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Latestly AI
September 16, 2025
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Top 3 Things in This Edition
Founder Spotlight: David Walker builds Spara: $50K/month inbound‑sales AI, pre‑product launch.
New Rounds & Market Moves: Spara raises $15M seed; Replit raises $250M; Aurva emerges from stealth.
(New!) Top 5 Weekly Vibe-Coded Projects: Vibe coding is exploding, stay up-to-date
AI Business Story of the Week
Spara — $50K/month before full product launch
Founders: David Walker (CEO), Zander Pease (CTO)
What they built: Spara is a stealth AI startup automating inbound sales. Think: voice, chat, and email agents that qualify leads, answer queries, and schedule meetings. Built to help mid-market and large B2B brands cut sales friction and reduce idle inbound leads.
How they did it:
Spent 6 months talking to 200+ sales leaders to understand real pain points.
Built “just enough” agent prototypes to show value before full “product” polish.
Leveraged early adopter clients to deliver real feedback and incremental payments.
Used seed funds smartly: focus on core AI model, UX, and integrations before hiring for scale.
What you can learn:
Validate deeply before full product rollout.
Real customer interviews beat fancy decks.
Solve a niche use‑case but scale with flexibility.
Revenue early doesn’t always require perfect or all features.
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Global AI News Highlights (Sept 9 – Sept 16)
🇺🇸 US & Canada
Spara emerges from stealth with $15M seed funding, targeting improving inbound sales efficiency.
Replit raises $250M at $3B valuation; introduces Agent 3 for autonomous code testing/fixing.
🇪🇺 Europe
Cohere opens Paris office, pushing data sovereignty and business growth across France. Valuation reported at ~$6.8B.
ASML invests €1.3B (≈$1.5B) in Mistral AI, strengthening European AI‐chip linkages.
🇨🇳 China
Reflection AI nears a valuation of $5.5B, backed by Nvidia and others, focused on coding & reasoning tools.
🇮🇳 India
Aurva exits stealth with $2.2M seed funding to help with AI observability and data‑security tools.
🌍 Global
GreenLite Technologies gets ~$49.5M Series B to streamline construction permitting across US cities via AI‑augmented review.
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(New!) Top 5 Weekly Vibe-Coded Projects
Project Name | Platform |
|---|---|
Replit | |
Replit | |
Replit | |
Lovable | |
Lovable |
This Week’s Top 5 AI Startup Fundraising Rounds
Company | What They Do | Round Size |
|---|---|---|
Spara | AI agents for inbound sales | $15M seed |
Replit | Code development platform + Agent tool | $250M round |
GreenLite Tech | AI‑powered construction permit approval tools | $49.5M Series B |
Aurva | Data security & AI observability | $2.2M seed |
Reflection AI | Advanced coding & reasoning tools | Valued ~$5.5B; raising funding |
AI Unicorns — This Week’s Moves (10 Unicorns)
Unicorn | Valuation | This Week’s Update |
|---|---|---|
Mistral AI | ~$14B | Gains major chip partner ASML investment; deeper EU footprint. |
Perplexity AI | ~$14‑$20B | Expanding tools; more media partnerships. |
Replit | $3B | Raised $250M; launched Agent 3 for code workflows. |
Reflection AI | ~$5.5B | Valuation surge backed by Nvidia etc. |
Cohere | ~$6.8B | Opening Paris office, strong push into Europe. |
OpenAI | ~$300B | Continuing infrastructure investments & product improvements (quiet moves this week). |
Anthropic | ~$60‑70B range | Working on enterprise & safety; no major new public funding. |
Lovable | ~$4‑5B | European positioning; competition heating up. |
Safe Superintelligence | ~$30‑35B | Momentum in hiring & advanced model research. |
Glean Technologies | ~$7B | Enterprise search & knowledge graph adoption growing. |
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