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Welcome to the 1st week of Q2! Two $100M rounds, a stealthy $500M+ raise, and a $600M megadeal out of the UK. Agentic AI creeping into procurement, property, and even quick-service restaurants.

Ok, Let’s break down the past week👇

💰 Biggest AI Funding Rounds This Week

1. Isomorphic Labs (UK)- Raised $600M to reinvent drug discovery using AI-first design labs. Alphabet-backed and leading the charge in AI x Biotech.

2. ReliaQuest (Tampa, FL) - Raised over $500M to scale its AI-powered security operations platform. Valuation: $3.4B.

3. Redpanda (San Francisco, CA)
   Closed $100M Series D to power real-time data pipelines for AI. Valued at $1B.

4. Cyberhaven (Palo Alto, CA)
   Raised $100M Series D at a $1B valuation to expand its AI-powered data security offerings.

5. Unframe (Cupertino, CA)
   Raised $50M to enhance enterprise-grade AI infrastructure and platform tooling.

6. AttoTude (Menlo Park, CA)
   Raised $50M Series B to develop ultra-high-speed THz interconnects powering the next-gen AI stack.

👀 Startups To Watch:

1. Chef Robotics (San Francisco, CA)
   Raised $43M Series A to bring AI-powered meal assembly into commercial kitchens.

2. Adaptive Security (New York, NY)
   Secured $43M to prevent social engineering attacks using AI-driven human-layer defense.

3. SchoolAI (Lehi, UT)
   Raised $25M Series A to provide educators with AI co-pilots in the classroom.

4. Persefoni AI (Tempe, AZ)
   Closed $23M to scale its AI-powered carbon accounting and ESG reporting platform.

5. Actively AI (New York, NY)
   Raised $22.5M to apply reasoning-based AI to sales and revenue team workflows.

6. Opsera (San Francisco, CA)
   Raised $20M Series B to bring AI-native intelligence into the DevOps pipeline.

7. Hi Auto (Dayton, OH)
   Closed $15M Series A to build voice AI tools for fast food and QSR environments.

8. LTV.ai (Austin, TX)
   Raised $5.2M Series A to hyper-personalize email and SMS marketing using AI.

9. Cambrian (San Francisco, CA)
   Raised $5.9M Seed to help developers rapidly build and deploy AI agents.

10. Sturdy (Portland, OR)
    Closed $6M Seed round to offer customer intelligence tools powered by AI.

🤝 Acquisitions and Strategic Moves:

1. AlertMedia acquires Pyrra Technologies - Social media threat detection meets real-time risk alerting.

2. Workato acquires DeepConverse - Generative AI comes to enterprise orchestration.

3. Crisp acquires Shelf Engine - Food supply chain forecasting powered by AI.

📡 Signals - What This Week Tells Us:

1. Security is hot again
   Cyberhaven, ReliaQuest, Adaptive Security-AI is prepping to help secure companies

2. Infra still wins funding
   Data infrastructure (Redpanda), interconnects (AttoTude), and security ops (ReliaQuest, Cyberhaven) are attracting huge checks.

3. Europe goes big
   MEIsomorphic, Tomorro, and InfiniLink show EMEA’s AI ecosystem is on the rise.

4. Seed activity is still alive. Ropes, Sohar Health, Cambrian, and others raised early rounds in specialized verticals. Hinting at the next crop of vertical AI tools.

5. AI is embedded everywhere. Procurement (Vallor), voice tech (Hi Auto), and legal ops (TrialKit) show AI going horizontal.

6. Robotics & automation aren't just hype. Chef Robotics’ raise hints at major commercial adoption in Q2.

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See you next Friday,
Joey
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