🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-02
First funding… and then something fun.
Funding
💰 + 🤖 + 🍪 + ⚛️ Funding flows for AI, electronics, and quantum companies.
- Kite (Agentic AI web infrastructure): $18M
- Aurasell (AI sales automation): $30M
- OpenLight (silicon photonic chips): $34M
- Phasecraft (quantum computing algorithms): $34M
- Paragraf (graphene electronics): $55M
- LayerX (AI back-office automation): $100M
- Anthropic (AI platform company): $13B
Fun
Does Agentic AI spell the end of dial twiddlers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrrotz6Wms
