Artificial Intelligence

Island: $250 Million (Series E) Raised At Nearly $5 Billion Valuation For Enterprise Browser

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 30, 2025

Enterprise browser company Island announced a $250 million Series E funding round. This brings Island’s valuation to $4.8 billion in under five years since its 2020 founding. Coatue Management led the new funding, with several existing investors participating. And Island has secured about $730 million in outside investment to date.

Novarc: $50 Million (Series B) Closed For AI-Based Welding Solutions Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 30, 2025

Novarc Technologies - a full-stack AI robotics company specializing in the design and manufacturing of automated welding solutions - announced the company has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Export Development Canada (EDC), Canada’s export credit agency, with participation from private investment firm Graham Partners, Seaspan (one of Canada’s leading shipbuilders), and InBC Investment.

OpusClip: $20 Million Raised For AI-Based Video Editing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 30, 2025

OpusClip, a generative AI-based video editing platform, recently announced a $20 million funding round by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and others. This strategic round comes after a record year for OpusClip in which the company surpassed 10 million creators using its platform, creating more than 172 million clips. The company plans to use the funding to expand its team and roll out new AI-powered products.

Sohar Health: $3.8 Million (Seed) Secured For AI-Based Eligibility Determination And Verification Of Benefits

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 29, 2025

Sohar Health, an AI-based eligibility determination and Verification of Benefits (VoB) provider, announced a $3.8 million seed funding round led by Kindred Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, and Concept Ventures.

Elon Musk Merging Portfolio Companies xAI And X In $33 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 29, 2025

xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, has acquired X - which is the social media company formerly known as Twitter that is also owned by Elon Musk. This deal was valued at $33 billion in an all-stock deal. Musk said that this deal values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion minus $12 billion of debt).

Kay.ai: $3 Million Secured For Eliminating Data Entry Work In Insurance Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 28, 2025

Kay.ai, an AI co-worker designed to eliminate manual data entry work for insurance brokers and agencies, announced it has raised $3 million in funding. Wing VC led the round, including South Park Commons, 101 Weston Labs, and several angel investors.

Tera AI: $7.8 Million Secured For Spatial Reasoning System Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 28, 2025

Tera AI, a company that has been working stealthily on its spatial reasoning AI for the past year, announced it has raised a $7.8 million seed round co-led by Felicis and Inovia Capital, with participation from Caltech + Wilson Hill and Naval Ravikant. The company is developing a unique software-only solution to solve general-purpose navigation for autonomous hardware like robots.

Crusoe: $225 Million Credit Facility Secured For AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 28, 2025

Upper90 Capital Management (an asset-backed private credit firm) announced the closing of an approximately $225 million credit facility for Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider. This investment will support the expansion of Crusoe Cloud, the company’s scalable cloud platform purpose-built for enterprise AI workloads.

Kaiko Systems: €6 Million (Series A) Secured For Enhancing Resilience In Maritime Operations With Frontline Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 28, 2025

Kaiko Systems, a leader in AI-based frontline intelligence for the maritime industry, announced a €6 million Series A funding round led by Hi inov and Flashpoint Venture Growth, with continued support from Motion Ventures. The total amount of external financing reached €9 million.

Dataminr: $85 Million Raised For AI-Based Real-Time Information Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 28, 2025

Dataminr, which is one of the world's leading AI companies, announced it has secured $85 million in new funding from NightDragon and HSBC through a combination of convertible financing and credit.

Nexthop AI: $110 Million Raised For Next Generation Of AI Infrastructure For Cloud Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Nexthop AI, a company building the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure for the world’s largest cloud companies, launched from stealth with $110 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. And additional investors include Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures and Emergent Ventures. This funding will accelerate the development of Nexthop AI's pioneering networking solutions for cloud and hyperscale AI clusters.

Lumber: $15.5 Million (Series A) Secured For Construction Workforce Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Lumber, an AI-based construction workforce management platform, announced a $15.5 million Series A funding round led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Tishman Speyer, Carbide Ventures, 8VC, Sure Ventures, and FirsthandVC.

Arlo: $4 Million (Seed) Closed For Helping Small Businesses Offer Affordable Health Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Arlo, an AI-based health insurance underwriter for small businesses, announced $4 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from 8VC and General Catalyst.

Cloudera: Interview With Field CTO And Cyber Security GTM Lead Carolyn Duby About The Data Insights Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

Cloudera is a company that empowers people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. And Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cloudera Field CTO and Cyber Security GTM Lead Carolyn Duby to learn more about the company.

LogicMark: Interview With CEO Chia-Lin Simmons About The Connected Care Device Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 27, 2025

LogicMark specializes in designing connected care devices, ensuring help is always within reach during emergencies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed LogicMark CEO Chia-Lin Simmons to learn more about the company.

Navina: $55 Million (Series C) Raised For AI-Based Clinical Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 26, 2025

Navina, a leader in AI-based clinical intelligence, announced the completion of a $55 million Series C funding round, bringing the total funding to $100 million. The funding round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from existing investors, including Vertex Ventures Israel, Grove Ventures, and ALIVE.

Aura: $140 Million (Series G) Raised For AI-Based Safety Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 24, 2025

Aura, a leading AI-based online safety solution for individuals and families, announced its Series G funding round closing. Ten Eleven Ventures and Madrone Capital led the round, which included new investor AT&T Ventures. Existing investors Accel, Warburg Pincus, and General Catalyst also participated.

BuildOps: $127 Million (Series C) Closed At $1 Billion For Commercial Contractor Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 21, 2025

BuildOps, an all-in-one platform exclusively for modern commercial contractors, announced that it has raised $127 million in Series C funding led by Meritech Capital Partners. This advances the company to unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion.

Ceramic.ai: $12 Million Raised For Delivering Faster AI Model Training For Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

Ceramic.ai recently emerged from stealth with software for foundation model training infrastructure, enabling enterprises to build and fine-tune their generative AI models more efficiently. To support its rapid growth and ongoing development, Ceramic.ai secured $12 million in seed funding from NEA, IBM, Samsung Next, Earthshot Ventures, and Alumni Ventures. This funding is advancing product development, scaling the platform, and expanding Ceramic.ai’s enterprise customer base to meet growing demand.

LimitlessCNC: $4.1 Million (Seed) Raised For Transforming Manufacturing With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 20, 2025

LimitlessCNC, an AI-based manufacturing startup, announced it has emerged from stealth with a $4.1M seed round led by Grove Ventures and Meron Capital. And the company is developing AI agents to automate CNC (computer numerical control) machining.

Firsthand: $26 Million (Series A) Secured For Scaling AI-Based Brand Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Mar 19, 2025

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.