Record $1.1B Seed Funding for Reinforcement Learning Startup

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Data: The Seed Funding Boom Is Concentrating Capital In The San Francisco Bay Area

In 2025, the Bay Area expanded its dominance of U.S. seed funding — capturing a growing share of both deals and dollars — even as most startups remained geographically dispersed, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows, resulting in a more bifurcated landscape.

May 1, 11:00 AM

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Seed Funding Is Bigger Than Ever — And Harder To Get

More than half of seed dollars last year went into deals of $10 million or above. At the same time, deal counts for seed-stage startups have fallen since the 2021-2022 peak, as has funding going into rounds below $10 million, Crunchbase data shows.

Apr 29, 11:00 AM

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Humble Emerges from Stealth with $24M in Seed Funding for Autonomous Cabless Electric Freight Hauling

Insider Brief Humble has emerged from stealth with a fully autonomous, cabless electric freight vehicle and raised $24 million in seed funding led by Eclipse, with participation from Energy Impact Partners and others, as it looks to bring automation deeper into logistics operations. The San Francisco-based startup said its first product, the Humble Hauler, is […]

Apr 22, 12:02 PM

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ActionAI Secures $10M Seed Funding to Fix AI’s Trust Problem

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — ActionAI, a Reliable AI company powering mission-critical automations and business intelligence for enterprises, announced $10 million in Seed funding. The round was led by prominent UAE-based investors. Founded by Miriam Haart, a Stanford educated engineer, Computer Science lecturer, and star of Netflix hit series My Unorthodox Life, ActionAI will use the funding to scale safe, […]

Apr 22, 10:25 AM

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Objection Announces Seed Funding to Deploy AI System for Challenging Media Accuracy

Objection has launched with multi-million dollar seed funding backed by Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan, introducing an AI-driven platform designed to evaluate the accuracy of journalistic claims. Founded by Aron D’Souza, the system allows users to challenge specific assertions in published content for a fee, triggering structured reviews. The platform uses large language models from […]

Apr 17, 1:48 PM

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Antioch Raises $8.5M in Seed Funding for Robotics Simulation Platform Development

Insider Brief Antioch announced it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding, valuing the company at $60 million, to develop a simulation platform for physical autonomy. The round was led by Category Ventures and A*, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, BoxGroup, Icehouse Ventures, Abstract and angel investors, according to the New York startup. The […]

Apr 17, 6:00 AM

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DeepCyte Raises $1.5M to Build AI Tools That Detect Drug Toxicity Before Clinical Trials

DeepCyte launches with $1.5M in seed funding to build AI toxicology tools that predict and explain drug toxicity at single-cell resolution.

Apr 12, 2:18 PM