AI Funding Pulse

Legal AI Funding Milestone

• 🔥 Harvey Raises $200M at $11B Valuation: U.S. legal AI vendor Harvey attracted $200 million led by GIC and Sequoia,...

Key insights from Nina Habicht's interview on AI dynamics:

• Funding bubble incoming: Much AI feels disposable, with poor unit economics signaling...

Trend accelerating: Specialized AI routinely hits decacorn status across niches.

• Defense: Shield AI raises $1.5B Series G at $12.7B (up 140% YoY)...

Late-Stage Funding Highlights

• 🔥 Amity Solutions $100M Series D: Amity Solutions raised $100M Series D led by EDBI with Asia Partners, SMDV, and...

Southeast Asia's biggest GenAI funding goes to Thailand's Amity, led by EDBI with Asia Partners, SMDV, CMLIM.

• AI R&D hub launches in Singapore for...

• Huge new round: OpenAI raising additional $10B from investors, CFO Sarah Friar tells CNBC's Jim Cramer
• Record scale: Brings total funding over $120B
• Key backer: Microsoft joins latest tranche

Investor appetite for OpenAI stays insatiable.

Sarvam AI's advanced talks signal India's biggest AI fundraise:

• $300M raise at $1.5B valuation – or $250M per reports
• Led by NVIDIA, Accel,...

Littlebird raises $11M seed led by Lotus Studio, with angels Lenny Rachitsky and Scott Belsky, for a personal AI that continuously understands your screen and meetings to ground answers in your work. Seed traction builds in personal applied AI tools.

London-based Origin raises $30M extended Series A+ led by Notion Capital—with Felix Capital, Acadian Ventures, HSBC, and angels like ex-Accenture CTO...

Vanguard Defense secures $5M seed round for its platform helping defense contractors and government vendors manage unstructured data in AI applications. Early signal of rising AI infra investments tackling defense data challenges.

• Thesis Care raises $45M Series A to expand AI agents + clinicians for complex workflows
• Qualified Health secures $125M Series B led by NEA,...

Early AI gaming creativity tools hit funding radar: Verse8 raises $5M seed for its generative AI platform enabling no-code multiplayer games via...

Video & World Models Raises

• 🔥 Runway: AI video startup Runway raised $315M at $5.3B valuation to expand into world models.
• QCraft: Chinese...

Trend alert: Massive funding signals physical AI boom in real-world apps.

• Chinese AV startup QCraft closes $100M Series D for physical AI R&D...

San Francisco-based Latent, a clinical-AI company accelerating access to life-saving medications, has raised $80M in Series A funding. Major boost for applied AI in healthcare.

March AI funding explodes to record levels, led by Code Metal's $125M raise and Plaid's $8B valuation – plus more deals transforming finance, food waste, and business tools.

Kleiner Perkins raises $3.5B exclusively for AI startups: $1B early-stage (KP22) and $2.5B growth-stage.

Strong track record with Together AI,...

Gimlet Labs, an AI inference software startup, just raised $80M in Series A funding to advance its multi-silicon inference cloud technology for running AI—key traction in inference infrastructure.

Key funding highlights from March 24 roundup:

• GVC Gaesco launches €70M fund for Europe's infrastructure startups
• Parallel (AI hospital admin)...

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI is in talks for a $250M funding round led by Nvidia, Accel, and HCLTech to reach unicorn status – spotlighting India's rising AI momentum with heavy-hitter backing.