AI Funding News: Week Ending 05.09
From agentic automation and healthcare breakthroughs to seed-stage dark horses and billion-dollar moves. This week delivered.
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May 09, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Welcome to another packed week in the world of AI funding. From agentic automation and healthcare breakthroughs to seed-stage dark horses and billion-dollar moves. This week delivered.
Let’s dive in.👇
🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week
» Funding Roundup
Anysphere raised $900M to grow its AI coding assistant Cursor, now valued at $9B.
Parloa secured $120M (Series C) at a $1B valuation for its agentic AI CX platform.
Windfall Data raised $65M to scale people intelligence and AI workflows.
Orca AI brought in $72.5M for maritime AI systems.
Relevance AI grabbed $24M to expand its AI agent operating system.
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📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us
» The Rise of Generative AI in Unexpected Places
Healthcare Revolution: AI now generating personalized treatment plans in 67% of major hospitals
Creative Industries Disruption: Generative AI creating initial drafts for films, music, and design projects
Unexpected Stat: 42% of Fortune 500 companies now have dedicated generative AI teams
M&A Heats Up: Major acquisitions in developer tools, insurance, and customer service signal consolidation across verticals.
🦄 Startups to Watch:
Lovelace AI – real-time data fusion platform inspired by Ada herself.
Jozu – orchestration tools for enterprise AI that don't require a CS degree to operate.
CueZen – health personalization AI aiming to replace generic wellness platforms.
diio – Chilean-born AI-native sales assistant platform scaling fast.
Relevance AI – building the operating system for AI agents (and it’s not just hype).
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions
CoreWeave acquired Weights & Biases, bolstering its AI developer ecosystem.
Healthcare Funding Partners acquired GetMeHealthcare, doubling down on AI-led insurance workflows.
Covu acquired CIII Insurance Services to expand its AI-native insurance services.
FE fundinfo acquired Lunar AI, integrating LLMs into financial data.
Weave acquired TrueLark, expanding AI-powered customer automation.
XTM International acquired TXTOmedia, blending AI with video automation.
A snapshot of the other notable deals:
Company | Location | Round | Amount | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clarium | NYC | Series A | $27M | Healthcare Supply Chain AI |
Fastino | Palo Alto, CA | Seed | $17.5M | Transformer-based Model Infra |
StackAI | SF | Series A | $16M | AI Agent Development |
Jericho Security | NYC | Series A | $15M | AI Security Training |
Recraft | London | Series B | $30M | GenAI Design Tools |
Sett | Tel Aviv | Series A | $27M | Mobile Gaming Agentic AI |
🧠 Full funding data available here
🤖 Beyond The Feed
👉 AI Words You Should Actually Know
No more nodding along to jargon you don’t understand. We broke it all down:
Did You Know?
The earliest known concept of artificial intelligence dates back to ancient Greece. Philosopher Aristotle laid the groundwork for logic-based reasoning around 350 B.C., which now underpins modern AI decision-making.
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Till next time,