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June 17, 2025

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-17

AI funding skyrockets, with major players like Applied Intuition and Helsing leading the charge!

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💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

  • Sword Health (virtual physical therapy): $40M
  • Pano AI (wildfire detection): $44M.
  • Nabla (healthcare worker augmentation): $70M.
  • Coralogix (observability + security): $115M
  • Applied Intuition (self-driving digital twin): $600M
  • Helsing (defense tech): $645M

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