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Importance:NewsAI fundraising automation

Lyzr Uses AI Agent to Drum Up $400M Series B

Lyzr used its internal AI agent, called SivaClaw, to run its Series B fundraising process, drawing investor interest for $400 million. Source: citybiz.co

Importance:NewsAI video funding

PixVerse raises $439M in Series C extension, valuation tops $2B as AI video wars heat up

PixVerse closed a $439M Series C extension at a $2B+ valuation, highlighting the AI funding surge and what it means for crypto AI token projects. Source: cryptobriefing.com

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PixVerse tops a $2 billion valuation after extending its Series C to $439 million

PixVerse has extended its Series C to $439 million, pushing its valuation past $2 billion just four months after hitting unicorn status. The. Source: startupfortune.com

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Lyzr Uses AI Agent to Drum Up $400M Series B

Lyzr used its internal AI agent, called SivaClaw, to run its Series B fundraising process, drawing investor interest for $400 million. Source: citybiz.co

Importance:NewsAI funding rounds

MindRank Raises $52 Million In Series B Financing To Advance AI-Native Drug Development

MindRank AI, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing an artificial intelligence-powered drug research and development platform, announced that it... Source: pulse2.com

Importance:Newsfunding

Lyzr AI Raises $100 Million Series B After Its Own AI Agent SivaClaw Fielded 130‑Plus Investors And Generated $400 Million In Interest

Lyzr AI, an enterprise agentic AI company that builds AI agents designed to handle mission‑critical workflows, has closed a $100 million Series B after... Source: pulse2.com

Importance:Newsstartup funding

Christina Qi left a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day. Her new startup just raised $97 million

Databento serves everyone from student traders to the world's largest hedge funds—and counts Nvidia and OpenAI as customers. Source: fortune.com

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Ollama Closes $65M Series B to Advance Open-Source AI Platform

Ollama has secured $65 million to advance its development platform for developing AI models, with Theory Ventures leading the funding round. Source: citybiz.co

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Autonomous ship startup Kraken raises $175M at $1B valuation

Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a British defense startup that makes autonomous ships, has raised $175 million in funding. Private equity firm DTCP led the... Source: siliconangle.com

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Databento Raises $97 Million Series B To Expand Global Market Data Infrastructure

Databento, a market data platform for financial institutions, announced it has raised $97 million in Series B funding in a round led by New Enterprise... Source: pulse2.com

Importance:Newsstartup valuation

Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation

A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October. Source: techcrunch.com

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Kraken Technology Group Closes Series B Round At Unicorn Valuation

Led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP), the Series B funding round will accelerate Kraken's rapid capability development and international... Source: oceannews.com

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Supply chain startup Auger, led by ex-Amazon operations chief, raises $50M and lands big customers

Former Amazon executive Dave Clark's supply chain startup has raised $50 million in new funding, bringing its total to $150 million, as it builds a customer... Source: geekwire.com

Importance:Newsfunding

AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation

Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. Source: siliconangle.com

Importance:NewsAI agents

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect's goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs. Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:NewsAI chips

Inference chip startup SambaNova valued at $11B in $1B funding round

Chip startup SambaNova Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding at a $11 billion valuation. General Atlantic led the Series F round... Source: siliconangle.com

Importance:NewsAI infrastructure

Upscale AI Adds $190 Million in Extension to Series A, Reaching Half-Billion Dollars in Total Funding

Upscale AI, Inc., a pure-play AI networking infrastructure company, today announced it has raised $190 million in Series A-1 financing. Source: businesswire.com

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Prime Intelliect's $1b valuation, Ardian's HR software stake, and Paradigm's new fund

Venture Capital. • Prime Intellect, an SF-based agentic AI building platform, raised $130m in Series A funding at a $1b valuation. Source: axios.com

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Norm Ai nabs $120M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to the law

Nomos Ai Inc., a company building a platform to embed legal operations into artificial intelligence agents, today announced it has raised $120 million in... Source: siliconangle.com

Importance:NewsAI funding (legal AI)

Norm Ai Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation Led by Khosla Ventures to Deliver the Full-Stack Model for Legal AI

PRNewswire/ -- Norm Ai raised a $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures, the first institutional investor in OpenAI.... Source: prnewswire.com