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April 18, 2025 - Deals
Spur Raises $4.5 Million In Seed Funding Led By First Round Capital
Spur, the AI startup co-founded by Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to revolutionize quality assurance testing. The round was led by First Round Capital, with participation from Pear VC, Neo, Conviction, Liquid2Ventures, Predictive Venture Partners, and Y Combinator. The team is also backed by a strong bench of angel investors including founders and executives from Figma, Dropbox, Zeus Living, and Rippling. Spur uses AI agents that simulate real user behavior to autonomously test product flows, replacing traditional manual and outsourced QA. Since launching out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch, Spur has seen rapid traction with high-growth, customer-centric teams like Wander, Norse Atlantic Airways, and Living Spaces. The company is positioning itself as essential infrastructure for modern software teams looking to ship faster with fewer bugs. This funding will accelerate Spur’s mission to modernize QA workflows, reduce engineering bottlenecks, and scale intelligent testing systems for the next generation of product-driven companies.
AMOUNT: $4,500,000
FOUNDERS: Sneha Sivakumar, Anushka Nijhawan
INVESTORS: First Round Capital, Pear VC, Neo, Conviction, Liquid2Ventures, Predictive Venture Partners, Y Combinator
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Floating Point Raises $125 Million For Third Fund To Invest In Early-Stage Technology CompaniesFloating Point has raised $125 million for its third fund, bringing the venture capital firm’s total assets under management to more than $300 million. Founded in 2021 by General Partners Eddie Segel and John Loser, the firm invests in early-stage companies building technology advantages across complex, real-world industries including healthcare, logistics, finance, and insurance, with a focus on businesses that are both AI-first and AI-proof.
FOUNDERS: Eddie Segel & John Loser
AMOUNT: $125,000,000
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
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Trajectory Raises $40 Million In Series A Funding Led By Sequoia Capital At $300 Million ValuationTrajectory, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure and agent optimization platform, raised $40 million in Series A funding at a $300 million post-money valuation in a round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from NVIDIA and Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded in 2026 by Ronak Malde, Michael Elabd, and Arjun Karanam, the company develops software that automates AI model customization and optimizes agent workflows, using self-distillation policy optimization to improve decision-making from human feedback. Trajectory plans to use the funding to scale its model-tuning infrastructure, grow its research and engineering teams, and expand enterprise tooling for optimizing open-source and closed-source AI agents.
FOUNDERS: Ronak Malde, Michael Elabd & Arjun Karanam
INVESTORS: Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA & Bessemer Venture Partners
ROUND: Series A
AMOUNT: $40,000,000
VALUATION: $300,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
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Groq Raises $350M In Series A Financing Led By Disruptive At $3.5B ValuationGroq, a Mountain View, CA-based AI infrastructure platform provider, raised $350M in Series A financing at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $1B. The round was led by Disruptive with participation from NVIDIA and will support Groq’s expansion of AI compute infrastructure, including scaling data center capacity from 54 megawatts to more than 200 megawatts by 2027. Led by Executive Chairman Alex Davis, Groq operates a globally distributed platform combining infrastructure, inference, and cloud services to help model makers, developers, and enterprises run AI workloads at scale.
FOUNDER: Jonathan Ross
INVESTORS: Disruptive & NVIDIA
ROUND: Series A
AMOUNT: $350,000,000
VALUATION: $3,500,000,000
HQ: Mountain View, California
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