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Hot Off the AI Furnace Newsletter - April 2, 2025
Jobs in AI, Upcoming Events & more
AI HOT 100 STARTUP APPLICATION

A one of a kind summit in NYC on June 26, 2025.
100 of the hottest AI startups in the world in one place.
Fortune 500 executives from multiple industries, government officials, investors and thought leaders.
The who’s who of early stage AI.
If you're an AI startup and think you could be in the AI Hot 100 report and summit this year, then apply here.
📈 Venture Deals To Watch Out For
257, an AI and data powered residential energy solution provider, raised $9.2 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Anyware Robotics, a multi-purpose mobile robotics company, raised $12 million in its Seed funding. (link)
SplaxAI, a cybersecurity services provider for AI applications and chatbots, raised $7 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Chef Robotics, an AI-powered food robotics company, raises $43M in its series A funding. (link)
Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery platform spun out of Deepmind in 2021, raises $600M in its external funding round. (link)
Brisk Teaching, an AI teaching and learning agent for K-12 schools, raised $15 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Freed, an AI clinician assistant, secures $30 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Bria, a visual genAI platform, raised $40 million in its Series B funding. (link)
More Tools:
Fyva, a research analyst investors use for deep market research tailored to any tech company. (Fyva AI)
Dante AI, No-code platform for creating custom AI chatbots, avatars & voice agents for customer support, lead generation & multilingual personalization. (Dante AI)
Gemini 2.5 Pro, the latest release from Google Deepmind, is its most intelligent model yet. (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
Factory AI, a software planning and building platform using agentic commands. (Factory AI)
DeepScaleR-1.5B, a 1.5N parameter model using RL to solve math problems, that outperforms OpenAI O1 with RL-enhanced accuracy. (DeepScaleR-1.5B)
GPT Researcher, a deep research agents for both web and local research. (GPT Researcher)
🎞️ Highlights from The AI Hot 100 Conference 2024: Autonomous Agents - A Utopia or Terminator Future Panel
Hear from Tey Bannerman (Partner at McKinsey & Company), Sami Shalabi (Co-Founder & CTO at Maven AGI), Alan Zhu (CPO at Nexa AI), Andrew Brackin (Partner at Gradient Ventures) from The AI Hot 100 Conference in NYC, September 2024.
📣 Calling All Full Stack Engineers
Are you looking to join a hot AI startup as a founding engineer? We are in touch with fast growing AI companies looking for full stack engineers with 2+ years experience in industry. If this is you and you’re exploring new opportunities or curious, fill out the form here.
We’ll send over personalized opportunities from hand-selected funded companies in the AI space if we think there’s a fit.
Top Jobs in AI
Join a high growth funded startup, having <100 employees, which are actively HIRING.
Featured Job
Vibranium Labs - Agentic AI Engineer for faster & smarter IT Incident Response; Founded by Tim Hwang, Co-founder of Fiscalnote (IPO 2022; backed by Mark Cuban, Jerry Yang, etc.)
Founding AI Engineer (Link)
Founding Product Designer (Link)
DX ($2M Seed) - Intelligent insights for leading developer experiences
Retell AI ($4.6M Seed) - Voice AI agents to enhance call operations
Gradient ($10M Seed) - Platform for automating finance reasoning workflows
MirrorTab ($8.5M Seed) - API/Web app cyber security solutions
Looking to hire in AI? Drop us an email to get featured on our Job Board at [email protected]
Check Out The AI Hot 100 Market Map
The AI Furnace put together the AI Hot 100 Report and Market Map (East Coast Edition) in September 2024. We curated this list of startups (pre seed to series A) from thousands of applications based on signals such as team, founder-market fit, revenue, customers, partners, investors and more. To see full report, refer 2 friends to the newsletter, using the link below 👇

AI Hot 100 Market Map (East Coast Edition)
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About The AI Furnace
The AI Furnace is a global network of 15,000+ AI founders, developers and researchers. It was started by Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, AI founders from NYC and London who started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco).