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The Allen Institute of AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/bolmos-architecture-unlock…

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Dreamdata, which offers a B2B marketing analytics platform, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $67M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/b2b-marketing-analytics-startup-dreamd…

Exclusive: B2B Marketing Analytics Startup Dreamdata Lands $55M Series B
Dreamdata, a B2B marketing analytics platform, has secured a $55 million Series B round of funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-fintech-campfire-raise-…

Why Accel Led A Round For Fintech Startup Campfire For The Second Time In Under 4 Months
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.

Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi

Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi founded Ankar which counts L'Oreal and Vorys among early customers

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-d…

Exclusive: Adaptive Security raises $81M to stop social-engineered attacks
Bain Capital Ventures led the Series B round.

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-debuts-nemotron-3-w…

NY-based Octane, which offers "instant" financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/re

Exclusive: Octane Lands $100M Series F At $1.3B Valuation To Help People Finance Large Lifestyle And...
Octane, a startup that offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, has raised $100 million in a Series F round with a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.