Para algunos, el agotamiento por IA es real. Sin embargo, está claro que los inversores de riesgo no se han cansado de la categoría.

Las transacciones de IA continuaron dominando la financiación de riesgo durante el tercer trimestre. Las compañías de IA recaudaron $19 mil millones en el Q3, según datos de Crunchbase. Esa cifra representa el 28% de toda la financiación de riesgo.

El cuarto trimestre de 2024 no ha sido menos activo en cuanto a rondas significativas. xAI de Elon Musk recaudó una inmensa ronda de $6 mil millones, una de las siete rondas de financiación de IA superiores a $1 mil millones en 2024, en noviembre. Esto ocurrió apenas meses después de que OpenAI recaudara su ronda de $6.6 mil millones.

Aquí están las compañías de IA con sede en EE.UU. que han recaudado $100 millones o más en 2024:

Diciembre

• Liquid AI, una startup de modelos fundacionales, recaudó una considerable serie A de $250 millones que valora a la startup con sede en Cambridge, Massachusetts, en $2.35 mil millones. AMD Ventures lideró la ronda y se unieron Duke Capital Partners, The Pags Group y OSS Capital. La ronda se cerró el 13 de diciembre.
• Tractian, con sede en Atlanta, recaudó una serie C de $120 millones que valora a la empresa en $720 millones. La compañía de inteligencia de máquinas recaudó fondos de Sapphire Ventures, NGP Capital y General Catalyst, entre otros. La ronda se anunció el 5 de diciembre.
• La compañía de hardware de IA Tenstorrent obtuvo una valoración de $2.7 mil millones en su última ronda de financiación. La empresa con sede en San Francisco recaudó una serie D de $693 millones que se cerró el 2 de diciembre. Samsung Securities y AFW Partners lideraron la ronda con la participación de Fidelity, Bezos Expeditions y Hyundai Motor Group, entre otros.

Noviembre

• xAI de Elon Musk recaudó su segunda gran ronda de financiación este año: una ronda de $6 mil millones de inversores, incluidos Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz y Autoridad de Inversiones de Catar. El acuerdo valora a la empresa en $50 mil millones.
• Enfabrica, una startup de chips de redes para IA, recaudó una serie C de $115 millones liderada por Spark Capital. Sutter Hill Ventures, Cisco Investments y Valor Equity Partners, entre otros, participaron, lo que se anunció el 19 de noviembre.
• La plataforma generativa de IA de pila completa Writer anunció una serie C de $200 millones el 12 de noviembre. La ronda fue liderada por Radical Ventures, Premji Invest e Iconiq con la participación de Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners y Vanguard, entre otros. La ronda valora a la startup en $1.9 mil millones.

• Physical Intelligence, una startup que desarrolla software fundacional para robots, fundada por personas notables, incluidos Sergey Levine y Lachy Groom, recaudó una serie A el 4 de noviembre que valora a la empresa en más de $2 mil millones. La ronda de $400 millones incluyó a Lux Capital, Sequoia y Jeff Bezos, entre otros. La compañía fue fundada en 2024.

Octubre

• Sierra de Bret Taylor, que fabrica chatbots de IA para clientes empresariales, recaudó una ronda de $175 millones que valora a la empresa en casi $4.5 mil millones. La ronda, que se anunció el 28 de octubre, fue liderada por Greenoaks con participación de Thrive Capital e Iconiq Capital.
• La startup de robótica de almacenes autónomos Nimble Robotics entra en el territorio unicornio con su última recaudación. La empresa con sede en San Francisco recaudó una serie C de $106 millones el 23 de octubre que valoró a la empresa en $1.1 mil millones. La ronda fue co-liderada por FedEx y Cedar Pine.
• Lightmatter, una startup de computación fotónica, recaudó una significativa serie D de $400 millones liderada por T. Rowe Price el 16 de octubre. La ronda valora a la empresa con sede en Silicon Valley en $4.4 mil millones. Lightmatter ha recaudado más de $800 millones en capital de riesgo.
• La startup de robots de soldadura autónomos con sede en Columbus, Ohio, Path Robotics recaudó una serie D de $100 millones que se anunció el 14 de octubre. La ronda fue liderada por Matter Venture Partners y Drive Capital con la participación de Tiger Global y Addition, entre otros.

• EvenUp, una empresa de legaltech impulsada por IA, recaudó una serie D de $135 millones liderada por Bain Capital Ventures con la participación de SignalFire y Lightspeed, entre otros. La ronda del 8 de octubre valoró a la startup en $1 mil millones.
• KoBold Metals, con sede en Berkeley, recaudó $491.5 millones en una ronda de riesgo reciente. Los inversores no se revelan, pero en el pasado, la empresa recaudó de capitales de riesgo, incluidos Bond y Andreessen Horowitz.
• La plataforma de desarrollo de software impulsada por IA Poolside cerró una serie B de $500 millones el 2 de octubre. La ronda fue liderada por Bain Capital Ventures con participación de Redpoint, StepStone y Nvidia, entre otros. La ronda valora a la empresa en $3 mil millones.
• OpenAI anunció su esperada ronda de capital de riesgo el 2 de octubre. La ronda de $6.6 mil millones fue la mayor ronda de capital de riesgo de todos los tiempos y valoró a la compañía en $157 mil millones. Thrive Capital lideró la ronda y se unió a otros inversores, incluidos Tiger Global y SoftBank.

Septiembre

• La startup de búsqueda empresarial Glean anunció su segunda ronda de financiación de 2024 el 10 de septiembre. La compañía recaudó una serie E de $260 millones que la valoró en $4.5 mil millones, marcando un aumento del 87.5% en la valoración desde su ronda de febrero.

• Safe Superintelligence, un laboratorio de investigación de IA fundado por el ex cofundador de OpenAI Ilya Sutskever e inversor en IA Daniel Gross. Anunció una recaudación de $1 mil millones a una valoración de $4 mil millones el 4 de septiembre. Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia y DST Global participaron en la ronda, entre otros.

Agosto

• La startup de codificación de IA Magic recaudó su segunda mega ronda del año el 29 de agosto. La empresa con sede en San Francisco recaudó $320 millones en una serie C. CapitalG, Sequoia y Jane Street Capital participaron en la ronda, entre otros. La compañía recaudó previamente $117 millones en una serie B en febrero.
• General Catalyst lideró la serie C de $150 millones en Codeium, una plataforma de codificación impulsada por IA, que se cerró el 29 de agosto. La ronda también incluyó
• Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks estimated Codeium’s worth at $1.2 billion.
• DevRev, a creator of AI assistance agents, secured a $1.1 billion valuation subsequent to its substantial early-stage funding. The Silicon Valley firm acquired $100 million in its Series A round with contributions from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield and Param Hansa Values. The company emerged in 2020.
• Located in San Francisco, Abnormal Security secured $250 million for its AI-focused email security technology. This financing round, led by Wellington Management, included Menlo Ventures, Greylock and Insight Partners. The company is assessed at over $5 billion.
• Groq — distinct from Grok — disclosed a $640 million Series D funding initiative on August 5, headed by BlackRock. The AI semiconductor firm also attracted investment from Type One Ventures, Verdure Capital Management and Neuberger Berman, among others. The company’s valuation exceeds $3 billion.

July

• Celebrated AI researcher Fei-Fei Li’s entity World Labs accumulated a $100 million series in July, sources indicated to TechCrunch. The venture is presently valued at over $1 billion as per the Financial Times. World Labs aims to develop AI models capable of accurately assessing the three-dimensional aspects of tangible objects.
• Legal technology firm Harvey proclaimed a $100 million Series C funding on July 23. Spearheaded by Google Ventures, this initiative included participants such as OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia. This valued San Francisco’s company at $1.5 billion.
• Hebbia, $130 million: Andreessen Horowitz led Hebbia’s funding round concluding on July 8. The company, leveraging generative AI for extensive document searches, also raised capital from Peter Thiel, Index Ventures and Google Ventures, arriving at a $700 million valuation.
• Skild AI, $300 million: From Pittsburgh, Skild AI reported a $300 million Series A round on July 9, setting the company’s valuation at $1.5 billion. The initiative was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue and Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions, with others like Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst participating. Skild AI develops technology for robotic efficiency.

June

• Bright Machines, $106 million: BlackRock spearheaded a $106 million Series C investment into Bright Machines, finalized on June 25. Nvidia, Microsoft and Eclipse Ventures, among other investors, participated. The startup specializes in smart robotics and AI-enhanced software, amassing over $437 million total in funding.
• Etched.ai, $120 million: San Francisco’s Etched.ai captured a $120 million Series A round on June 25. The lead parties were Primary Venture Partners and Positive Sum, with contributions from Two Sigma Ventures, Peter Thiel and Kyle Vogt, among others. Etched.ai is focused on manufacturing chips that enable AI models to perform faster and cost-effectively compared to GPUs.
• EvolutionaryScale, $142 million: Based in New York, EvolutionaryScale is developing biological AI models for therapeutic design. This entity gathered $142 million in seed funding concluded on June 25. The funding had backing from Lux Capital, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and angel investor and ex-AI head at Y Combinator, Daniel Gross. The company launched in 2023.
• AKASA, $120 million: Healthcare revenue cycle automation technology, Akasa, unveiled a $120 million funding round on June 18. Located in San Francisco, the startup totals $205 million in secured funds with past investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Costanoa Ventures and Bond.
• AlphaSense, $650 million: New York’s AlphaSense announced a $650 million Series F funding round on June 11. Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners took the lead, with participation from CapitalG, SoftBank Vision Fund, and Goldman Sachs, among others. AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform established in 2008, having procured more than $1.4 billion in venture funding and recently valued at $4 billion.

May

• xAI, $6 billion: Elon Musk’s xAI attracted a staggering $6 billion Series B funding on May 31 from contributors like Sequoia, Valor Equity Partners and Fidelity, among others. The company focuses on establishing an AI platform to “advance human scientific breakthroughs” and is estimated at an impressive $24 billion.
• Scale AI, $1 billion: Scale AI, a service provider specializing in data labeling for AI model training, raised $1 billion in May. The Series F funding was led by Accel and saw participation from Tiger Global, Spark Capital and Amazon, among others. Headquartered in San Francisco, Scale AI has accumulated over $1.6 billion in total and is presently valued at almost $14 billion.
• Suno, $125 million: AI-music creation platform Suno received $125 million from a Series B investment that wrapped up on May 21. The round values the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup at $500 million. Contributors such as Founder Collective, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix, along with previous GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and ex-head of AI at Y Combinator Daniel Gross, were involved.
• Weka, $140 million: Silicon Valley’s Weka developed an AI-centric data platform and acquired $140 million in Series E funding, concluded on May 13. Led by Valor Equity Partners, the financing included inputs from Qualcomm Ventures, Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures, among others. The startup was appraised at $1.6 billion.
• CoreWeave, $1.1 billion: New Jersey’s GPU infrastructure provider CoreWeave raised $1.1 billion through a Series C round finalized on May 1. The effort was championed by Coatue with participation from Fidelity, Altimeter Capital and Magnetar Capital, among others. CoreWeave launched in 2017 and holds a valuation of $19 billion.

April

• Blaize, $106 million: The AI-computing platform provider Blaize gathered $106 million during a Series D round, declared on April 29. Participants in this round included Temasek, Franklin Templeton and Bess Ventures, among others. Founded in 2010, the company has raised a total of $242 million.
• Augment, $227 million: Palo Alto’s Augment amassed $227 million for its AI coding support platform. The Series B round was publicly declared on April 24. Enablers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures took part in the round, valuing the company slightly under $1 billion.
• Cognition, $175 million: Founders Fund took the lead in the applied AI lab Cognition’s $175 million investment round, finalized on April 24. This funding came around a month after the company procured a $21 million Series A round in March from Founders Fund and a gamut of other financiers, including Ramp’s co-founder Eric Glyman, Stripe’s co-founders Patrick and John Collison, and Tony Xu, one of the founders of DoorDash. Thecompany was established in November 2023 and boasts a valuation of approximately $2 billion.
• Xaira Therapeutics, $1 billion: The AI-focused drug discovery enterprise, Xaira Therapeutics, headquartered in San Francisco, secured a $1 billion Series A funding round. The announcement was made on April 23, and the round was spearheaded by Foresite Capital and ARCH Venture Partners. Participants also included Sequoia, NEA, Lux Capital, among many others.
• Cyera, $300 million: Coatue took the lead in Cyera’s latest $300 million Series C financing round for its AI-driven data protection platform, finalized on April 9. The initiative appraised the New York-based firm at $1.4 billion. The round featured participation from Sequoia, Redpoint, Accel, among others.

March

• Celestial AI, $175 million: Established in 2020, Celestial AI is working on an optical interconnect tech platform for data centers and AI solutions. They garnered $175 million in a Series C round on March 27, raising their total funding to $338 million. The round was led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund, with additional backers including M Ventures, Temasek, and Tyche Partners.
• FundGuard, $100 million: FundGuard, a New York-located company, supplies an AI-driven investment accounting system and procured $100 million at a $400 million valuation. The Series C round, wrapped up on March 25, was helmed by Key1 Capital and engaged Hamilton Lane, Blumberg Capital, Team8, among others.
• Together AI, $106 million: The $106 million Series A round for Together AI was led by Salesforce Ventures, valuing the enterprise at $1.2 billion. Together AI provides a platform aimed at creating infrastructure and open-source generative AI for AI model development. NEA, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital participated, among others. The funding round was publicized on March 13.
• Zephyr AI, $111 million: Based in Fairfax Station, Virginia, Zephyr AI secured $111 million in a Series A round finalized on March 13. Participation came from Revolution Growth, Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, EPIQ Capital Group, and investor Jeff Skoll. The startup, initiated in 2020, leverages AI for advancements in drug research and precision medicine, totaling $129.5 million in funds raised so far.

February

• Glean, $203 million: On February 27, AI-driven enterprise search startup Glean acquired $203 million with a valuation reaching $2.2 billion. The Series D funding was headed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins, featuring Sequoia and Databricks Ventures among others. The enterprise, based in Silicon Valley, has amassed over $350 million in venture capital, and its founder, Arvind Jain, was recently interviewed on TechCrunch’s Found podcast.
• Figure, $675 million: The AI robotics entity, Figure, based in Silicon Valley, raised $675 million in a Series B round closed on February 24, appraising the company at nearly $2.7 billion. The round saw contributions from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others. Established in 2022, Figure has cumulatively raised over $850 million.
• Abridge, $150 million: Pittsburgh-based startup Abridge, which employs AI in transcribing medical discussions, secured $150 million in a Series C round that wrapped up on February 23. This round was led by Redpoint and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with investment from USV, IVP, and Spark Capital, among others. This input brings the six-year-old company’s appraisal to $850 million.
• Recogni, $102 million: Specializing in high-output yet low-energy AI interface solutions, Recogni attracted $102 million in a Series C round on February 20. It was spearheaded by GreatPoint Ventures and Celesta Capital, with support from Pledge Ventures, Mayfield, and DNS Capital.
• Lambda, $320 million: Concentrating on deep learning infrastructure, Lambda raised $320 million in a Series C round announced on February 15. Led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund, the round also involved Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, and T. Rowe Price. Lambda has gathered over $900 million in venture funds, with a recent valuation at $1.5 billion.
• Magic, $117 million: AI coding startup Magic amassed $117 million in a Series B round finalized on February 12. The effort was headed by NFDG Ventures, with contributions from CapitalG and angel investor Elad Gil. Situated in San Francisco, Magic has secured over $145 million in total capital.

January

• Kore.ai, $150 million: A startup focusing on conversational AI for corporate use, Kore.ai secured $150 million in a Series D round announced on January 30. The financing, led by FTV Capital, brought in support from Nvidia, Vistara Growth, and NextEquity Partners, among other contributors. Founded in 2013, Kore.ai has collected over $223 million in funding.

This composition was initially published on July 13, 2024, and has been revised on September 9, 2024, October 11, 2024, November 15, 2024, and December 20, 2024, to incorporate additional dealings.

This work has been amended to rectify Glean’s latest valuation.