Artificial Intelligence

Siro: $50 Million Series B Raised For AI-Based Conversation Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 30, 2025

Siro, an AI-based conversation intelligence platform for in-person sales, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by SignalFire, with participation from 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, and existing investors CRV, Fika Ventures, and Index Ventures.

Bito: $5.7 Million Seed Extension Raised For Expanding AI Code Review Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2025

Bito, an AI-based developer platform that transforms how developers review and improve code by deeply understanding their codebase, announced a $5.7 million seed extension round, led by Vela Partners, with participation from NextView Ventures, Maxitech Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and other investors. And this brings the company's total seed stage funding to $8.8 million.

Frinks AI: Manufacturing Tech Company Raises $5.4 Million Pre-Series A

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2025

Frinks AI, a startup founded by IIT Hyderabad alumni, announced it has raised $5.4 million in a Pre-Series A round led by Prime Venture Partners. This brings its total funding to $6.25 million. This funding round also saw participation from existing investor Chiratae Ventures, along with Navam Capital and Ashok Atluri, Founder of Zen Technologies. And Frinks AI is additionally backed by industry leaders including S Ramadorai (former MD & CEO, TCS), Dr. V Sumantran (former Executive Director, Tata Motors), Dr. Tarun Ramadorai (Prof. Imperial College of London), and Dr. Gopichand Katragadda (former Group CTO, Tata Sons), who continue to support the company as strategic investors and advisors.

OPAQUE Systems: Interview With CEO Aaron Fulkerson About The Confidential AI Platform Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2025

OPAQUE Systems is a confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to accelerate AI into production securely. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OPAQUE Systems CEO Aaron Fulkerson to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

CloudZero: $56 Million Series C Raised For Transforming Cloud Optimization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

CloudZero, a leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, announced a $56 million Series C funding round following another year of triple-digit growth. The round was led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital, with participation from Matrix Partners, Threshold Ventures, Underscore VC, and G20 Ventures. MongoDB also made a strategic investment.

Wix Buying GenAI Media Creation Company Hour One

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2025

Wix announced its acquisition of Hour One, a pioneer in generative AI media creation. This deal marks yet another milestone in Wix’s transformation into a frontrunner in AI-based digital experiences, giving the company access to advanced technologies that will continue to shape the future of web and visual design creation.

Salesforce To Buy Informatica In $8 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

Salesforce and Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, have entered into an agreement for Salesforce to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce’s current investment in Informatica. Under the terms of the agreement, holders of Informatica’s Class A and Class B-1 common stock will receive $25 in cash per share.

RareGen Youth Network: Interview With Khartik Uppalapati About AI Meeting Advocacy

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2025

RareGen Youth Network is a youth-led organization that unites passionate young voices worldwide to advocate for transformative change within the rare disease community. Pulse 2.0 interviewed RareGen Youth Network President Khartik Uppalapati to learn more about the non-profit.

Biostate AI: $12 Million Raised For AI And RNA Sequencing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2025

Biostate AI, an innovator in AI and RNA sequencing, announced the completion of a $12 million Series A funding round, led by Accel. And additional investors included Gaingels, Mana Ventures, InfoEdge Ventures, and existing investors Matter Venture Partners, Vision Plus Capital, and Catapult Ventures. The company's seed funding round also saw participation from notable angel investors, including Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic), Mike Schnall-Levin (CTO, 10x Genomics), and Emily Leproust (CEO, Twist Bioscience).

DataHub: $35 Million Series B Closed For Enabling AI To Manage Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2025

DataHub (by Acryl Data), a leading open-source metadata platform, announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest funding round brings the company's total to $65 million, enabling accelerated development of its context management platform, which provides discovery, observability, and control across data, AI models, and AI agents.

LMArena: $100 Million Seed Funding Raised for AI-Focused Open Community Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2025

LMArena, an open community platform for evaluating the best AI models, announced it has secured $100 million in seed funding led by a16z and UC Investments (University of California) with participation from Lightspeed, Laude Ventures, Felicis, Kleiner Perkins and The House Fund.

Forethought: $25 Million Series D Raised To Advance Agentic AI For Customer Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Forethought, a leader in agentic AI for customer experience, announced it had introduced the industry’s first multi-agent and omnichannel AI for customer experience. For driving the growth of its agentic CX system, the company secured a $25 million strategic investment, bringing total funding to $115 million.

StackHawk: $12 Million Secured For API Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

StackHawk, a shift-left API security platform company, announced it has taken on $12 million in additional funding from Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures to help security teams keep up with the pace of AI-driven development. Sapphire and Costanoa Ventures also co-led StackHawk's Series B funding in 2022, bringing the company's total funding to $47.3 million.

Archetype AI: Interview With Co-Founder, CEO, And CTO Dr. Ivan Poupyrev About The Physical AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 23, 2025

Archetype AI is a physical AI company pioneering a new form of technology that is capable of perceiving, understanding, and reasoning about the world. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Archetype AI co-founder, CEO, and CTO Dr. Ivan Poupyrev to learn more about the company.

Siro: $50 Million Series B Raised For Bringing AI To In-Person Sales

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Siro, an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform for in-person sales, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by SignalFire, with participation from 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, and existing investors CRV, Fika Ventures, and Index Ventures.

Legora: $80 Million Series B Raised For Collaborative AI For Lawyers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Legora announced an $80 million funding round led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst, with continued support from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. This latest funding round is a significant endorsement of Legora’s product quality, velocity, and the traction it has achieved globally.

Mura: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised For Transforming Commercial Field Service Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Mura, an AI platform transforming commercial field service operations through dark software, announced it has emerged from stealth with $6 million in total funding. Level One Fund and Lerer Hippeau co-led the seed funding round with participation from notable angels and strategic investors. This comes after a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Lerer Hippeau, completed several months prior.

Anumana: Interview With CEO Maulik Nanavaty About The AI-Driven Health Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 22, 2025

Anumana is a company that is harnessing industry-leading AI and translational science to decode electrical signals from the heart as never before, empowering healthcare providers to transform patient care throughout the cardiac clinical pathway. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Anumana CEO Maulik Nanavaty to learn more about the company.

Coworker.ai: $13 Million Raised For AI Agent Research Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2025

Coworker.ai has announced the launch of the world's first AI agent that can independently research, plan, and execute complex work just like an experienced colleague. The launch is backed by a $13 million seed round led by Jeff Huber, former SVP of Google Ads, Maps, and Workspace, now at Triatomic Capital. Other investors include Ramtin Naimi (Abstract Ventures), Mallun Yen (Operator Collective), Tim Young (Eniac Ventures), and Clark Golestani, Ken Hausman, and Jack Greenfield (K2 Access Fund). They join pre-seed investors Soma Capital, Focal VC, Mischief, and Karman Ventures, taking the total amount raised to date to $16.5 million.

Barndoor AI: $13.6 Million Seed Raised For Building Control Plane For The Agentic Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2025

Barndoor AI has launched as the first control plane to allow enterprises to take control of their AI workforce and announced its seed funding of $13.6 million, led by Crosslink Capital, with participation by Preface Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Gaingels, Rob Hayes, Natalie Diggins, Scott & Cyan Banister, and others.

AskElephant: $6 Million Seed Raised For AI Orchestration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 21, 2025

AskElephant—the AI orchestration platform purpose-built for customer-facing teams—announced that it has raised $6 million in seed funding. Jump Capital led the round, which included participation from High Alpha, Tandem, SaaS Ventures, and a group of existing investors.

Stackpack: $6.3 Million Raised For Vendor Stack Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2025

Stackpack, which is the first intelligent Vendor Stack Management platform helping companies regain control over their growing network of third-party vendors, announced it has raised $6.3 million. Freestyle Capital led the funding, with additional participation from Elefund, Upside Partnership, Nomad Ventures, Layout Ventures, MSIV Fund and strategic angels from Intuit, Workday, Affirm, Snapdocs and xAI.

Flam: $14 Million Secured For Scaling AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2025

Brands have been searching for new ways to turn one-way messages into engaging two-way interactions. Flam is building the infrastructure to make that possible. The company has raised $14 million in Series A funding to scale its AI infrastructure, making it easy for marketers to turn any touchpoint into an interactive, app-less digital and 3D experience. The funding round was led by RTP Global, with participation from Dovetail and other existing investors, bringing Flam’s total funding to $22 million.

New Gen: $4.5 Million Seed Secured For AI-Based Commerce Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 20, 2025

With AI platforms like ChatGPT transforming how people and AI agents search and shop, brands are pressured to deliver seamless, intelligent experiences. Between July 2024 and February 2025, traffic to U.S. retail websites from generative AI sources grew by 1,200%. To power the future of AI-based shopping and digital retail, New Generation (New Gen), a technology company redefining commerce for the AI internet, launched publicly with $4.5 million in seed funding.