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By Marina Temkin
July 24, 2025

Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing
Acrew Capital's Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing.
Jul 24, 2025

11xAI raises $24M led by Benchmark to build AI digital employees
11xAI, a startup that builds AI bots for process automation, aka automating end-to-end workflows, just raised a fresh $24 million Series A led by Benchmark. It also one of the growing crowd of AI startups relocating its headquarters to San Francisco, Hasan Sukkar, the company’s founder and CEO, told us. It was founded in London. The Series A comes about a year after 11xAI raised a $2 million seed round led by Project A Ventures. Founded in 2022, the company calls its AI agents “automated digita
Sep 16, 2024

11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources say
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned. The new round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at around $350 million, multiple sources told TechCrunch. The recent deal follows the company’s $24 million Series A, which was led by Benchmark with the participation of other investors including 20VC, Project A, Lux Capital, and SV Angel. While 11x.ai announced its Series A round earlie
Sep 30, 2024

Dust grabs another $16 million for its enterprise AI assistants connected toninternal data
French startup Dust has raised a $16 million Series A funding round led bynSequoia Capital. With Dust, companies can create custom AI assistants and sharenthem with their employees so that they can work more efficiently. But what’sninteresting with Dust is the differences with other companies working onnenterprise agents or AI assistants […]
Jun 27, 2024