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title: "List | 28 U.S. AI Startups That Raised $100M+ in H1 2024"
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# List | 28 U.S. AI Startups That Raised $100M+ in H1 2024

_Unique Research · Company / Funding list · July 17, 2024_

AI fatigue may be real for some — capital markets are not tired. Per Crunchbase, global AI startup investment exceeded **$35.5B** in H1 2024. Of six VC rounds above **$1B**, five went to AI companies. U.S. AI startups took about **64%** of mega-round dollars. Below: U.S. AI companies that have raised **$100M+** in 2024 YTD (as compiled in the Chinese source).

## July

**Hebbia — $130M** (Jul 8) led by a16z; Peter Thiel, Index, GV; valuation **$700M**. GenAI search over large documents.

**Skild AI — $300M Series A** (Jul 9), Pittsburgh robotics AI; valuation **$1.5B**. Lightspeed, Coatue, Bezos Expeditions lead; Sequoia, Menlo, GC.

## June

**Bright Machines — $106M Series C** (Jun 25) BlackRock lead; Nvidia, Microsoft, Eclipse. Smart robots + AI software; cumulative >$437M.

**Etched.ai — $120M Series A** (Jun 25) Primary + Positive Sum; Two Sigma, Thiel, Kyle Vogt. Chips faster/cheaper than GPUs for AI models.

**EvolutionaryScale — $142M seed** (Jun 25) Lux, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross. Bio AI for therapeutic design; founded 2023, NYC.

**AKASA — $120M** (Jun 18) healthcare RCM automation; cumulative $205M; prior a16z, Costanoa, Bond.

**AlphaSense — $650M Series F** (Jun 11) Viking Global + BDT & MSD; CapitalG, SoftBank Vision Fund, Goldman. Market intelligence (est. 2008); cumulative >$1.4B; valuation **$4B**.

## May

**xAI — $6B Series B** (May 31) Sequoia, Valor, Fidelity et al.; valuation **$24B**. “Accelerate human scientific discovery.”

**Scale AI — $1B** (May) Accel lead; Tiger, Spark, Amazon; cumulative >$1.6B; valuation ~**$14B**. Data labeling for model training.

**Suno — $125M Series B** (May 21) valuation **$500M** (Cambridge, MA). Founder Collective, Lightspeed, Matrix; Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross.

**Weka — $140M Series E** (May 13) Valor lead; Qualcomm Ventures, Nvidia, Hitachi Ventures; valuation **$1.6B**. AI-native data platform.

**CoreWeave — $1.1B Series C** (May 1) Coatue; Fidelity, Altimeter, Magnetar. GPU infra (NJ); valuation **$19B**; founded 2017.

## April

**Blaize — $106M Series D** (Apr 29) Temasek, Franklin Templeton, Bess Ventures; cumulative $242M (est. 2010). AI compute platform.

**Augment — $227M Series B** (Apr 24) Lightspeed, Index, Sutter Hill; valuation ~**$1B**. AI coding assistance (Palo Alto).

**Cognition — $175M** (Apr 24) Founders Fund; after $21M Series A (Mar) with Ramp/Stripe/DoorDash founders. Founded Nov 2023; valuation ~**$2B**.

**Xaira Therapeutics — $1B Series A** (Apr 23) Foresite + ARCH; Sequoia, NEA, Lux. AI drug discovery (SF).

**Cyera — $300M Series C** (Apr 9) Coatue; Sequoia, Redpoint, Accel; valuation **$1.4B**. AI data security (NYC).

## March

**Celestial AI — $175M Series C** (Mar 27) Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund; M Ventures, Temasek, Tyche; cumulative $338M. Optical interconnect for DCs/AI (est. 2020).

**FundGuard — $100M Series C** (Mar 25) Key1; Hamilton Lane, Blumberg, Team8; valuation **$400M**. AI investment accounting OS (NYC).

**Together AI — $106M Series A** Salesforce Ventures; valuation **$1.2B**. Infra + open-source GenAI; NEA, KP, Lux.

**Zephyr AI — $111M Series A** Revolution Growth, Lilly Foundation, EPIQ, Jeff Skoll. Drug discovery / precision medicine (Fairfax Station, VA; est. 2020); cumulative $129.5M.

## February

**Glean — $203M Series D** (Feb 27) Lightspeed + KP; Sequoia, GC, Databricks Ventures; valuation **$2.4B**; cumulative >$350M. Enterprise AI search.

**Figure — $675M Series B**; valuation ~**$2.7B**. Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft; cumulative >$850M (est. 2022). Humanoid robotics.

**Abridge — $150M Series C** Redpoint + Lightspeed; USV, IVP, Spark; valuation **$850M**. AI medical-conversation transcription (Pittsburgh; 6 years).

**Recogni — $102M Series C** (Feb 20) GreatPoint + Celesta; Pledge, Mayfield, DNS. High-output low-power AI inference.

**Lambda — $320M Series C** (Feb 15) Tull fund; Gradient, Mercato, T. Rowe Price; cumulative >$900M; valuation **$1.5B**. Deep-learning infra (SF).

**Magic — $117M Series B** NFDG; CapitalG, Elad Gil; cumulative >$145M. AI coding (SF).

## January

**Kore.ai — $150M Series D** (Jan 30) FTV Capital; Nvidia, Vistara Growth, NextEquity. Enterprise conversational AI (Orlando; est. 2013); cumulative >$223M.

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