AI Funding News: Week Ending 11.21
Over $1.9B+ disclosed. Lets roll.
Feed The AI Team
November 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Last Time the Market Was This Expensive, Investors Waited 14 Years to Break Even
In 1999, the S&P 500 peaked. Then it took 14 years to gradually recover by 2013.
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On one side: mega-checks for infra and security. On the other: hungry seeds rebuilding sales, taxes, and developer tooling. Together? The AI money hose stayed wide open.
Lets dive in:
🔥 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week:
Lambda – $1.5B (Series E) – San Francisco, CA
GPU cloud + on-prem clusters for training/inference; fresh capital to scale H200/B200 capacity and global data centers.
Sakana AI – $135M (Series B) – Tokyo, Japan
Research lab building small-but-mighty “species” models; new round to productize efficient multimodal systems.
Numeric – $51M (Series B) – New York, NY
AI finance copilot to close the books faster; targets the month-end crunch with autonomous reconciliations.
Flexion – $50M (Series A) – San Francisco, CA
Neuro-robotics platform (BCI + exos) for industrial precision and rehab; blurs software, silicon, and motion.
Maxima – $41M (Seed) – San Francisco, CA
AI accountant that automates GL, AR, and close — aiming to replace the manual spreadsheet grind.
Agentio – $40M (Series B) – San Francisco, CA
AI agent network that plans/buys creator ads across channels; promise: performance without the performance team.
Sphere – $21M (Series A) – New York, NY
AI tax engine for complex filings; turns messy docs and rules into compliant returns.
Peec AI – $21M (Series A) – San Francisco, CA
Answer-engine optimization (AEO) platform so brands show up inside AI assistants, not just search.
Bone AI – $12M (Seed) – Seoul, South Korea
Defense-grade robotics and autonomy stack; dual-use sensors + control.
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🦄 Startups to Watch:
Numeric (Series B) - If they keep compressing close cycles, CFO suites will standardize on an AI copilot the way they did on ERP.
Flexion (Series A) - Robotics + neurointerfaces is a steep hill; if they land industrial lighthouse wins, category gravity follows.
Maxima (Seed) - A seed that looks like a B: clear wedge (GL/close), obvious ROI, big legacy incumbents.
Runlayer (Seed) - Governance/compliance for LLM apps is table-stakes in 2026; strong fit for regulated enterprises.
📡 Signals – What This Week Tells Us:
Lambda’s $1.5B dwarfs the field. GPU capacity remains the bottleneck everyone pays to remove.
Security gets agentic: From Lambda’s customers to enterprise buyers, “autonomous remediation” is the new north star across cyber and ops.
Back-office automation is hot again: Accounting (Maxima, Numeric) and tax (Sphere) signal AI eating finance ops first.
AEO is a real line item: Peec AI’s raise shows brands budgeting for “answer engines,” not just SEO/SEM.
🤝 Mergers & Acquisitions
Cloudflare → Replicate - Agreed to acquire the AI model-deployment platform (Nov 17).
Salesforce → Informatica - Deal completed; data + AI cloud gets a bigger ingestion spine (Nov 18).
SAFE Security → Balbix - Consolidates AI-native cyber risk/exposure management (Nov 18).
Palo Alto Networks → Chronosphere - Definitive agreement to buy next-gen observability for agentic remediation (Nov 19).
Intellect → Zaptic - Adds AI frontline-worker workflows to QMS suite (Nov 17).
M&A Pulse: Platforms are hoovering specialized AI capabilities (observability, data, risk) to ship end-to-end “autonomous ops” stories.
📬 Enjoyed the intel?
See you next week.
Until then: ship fast, raise smart, stay curious.
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