Several tech startups — Mia Labs, Cambio, GIGR (Playad.ai), Railway, among others, have announced their venture capital funding to bolster innovation and business growth.
Mia Labs Raises $20 mn
Mia Labs announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Permanent Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to $29 million to scale its AI-powered conversational platform for automotive dealerships. Participation included Norwest, Eniac Ventures, Vine Ventures, Analog Ventures, Logos Fund, and strategic investor Yossi Levi. Mia’s technology automates customer communications across sales and service channels, powering more than 1 million customer conversations, booking 130,000 appointments, and enabling over 45 million in revenue from AI-scheduled engagements. The funding will accelerate product innovation, team growth, and market expansion, reinforcing Mia’s strategy to replace manual workflows with an intelligent AI “super employee” that improves dealership efficiency and customer experience. Brian Hoang is CEO and co-founder.
Cambio Raises $18 mn
Cambio, a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by Leia de Guzman and Stephanie Grayson, secured $18 million in Series A funding led by Maverick Ventures with support from Y Combinator, Adverb Ventures, Peterson Ventures, and angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Procore, Notion, and Vanta. The AI-native platform applies agentic artificial intelligence to ingest unstructured building data and transform it into investment-grade insights, empowering commercial real estate owners and investors to make capital allocation and compliance decisions in minutes rather than months. Cambio’s strategy emphasizes scalable decision automation and real-time performance insights, driving operational efficiency across more than 2 billion square feet of assets in 35 countries. The round positions the company to expand enterprise adoption and accelerate its technology roadmap.
GIGR (Playad.ai) Raises $5.4 mn
GIGR, operating as Playad.ai, announced a $5.4 million pre-seed funding round led by BRV Capital Management and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, with angel participants including Bora Chung, Jihun Yu, and Krew Capital. The startup is developing an AI-native multi-agent platform that streamlines end-to-end creative workflows for marketing teams, enabling rapid interactive ad creation, testing, performance measurement, and iteration. Playad’s innovation targets inefficiencies in traditional ad creation by automating repetitive tasks and enabling data-driven decision loops that improve learning and campaign outcomes. Early customer feedback shows significant reductions in production cost and faster iteration cycles. GIGR’s strategy focuses on making AI a core part of marketing operations and creative optimization, positioning the platform for broader adoption across digital advertising and interactive experiences.
Railway Raises $100 mn
Railway, a cloud deployment platform founded by Jake Cooper, secured a $100 million Series B round led by TQ Ventures with participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures to advance its AI-ready infrastructure strategy. The funding reflects demand for cloud platforms that support rapid software deployments with minimal setup, targeting environments where traditional providers struggle to keep pace with AI workloads. Railway’s technology delivers sub-second deployments, enhanced developer velocity, and significant cost savings while abstracting infrastructure complexity. With millions of developers and broad enterprise adoption including Fortune 500 users, the platform’s innovation centers on simplifying compute, storage, networking, and orchestration into a cohesive, scalable experience. The investment will fuel global data center expansion, tooling enhancements, and accelerated growth in AI-driven application hosting.
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