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- 📌 9 AI Startups raise $1B+
📌 9 AI Startups raise $1B+
BONUS: Why AI Labs Are Starting to Look Like Sports Teams From Sequoia

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️
Browserbase raises a $40M Series B — Browser automation
Extend raises a $17M Series A — Document processing
Crosby raises a $5.8M Seed — Contract review & negotiation
6 more rounds caught by my funding tracker
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TOP PICKS 📢
1/3
Amount: $40M 🎉
Valuation: 300M
Round: Series B
Lead Investor: Notable Capital
Browserbase offers browser automation infrastructure for AI agents and developers.
Their serverless headless browser infrastructure enables AI systems to interact with the web like humans do—clicking buttons, submitting forms, downloading files. The platform can spin up thousands of browser instances in milliseconds, each powered by four virtual CPUs. Browserbase also launched Director, a natural language interface that enables business users to build browser automations without code.
2/3
Amount: $17M 🎉
Round: Series A
Lead Investor: Innovation Endeavors
Extend offers a platform to build production-grade document processing workflows.
Extend provides core document processing primitives like OCR, classification, extraction, and orchestration tools that teams can stitch together into complex systems. These include income verification from paystubs in fintech or ingesting medical documents into healthcare platforms. The platform also supports experimentation, human-in-loop reviews, custom model orchestration, and evaluation pipelines.
3/3
Amount: $5.8M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Sequoia Capital
Crosby is an AI-enabled law firm that provides on-demand contract review and negotiation.
The firm primarily handles startup legal documents—such as master service agreements, NDAs, and data processing agreements—and can return reviewed contracts in under an hour. They employ lawyers and equip them with their own in-house AI platform to review contracts rapidly.
OTHER ROUNDS 🤏
ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS
→ Helsing raises a $690M Series D — AI-powered solutions for European defence
→ Applied Intuition raises a $600M Series F — Autonomous vehicle software
→ Nabla raises a $70M Series C — AI assistant for clinical documentation, coding, and EHR actions
→ Sword Health raises a $40M Round — AI physical therapy
→ HOPPR raises a $31.5M Series A — AI infrastructure and models for medical imaging
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