Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI (9/12/25)

By Christopher Robbins · Sep 11, 2025 Views: 3

Our Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI featured funding announcements from Databricks, You.com, Exa, Augment and Baseten

This week we continue our series on the top 5 VC-funded deals in AI.

This week's venture capital funding announcements are a return to form, led by three transactions exceeding the $100 million threshold.

The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from a familiar name, San Francisco-based Databricks, which raised a $1 billion Series K in part to "accelerate its AI strategy, expanding Agent Bricks, launching the new Lakebase category, and fueling global growth," according to its announcement. We took a bit of a dive into Databricks in a recent AI Education column. Our second-place announcement comes from the AI development space, where Baseten, also based in San Francisco, brought in a $150 million Series D. The top five also included companies in the AI infrastructure, logistics and search sectors.

Smaller funding raises that did not quite make our top 5 this week included announcements from the compliance, video, and enterprise AI spaces.

Below, we highlight the top five venture capital deals, ranked from the highest to the lowest funding amounts, showcasing the companies at the forefront of the AI revolution...

Top 5 Venture Capital Deals from Sept. 4-Sept. 10

1. Databricks

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: A unified data and AI platform enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale advanced analytics and machine learning solutions.
Funding Amount: $1 Billion
Funding Round: Series K

2. Baseten

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: A platform that empowers teams to deploy and manage AI inference for production applications with high performance and scalability.
Funding Amount: $150 Million
Funding Round: Series D

3. You.com

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Description: An enterprise AI infrastructure company offering customizable AI search engines and copilots for organizations.
Funding Amount: $100 Million
Funding Round: Series C
Valuation: $1.5 Billion

4. Augment

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Provides an AI productivity platform tailored for logistics operations, streamlining workflows and accelerating decision-making.
Funding Amount: $85 Million
Funding Round: Series A

5. Exa

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: An AI-powered search infrastructure startup focused on enhancing multimodal search capabilities for enterprise applications.
Funding Amount: $85 Million
Funding Round: Series B
Valuation: $700 Million

Make sure to check out our Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI right here!

Written & Researched by DWN Staff

VC Deals Synopsized by ChatGPT Research Source: FinSMEs