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I am incredibly excited to announce @Creatify_AI ’s $15.5M Series A co-led by @WndrCoLLC and @KindredVentures. Our journey started 18 months ago when we launched the first AI video ad maker. It turns a product link into high-converting short video ads in minutes. Today over 1.5 million marketers, business owners and teams have used Creatify to generate video ads - many at a scale that was previously unimaginable. But making ads isn’t the only challenge to advertisers. It’s also about everything before and after. Ultimately it’s the result that matters. So we evolved and reimagined Creatify—not just as a creation tool, but as an intelligent, end-to-end system. Today, we are unveiling AdMax - the world’s first AI ad agent built for performance. AdMax is more than a tool. It is your always-on growth partner. It benchmarks competitors, spins up hundreds of creatives, a/b test them automatically, and delivers realtime performance insights. AdMax helps you find what works—then scale it. At Creatify, we automate video advertising from end to end. But what we really do is free business owners and marketers from the tedious work of researching, creating, testing, and optimizing ads—so they can focus on what actually matters: growing their business. We’re incredibly grateful to our investors for believing in our vision. Huge thanks to Jeffrey Katzenberg, @SujayJaswa, Chonghao Huang, @stevejang, @km, @natfriedman, @danielgross, @rememberlenny, @Hersh_Desai, Ray Cheng, @SashaKaletsky, @Caspar_Lee, Alison Rosenthal, @DionDong1, Peter Pan, @JamesBorow, @HiroTien, @blackpanda95131, @dzhou, Joe Sha, @RicoMallozzi, Jerry Ye, and other incredible investors and industry leaders who’ve backed us.

@cjpedregal Great feature! We ❤️ Granola

Early on we decided that speed was a core value for Granola. It feels great to get notes the moment your meeting ends. That’s the reason why we do transcription in real time, even though it’s harder and way more expensive than doing it async. And now you don’t have to wait for the end of the call. Starting today you can use Granola’s AI as a copilot in realtime during your meetings.

Scaling interpretability work for frontier AI alignment has never been more important. That’s why we’re launching Ember - the first hosted mechanistic interpretability API with fast inference support for generative models like Llama 3.3 70B.

@GoodfireAI congratulations!

@sumanyu @HammingAI @MischiefVC @ycombinator congratulations!

Announcing Our $3.8M Seed Round to Make Voice AI Agents Reliable 🎙 If 2024 was the year of demos, 2025 is the year of reliable voice agents. We’re excited to share that @HammingAI has raised $3.8M in seed funding led by @MischiefVC, with participation from @ycombinator, @aigrant, @pioneer_fund, @CoughdropCap, @coalitionvc, @orangecollectv, @twentytwovc, @transposevc, @OliveTreeCap and an incredible group of angels. Read more about us here: 1) Blog: hamming.ai/blog/hamming-a… 2) Coverage by Kerry Flynn from Axios: axios.com/pro/media-deal… Humans make billions of calls every day. AI voice agents will perform a majority of these calls. Ensuring their reliability is tough — small changes can break responses, and manual testing doesn’t scale. Even when you ship your voice agents to production, teams spend hours manually listening to calls to find bugs and edge cases. At @HammingAI, we automate testing, monitoring, and governance for Voice AI agents, helping teams catch failures, optimize prompts, and flag edge cases in production. Hamming makes your Voice AI agents trustworthy. Thanks to our team, customers, and investors for believing in this mission.

@Vapi_AI congratulations, gorgeous video!

We've raised $20M from Bessemer, joined by Abstract, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz. Vapi is the platform for bringing voice AI agents to the world at scale. Today, we’re handling millions of calls per month for customers worldwide. Voice is the most natural form of human expression, and we want to use it to put humans back at the foreground of technology. Join us!

We're very happy to announce that we've raised $2.1M in pre-seed funding to build machine learning–powered molecular design and simulation tools for scientists! Rowan's investors include @pillar_vc, @aigrant, and angel investors. Read more here: rowansci.com/blog/rowan-ann…

@sumanyu @Hersh_Desai @rememberlenny @nearcyan @LukeFarritor @danielgross @natfriedman We're glad you enjoyed it, the feeling is mutual!

I was so engrossed (pun intended) in absorbing all the learning and wisdom from the @aigrant weekend a few weeks back; this is the best potato-quality pic I took. Ty @Hersh_Desai, @rememberlenny, @nearcyan, @LukeFarritor, @danielgross and @natfriedman for an awesome weekend. PS: We are hiring and love hiring ex-founders

For those of you who were unable to attend, a thread on all batch 4 companies is available here: x.com/aigrant/status…

It was a privilege to host so many wonderful founders and investors at @aigrant's demo day this weekend! Thank you to everyone who attended — we hope to see you again next time!

@therealprady @synclabs_so awesome picture, congrats!

how we celebrated @aigrant in SF 😮‍💨 building here feels different

Supertrace AI is an applied AI research lab building self-driving IT networks: supertrace.ai

Juicebox is the AI autopilot for recruiting: juicebox.ai

Graylark is an AI research company that builds geospatial intelligence software for defense and commercial purposes: geospy.ai

Pursuit automates selling into the public sector: pursuit.us

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