📌 6 AI Startup raises $300M+

BONUS: The 4 Big Myths Holding Back MCP Adoption From Flybridge

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Firecrawl raises a $14.5M Series A — Web research infrastructure

  • Casca raises a $29M Series A — SMB loan origination

  • Convoke raises a $8.6M Seed — Biopharma operations

  • 3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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RAISED A $32M SERIES A

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1/3

Amount: $14.5M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Nexus Venture Partners

Firecrawl turns the open web into clean, structured, machine‑readable data for AI systems.

Their platform exposes a lightweight API so teams can pull structured data from any website with a line of code and slot directly into existing workflows. Beyond crawling, Firecrawl layers intelligent search, natural‑language data extraction, and content structuring for LLM applications.

2/3

Amount: $29M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Canapi Ventures

Casca is an AI loan‑origination system for SMB lending.

Their system guides applicants to completion and automates checks for eligibility, compliance, and decisioning. It integrates with a bank’s core and ancillary systems to ingest data, then auto‑generates key credit outputs, including debt‑service coverage calculations, SBA form packages, and policy‑exception flags.

3/3

Amount: $8.6M 🎉

Round: Seed

Convoke is an AI‑native operating system for biopharma knowledge work.

It ingests fragmented internal files, proprietary datasets, and external research into a unified ontology. Users can then codify logic into automated workflows that generate critical outputs like competitive intelligence briefs, regulatory‑ready documents, and scientific manuscripts.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ EliseAI raises a $250M Series E — AI for property management & healthcare practices

→ Pylon raises a $31M Series B — AI support desk for B2B products

→ Paradigm raises a $5M Seed — AI spreadsheet

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