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Hot Off the AI Furnace Newsletter - March 18, 2025
Jobs in AI, Upcoming Events & more
Angela & Hamza from The AI Furnace
March 18, 2025
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
Merx, an AI-powered conversational commerce platform, raised €1.1 Million in its Pre-Seed funding. (link)
Worth, a fintech company that simplifies credit applications for SMBs, raised $20 million in its Seed funding. (link)
nunu.ai, a startup developing AI agents to test and play games, raised $6 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Lingopal.ai, a speech-to-speech translation with AI company, raised $14 million in its Series A funding. (link)
ConverzAI, an AI company developing virtual recruiters to transform the hiring process, raised $16 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Ataraxis AI, an AI precision medicine company for cancer diagnostics and patient outcomes ,raised $20.4 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Regie.ai, an AI-powered sales and strategy platform, raised $30 million in its Series B funding. (link)
Peak.ai, an AI platform for business process optimization and growth, was acquired by UiPath. (link)
More Tools:
Google AI Studio, now made available to Workplace users. (Google AI Studio)
ASI-1 MINI, released by Fetch.ai, is an LLM that runs on blockchain to for agentic AI. (ASI-1 MINI)
Dragon Copilot, released by Microsoft, is an AI assistant for clinical workflow. (Dragon Copilot)
Pikadditions, an AI tool to add anyone or anything to a video. (Pikadditions)
ChatNode, a platform to build advanced AI chatbots for customer support. (ChatNode)
🎞️ Highlights from The AI Hot 100 Conference 2024: Breakthrough AI Demo Awards - Laws of Motion
Hear from Carly Bigi (Founder + CEO, Laws of Motion) 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.
Prudentia Sciences ($7M Seed) - Platform designed to accelerate drug pipelines
OffDeal ($5M Seed) - AI-native investment bank for small business owners to sell their company
Momentic ($3.7M Seed) - AI platform for testing software
Safe Intelligence ($5.2M Seed) - Build and deploy robust, secure ML models
VRAI ($4.4M Series A) - Transforming Simulation Data into Actionable Insights
Looking to hire in AI? Drop us an email to get featured on our Job Board at hamza@aifurnace.co
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)
Upcoming Events 📆
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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).