📌 7 AI Startups raise $150M+

BONUS: AI Is Reinventing Market Research From a16z

June 04, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Wordsmith AI raises a $25M Series A — Legal AI for in-house counsel

  • Veris raises a $8.5M Seed — Simulation environement for AI agents

  • Ciroos raises a $21M Seed — Site reliability engineering

  • 4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $25M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Index Ventures

Wordsmith AI is an AI legal workspace for in-house lawyers which embeds legal agents across organizations.

Their platform integrates legal AI agents across departments to participate directly in deal cycles, query resolutions, and complex workflow processes. They function as deeply embedded assistants across platforms like Slack, email, Google Docs, and Word, which review contracts and policies, extract structured insights, and provide real-time legal judgment directly within the operational workflows of Sales, Procurement, and HR.

2/3

Amount: $8.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Acrew Capital, Decibel Partners

Veris builds simulation environments that allow companies to train, test, and optimize AI agents before deploying them in production.

Their sandbox environments mimic real-world business systems like email servers, HR platforms, or compliance tools for agents to practice across thousands of synthetic scenarios. They then use reinforcement learning to improve agent performance. The system rewards or penalizes agent behavior during simulation to iteratively improve performance on specific tasks.

3/3

Amount: $21M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Energy Impact Partners

Ciroos AI offers an AI “SRE teammate” to support operations teams in diagnosing, responding to, and resolving incidents across cloud, network, and application layers.

Their system integrates with an enterprise’s existing 50+ observability tools—like Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, and ServiceNow—to extract telemetry data, correlate historical and real-time signals, and take semi-automated or fully autonomous action. These actions include recommending remediation steps, triggering Git-based rollbacks, or executing deployments. The architecture also supports multi-agent reasoning using protocols like Agent2Agent and MCP.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Voxel raises a $44M Series B — Site intelligence platform for workplace safety and operations

→ Treefera raises a $30M Series B — AI-powered insights into on-the-ground activities within nature-based commodities

→ Moments Lab raises a $24M Round — AI for video discovery

→ Thunder Code raises a $9M Seed — AI-powered testing

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

Faster, Smarter, Cheaper: AI Is Reinventing Market Research | Andreessen Horowitz

Market research has long relied on expensive human surveys. Now AI research companies are replacing them with simulated societies of generative AI agents.

a16z.com/ai-market-research

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