AI Funding News: Week Ending 07.11

Superchips, stealth seeds, and surprise exits. last week’s AI money moves in five minutes.

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July 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds Last Week:

» Funding Roundup

  1. SiPearl – €130 M Series A (Maison Laffitte, FR) – building energy-efficient super-computing processors for AI.

  2. RealSense – $50 M Series A (Santa Clara, CA) – next-gen computer-vision platform spun out with Intel Capital & MediaTek.

  3. Honor Education – $38 M Series A (San Francisco, CA) – AI-powered learning platform for skills, mindsets, and culture.

  4. Inshur – $35 M growth financing (Phoenix, AZ) – insurance platform for the on-demand economy.

  5. Nominal – $20 M Series A (New York, NY) – AI-native ERP designed for modern finance and ops teams.

Quick take: Hardware, hardcore vision, and vertical SaaS still command the fattest checks.

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📡 Signals – 5 Things the Money Is Whispering

  1. AI silicon isn’t slowing. SiPearl’s mega-round shows chips that sip watts, not gallons, are still VCs’ favorite hardware bet.

  2. Vertical ERP 2.0 rises. Nominal’s $20 M tells us CFOs want AI-first, no-spreadsheet back-office suites yesterday.

  3. Regulated-cloud gold rush. Knox leans into federal compliance; expect more “Gov-Ramp-Ready” badges this year.

  4. Data+Earth is hot. LGND proves capital is chasing planetary-scale datasets with usable UX layers.

  5. AI-driven security splits in two lanes. Heavy MDR (AirMDR) for enterprises, lightweight dev tooling (ZeroEntropy) for builders—both got funded.

🦄 Startups to Watch (Early-Stage Radar)

  • AirMDR – Bringing cloud-scale, AI-driven detection & response to orgs priced out of legacy MDR. Cyber insurers will eat this up.

  • LGND – Turns satellite and sensor data into an “Earth OS” you can chat with—massive appeal for climate and ag-tech.

  • Polimorphic – Finally drags city-hall workflows into the 21st century with AI forms and resident portals. GovTech seldom looks this slick.

  • ZeroEntropy – Developer-first retrieval engine that swaps prompt spaghetti for clean API calls—early love from LLM hackers.

  • Knox – A FedRAMP-minded cloud built from day one for AI workloads in public-sector environments—timing is perfect for U.S. agency demand.

🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions:

  • Torch → Praxis Labs – Leadership-coaching platform grabs an immersive AI learning startup to deepen manager training.

  • Amplitude → Kraftful – Product-analytics giant adds AI Voice-of-Customer to surface user pain faster.

  • Clarity AI → Ecolytiq – Sustainability data meets climate-engagement tech for banks; ESG scoring just became stickier.

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