🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-30
A funding spree with AI firms
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
- Paid (AI agent monetization platform): $21.6M
- Manas AI (AI drug discovery startup): $26M
- Neptune Robotics (AI ship cleaning robots): $52M
- EdSights (AI for student retention): $80M
- Modal Labs (serverless AI app platform): $87M
- Inspiren (AI for senior living): $100M
- Eve (AI assistant for lawyers): $103M
- Rebellions (South Korean AI chipmaker): $250M
- Vercel (cloud tools for AI apps): $300M
- Cerebras Systems (AI chipmaker): $1.1B
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