Raising for an AI startup?
Here are 12 investors actively backing AI companies right now:
@uncorkcap - Seed; SF
@firstround - Seed / Series A; SF / NYC
@felicis - Seed / Series A; Menlo Park (CA)
@forumventures - Pre-seed / Seed; NYC / SF / TOR
@Unusual_VC - Seed / early-stage; Menlo Park (CA)
@SignalFire - Seed to Series B; SF
@PrimaryVC - Pre-seed / Seed; NYC
@radicalvcfund - Seed / Series A; Toronto / SF
@aixventureshq - Pre-seed/Seed; SF
@BasisSet - Seed; Menlo Park (CA)
@ZettaVentures - Seed; NYC/SF
@benchmark - Seed/Series A; SF
AI is hot, but fundraising still comes down to fit.
Stage, thesis, and partner relevance matter more than blasting every investor with the same deck.
P.S. Raising capital? The data room gets the term sheet. Next-gen founders & investors use →
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@CocoGauff @JPegula yes you won! #firstround #doubles #grasscourtchampionshipsinBerlin #6/16/26🇺🇸🎾💪🏼🙏🏼🏆
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@serenawilliams Yes I am so glad that you are back 100%!!!!! let’s get this win! #firstround #doubles #grasscourtchampionshipsinBerlin #6/16/26🇺🇸🎾🏆💪🏼🫶🏼♥️❤️🖤💯💯💯💯💯❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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Find the full video from @firstround here 🖤
youtube.com/watch?v=4qkyxm4j…
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Jun 15
The next energy frontier may sit beneath the ocean floor.
Endurance Energy raised a $54M Series A led by @foundersfund, with @constructcap, @felicis, @firstround Capital, @p72vc, and others joining, as Andrew Redd builds deep-sea geothermal systems for reliable baseload power.
The next climate tech winners will not just chase cleaner energy. They will unlock power sources that can support AI, electrification, and industry when the grid needs them most.
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This retard was sniffing around Elizabeth Holmes butthole in Queenstown, New Zealand when FirstRound Capital was trying to defraud me of the ridesharing intellectual property (involving Facebook OpenPlatform and its transmission to Travis Kalanick)
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First Round: Bootstrapping doesn't mean staying small forever. While it tends to favor cash flow discipline over rapid scaling, many successful bootstrapped companies have grown from self-funding into major players..." - @firstround #Startups review.firstround.com/glossa…
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Jun 12
The best founders are not just building. They are constantly learning from the people who have already done it.
When you are early stage, you do not always have access to the right rooms, the right networks, or the right advisors. But you do have the internet, and some of the most valuable startup knowledge in the world is being posted for free every single day.
These are 5 accounts we think every upcoming founder should have on their feed right now.
@a16z for the frameworks and market insights that used to only exist inside partner meetings.
@firstround for honest, tactical advice written specifically for founders in the earliest stages of building.
@ycombinator for startup wisdom from the team that helped launch Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox.
@tbpn for daily tech news and conversations with the biggest names shaping Silicon Valley right now.
SmartVentureMedia for daily conversations with the investors and founders actually building the future.
Save this, share it with a founder you know, and follow us for more. 🔖
Which account has changed the way you think about building?
Drop it in the comments 👇
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La Corée du Sud semble être la meilleure équipe dans le jeu au sein du groupe A. Je les vois bien finir premier s'ils arrivent à être plus efficace devant les buts #WorldCup #SouthKorea #Cze #Mexico #SouthAfrica #FirstRound #Group #A
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Financial types have no idea how hard it is to build hardware, I thought the New Glenn fireball would give you a hint but apparently not.
Entire interview has no mention of Starship, nobody can catch up to Starship in 10 years. Europe competing with Starlink? Don't make me laugh
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Full interview with Howard Morgan (@HLMorgan) on the @SpaceX IPO. Howard is the Chair of @BCapital, co-founder of RenTech, and co-founder of @firstround.
"I think space is probably around 1985 or 1990 in internet terms. Still pretty early."
We discuss:
– how the IPO price was not set by the market and what that means for where the stock actually lands
– Starlink's coming price war and why Amazon's LEO constellation is a risk factor worth pricing in
– why cooling in orbit is harder than people think re space-based compute, but why it still works
– the SpaceX launch monopoly and why the absence of network effects means competition will come
– the infrastructure layer being built around SpaceX
👇 w/ @JackKuhr
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The demand for clean, always-on power is exploding, and the grid can't keep up. The team at Endurance Energy is going after one of the biggest untapped sources on the planet: geothermal heat beneath the seafloor. They're building systems to deliver gigawatts of zero-emission power faster and cheaper than conventional sources.
Today, they're announcing $54M Series A funding. At @firstround, we're excited to have backed Andrew Redd and the team since the pre-seed. Huge congrats!
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Endurance is proud to announce our $54M Series A, led by @foundersfund, to develop subsea geothermal energy. We're building mass-manufacturable and mass-deployable generators to access terawatts of low cost, clean, baseload power.
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