AI Funding News: Week Ending 10.12
Infra and embodied bets ran the table: a monster lab round set the tone + robotics, data tooling, and agentic apps filled the lane
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October 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Infra and embodied bets ran the table: a monster lab round set the tone, while robotics, data tooling, and agentic apps filled the lane.
Lets dive in:
🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:
Reflection AI – $2.0B (Growth) – Brooklyn, NY
Open-source-leaning frontier lab building autonomous coding agents; Nvidia led at an ~$8B valuation.
EvenUp – $150M (Series E) – San Francisco, CA
Legal-AI platform for plaintiff firms; one of the biggest checks in vertical AI this year.
Sensi.AI – $45M (Series C) – Palo Alto, CA
Audio-only “care intelligence” that monitors seniors at home without cameras; privacy-forward aging-in-place tech.
Datacurve – $15M (Series A) – San Francisco, CA
High-skill post-training data generation to harden reasoning/coding models—taking on Scale AI.
Energy Robotics – $13.5M (Series A) – Darmstadt, DE
AI software for autonomous robot/drone inspections across critical infrastructure sites.
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🦄 Startups to Watch:
Cyberwave – ~$7M (Seed) – Milan, IT
Industrial “digital-twin + agent” layer that lets AI control real-world machines.
Tycho AI – $10M (Series A) – Cambridge, MA
Resilient navigation + edge-AI autonomy for UAVs in contested environments.
375ai – $10M (Seed) – Los Angeles, CA
Edge-data intelligence stack to clean/stream enterprise data for AI in real time.
Appy.AI – $5M (Seed) – Denver, CO
“Build a business with AI” platform for non-technical founders and operators.
Civilized AI – $2M (Seed) – New Orleans, LA
GovTech copilots to modernize city services (permitting, service requests, more).
📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
Mega still lives. A $2B lab round (led by Nvidia) shows investor conviction in frontier + open as a counterweight to closed ecosystems.
Robotics is practical, not sci-fi. Inspection/industrial use cases (Energy Robotics) keep drawing checks where ROI is clear.
Data is the real moat. Post-training, synthetic, and “high-skill” data workflows (Datacurve) are becoming core infra lines in AI budgets.
Aging and GovTech get AI copilots. Privacy-respecting senior-care (Sensi.AI) and city-service automation (Civilized) signal AI spreading into regulated civic domains.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions:
SoftBank → ABB Robotics - $5.375B definitive deal for ABB’s industrial-robotics unit; closing targeted mid-to-late 2026.
Itron → Urbint - $325M definitive agreement to add AI risk-management for utilities and cities.
Redis → Featureform - N/D; brings a feature/structured-signals layer to deliver real-time data into AI agents.
M&A Pulse: Platforms are buying data and distribution. Think robotics scale on one end and operational risk + real-time signals on the other.
Beyond The Feed:
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