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2h agoDiffusion‑model AI startup Inception raises US$50 m seed round
AI‑startup Inception announced a US$50 million seed funding round to build diffusion models for code and text, led by Menlo Ventures and including Microsoft’s M12 fund, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks and Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures.
The company, founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, plans to apply diffusion-based approaches beyond image generation to programming and documentation workflows.
The raise underscores the next phase of generative‑AI expansion into enterprise productivity, with execution and adoption key to sustaining valuation.
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2h agoDiffusion‑model AI startup Inception raises US$50 m seed round
AI‑startup Inception announced a US$50 million seed funding round to build diffusion models for code and text, led by Menlo Ventures and including Microsoft’s M12 fund, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks and Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures.
The company, founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, plans to apply diffusion-based approaches beyond image generation to programming and documentation workflows.
The raise underscores the next phase of generative‑AI expansion into enterprise productivity, with execution and adoption key to sustaining valuation.
Explore:Mutual Fund Themes
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Diffusion‑model AI startup Inception raises US$50 m seed round
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Inception raises US$50 m to build diffusion models for code/text, signalling generative‑AI moves into enterprise dev workflows.
AI‑startup Inception announced a US$50 million seed funding round to build diffusion models for code and text, led by Menlo Ventures and including Microsoft’s M12 fund, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks and Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures.
The company, founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, plans to apply diffusion-based approaches beyond image generation to programming and documentation workflows.
The raise underscores the next phase of generative‑AI expansion into enterprise productivity, with execution and adoption key to sustaining valuation.
AI‑startup Inception announced a US$50 million seed funding round to build diffusion models for code and text, led by Menlo Ventures and including Microsoft’s M12 fund, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks and Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures.
The company, founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, plans to apply diffusion-based approaches beyond image generation to programming and documentation workflows.
The raise underscores the next phase of generative‑AI expansion into enterprise productivity, with execution and adoption key to sustaining valuation.
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Nov 8, 2025 • 23:02 IST