In Q3 2025, 25 startups raised $100M+, mostly in AI. Giants like Anthropic ($13B), Mistral ($1.99B), and Cohere ($500M) led the way, alongside verticals like EliseAI (real estate) or Ambience (healthcare) plus infra bets like Lambda, Baseten, fal.I published a list of 20+ YC startups building Voice AI in 2024/25, everything from call center agents (Freya, Calltree) and debt collection (Altur) to healthcare (careCycle), logistics (Lanesurf), and even Photoshop rebuilt with voice (awen).OpenAI dropped data on how people use ChatGPT, and every bar is a billion-dollar wedge if you verticalize it (10% of the worldās adult population log into it every week, 700M peopleā¦). Tutoring (10%), how-to advice (9%), personal writing + editing (18%), health + fitness (6%) etc. Check-out their new āGrove Programā for builders.
Brilliant Round Up - Resposted with a commentary because my audience will love it - thanks for publishing āØ
Appreciate this Chris!