55 AI Startups Raised $100M+ in 2025. Here's What They Actually Do.
The AI funding bubble has officially become self-parody. Here's what $10 billion in venture capital actually bought us this year.
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What Happens When an AI Startup Bans a Paying Customer for Citing Its Own Docs?
A Perplexity Pro subscriber was permanently banned from the company's official subreddit after using its own documentation to expose a severe downgrade in the 'Deep Research' feature. The incident reveals a troubling pattern of feature throttling and community silencing.
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Daytona: Because AI-Generated Code Wasn't Dangerous Enough Already
Daytona.io wants to be the Kubernetes for your AI's questionable coding decisions. It's a platform that provides isolated, scalable environments to run code that an LLM hallucinated five seconds ago. The promise is security and elasticity. The reality is we're building a dedicated highway for tech debt, and the toll booths are all owned by venture capitalists.
Why OpenAI Just Invested $250M In Sam Altman's Brain - Literally
OpenAI's investment in Sam Altman's Merge Labs isn't just another funding round—it's a metaphysical ouroboros of Silicon Valley logic. We examine how a 'research lab' with no product achieved an $850M valuation by promising to merge human and machine, and why this represents the final boss of tech hype.
The $14 Billion Robot Brain That Can't Find Your Keys
Skild AI's monster funding round proves that in tech, the gap between ambition and reality is measured in billions. While their software aims to be the 'GPT moment for robotics,' the real innovation appears to be in financial engineering, achieving a $14B valuation for technology that, by their own admission, is in early development. Let's unpack the beautiful absurdity.
Deepgram's $1.3B Valuation Actually Proves AI Can't Hear You Complaining
Deepgram's latest funding round proves the AI gold rush has reached peak absurdity: we're now valuing speech recognition at billions while actual recognition remains questionable. The acquisition of a YC startup is the tech equivalent of buying a fancy hat when your house is on fire.
Yoodli's $300M Valuation: AI That Doesn't Replace Humans (Just Makes Them Less Annoying)
Yoodli, an AI-powered communication coach, has seen its valuation soar past $300 million. Its secret? An AI that promises to help humans, not replace them—a concept so novel in today's tech landscape it might as well be a magic unicorn. With big-name clients like Google on board, it seems there's serious money in teaching people not to say 'like' and 'you know' in every other sentence.
How VCs Are Playing God With Your AI Startup's Future
Venture capitalists have taken their favorite hobby - picking winners - to its logical extreme by pouring hundreds of millions into AI startups that haven't shipped a product yet. The 'kingmaking' strategy aims to create market leaders through sheer financial force, turning the AI gold rush into a predetermined coronation ceremony where the crown goes to whoever raises the most money first.
How Micro1 Grew From $7M to $100M ARR: The Magic of 'Creative Accounting'
Micro1's reported trajectory from single-digit millions to nine-figure ARR in one calendar year is the financial equivalent of a magic trick. We're left wondering: is this revolutionary business execution, or just revolutionary accounting? In the land of AI hype, sometimes the most intelligent algorithm is the one that calculates your press release metrics.
How Harness Got $5.5B For The AI Problem We Just Invented Last Tuesday
Harness just convinced Goldman Sachs and friends that the real AI revolution isn't in building smarter models - it's in cleaning up after them. Their $5.5 billion valuation proves that in tech, the real money isn't in solving hard problems, but in creating new problems that only your expensive platform can solve.
How Vibe-Coding Raised $330M By Making Code Feel 'Lovable'
Lovable's latest funding round proves that in today's market, how code feels matters more than what it does. The startup's valuation tripled in five months by focusing on developer emotions rather than, you know, working software. Investors are betting billions that happy developers write better code—or at least more expensive code.
Unconventional AI's $475M Seed Round Proves 'Pre-Revenue' Is The New 'Profitable'
Unconventional AI has raised a seed round so massive it makes Series Z funding look quaint. The startup, focused on AI hardware, is betting that the best way to disrupt Nvidia is to first disrupt the very definition of 'seed funding.' We examine the math, the hype, and the sheer audacity.
New Analysis Shows OpenAI Needs $100B to Figure Out How to Make Money
OpenAI's latest funding ambition isn't just a round—it's a planetary-scale capital absorption event. With a target valuation approaching a trillion dollars, the company is moving from venture capital to what can only be described as 'venture sovereignty,' asking nation-states to bet their treasuries on the premise that AI will eventually stop being astronomically expensive to run.