๐Ÿ“Œ 6 AI Startup raises $200M+

BONUS: When Model Providers Eat Everything From Foundation Capital

TODAYโ€™S FUNDING RECAP ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

  • Chai Discovery raises a $70M Series A โ€” Drug discovery & antibody design

  • Tavily raises a $20M Series A โ€” Search infra for AI agents

  • Endex raises a $14M Round โ€” Financial modelling and data analysis in Excel

  • 3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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1/3

Amount: $70M ๐ŸŽ‰

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Menlo Ventures

Chai Discovery develops foundation models for drug discovery and antibody design.

Its latest model, Chai-2, performs zero-shot antibody generation. Given a target antigen, the model directly produces antibody sequences predicted to bind with high affinity. Researchers can request de novo candidates programmatically, iterate in silico, and push only the most promising constructs to synthesis.

2/3

Amount: $20M ๐ŸŽ‰

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Insight Partners

Tavily offers search infrastructure for AI agents to access both public and private web data in real time.

Their API enables intelligent crawling, high-performance search, and structured web page extraction to inject clean data directly into LLM context windows. This provides an auditable gateway to deploy AI agents that can surf, crawl, and extract insights without violating internal or regulatory policies.

3/3

Amount: $14M ๐ŸŽ‰

Lead Investor: OpenAI Startup Fund

Endex is an Excel-native AI agent for financial modelling and data analysis.

Once installed, it can generate, audit, and update financial models of B2B SaaS P&Ls, DCFs, and LBOs by reading unstructured sources such as 10-Ks, 10-Qs, earnings calls, CapIQ/FactSet feeds, web data, or proprietary datasets. Users can hand it an outdated workbook with of cross-tab links, and Endex will navigate, pull the latest disclosures, and refresh assumptions.

OTHER ROUNDS ๐Ÿค

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

โ†’ Rillet raises a $70M Series B โ€” AI-native ERP

โ†’ Lorikeet raises a $35M Series A โ€” AI customer support

โ†’ Docyt raises a $12M Series B โ€” AI-powered accounting automation

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