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Telli raises $15M seed round led by redalpine to build AI agents for B2C customer operations, handling calls, lead qualification, appointments, and follow-ups. Already used by Sky, Enpal, and Vaillant.
Fish Audio has raised $52 million in seed funding to develop AI voice models for creators and enterprises. The startup, which generates $21M in ARR and has 8 million users, offers open-source and paid voice generation models, including its latest S2.1 Pro API.
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian, discussing fundraising strategy and the importance of visual understanding in AI.
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M in seed funding from Nvidia and others to scale its ultra-low latency voice AI models and open a Bay Area office.
Anjney Midha reflects on the value of in-context learning in AI and life, recalling his investment in Anthropic's 2021 seed round as an intuitive but often misunderstood concept.
Jeff Bezos recounts the difficulty of raising Amazon's seed round in 1995, selling 20% of the company for $1 million to 22 angel investors after 60 meetings.
Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka launches Hang Ten Systems, a startup aiming to use AI to disrupt the IT services industry, with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield.
Behnam Neyshabur announces the formal launch of Mirendil, a new company with a Lord of the Rings-inspired name, backed by a $200M seed round from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA.
Behnam Neyshabur announces Mirendil, a new company focused on self-accelerating AI R&D to democratize AI and accelerate science, backed by $200M seed from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA, with a team from top AI labs.
AI agents are powerful but not yet integrated into everyday life, which often happens in group chats. Jarvie, an AI assistant for iMessage group chats, has raised $8.3M seed funding from a16z, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
TensorZero, an open-source LLMOps platform that raised $7.3 million in seed funding, has archived its GitHub repository. The platform provides a unified gateway, observability, evaluation, optimization, and experimentation for LLMs.
Orbital, a startup founded by e-scooter founder Euwyn Poon, raised $5 million to build space data centers for AI inference, betting on SpaceX's Starship for economic viability.
ZeroDrift raised $10M in seed funding to offer an AI compliance service that sits between models and users, deterministically flagging and rewriting non-compliant messages.
Arc, a company modernizing drive-thru operations with AI, announces a $10.76M seed round led by a16z to help local businesses use AI for upselling and insights.
NanoClaw's creator Gavriel Cohen turned down a $20M buyout offer and instead raised a $12M seed round led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Docker, Vercel, and others. The project went viral after endorsements from Andrej Karpathy and Singapore's foreign minister.
Announced the launch of General Astronautics, a startup building orbital manufacturing factories to address space labor shortages and enable new pharmaceuticals, materials, and planetary exploration, with an oversubscribed seed round.