Soma Capital

I'm excited to announce we at Chef have closed $43.1M in financing to scale deployments of our AI-enabled robots! This brings Chef’s total capital raised to ~$65.6M ($38.8M in equity and $26.75M in debt). To date, Chef robots have produced 44,000,000 servings and counting, more meals than all other existing food robotics startups combined. Chef has AI-enabled robots deployed all over North America which have completed tens of thousands of hours of active production and manipulated almost 2,000 ingredients in production. We have quickly cemented our standing as the industry leader in AI-enabled food robotics. Now, this fresh round of capital will enable us to expand our fleet of intelligent robots, accelerate customer deployments across both our existing and new customers, advance our physical AI model ChefOS, grow our go-to-market team, and expand internationally. This financing is a great vote of confidence for both what we’ve built and also for the pull we’re seeing from our customers. We’re grateful for our customers, team, investors, and partners for their support to get to this milestone! We’re more energized than ever to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world🚀 Thank you to CNBC for covering the exclusive! (link in comments)

Today, we’re excited to introduce three state-of-the-art models that work together to transform human-AI interactions: 🤖 Phoenix-3: Our flagship replica model, now with full-face rendering, emotions, & micro expressions 👁️ Raven-0: A real-time perception system, giving AI human-like eyes to understand visual context and emotions 🗣️ Sparrow-0: A transformer-based turn-taking model for natural dialogue and turn-taking You can now build even more realistic AI Agents with emotional intelligence. They not only look human, but can engage, perceive, listen, and understand in a deeply human way. This is an evolution of our Conversational Video Interface, into a complete operating system for human-AI interaction. AI isn’t just responding anymore. It’s thinking, perceiving, and evolving – it's a big step closer to feeling like true face-to-face communication. See the magic for yourself—talk to our live demo agent Charlie: www.tavus.io We can’t wait to see what conversational AI video experiences you build with CVI. 🚀

⚒️ We raised $5M to fix the HR systems holding frontline workers back ⚒️ It’s proof that the global workforce is changing and we need to do better for them. For far too long, HR tech has streamlined hiring, onboarding, and compliance for traditional careers. But what about 80% of the global workforce who power healthcare, logistics, and essential industries? It’s time for a system built for them. And the backing FirstWork (YC S24) landed shows the industry sees it too: Google's Gradient, Y Combinator, Soma Capital , 468 Capital, Houghton Street Ventures and an incredible group of angels, including Job&Talent's Felipe Navío, Deel's Philippe Bouaziz & Dan Westgarth, just to name a few. This milestone wouldn’t have happened without my co-founder, the phenomenal Shubham Choudhary and every amazing individual on our team. Frontline workers deserve better, and FirstWork is ready to make sure HR tech steps up to the plate. This is about more than faster paperwork. It’s about making sure the right people are in the right jobs when they’re needed most. Frontline workers don’t have time to wait. Neither should we. 💬 and if you’re hiring frontline workers, let’s talk - vardhan@firstwork.com

Our biggest news yet... 🏎️ Today I'm beyond proud to announce that Revv has raised $20M led by Left Lane Capital, with participation from Soma Capital, 1984 Ventures, and AGLAÉ VENTURES We started Revv with a simple observation: as vehicles become increasingly software-dependent, technicians are struggling to keep up with the complexity of repairing safety systems. This challenge isn't just technical - it was fundamentally hurting how repair shops operate and succeed. In this new era of AI, Rashmi Sinha and I saw the opportunity to completely transform how diagnostics worked. In just 18 months, we've grown to: - 2,100+ repair locations - High 7-figure ARR - Double to triple-digit QoQ growth - Great results (one partner expanded from 1 to 37 locations in 4 months!) A huge thank you to our early customers who believed in our vision from day one. None of this would be possible without our incredible team. From our earliest days as a two-person operation to now 50+, every member has contributed to building something truly transformative. We're just getting started. Our mission extends beyond ADAS diagnostics - we're building a comprehensive 360-degree repair solution to help shops of all sizes navigate the increasing complexity of today's vehicles. We're hiring across all departments! If you're passionate about what we're building, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about our journey and the future of auto repair in the press release (link in comments) 🔧

Super excited to announce Anthrogen (YC S24) closed a $4M seed round a few weeks ago led by BoxGroup and ReGen Ventures with participation from funds like Wayfinder Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Soma Capital, Ritual Capital, Collaborative Fund (SFF), and Pioneer Fund. We also have a great team of angels including Paul Graham, Kulveer Taggar, Todd Goldberg and Rahul Vohra's Angel Fund, and others! We’re pumped to be working on turning carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals by way of AI-designed enzymatic cascades. Huge shout out to Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦 at Y Combinator, without whom this wouldn’t have been possible and to Katie Fehrenbacher for the write-up in Axios: https://lnkd.in/efCDi8yG And, of course, to my co-founders Connor Lee and Vignesh Karthik! Yuri Sagalov, Aneel Ranadive, Byron Milligan, Claire Goldsmith, Adam Rothenberg, Disha Karale, Benjamin Bryant, Tim Suzman, Jason Gray, Dave Messina, Cameron Urban, Max Kolysh, Chris H., Yahya Mokhtarzada, Michael Ma, Dan Fitzgerald, Tom McQuillen, Keely Anson, Matt Kaufman, Sarah Rodriguez, Brian L..

The web is dead. We've raised $9M from Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman to help bring it to life! ⚡ Imagine if everyone had the same exact LinkedIn feed. No optimization. No personalization. No self-improvement. That is the state of most websites on the internet today: unintelligent, stale, dead. Growth and marketing teams spend tons of time and effort running experiments to improve metrics. And with large user bases, optimizing for the sheer number of audience segments becomes totally unmanageable. This changes with Coframe. We're on a mission to give every website its own dedicated AI growth engineer, learning and improving 24/7. And it doesn't stop at websites. In fact, we've already started optimizing marketing campaigns as well. One large enterprise we work with has already seen a 42% lift in their target metric, with one customer segment experiencing a lift of 352%! 🎯 So stay tuned, we're just getting started. Our _real_ announcement is coming soon ;) Come build a self-improving internet with us: https://lnkd.in/gCfqWS_n See the coverage in Reuters: https://lnkd.in/giry84pr

It’s official: we are live with Walmart. Pawp is now a permanent benefit included with Walmart+ 😻🎉🐶 This puts Pawp into the hands of millions of Walmart+ members — providing them with complimentary access to around-the-clock, instant pet care from their phones with Pawp. This launch makes Pawp the first permanent pet benefit of a massive e-commerce membership program ever. I don’t need to tell you that Walmart is the largest retailer in the world. They serve over 255M customers online and in-stores each week. The scale of this partnership is explosive — over 75% of Walmart+ members have pets. This launch gives millions of pets and their parents affordable access to pet care at a critical time as veterinary costs continue to rise. It puts us one giant leap closer to realizing our mission of providing access to healthcare to as many pets as possible. I want to thank everyone at Walmart+ who helped make this a reality. A special thank you to Venessa Yates, Seth Dallaire, Kaitlyn Shadiow, and the entire Walmart+ family. We are absolutely pumped to get this thing off the ground. Onwards and upwards 🚀 PS: You should know that all American Express Platinum card holders have access to Walmart+ for free (and that means Pawp too)!