Why we picked them: In just five months post–launch, Phia has already amassed 500,000 users, signed 5,000+ direct brand partnerships, and driven tens of millions in sales, their speed of traction and celebrity + VC support (Kleiner Perkins, Kris Jenner, Hailey Bieber) make them a clear consumer-AI breakout.
9/24/2025
Seed - Sept 20, 2025, $8M
Mostly likely to IPO
TWiST Selected
Series E
Nuro
AI Hardware
AI Models
They just raised $23M in a Series A led by Lightspeed and have already enabled over 1 million people to build 1.5+ million apps since launching in June — showing real consumer traction and validating their vision of “build apps by talking.”
9/24/2025
Series E - Aug 21, 2025, $203M
Modular
AI Infra
9/24/2025
Sept 24, 2025, $250M
Series A
Emergent
Consumer AI
9/24/2025
Series A - Sept 24, 2025, $23M
Synthesized
AI Infra
Enterprise SaaS
9/24/2025
Sept 24, 2025, $20M
Seed
Convexia
healthtech
9/24/2025
Seed - Sept 17, 2025, $500K
Pre-Seed
Riff
Consumer AI
9/24/2025
Pre-Seed - July, 2025, $500k
Seed
Huxe
Consumer AI
Built by ex-NotebookLM engineers, Huxe recently raised $4.6 M and is positioning itself as a compelling alternative to ChatGPT Pulse — translating email, calendar, and topic feeds into an interactive audio stream you can interrupt and query in real time.