AI Funding News: Week Ending 06.06
35 deals, $1.4 B+ disclosed. Lets go
Feed The AI Team
June 06, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:
» Funding Roundup
Company | Round | Amount | Vertical | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Grammarly | Growth financing | $1 B | Productivity / GenAI | San Francisco, CA |
Prepared | Series C | $80 M | Emergency response | New York, NY |
Aerones | Growth | $62 M | Wind-turbine robotics & AI | Riga, Latvia |
Voxel | Series B | $44 M | Workplace safety & risk | San Francisco, CA |
Simetrik | Add-on | $30 M | Fin-data reconciliation | New York, NY |
Treefera | Series B | $30 M | Supply-chain data fabric | London, UK |
Takeaway: Investors keep doubling down on industrial and infra-heavy AI, from blades in the sky (Aerones) to boots on warehouse floors (Voxel).
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📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
Agent Everywhere: From Sema4.ai to Thread AI, “agentization” is shifting from hype to budgets—particularly in workflows that bottleneck revenue ops and DevOps.
Vertical Deep-Dives Pay: Wind-turbine robotics (Aerones) and transfer pricing compliance (Aibidia) prove that niche domain expertise + AI = venture catnip.
FinOps Is Hot: Simetrik, LuminX, and Ciroos highlight a wave of accounting, inventory, and SRE spend flowing to AI-first fixes.
Safety & Trust Remain Key: Prepared, Deep Sentinel, Voxel, and Impart Security all raised on the promise of AI that protects people, infra, or data—a counterweight to the “move fast” mantra.
🦄 Startups to Watch:
Thread AI – Turning “bring-your-own-tool chaos” into agent-powered workflow nirvana. Enterprise BLEEDING for this right now.
Manex AI – Industrial quality control without clipboards. Munich’s quietly building the Tesla-factory brain.
Veris AI – Sandbox for stress-testing your agents before they trash prod—cyber insurers will love this.
Aeon – Your future health coach? Predictive biomarkers + lifestyle nudges in one slick platform.
Kosmc AI – Betting on India’s exploding social-commerce sellers with plug-and-play AI ops.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions:
Buyer | Target | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
Datasite | Grata | Bolsters private-market intelligence inside M&A workflow suite. |
Invoca | Adds real-time convo-intelligence to revenue execution stack. | |
NWN Corp. | InterVision Systems | Scales AI-powered managed-services footprint across North America. |
CallMiner | VOCALLS | Voice-first conversational AI → deeper CX analytics. |
M&A Pulse: Consolidators are hoovering specialized conversation & market-intel tech to beef up platform breadth.
🤖 Beyond The Feed
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