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Top 3 Things in This Edition

AI Biz Spotlight: Henry AI earns $1M ARR automating real estate pitch decks
Global AI Pulse: Cohere doubles ARR, EU sets AI law in motion, Mistral launches enterprise chatbot
Startup & Unicorn Watch: CargoAI finds funding, AI-native startups scale beyond $15B in revenue

AI Business Idea of the Week

Henry AI – $1M ARR Automating CRE Pitch Decks

Founder: Sammy Greenwall (YC W24 alumni)

Smarter, leaner, and weirdly silent—Henry AI soared to $1 million in annual recurring revenue inside eight months without ads or a sales team. Sammy’s insight? Automate commercial real-estate pitch decks with LLMs, and let the value speak for itself.

His recipe was simple:

  1. Identify the universal headache: pitch decks waste dozens of hours per deal.

  2. Validate before building: landed early users before writing a single line of code.

  3. Let word of mouth do the work: LinkedIn posts and referrals brought in 62 brokerages.

  4. Automate ops through AI: LLMs + Rippling kept them lean and efficient.

Though the setup feels niche, it’s a masterclass in focusing on one workflow, solving it exceptionally, and scaling with zero marketing budget.

Global Weekly AI News (Aug 12–19)

🇺🇸 US & Canada

  • Cohere hits a robust $100M ARR, copying rivals with enterprise-grade LLMs.

  • OpenAI scales its nonprofit impact with global grants supporting AI in education and health.

🇪🇺 Europe

  • The EU AI Act is now live—any public-facing AI must now be transparent and explainable.

  • In the UK, policymakers warn outdated grid infrastructure is throttling data center growth.

🇨🇳 China

  • Baidu is priming Ernie 5.0 for release, promising sharper reasoning capabilities.

🇮🇳 India

  • AI’s infrastructure future highlighted at the Soonicorns Summit in Bengaluru—entrepreneurs and policymakers converging on product-market dynamics.

🌍 Global

  • CargoAI, an AI-first logistics startup, raises substantial funding to automate freight routing and haulage.

  • The AI-native startup landscape breaks $15B in annualized revenues—proof that AI tools now pay the bills.


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🦾 This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds

Company

What They Build

Round Size

CargoAI

AI-first freight and logistics routing platform

$18M Series A

Skild AI

Foundation model for robotics + autonomy

$35M Series A

Reka AI

Multimodal LLMs optimized for speed + edge use

$58M Series B

Ivy.ai

AI chatbot platform for higher ed institutions

$20M Series B

Twelve Labs

Video intelligence search API platform

$50M Series B

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🦄 AI Unicorns — This Week’s Credit Moves

Company

Valuation

Weekly Highlight

OpenAI

$300B

Launching a social-good fund for AI acceleration

Anthropic

$61.5B

Claude continues its climb in enterprise deployments

Databricks

$62B

Adds live analytics to its AI suite for workflows

Mistral

~$6B

“Le Chat” vaults enterprise interest

Perplexity

$14B

Expands AI search across verticals

Scale AI

$18B

Wins defense contracts for scaling labeling

Cohere

~$5.5B

Officially crosses $100M ARR milestone

Inflection AI

$4B

Key hires from DeepMind boost scale

Runway

$2B

Releases Gen‑3 Alpha with refined creator UI

Synthesia

$2.1B

Introduces auto dubbing across 40+ languages

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Latestly AI,
Forbes 30 Under 30

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