AI Funding News: Week Ending 06.13

Meta’s $14 B Bet & the Week’s Other Deals. Lets go

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Feed The AI Team
June 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

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Happy Friday 13th! Welcome back, builders and backers.

If your favorite AI app felt haunted this week, you’re not alone. A wave of GPU-driven outages and throttling hit everything from ChatGPT Voice to Midjourney. While the servers were spinning, investors kept wiring cash.

Here’s your quick rundown of who grabbed fresh funding (and who got bought) in the past week:

🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:

  • Scale AI – Meta purchased a 49 % strategic stake for $14.3 B, valuing the data-labeling giant at $29 B. CEO Alex Wang will head Meta’s brand-new “super-intelligence” group.

  • ClickHouse – $350 M Series C to expand its real-time analytics + AI/ML data warehouse.

  • Multiverse Computing – €189 M (~$217 M) Series B for quantum-inspired LLM compression that shrinks models by 95 %.

  • Glean – $150 M Series F, pushing enterprise AI search to a $7.2 B valuation.

  • Landbase – $30 M Series A for its “Vibe GTM” outbound-automation engine.

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📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:

  • Infra & Data Still Rule – Meta’s mega-stake in Scale AI shows that owning the labeling pipeline is as strategic as owning GPUs.

  • Cost-Cutting Tech Is Hot – Multiverse’s compression and Bolo AI’s ops OS both promise “smaller, cheaper, faster” in a GPU-crunched market.

  • Agentic GTM Automations – Landbase (outbound) and Thread AI (workflow orchestration) prove investors love anything that turns tedious go-to-market steps into a single API call.

  • Seeds Are Humming – Six sub-$35 M seed deals in one week signal that early-stage velocity is alive and well, even as late-stage valuations climb.

🦄 Startups to Watch:

  • Yupp – $33 M Seed (led by a16z crypto) to build an open-source eval layer for frontier models.

  • Sunrise Robotics – $8.5 M Seed for plug-and-play industrial robots (backed by Plural).

  • Repello AI – $1.2 M Seed to simulate red-team attacks on GenAI apps.

  • Bolo AI – $8.1 M Seed for an operating system that augments heavy-industry workers.

🤖 Beyond The Feed:

Founders Fund Portfolio: AI Startups Backed by Peter Thiel’s Firm (2025 Tracker)

Founders Fund’s AI playbook at a glance. See the startups that Peter Thiel–backed firm has funded, from Anthropic and Scale AI to emerging bets like Netic AI.

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