AI Funding News - Week Ending 05.02

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Feed The AI Team
May 02, 2025

Welcome to your weekly dose of what just happened in AI funding, M&A, and market signals.

This week, we saw momentum in healthcare AI, agentic automation, and domain-specific infrastructure.

Let’s dig in 👇

💰 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week

  • Supio raised $60M (Series B) to serve plaintiff law firms with an AI-native legal platform.

  • Utilidata raised $60.3M (Series C) to scale its edge AI infrastructure for grid modernization.

  • Plenful landed $50M (Series B) to automate healthcare ops with AI workflow tools.

  • VSORA raised $46M to build next-gen inference chips out of Paris.

  • Doppel raised $35M (Series B) for AI-powered social engineering defense.

  • Reducto raised $24.5M (Series A) for an unstructured data ingestion platform powering AI pipelines.

👀 Startups to Watch

  • EdgeRunner AI raised $12M to deploy on-device, air-gapped AI agents for defense and enterprise.

  • VOC.AI raised $15M to supercharge customer intelligence with AI agents.

  • Basil Systems brought in $11.5M for AI-powered product lifecycle intelligence in life sciences.

  • Swivel raised $5.8M for AI workflow automation in advertising ops.

  • Field Materials raised $10.5M to streamline procurement in construction.

  • Solda.AI raised €4M to build AI sales reps for the enterprise.

  • Stimuler raised $3.75M to build a voice-first AI tutor for English learners.

  • Dex raised $3.1M to develop an AI voice talent agent for recruiting.

💼 C-Suite Moves:

  • Sol Rashidi joins Cyera as Chief Strategy Officer for Data and AI, signaling further enterprise AI expansion at the data security firm.

🤝 Acquisitions

  • LendingClub acquired Cushion's AI-powered spending insights platform.

  • Sun Nuclear acquired Oncospace, expanding AI for radiation oncology.

  • Earnix to acquire Zelros, a GenAI provider for insurers and banks.

📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us

  • Agentic AI Is Gaining Real-World Ground: EdgeRunner, Doppel, and Solda are applying agent models to defense, security, and sales. AI agents aren’t just theory—they’re fundraising.

  • AI for Healthcare Ops Is Heating Up: Plenful, Gestalt Diagnostics, and Pallie AI raised funding to modernize patient care, diagnostics, and mental health.

  • Foundational Infra Still Finds Backers: From Utilidata to Reducto, startups focused on edge deployment and AI pipeline ingestion are still getting checks, even in a crowded market.

  • Vertical AI Remains a Core Theme: We saw niche plays across legal (Supio), life sciences (Basil), construction (Field Materials), and language learning (Stimuler).

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