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- 📌 8 AI Startups raises $1B+
📌 8 AI Startups raises $1B+
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TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Irregular raises a $80M Series A — AI security
Macroscope raises a $30M Series A — Codebase understanding
Markup AI raises a $27.5M Series A — On-brand content & compliance
Omnea raises a $50M Series B — Procurement intake and orchestration
5 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: $80M 🎉
Valuation: $450M
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures
Irregular is an AI security lab to test and defend advanced AI systems before they are deployed.
The company works directly with leading AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to perform red-teaming, adversarial evaluations, and pre-release stress tests using simulated environments. Beyond red-teaming, Irregular builds simulated network environments where AI agents play both attacker and defender, exposing emergent behaviors under realistic conditions.
2/4
Amount: $30M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Macroscope is an AI tool for engineering teams to understand code bases and fix bugs.
It integrates with GitHub, Slack, Linear, and JIRA, parses code into graph structures with Abstract Syntax Trees. It uses this AST-based context with LLMs so engineers receive automated bug detection with suggested fixes, concise PR summaries, and change digests. Reviewers are directed to relevant sections of code, while leaders and non-technical stakeholders get real-time updates, productivity insights, and natural-language Q&A, accessible directly in Slack.
3/4
Amount: $27.5M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Genui Partners, EMH Partners
Markup AI scans, scores, and rewrites content to enforce brand voice, terminology, and compliance at enterprise scale.
Thier agents analyze content against policy and industry standards, produce a trust score, and generate actionable rewrites, with governance rules that can auto-remediate or require human review. The system is API- and MCP-first, integrating directly into tools like Cursor, Figma, ChatGPT, GitHub Actions, and Zapier, and plugging into CI/CD pipelines & authoring platforms to insert real-time guardrails where content is created.
4/4
Amount: $50M 🎉
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Insight Partners, Khosla Ventures
Omnea is an AI procurement intake and orchestration platform for enterprise buying.
The platform allows employees to submit purchasing requests and uses AI to route them to the right stakeholders across finance, risk, legal, and IT. The platform maintains a continuously updated system of record for all vendors, flags compliance issues, initiates RFPs, and generates executive insights.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Upscale AI raises $100M Seed — AI networking platform
→ Ultralytics raises $30M Series A — Train & deploy vision models for real-time object detection
→ Aleph raises $29M Series B — AI FP&A platform
→ Icarus Robotics raises $6.1M Seed — Embodied AI robots
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