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[Yinan Na @nyn531]

I am incredibly excited to announce @Creatify_AI ’s $15.5M Series A co-led by @WndrCoLLC and @KindredVentures.

Our journey started 18 months ago when we launched the first AI video ad maker. It turns a product link into high-converting short video ads in minutes. Today over 1.5 million marketers, business owners and teams have used Creatify to generate video ads - many at a scale that was previously unimaginable.

But making ads isn’t the only challenge to advertisers. It’s also about everything before and after. Ultimately it’s the result that matters. So we evolved and reimagined Creatify—not just as a creation tool, but as an intelligent, end-to-end system.

Today, we are unveiling AdMax - the world’s first AI ad agent built for performance.

AdMax is more than a tool. It is your always-on growth partner. It benchmarks competitors, spins up hundreds of creatives, a/b test them automatically, and delivers realtime performance insights. AdMax helps you find what works—then scale it.

At Creatify, we automate video advertising from end to end. But what we really do is free business owners and marketers from the tedious work of researching, creating, testing, and optimizing ads—so they can focus on what actually matters: growing their business.

We’re incredibly grateful to our investors for believing in our vision. Huge thanks to Jeffrey Katzenberg, @SujayJaswa, Chonghao Huang, @stevejang, @km, @natfriedman, @danielgross, @rememberlenny, @Hersh_Desai, Ray Cheng, @SashaKaletsky, @Caspar_Lee, Alison Rosenthal, @DionDong1, Peter Pan, @JamesBorow, @HiroTien, @blackpanda95131, @dzhou, Joe Sha, @RicoMallozzi, Jerry Ye, and other incredible investors and industry leaders who’ve backed us.

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@cjpedregal Great feature! We ❤️ Granola

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Scaling interpretability work for frontier AI alignment has never been more important. That’s why we’re launching Ember - the first hosted mechanistic interpretability API with fast inference support for generative models like Llama 3.3 70B.

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@GoodfireAI congratulations!

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@sumanyu @HammingAI @MischiefVC @ycombinator congratulations!

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@Vapi_AI congratulations, gorgeous video!

[Vapi @Vapi_AI]

We've raised $20M from Bessemer, joined by Abstract, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

Vapi is the platform for bringing voice AI agents to the world at scale. Today, we’re handling millions of calls per month for customers worldwide.

Voice is the most natural form of human expression, and we want to use it to put humans back at the foreground of technology. Join us!

[Rowan @RowanSci]

We're very happy to announce that we've raised $2.1M in pre-seed funding to build machine learning–powered molecular design and simulation tools for scientists!

Rowan's investors include @pillar_vc, @aigrant, and angel investors. Read more here: https://t.co/qwxnrRokNy

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@sumanyu @Hersh_Desai @rememberlenny @nearcyan @LukeFarritor @danielgross @natfriedman We're glad you enjoyed it, the feeling is mutual!

[AI Grant @aigrant]

For those of you who were unable to attend, a thread on all batch 4 companies is available here: https://t.co/xv9Y0lAScz

[AI Grant @aigrant]

We are excited to announce the startups accepted into the fourth batch of AI Grant!

See the thread below as well as https://t.co/ASzbetu3OR to learn more

[AI Grant @aigrant]

It was a privilege to host so many wonderful founders and investors at @aigrant's demo day this weekend!

Thank you to everyone who attended — we hope to see you again next time!

[AI Grant @aigrant]

@therealprady @synclabs_so awesome picture, congrats!

[AI Grant @aigrant]

Supertrace AI is an applied AI research lab building self-driving IT networks: https://t.co/BFHXzGjTjq

[AI Grant @aigrant]

Graylark is an AI research company that builds geospatial intelligence software for defense and commercial purposes: https://t.co/mwfLljsCDB

[AI Grant @aigrant]

Juicebox is the AI autopilot for recruiting: https://t.co/wmxtb3rvEa

[AI Grant @aigrant]

Pursuit automates selling into the public sector: https://t.co/dZiTbWhGPj

[AI Grant @aigrant]

Artificial Analysis provides independent benchmarks and evaluations of everything AI to help engineers choose the right technologies for their use case. See the latest results at https://t.co/HYYbqRGzQP