AI Funding News: Week Ending 11.15
Frontier bets met builder grit this past week: two half-billion firehoses for infra and legal AI,
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November 17, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Frontier bets met builder grit this past week: two half-billion firehoses for infra and legal AI, with a parade of agentic tools, robotics dev stacks, and security plays filling out the tape.
In short: money flowed from boardroom to boiler room.
Lets dive in:
🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:
CHAOS Industries – $510M (Series D) – Los Angeles, CA
Autonomy, sensing, and mission systems for defense—capital to scale hardware + AI for contested environments.
Clio – $500M (Growth) – Vancouver, BC
AI-enhanced legal OS (practice mgmt + research via vLex) doubles down on vertical AI for law firms.
Firmus – $325M (A$500M bridge/convert) – Launceston, TAS, Australia
AI-designed, low-carbon build-outs for data-center power + thermal—backed by top Aussie investors.
Scribe – $75M (Series C) – San Francisco, CA
Process-capture assistant that turns workflows into docs; funding to expand AI-generated SOPs at scale.
Sweet Security – $75M (Series B) – Tel Aviv, Israel
Runtime-level cloud defense with AI detection and response; growth round for go-to-market and R&D.
CoLab – $72M (Series C) – St. John’s, NL, Canada
EngineeringOS with AI review agents (AutoReview) to compress hardware design cycles from months to hours.
Gamma – $68M (Series B) – San Francisco, CA
AI visual-storytelling platform for decks/docs/sites; scaling creation and collaboration.
AirOps – $40M (Series B) – San Francisco, CA
Gen-AI content and search platform for marketing ops; funding to expand enterprise footprint.
Attentive.ai – $30.5M (Series A) – Noida, India / Wilmington, DE
AI workflows for landscaping & outdoor services—from takeoffs to ops—picks up growth capital.
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🦄 Startups to Watch:
1Mind (Series A) - Agentic sales reps with “ownership” and goal reasoning; if they hit quota reliably, this rewrites SDR math.
Foxglove (Series B) - The Roblox of robotics dev tooling: logs, viz, & infra where teams actually work.
Attentive.ai (Series A) - Blue-collar AI is a massive TAM; automating takeoffs and ops is wedge → platform.
Deductive AI (Seed) - Governance rails for AI adoption; compliance budgets are sticky and growing.
📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
Mega is back: two $500M-ish rounds (CHAOS, Clio) show late-stage appetite for defense/industrial autonomy and vertical legal AI.
Industrial + robotics tooling is hot: Foxglove and CoLab pull capital to arm builders, not just apps.
Go-to-market agents are real: 1Mind and AirOps signal agentic AI moving from demos to revenue workflows.
Security stays funded: Sweet Security’s B keeps cloud runtime defense on investors’ shortlist.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions
AMD → MK1 – Terms undisclosed: Vision inference IP to beef up on-device AI.
BigBear.ai → Ask Sage: Agentic AI for public sector bolted into BigBear’s analytics.
YOOBIC → Humanitics: Employee-AI analytics to broaden frontline ops platform.
Veritas Capital → MetroStar: Gov-tech and AI services consolidation continues.
Cognizant → 3Cloud: Cloud + AI modernization at scale for enterprise clients.
M&A Pulse: Buyers chased applied-AI capabilities (agentic, analytics, cloud modernization) to widen services moats—especially in gov and enterprise.
📬 Enjoyed the intel?
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