Morning VC Brief丨2025.11.28

Week48 Highlights丨Harmonic, Maxima, Baselane, Vijjl, Procure AI, Mira, Range, Cerrion

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eric gu
November 28, 2025

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01. Venture News

1/ Mathematical Superintelligence Harmonic Raised $120M Series C

  • Product: A Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI) platform featuring "Aristotle," an AI model designed for formal mathematical reasoning and zero-hallucination verification

  • Highlight: Aristotle achieved historic Gold-Medal level performance at the 2025 IMO (solving 5/6 problems)

  • Investors: Ribbit Capital (Lead), Sequoia, Index, Kleiner Perkins

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2/ Agentic Accounting AI Maxima Raises $41M Seed & Series A

  • Product: The first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting where AI agents handle repetitive tasks like journal preparation and reconciliations for human review

  • Highlight: Achieves up to 80% faster closes and 95% automation for major clients like Scale AI and Rippling. Founded by veterans from Rubrik, Netflix, and Facebook, aiming to enable "real-time close" with 100% auditability

  • Investor: Redpoint(Lead), Kleiner Perkins, Audacious Ventures

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3/ Rental Finances Automation Baselane Raised $34.4M Series A & B

  • Product: An all-in-one financial platform for real estate investors integrating banking, rent collection, and the new "Baselane Smart" AI automation suite for bookkeeping

  • Highlight: Supports 50,000+ investors with 900% growth since Series A. The new AI tools save landlords 5-12 hours weekly by automating transaction categorization and reconciliation

  • Investor: Thomvest Ventures(Lead), Matrix Partners

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4/ Trust Infrastructure for Agentic AI Vijil Raised $17M Series A

  • Product: A platform for building and operating resilient AI agents, offering "trust infrastructure" that ensures reliability, security, and safety through continuous reinforcement learning and real-time monitoring

  • Highlights: Recognized as a 2025 Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Agentic AI TRiSM

  • Investor: BrightMind Partners (Lead), Mayfield, Gradient Ventures

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5/ Enterprise Procurement Automation Procure AI Raised $13M Seed

  • Product: An AI-native procurement platform deploying over 50 autonomous agents to automate sourcing, contracting, and invoice management, integrating directly with existing enterprise data systems

  • Highlight: Achieved 4x revenue growth in a year; serves major clients like EnBW and Kärcher

  • Investor: Headline(Lead), C4 Ventures, Futury Capital

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6/ AI Glasses Startup Mira Raised $6.6M Seed

  • Product: Audio-first AI smart glasses acting as a "second brain" that continuously transcribe conversations and display context (like names or summaries) without using cameras

  • Highlight: The glasses offer sub-700ms latency, weigh half as much as competitors, and double the battery life by focusing on audio rather than video for privacy

  • Investor: General Catalyst(Lead), Naval Ravikant, Pillar VC, Village Global

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7/ AI Wealth Management Startup Range Raised $60M Series C

  • Product: An all-in-one AI-powered wealth management platform featuring "Rai," an AI advisor that integrates investment, tax, and estate planning for high earners

  • Highlight: Manages $400M AUM and $9.5B AUA for 5,000+ members with 300% YoY revenue growth

  • Investor: Scale Venture Partners (Lead), Gradient Ventures, Cathay Innovation

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8/ Factory Monitoring Agent Cerrion Raised $18M Series A

  • Product: An AI video platform that turns standard factory cameras into "visual agents" to automatically detect and resolve production line issues in real-time

  • Highlight: The platform reduces factory downtime and scrap by up to 50%

  • Investor: Creandum(Lead), Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders

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