AI funding rounds in August 2025: 10 rounds
- Friendli raises $20M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Capstone Partners. FriendliAI provides an inference engine and cloud service that serves generative AI models faster and at lower cost.
- Nuro raises $203M Series E, . Robotics. Nuro develops and licenses an AI based autonomous driving system for robotaxis and personal vehicles.
- Firecrawl raises $15M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Nexus Venture Partners. Firecrawl offers an API and open source tool that crawls, scrapes and converts websites into clean data for AI applications.
- Databricks raises a Growth round, . Data infrastructure. Databricks runs a cloud data and AI platform built around the lakehouse for analytics, data engineering and AI apps.
- Cohere raises $500M, . AI models. Led by Radical Ventures, Inovia Capital. Builds large language models and AI tools for enterprise and sovereign deployments.
- Profound raises $35M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Sequoia Capital. Profound makes software that helps brands track and improve how they appear in answers from AI search engines and chatbots.
- Chai Discovery raises $70M Series A, . AI models. Led by Menlo Ventures. Chai Discovery builds AI foundation models for predicting and designing molecules such as antibodies for drug discovery.
- Rillet raises $70M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ. Rillet makes an AI-native ERP and general ledger for finance and accounting teams.
- Clay raises $100M Series C, . AI apps. Clay is a go-to-market data platform that enriches leads from many data sources and automates outreach with AI.
- Attio raises $52M Series B, . AI apps. Led by GV. Attio makes a flexible, AI-native CRM that teams can customize around their own data model.