📌 8 AI Startups raise $200M+

BONUS: Next-Gen Pentesting From a16z

June 19, 2025

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

  • Traversal raises a $48M Seed + Series A — AI SRE

  • Profound raises a $20M Series A — AI search monitoring & visibility

  • Maven AGI raises a $50M Series B — Customer support

  • 5 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/3

Amount: $48M 🎉

Round: Seed + Series A

Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins

Traversal offers an AI SRE that automates root cause analysis.

When systems fail or underperform, Traversal's AI agent parses through petabytes of log data, metrics, and traces to identify the cause of the failure. They have developed a swarm-based architecture where multiple investigative agents operate in parallel using statistical reasoning and domain knowledge.

2/3

Amount: $20M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Kleiner Perkins

Profound helps brands understand, monitor, and influence how they appear on AI systems like ChatGPT.

Their platform processes 100M+ AI search queries monthly and provides brands with actionable data on what these systems are saying about a brand, a competitor or a category. They also provide tools for brands to subtly influence AI-generated narratives and insert themselves naturally into conversations.

3/3

Amount: $50M 🎉

Round: Series B

Lead Investor: Dell Technologies Capital

Maven AGI is an enterprise AI platform to deploy and manage autonomous agents for customer support and broader business operations.

Maven’s agents integrate natively with systems like Salesforce, Stripe, Zendesk, and Snowflake to resolve up to 93% of customer questions autonomously across all communication channels, and support multiple personas and modalities. The platform manages the full agent lifecycle: it detects missing or noisy data, synthesises additional training examples if needed, tracks the provenance of every answer and continuously evaluates performance.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Tennr raises a $101M Series C — AI to automate paperwork behind healthcare referrals

→ Typedef raises a $5.5M Seed — Customized data pipelines for AI model workloads

→ Embedl AB raises a $6M Round — Deep learning model optimization SDK for edge AI deployments

BONUS 🔥

FOR CURIOUS MINDS

Next-Gen Pentesting: AI Empowers the Good Guys | Andreessen Horowitz

The assumptions underpinning traditional penetration testing are starting to bend, and a new generation of AI-driven approaches is emerging.

a16z.com/next-gen-pentesting-ai-empowers-the-good-guys

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