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Hot Off the AI Furnace Newsletter - March 26, 2025
Jobs in AI, Upcoming Events & more
Angela & Hamza from The AI Furnace
March 26, 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
Era, an AI-powered personal finance management platform, raised $6.2 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Tera AI, a robot spatial reasoning company, raised $7.8 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Arcade AI, an AI product creation platform, raised $12 million in its Seed funding. (link)
Salience Labs, a company that provides photonic solutions for connectivity to AI datacenter infrastructure, raised $30 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Relay, an AI-powered e-commerce logistics company, raised $35 million in its Series A funding. (link)
Hotshot, an AI video generation tool, was acquired by xAI. (link)
More Tools:
Gemini Personalization, added by Google, to enable tailored AI response based on user search history. (Gemini)
Helix, released its a vision-language-action model for humanoid robots. (Helix)
OLMo 2 32B, released by AI2, is a fully open model surpassing GPT-3.5 and -4o on various multi-skill benchmarks. (OLMo 2 32B)
Webflow, an AI site builder that requires no coding skills. (Webflow)
🎞️ Highlights from The AI Hot 100 Conference 2024: Autonomous Agents: A Utopia or Terminator Future?
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)
TaxGPT ($4.6M Seed) - automating tax filing with AI
Rox ($50M Series A) - AI tools for sales
Tyba ($13.9M Series A) - Platform for energy forecasting, bidding, and dispatch optimization
HappyRobot ($15.6M Series A) - AI agents designed for logistics and supply chain
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).