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- 📌 7 AI Startups raise $200M+
📌 7 AI Startups raise $200M+
BONUS: AI Ascent 2025 From Sequoia Capital
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Samaya raises a $43.5M Series A — AI financial analyst
Openlayer raises a $14.5M Series A — AI evaluation & observability
Layer AI raises a $6.5M Seed — Content creation for games
Nekuda raises a $5M Seed — Payment infrastructure for AI agents
3 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $43.5M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: New Enterprise Associates
Samaya offers a suite of AI agents to automate workflows in financial services including investment research, deal diligence and client advisory.
Samaya uses a “lattice of experts” architecture that deploys multiple specialized models working in tandem for a distinct segment of the analysis pipeline, and some specifically to audit and validate the others. These agents can autonomously search and synthesize financial data from public filings, proprietary firm databases, and external sources to generate deliverables like presentations, spreadsheets, and sector-wide investment reports. Samaya also launched its Causal World Models, a new tool to model economic cause-and-effect relationships.
2/4
Amount: $14.5M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Race Capital
Openlayer offers an AI monitoring and evaluation platform for enterprises.
The platform offers LLM observability and evaluation tools that track pipeline behavior, monitor cost and latency, and test outputs for hallucinations or errors. It also provides ML monitoring for performance, drift, regression detection, and automated CI/CD evaluation. In addition, Openlayer validates data quality to catch anomalies, schema drift, and potential downstream model issues.
3/4
Amount: $6.5M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Arcadia
Layer provides an AI content creation platform for game developers.
It provides a suite of tools that enable studios to build, manage, and refine 2D, 3D, and video assets. Its model-agnostic infrastructure integrates multiple AI models into a single, cohesive workflow to iteratively edit, resize, and convert assets while preserving creative control and brand consistency.
4/4
Amount: $5M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Madrona
Nekuda provides the payment infrastructure for AI agents to transact autonomously and securely.
Their platform introduces a trust layer to execute payments within clearly defined parameters using built-in authentication, compliance, and permissioning systems. Users can delegate financial authority to agents with embedded guardrails — such as capping prices or specifying exact actions — while allowing payment networks to recognize and process agent activity without fraud flags.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ TensorWave raises a $100M Series A — GPU cloud powered by AMD hardware
→ DiffuseDrive raises a $3.5M Seed — Synthetic data generation for computer vision
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
BONUS 🔥
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