Morning VC Brief丨2025.09.02

Week36 Highlights丨Framer, Rain, Commonwealth Fusion System, Alignmt ai, Maisa ai, Bench IQ

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eric gu
September 02, 2025

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01. Venture News

1/ No-code Website Builder Framer raised $100M Series D

  • Product: No-code website builder enabling teams to create and update dynamic websites without developer support

  • Highlight: 500K+ monthly active users, $50M ARR in 2024 with $100M target for 2025; enterprise customers include Miro, Perplexity, Scale AI, and 40% of latest Y Combinator batch

  • Investor: Meritech Capital(Lead), Atomico

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2/ Stablecoin Infrastructure Platform Rain raised $58M Series B

  • Product: Enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments enabling companies to run their entire website operations with stablecoin integration

  • Highlight: Issues physical and virtual Visa cards for stablecoin spending, processes millions of transactions across 150+ countries

  • Investor: Sapphire Venture (Lead), Dragonfly, Galaxy Ventures

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3/ Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $863M Series B+

  • Product: Enterprise-grade fusion energy infrastructure platform developing SPARC demonstration machine and ARC commercial power plants to deliver limitless carbon-free energy

  • Highlight: Largest private fusion company with nearly $3 billion raised (one-third of global private fusion investment); SPARC project in Massachusetts and first commercial ARC plant planned in Virginia for early 2030s

  • Investor: Counterpoint Global(Lead), Google, NVentures

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4/ AI Voice Assistant Aurelian raised $14M Series A

  • Product: AI voice assistant that triages non-urgent calls like noise complaints, parking violations, and stolen wallet reports, while transferring real emergencies to human dispatchers

  • Highlights: Deployed at 12+ dispatch centers since May 2024, handling thousands of daily calls

  • Investor: NEA(Lead)

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5/ AI Risk Monitoring Platform ALIGNMT AI raised $6.5M Seed

  • Product: Comprehensive AI governance platform that provides real-time monitoring, risk detection, and automated compliance workflows for healthcare AI systems without exposing patient data

  • Highlight: Reduces AI risk management overhead by 50%, working with major health systems and payers

  • Investor: AIX Ventures (Lead), Sancus Ventures, Alumni Ventures

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6/ Enterprise AI Automation Platform Maisa AI raised $25M Seed

  • Product: Model-agnostic platform with accountable AI agents using "chain-of-work" methodology and HALP (Human-Augmented LLM Processing) system, plus Knowledge Processing Unit (KPU) to limit hallucinations

  • Highlight: Addresses MIT report showing 95% enterprise AI pilot failure rate; serves major clients in banking, automotive, and energy sectors

  • Investor: Creandum(Lead), NFX, Village Global

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7/ AI Judicial Intelligence Platform Bench IQ raised $5.3M Seed

  • Product: AI-powered platform that analyzes how individual judges think and rule in cases, including 97% of federal rulings without written opinions, to help lawyers tailor litigation strategies

  • Highlight: serves 4 of top 5 Am Law 100 firms; focuses on federal judiciary with plans to expand to state courts and international jurisdictions

  • Investor: Battery Ventures & Inovia Capital(Lead), MVP Ventures

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