seed — AI to analyze and assess the skills of candidates and employees

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Develop Health is raising a $8-12M Series A, $7M+ ARR (NEW)

→ Browserbase is raising a Series B at a $300M post-money valuation led by Notable Capital

→ Etched is raising a $85M Round at a $1.5B post-money valuation

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype

At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more.

www.redpoint.com/content-hub/written/redpoint-s-ai-investors-break-down-what-separates-enduring-ai-companies-from-the-hype

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