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  1. Aug 3, 2026FUNDINGSeed Investors Are Still Funding Wonderfully Boring Ideas→
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FUNDING· Aug 3, 2026

Seed Investors Are Still Funding Wonderfully Boring Ideas

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FUNDING

Seed Investors Are Still Funding Wonderfully Boring Ideas

Bidbus's $15 million round for live-dealer car auctions and Smallest.ai's $13 million round for narrowly-focused voice models show seed-stage capital still backing unglamorous, defensible niches even as headlines chase AI infrastructure mega-rounds.

Aug 3, 2026
FUNDING· Jul 31, 2026

Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI

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FUNDING$13M

Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI

Smallest.ai raised $13 million led by Seligman Ventures to keep building voice AI models focused narrowly on speed and human-sounding speech rather than general-purpose foundation model scale.

Jul 31, 2026
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