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📌 8 AI Startup raises $300M+
BONUS: AI’s UI Problem Is Actually A New Era of Software From Menlo Ventures
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Lila Sciences raises a $235M Series A — Autonomous drug discovery
Sophont raises a $9.2M Pre-Seed + Seed — Multimodal medical foundation model
Penguin AI raises a $29.7M Series A — Healthcare workflow automation
TwinMind raises a $5.7M Seed — Personal knowledge AI
4 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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RAISED A $35M SERIES A
micro1 has raised $35M in Series A funding led by 01A, valuing the company at $500M. With 40% MoM growth, micro1 now partners with leading AI labs and Fortune 10 companies, like Microsoft, to improve LLM performance through expert-driven data.
Their AI recruiter, Zara, has facilitated over 500,000 interviews with top PhDs, doctors, and professors — transforming their knowledge into datasets that push AI forward.
TOP PICKS 📢
1/4
Amount: $235M 🎉
Valuation: $1.2B
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Braidwell, Collective Global
Lila is an autonomous science platform that pairs large AI models with software, robotics and lab automation.
The platform runs closed-loop scientific workflows where AI agents generate hypotheses, design experiments, execute them in automated labs, observe results, learn, and iterate using large-scale reinforcement learning across simulations and physical experiments. The platform runs many iterative experiments executed autonomously to surface candidates.
2/4
Amount: $9.22M 🎉
Round: Pre-Seed + Seed
Lead Investor: Kindred Ventures
Sophont is a multimodal medical foundation model that integrates multiple medical specialties and data types into one unified system.
They train state-of-the-art unimodal models across domains like pathology, neuroimaging, and clinical text and then merge them. The system can identify novel, predictive biomarkers by holistically synthesising insights from multiple medical inputs. The platform is open-source and contributor-centric, intended to serve as a shared medical AI system for researchers, clinicians, and developers.
3/4
Amount: $29.7M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Greycroft
Penguin AI is a healthcare AI platform to streamline administrative workflows for payers and providers.
The platform combines small language models (SLMs) with AI agents to automate high-volume administrative workflows, including medical coding, prior authorizations, claims processing, appeals, risk adjustment, chart summarization, and payment integrity. Users can deploy ready-made solutions, access pre-built healthcare LLMs via API, or prepare their own data for AI automation.
4/4
Amount: $5.7M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Streamlined Ventures
TwinMind is an AI app to capture and organize spoken information.
Their app records ambient speech to build a personal knowledge graph, produce notes, tasks, and summaries from conversations, meetings, and lectures. The app processes audio on-device for up to 17 hours and supports real-time translation in over 100 languages.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Adaptive Security raises a Series A-2 — Security awareness training built for AI phishing, vishing, smishing, and deepfakes
→ Tenex raises a $27M Series A — AI cybersecurity
→ Quack raises a $7M Seed — AI support agent
BONUS 🔥
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