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Total raised
$8.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$6.5M
Seed · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Hummingbird Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · not hiring
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May 15, 2025
Raised a round Seed $6.5M · pgbiz
Nov 22, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $1.8M · GamesIndustry.biz
2023
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Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
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top 0.08%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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2
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | May 2025 | $6.5M | — | pgbiz |
| Venture round | Nov 2023 | $1.8M | — | GamesIndustry.biz |
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| Legal entity | Layer AI, Inc. | its site |
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