Artificial Intelligence

Vermillio: $16 Million (Series A) Closed For AI Licensing And Protection Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 5, 2025

Vermillio, an AI licensing and protection platform, announced that it has raised $16 million in Series A funding, led by Sony Music Entertainment and DNS Capital.

Together AI: $305 Million (Series B) Secured At $3.3 Billion Valuation For Scaling AI Acceleration Cloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Leading AI-based acceleration cloud company Together AI announced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7. The funding round saw participation from a distinguished group of global institutional and strategic investors including Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Brave Capital, Scott Banister, and technology pioneer John Chambers.

Arize AI: $70 Million (Series C) Closed For AI Observability And LLM Evaluation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Arize AI, a leader in AI observability and LLM evaluation, announced a $70 million Series C round to accelerate its goal of making AI work reliably in production. The funding round was led by Adams Street Partners, with participation from M12 (Microsoft's venture fund), Sinewave Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Datadog, PagerDuty, Industry Ventures, and Archerman Capital. Existing investors Foundation Capital, Battery Ventures, TCV, and Swift Ventures also cemented their confidence in Arize's vision.

Henry AI: $4.3 Million (Seed) Secured For Automating Commercial Real Estate Deals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Y Combinator-backed company Henry AI, an AI analyst for the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding. Susa Ventures and 1Sharpe Ventures co-led the funding round. Additional investors include RXR, Arden Venture Arms, Singularity Capital, Unwritten Ventures, Coalition Operators, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and Storyhouse ventures. Bill.com's head of product Rami Essaid, Truebill.com founder Yahya Mokhtarzada, ROOM founder Brian Chen, and Slack's chief strategy officer Joe Teplow also participated.

Camunda: Interview With CEO Jakob Freund About The Process Automation Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 4, 2025

Camunda is a company that enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and fully operationalize AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Camunda CEO Jakob Freund to learn more about the company.

Anthropic: AI Research Company Raises $3.5 Billion At $61.5 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 3, 2025

AI safety and research company Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, among other new and existing investors.

IBM To Buy DataStax For Enhancing watsonx Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

IBM announced its intent to buy DataStax, an AI and data solution provider. And DataStax's technology will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products accelerating the use of generative AI, helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data.

CO/AI: $1.8 Million (Pre-Seed) Raised For Enterprise AI Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

CO/AI, an AI discoverability marketplace, launched with a mission to guide businesses and their workforce through the AI transformation. And CO/AI the company raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding, backed by investors including Sequoia Scout Fund, MoVi Partners, Gaingels, and The Critical Co, and executives from CVS Health, Carlyle Group, Capital One, Cross Equities and On-Chain Investments.

Sparta: $42 Million (Series B) Raised For Commodity Trader Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Sparta, a leading provider of real-time intelligence for commodity traders, announced it has secured $42 million in Series B funding led by One Peak, with continued backing from Singular and FirstMark.

Why MongoDB Is Buying Voyage AI In A $220 Million Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

MongoDB announced it has acquired Voyage AI, a pioneer in embedding and reranking models that power next-generation AI applications. Integrating Voyage AI's technology with MongoDB enables organizations to easily build AI-based applications by offering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval deeply integrated with operational data.

Bridgetown Research: $19 Million (Series A) Raised For Deploying AI Business Research Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Bridgetown Research is an AI decision science startup that announced $19 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed and Accel, with participation from a leading research university.

Millie: $12 Million (Series A) Closed For Tech-Enabled Maternity Clinic Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 1, 2025

Tech-enabled maternity clinic company Millie announced that it raised $12 million in Series A funding co-led by TMV and Foreground Capital, with significant participation from Pivotal Ventures and the March of Dimes Innovation Fund. The current investors, including Ingeborg Investments, participated in the round alongside BBG Ventures, Joyance, LearnStart, Amboy Street Ventures, Mother Ventures, Coyote Ventures, and Chai Ventures.

VRIFY: $12.5 Million (Series B) Secured For Advancing AI-Assisted Mineral Discovery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 28, 2025

VRIFY Technology, a technology company combining advanced AI with deep industry expertise to transform how minerals are found, announced it has raised C$12.5 million in Series B funding. Led by venture capital firm LGVP, with continued support from Series A funders RCF Innovation and Beedie Capital. This round brings VRIFY's total funding to over C$30 million.

Regie.ai: $30 Million (Series B) Raised For AI-Based Sales Strategies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 28, 2025

Regie.ai, a platform transforming sales prospecting in the age of AI, announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, co-led by Scale Venture Partners and Foundation Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures, StepStone Group, TriplePoint Capital, and South Park Commons.

Reddy: $2 Million Raised For AI-Based Customer Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

Reddy, an AI-based company that provides enterprise Customer Experience (CX) teams with a single platform to train, deploy, and manage their human and AI agents, announced it has raised $2 million in funding. DA Ventures, a firm known for backing high-potential early-stage startups, led the round, which was joined by other venture capital firms with deep CX domain expertise and strategic angel investors.

EyePop: Interview With Co-Founder & CPO Andy Ballester About The AI-Based Vision Model Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

EyePop is a company that transforms how businesses create AI-powered vision models. Pulse 2.0 interviewed EyePop co-founder and Chief Product Officer Andy Ballester to learn more about the company.

VerAI: $24 Million (Series B) Raised For Growing Portfolio Of AI-Based Mineral Discoveries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

VerAI Discoveries, an AI-driven mineral asset company, announced a $24 million first closing of its Series B round. The funding was led by Insight Partners, a global software investor specializing in high-growth technology and software investments, with continued support from existing investors Blumberg Capital, Chrysalix Venture Capital, and Orion Industrial Ventures.

QuEra Computing: Over $230 Million Raised For Neural-Atom Quantum Computing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

QuEra Computing, a leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, announced it completed a financing of over $230 million. The funding will be used to accelerate the development and production of large-scale and fault-tolerant quantum computers, reinforcing the company’s position at the forefront of quantum innovation.

Menlo Security Buying Votiro For AI-Based Data Security To Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

Menlo Security, an industry leader of Secure Enterprise Browsers, announced the acquisition of Votiro, a data and file security platform that specializes in advanced Content Disarm & Reconstruction (CDR) and data loss prevention. And Menlo Security and Votiro will enable enterprises to quickly and easily implement data security best practices without slowing employee and business productivity.

Incept AI: $3 Million (Pre-Seed) Secured For Bringing Voice AI To The Real World

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

Incept AI, a company bringing voice AI to the real world—starting with noisy restaurant drive-thru and phone orders—today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by Rally Ventures, with participation from 10VC.

HouseWhisper: $6.7 Million (Seed) Raised For AI-Based Real Estate Agent Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 27, 2025

HouseWhisper, an AI-based assistant transforming how real estate professionals manage their workflow, announced its official launch and raised a $6.7 million seed round led by Mayfield, with participation from PSL Ventures and 75 and Sunny Ventures.