AI Funding News: Week Ending 10.17
Warehouse robots, science-as-a-service labs, and agentic workplace tools led the flow.
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October 17, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Warehouse robots, science-as-a-service labs, and agentic workplace tools led the flow. while infra megadeals kept the backdrop humming.
Lets get it:
🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:
Dexory – $165M (Series C + debt) – London, UK
Warehouse “towers” + digital-twin platform to turn inventory into live telemetry; $100M equity plus $65M debt to scale U.S./UK ops
General Intuition – $134M (Seed) – Switzerland / U.S.
AI lab teaching agents spatial reasoning from gaming video; outsized seed to build cross-modal models.
Lila Sciences – $115M (Series A extension) – Cambridge, MA
“AI Science Factories”: robotic labs guided by specialized AI; new capital includes Nvidia’s venture arm.
Liberate – $50M (Series B) – San Francisco, CA
Reasoning AI agents for insurance ops (claims, servicing) with battery-backed scale-up.
Starship Technologies – $50M (Series C) – San Francisco, CA / Tallinn, EE
Autonomous sidewalk-delivery robots expanding across U.S. cities.
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🦄 Startups to Watch:
Viven (Seed, $35M) - If “employee digital twins” actually compress time-to-answer without privacy blowback, expect a fast land-and-expand across knowledge orgs.
Basis Theory (Series B, $33M) - Agentic checkout and payments orchestration is a big lever for conversion; infra players that abstract risk win seats everywhere.
Brook.ai (Series B, $28M) - Health systems on the cap table usually signal sticky adoption; remote-care AI with real clinical partners travels well
📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
Robots with spreadsheets: Logistics investors like Dexory are paying for continuous inventory truth, not annual counts—robots + digital twins = ROI now.
Wet-lab data moats rise: Lila shows that proprietary experimental data (not just web text) is becoming the defensible edge for science AI.
Agentic work gets practical: Liberate (insurance), Viven (employee twins) and Basis Theory (agentic payments) point to agents moving from pilots to P&L.
Delivery bots hit the street: Starship is shifting from campuses to cities, evidence that embodied AI can scale outside fenced environments.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions:
Capgemini → WNS - ~$3.3B; expands AI-powered services footprint.
Prezent AI → Prezentium - N/D; consolidates AI slide-creation tools in enterprise comms.
Consortium (BlackRock, Microsoft, NVIDIA, et al.) → Aligned Data Centers - ~$40B; a compute-capacity land-grab for AI.
M&A Pulse: Infra buyers are hoovering capacity and workflows—from $40B data centers to comms tools that feed enterprise copilots.
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