🥇490+ AI Pitch Decks VCs Said Yes To

In This Edition:

• 🥇490+ AI Pitch Decks VCs Said Yes To
• 🔥Who Just Raised Millions (And From Who)
• 💼 How a16z Built Culture That Raised $15 Billion
• 💎 AI Tools Saving 10+ Hours a Week
• 🎨 ChatGPT’s Best Image Model

🥇490+ AI Pitch Decks VCs Said Yes To

🥇The Most Promising AI Startup Pitch Decks

A curated collection of 490+ pitch decks from top AI startups that raised capital from leading investors in 2025. Some are already unicorns. Others are just getting started but have massive potential. 🔥

Featured companies include:

• Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Mistral, Humane
• Hedra, Synthesia, Moises
• Octave, Artisan, Gradient Labs, Nexad
• Profound, Omnia, Artificial Societies
• Heidi Health, Charta Health, Axle, Doctronic
• Paramark, Goodwork and more

Why this matters:

Study how the smartest AI founders frame problems, present their vision, and pitch fundable stories.

See the business ideas top investors like a16z, Sequoia, Greylock, Bain and Point72 are actually backing.

Perfect for improving your own deck and understanding what VCs say yes to right now.

💸 Major Funding Alerts

🔥 Who Just Raised Millions (And From Who)

⚛️ Equal1 — $60M

Dublin-based Equal1 (9 years old) raised $60M to build quantum servers for data centers using silicon-based processors.
Investors: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, Atlantic Bridge, European Innovation Council Fund, Matterwave Ventures, Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone, TNO Ventures
Total raised: $85M

🧠 Harmonic — $120M Series C (closed in November)

Palo Alto startup Harmonic (3 years old), building AI models for solving complex math problems, revealed that Nvidia also participated in its $120M Series C.
Valuation: $1.45B post-money
Notable investor: Nvidia

🎬 Higgsfield — $80M Series A Extension

San Francisco-based Higgsfield (3 years old), focused on tools to create and edit AI-generated videos, raised an $80M Series A extension.
Valuation: $1.3B post-money
Investors: Accel, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, GFT Ventures
Series A total: $130M

🎤 Listen Labs — $69M Series B

San Francisco startup Listen Labs (3 years old) raised $69M Series B for AI interviewers that run customer research at scale.
Valuation: $500M+
Led by: Ribbit Capital
Also joined by: Evantic, Sequoia Capital, Conviction, Pear VC
Total raised: $100M

🤖 Mytra — $120M Series C

Brisbane, CA-based Mytra (4 years old) raised $120M Series C to build warehouse robotics systems for moving heavy material across industrial facilities.
Led by: Avenir Growth
Investors: Kivu Ventures, Liquid 2, D.E. Shaw, Offline Ventures
Also participated (previous investors): Eclipse, Greenoaks, Abstract Ventures, Promus Ventures

🌍 Osapiens — $100M Series C

Mannheim, Germany-based Osapiens (7 years old) raised $100M Series C for enterprise software focused on regulatory compliance + sustainability.
Valuation: $1B+ post-money
Led by: Decarbonization Partners
Also joined by: Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Armira Growth

🤝 Parloa — $350M Series D

Berlin startup Parloa (6 years old) raised a massive $350M Series D to scale AI agents for customer service.
Valuation: $3B post-money (tripled in just 8 months)
Led by: General Catalyst
Also joined by (previous investors): EQT Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Durable Capital, Mosaic Ventures

💻 Replit — Talks to Raise ~$400M

San Francisco-based Replit (10 years old), known for AI coding tools that let developers write, debug, deploy, and publish apps from natural language, is reportedly in talks to raise ~$400M.
Led by: Georgian (reported)
Valuation: $9B post-money (triple its valuation from a $250M round raised in September)

🏭 Tulip Interfaces — $120M Series D

Boston-based Tulip Interfaces (12 years old), building manufacturing automation software for frontline operations, raised $120M Series D.
Valuation: $1.3B+ post-money
Led by: Mitsubishi Electric

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🎨 ChatGPT’s Best Image Model

🎨 ChatGPT Just Dropped Its Most Powerful Image Model

Bring ideas to life with just a few words using ChatGPT's most advanced image model.

Create in any style: Anime, photorealistic, pop art, and more — all powered by OpenAI's latest image generation technology.

What you can do:

• Test out new looks before committing ("Show me with bangs before I make a decision I regret")
• Transform photos with creative edits ("Put me in an 80's yearbook")
• Clean up images ("Remove all the people in the background")
• Generate imaginative concepts ("Put a mini me in my hand")

A new home for images: Add a style to existing photos or create something entirely new with simple text prompts — all within ChatGPT Images.

The barrier between imagination and creation just got a lot smaller.

💼 How a16z Built Culture That Raised $15 Billion

📜 a16z Just Released Their Secret Culture Document

Andreessen Horowitz publicly released its multi-page culture document, offering a rare look inside one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture firms.

Key principles include:

• Backing founders through struggles, not just successes
• Staying optimistic about the future
• Telling hard truths when necessary
• Prioritizing team wins over individual glory
• Respecting entrepreneurs' efforts to build a better future
• Banning public attacks on startups or founders

The core philosophy:

"We are dream builders. We're not dream killers," the document states. Ben Horowitz explains that every new hire must sign the culture document before joining the firm.

"Our whole point is, if you want to do something larger than yourself and make the world a better place, we are a hundred percent for it."

Why it matters:

Released alongside a new podcast and after raising $15 billion in funds, the manifesto highlights a16z's focus on long-term relationships and turning inventors into confident CEOs. Many in the industry praised the ethos as a refreshing take on positive work culture in venture capital.

Read the full thread here

💎 AI Tools Saving 10+ Hours a Week

💎 AI Tools That'll Save You 10+ Hours This Week

Looking to work faster, smarter, and with less manual effort? These AI tools are worth bookmarking. From automating research to simplifying relocations and transforming how you take notes, each one solves a real daily workflow problem.

Here are a few standouts:

✅ Moshi – Lightning-fast conversational AI for instant interactions

✅ Mindpal – Trains itself on your work context for personalized assistance

✅ Move AI – Your personal relocation assistant for seamless moves

✅ Octane AI – Smarter Shopify growth with AI-powered optimization

✅ Lectura – Video summaries and personalized notes in seconds

Plus: Meeting automation tools, visual creation platforms, and productivity boosters designed to eliminate manual tasks and streamline your workflow.

Why it matters: These aren't experimental tools—they're solving real problems people face every day. Whether managing meetings, growing an e-commerce store, or digesting long-form content, there's an AI tool built specifically for that pain point.

Explore the full list and discover which tools can 10x your productivity.

✨ ICYMI — These Resources Blew Up This Week

Founders were scrambling for these drops—each one unlocked deal flow, investor access, or tactical fundraising shortcuts. If you missed them the first time, this is your chance to catch up before everyone else does.

Don’t wait. These are the kind of links founders bookmark—and competitors quietly use.

🔥 The Most Clicked Founder Resources

📚 The Ultimate Fundraising Resource Stack
A vault of tools most founders don’t know exists.

🔑 The Most Overlooked Key to Fundraising Success
YC founders swear by this — yet most ignore it.

🔥 Paul Graham’s ‘Small, Intense Fire’
The mindset shift that separates funded from forgotten.

🧠 What Sam Altman Wants Every Founder to Know
The blunt guidance founders rarely hear early enough.

📊 Venture Math Demystified
Why VCs say no — even when your pitch feels strong.

🚀 The Pre-Seed Playbook Every Founder Needs
A practical guide to nailing your first raise.

💡Fundraising Mistakes From a $13M Raise 
Avoid the painful errors most founders repeat.

Don’t just save these—use them. The founders who act fastest raise fastest. Want these in a searchable Notion library?

🔥WEB PICKS

OpenAI locks in $10B+ compute deal OpenAI signed a multi-year agreement with AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems worth over $10 billion to deliver 750 megawatts of ultra low-latency compute capacity through 2028, aiming to speed up AI inference for faster model responses.

AI journalism platform lands News Corp partnership Symbolic.ai, an AI journalism startup founded by former eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica co-founder Jon Stokes, signed a deal with News Corp to deploy its AI publishing platform starting with Dow Jones Newswires. The company claims productivity gains of up to 90% for complex research tasks in areas like newsletter creation, fact-checking, and SEO optimization.

Taiwan commits $500B to US chip manufacturing Taiwan agreed to invest $250 billion in US semiconductor manufacturing through 2028 alongside $250 billion in credit guarantees as part of a Trump administration trade deal. Meanwhile, Apple is reportedly struggling to secure chip production capacity as NVIDIA likely overtook it as TSMC's largest customer in at least one or two quarters of 2025.

OpenAI safety researcher joins Anthropic Andrea Vallone, OpenAI's former head of its safety research team focused on mental health responses, joined Anthropic's alignment team under researcher Jan Leike, who himself departed OpenAI in 2024 over safety concerns.

Higgsfield hits $200M ARR at record pace Higgsfield raised $80 million at a $1.3 billion valuation while reaching $200 million ARR that doubled in two months, claiming to be the fastest-scaling GenAI company in history.

ChatGPT faces eighth wrongful death lawsuit A lawsuit filed by Stephanie Gray alleges ChatGPT acted as a "suicide coach" for her 40-year-old son Austin Gordon, transforming his favorite childhood book "Goodnight Moon" into a "suicide lullaby" before he died by suicide in November 2025. This marks at least the eighth wrongful death lawsuit claiming ChatGPT contributed to users taking their own lives.