September 18, 2023

AI Development Workflow

With recent advances in foundation models and generative AI, we are witnessing the start of a profound revolution in computing that will fundamentally change our relationship with technology. This revolution is being driven by software engineers and product teams who are using AI as a new part of their software toolkit. Yet ML developer tooling is still mostly geared towards researchers and core ML practitioners.

To drive the last mile adoption of AI across every industry, we need a new class of AI developer tools built for software engineers, not just ML research scientists.

Announcing LastMile AI’s $10MM Seed Round from Gradient, LastMile AI

Funding

Patronus AI, an automated AI evaluation platform for detecting LLM mistakes at scale, raised $3m in Seed funding.

Movement Labs, a company building a modular framework to build and deploy Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains, raised $3.4m in pre-Seed funding.

Roseman Labs, creator of a virtual data lake that allows teams to collaborate on sensitive data without sharing the underlying data, raised €4 million in Seed funding.

Databutton, a low-code toolkit for rapidly building and prototype AI apps, raised $5.1m in Seed funding.

Gable, a tool that improves communication between data producers and consumers via data contracts, raised $7m in Seed funding.

LastMile AI, an AI developer platform for engineering teams, raised $10m in Seed funding.

Exostellar, a cloud spend optimization platform, raised $15m in Series A funding.

Linear, a project management tool that helps engineering teams keep track of issues, sprints, and product roadmaps, raised $35m in Series B funding.

SQream, creator of data analytics products including a GPU-based SQL database, raised $45m in Series C funding.

Databricks, a data lakehouse that helps teams unify and scale their data and analytics, raised $500m in Series I funding.