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- 📌 7 AI Startups raise $170M+
📌 7 AI Startups raise $170M+
BONUS: Three months after DeepSeek From Foundation Capital
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Axiom raises a $15M Seed — Drug toxicity testing
Emmi AI raises a $17M Seed — Simulations for industrial engineering
P-1 AI raises a $23M Seed — AI engineering agent
Cheehoo raises a $10M Round — Animation for creators, brands, studios
3 more rounds caught bought by my funding tracker
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1/4
Amount: $15M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Amplify Partners, Dimension Capital
Axiom offers a computational platform for drug toxicity testing with predictive AI models based on human cell data.
They have built a proprietary biological experimentation platform that screens chemical compounds at scale against live human liver cells. Their dataset—comprising over 115,000 unique small molecules, 394 million labelled cells, and 9 billion labelled mitochondria—feeds into AI models that predict hepatotoxicity. Their software platform allows biopharma customers to access these predictions and help assess toxicity.
2/4
Amount: $17M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: 3VC, PUSH VC, Serena, Speedinvest
Emmi AI is a real-time simulation platform for industrial engineering.
The platform can process complex simulations—such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermal analysis, and material stress testing—in milliseconds, eliminating the need for manual pre-processing or meshing. This approach enables real-time, high-fidelity simulations directly from CAD models so engineers can interactively explore design variations and integrate simulations into live operations like predictive maintenance.
3/4
Amount: $23M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Radical Ventures
P-1 AI is developing Archie, an AI engineering agent to serve as a junior member of engineering teams.
Archie handles interpreting technical requirements, generates early-stage design concepts, performs tests, and checks designs against regulatory compliance standards. Archie is trained using synthetic data generated from physics-based simulations of real-world engineering components like motors, pipes, and cooling systems to deeply understand engineering systems.
4/4
Amount: $10M 🎉
Lead Investor: Greycroft
Cheehoo provides an AI animation platform for creators, studios, and IP holders to produce high-quality animated content faster and more affordably.
Their system assists creators by enabling rapid prototyping, iterative editing, and real-time visualisation across the animation production workflow. Their system supports native compatibility with industry-standard platforms like Maya and Unreal, integrates in-house and third-party AI models (OpenAI, Runway), and provides control over tasks such as character creation, motion stylization, post-processing, and scene composition.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Lightrun raises a $70M Series B — AI-powered code observability and remediation
→ ARX Robotics raises a $35M Series A — Software and hardware to enable autonomous unmanned ground systems in the EU
→ Glacier raises a $16M Series A — Sorting robots for recycling facilities
UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK
→ Browserbase is raising a Series B at a $300M post-money valuation led by Notable Capital (NEW)
BONUS 🔥
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