How To Beat Odds As an AI Startup?
Last Updated on November 11, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
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According to CB Insights 2023 is already a record year for investment in generative AI startups, with equity funding topping $14.1B across 86 deals, as of Q2’23.
The top 5 companies
OpenAI ($10B corporate minority investment)Inflection ($1.3B Series B)Anthropic ($850M across a Series C and corporate minority round)Adept ($350M Series B)Cohere ($270M Series C)
All these funding rounds happened in the B and C series. When we look at the much smaller companies (Those are relevant to our current discussion and the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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