Artificial Intelligence

257: $9.2 Million (Seed) Secured For Transforming Residential Energy Market Using Data And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

257 - a software and AI company with a vision to reshape the massive residential energy market - announced a $9.2 million seed funding round to transform how energy product and service providers analyze and engage with consumers. The funding round was led by longtime partner F2 Venture Capital and top energy and AI angels, including Mike Fallquist (Founder & CEO of Crius Energy, Co-Founder & CEO of Energywell), Jeff Hammerbacher (founder and co-CEO of Open Athena, founder of Cloudera, original Facebook data team manager), Otto von Troschke (a European growth capital investor focusing on the energy transition, co-founder of SUSI), and Gil Golan (former GM CTO and head of GM Ventures).

brain.space: $11 Million (Series A) Closed To Accelerate Brain Data-Driven Mental Modeling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

brain.space, the creator of the first-ever Brain-Data-as-a-Service Ecosystem for exclusive Generative AI Mental Modeling that better understands and predicts human behavior, announced an $11 million Series A Funding Round led by Toyota Ventures, with significant participation by Mangrove Capital Partners, The Group Ventures, and a $3.5 million non-dilutive Grant by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Equipt.ai: $3.2 Million (Seed) Funding Secured For Accelerating AI-Based Growth In Asset & Field Service Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

Equipt, a software company transforming asset and field service management, announced it has secured a $3.2 million seed funding round led by Moneta Ventures with participation from Cortado Ventures. This investment will drive product innovation, market expansion, and operational scaling to meet growing demand.

Featherless.ai: Investment Raised From Airbus Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Airbus Ventures announced it is investing in Featherless.ai, the leading serverless AI inference platform. And Featherless.ai’s innovation optimizes GPU utilization, eliminates costly downtime, and dramatically reduces operational costs, enabling Featherless.ai to offer AI inference at significantly lower costs.

Intuition Robotics: Interview With VP Strategy And GM Assaf Gad About The Social AI Companion Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Intuition Robotics is a company that is harnessing the power of GenAI to create long-term engagement and help older adults alleviate loneliness. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Intuition Robotics VP Strategy and GM Assaf Gad to learn more about the company.

ResiQuant: $4 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming How Property Carriers Scale In Regions Prone To Climate Risks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

ResiQuant announced it closed a $4 million seed funding round led by LDV Capital, with participation from Foothill Ventures, Pear VC, Alumni Ventures, and several strategic angel investors. The funding will accelerate ResiQuant's mission to transform how property insurers assess and manage catastrophe risks, bringing much-needed stability to markets struggling with climate volatility and seismic hazards.

Google To Buy Cloud Security Company Wiz In $32 Billion All-Cash Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Google announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, a leading cloud security platform based in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. After the deal is closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud.

Gradial: $13 Million (Series A) Secured For Building AI Marketing Operations Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 18, 2025

Gradial, an AI startup transforming enterprise marketing operations with AI agents, announced it has secured $13 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $20 million. The Series A funding round was led by Madrona and participated in by Pruven Capital, General Advance, Outsiders Fund, and DLA Piper.

Vero AI: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Eric Sydell About The Enterprise Focused Analytical Engine Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 17, 2025

Vero AI is a company that developed a first-of-its-kind analytical engine built to help enterprises process and understand both numeric data and unstructured information such as text in a fully automated, scaled, easy manner. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Vero AI co-founder and CEO Eric Sydell, PhD to learn more about the company.

Nimblemind.ai: $2.5 Million Raised For AI-Based Data Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Nimblemind.ai, an AI-based data infrastructure platform designed to help healthcare providers structure and leverage their clinical data, announced it has secured $2.5 million in funding to accelerate its mission. The round was led by Bread & Butter Ventures. It included participation from Great Oaks Venture Capital, SpringTime Ventures, Stone Mountain Ventures, Victorum Capital, Techstars, and strategic HC angel investors committed to transforming healthcare through AI-driven data infrastructure.

Causal Labs: $6 Million (Seed) Raised For Building AI For Weather Prediction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

Causal Labs, an AI company pioneering physics-based models to address civilization-scale challenges, announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding, led by Kindred Ventures with participation from Refactor, BoxGroup, Factorial, Otherwise, Karman Ventures, and a select group of angel investors. Causal Labs plans to use the funds to expand its team, develop the initial model further, including safety and transparency mechanisms, and initiate robust pilot programs across critical industries.

National Grid Partners: $100 Million Committed To Invest In AI Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 14, 2025

National Grid Partners, which is the corporate venture capital and innovation arm of one of the world's largest utilities, announced a commitment to invest $100 million in AI startups that are advancing the future of energy. These funds will advance the development of a more efficient, resilient, and dynamic grid that supports economic growth, reduces customer costs, helps meet climate goals, and ensures energy security.

Blackwall: €45 Million (Series B) Raised For AI-Enabled Security And Web Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Blackwall (formerly Botguard), a global AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company founded in 2019 by Nikita Rozenberg (CEO) and Denis Prochko (CTO), announced that it has raised a €45 million Series B round led by Dawn Capital with participation from existing investors MMC.

Harmony Intelligence: $3 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Cyber Defenses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 13, 2025

Harmony Intelligence announced it has raised $3 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its defensive AI technology. And the funding was led by Airtree with participation from more than 30 strategic investors, including First Row Partners, Maxwell Capital, and Eric Ries (author of The Lean Startup).

Freed: $30 Million (Series A) Closed For AI-Based Clinician Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Freed, an AI-based clinician assistant designed to reduce the burdens of medical documentation, announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Gokul Rajaram, and Ted Zagat. This brings Freed’s total funding to $34 million as the company solidifies its position as one of the fastest-growing health-tech companies in the U.S.

MaxIQ: $7.8 Million (Seed) Closed For Customer Journey Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

MaxIQ, an AI-based Customer Journey Management platform designed to maximize customer lifetime value, announced it has raised $7.8 million in funding. The company’s Seed round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Intel Capital. This funding will enable MaxIQ to advance operations, accelerate product innovation, and expand its leadership team as it redefines the future of customer journey management for B2B SaaS enterprises.

Ataraxis AI: $20.4 Million (Series A) Raised For Transforming Precision Medicine In Cancer Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Ataraxis AI, a leading AI precision medicine company, announced its $20.4 million Series A financing led by AIX Ventures with participation from Floating Point, Thiel Bio, Founders Fund, Bertelsmann Investments, and existing investors Giant Ventures and Obvious Ventures. The funding round also received backing from angel investors and healthcare pioneers, including Mario Schlosser (co-founder and former CEO of Oscar Health) and Ryan Fukushima (COO of Tempus), and others. And leading researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind also participated.

Reflection AI: $130 Million Secured For Building Superintelligent Autonomous Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Reflection AI has emerged from stealth mode, focusing on creating autonomous coding systems. The company has raised $25 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital and CRV and $105 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV.

ControlMonkey: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Aharon Twizer About The Terraform Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

ControlMonkey is a fully end-to-end Terraform automation platform. From AI-powered code generation to best-in-class automations, ControlMonkey gives cloud teams a powerful, unified way to visualize, spin-up, automate and govern cloud infrastructure – end-to-end, at any scale, for any future. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ControlMonkey co-founder and CEO Aharon Twizer to learn more about the company.

Alta: $7 Million (Seed) Closed For AI Revenue Workforce Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 12, 2025

Alta, an AI-based revenue workforce solutions provider, announced today that it has raised a $7 million seed financing round and has launched out of stealth. The funding round was led by Entrée Capital and Target Global, with additional funding from angel investor Ben Lang and others. Gavin Patterson, former President and Chief Revenue Officer at Salesforce, Nir Goldstein, Operating Partner at Greenfield Partners, and Yoram Teitz, Partner at General Atlantic, serve as strategic advisors.