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- 📌 9 AI Startups raise $150M+
📌 9 AI Startups raise $150M+
BONUS: 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update From Menlo Ventures
TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
fal raises a $125M Series C — Inference cloud for generative media
Cline raises a $32M Seed + Series A — Open-source coding agents
Knit raises a $16M Series A — Consumer insights research
6 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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RAISED A $32M SERIES A
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/3
Amount: $125M 🎉
Valuation: $1.5B
Round: Series C
Lead Investor: Meritech Capital Partners
fal offers a GPU inference cloud for generative media workloads, including image, video, audio, and 3D content.
The platform supports all key modalities including text-to-image, image-to-video, video-to-video, text-to-speech, and multimodal combinations while integrating models from leading providers like Google, ElevenLabs, and Black Forest Labs. Its proprietary inference engine automatically applies compiler-level optimizations, quantization, and dynamic GPU routing. They also offer efficient fine-tuning pipelines, multi-model orchestration, and tooling.
2/3
Amount: $32M 🎉
Round: Seed + Series A
Lead Investor: Emergence Capital, Pace Capital
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that plugs into editors such as VS Code, and Cursor.
Developers describe desired functionality in natural language, choose any model—Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Grok, local LLMs—and Cline orchestrates prompts across the codebase to generate, refactor, or explain code. Users supply their own API keys and pay providers at cost, while Cline exposes a line-item breakdown for every request. Because the entire stack is open source, enterprise security and compliance teams can audit how data moves, self-host if needed, and extend functionality.
Notably, they have more than 2 million installs, ~50K GitHub stars, and 6,000+ forks.
3/3
Amount: $16M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: GFT Ventures, Sound Ventures
Knit uses AI to automate the full stack of consumer insight generation.
The platform consists of multiple AI agents tailored for key research functions. An AI survey agent customises surveys based on business needs, the fielding agent collects responses rapidly while ensuring data quality, a qualification agent screens for fraudulent or low-quality participants, and the quant & qual agents analyze the data to surface key themes and insights.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Manifold raises a $10.5M Seed — Decentralised AI compute infra
→ Metaforms raises a $9M Series A — AI agents for market research agencies
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