Midas Market Pulse, AI Investing & Trends for 25th of July 2025

In today’s Market Pulse, we shine a light on funding momentum, infrastructure buildout, crypto innovation, corporate automation, and national strategy shaping today’s AI investment landscape

📈 LegalTech AI Surges with $50 Million Round

LegalOn, a Tokyo-founded AI contract review platform used by over seven thousand organizations, raised fifty million dollars in a Series E round led by Goldman Sachs Growth. The startup automates legal workflows—cutting contract review time by up to eighty‑five percent—and plans to expand across the U.S. and U.K. with this new capital.

💸 Compliance AI Advances with $32 Million Raise

Delve, an AI startup founded by two MIT dropouts, closed a thirty‑two million dollar Series A led by Insight Partners. The platform offers real‑time regulatory compliance tools tailored to AI startups, helping them navigate evolving rules across global markets.

🪙 Crypto AI Startup Funding Reaches $92 Million This Week

Crypto startups focused on AI infrastructure have raised a combined ninety‑two million dollars in venture funding this week alone. That brings total 2025 funding to over eleven billion dollars—sixty percent of Pitchbook’s full‑year forecast—underscoring strong investor interest in tokenized compute networks and decentralized intelligence systems.

📈 CoreWeave IPO Tracking Near $20 Billion Valuation

CoreWeave, a GPU infrastructure provider to major AI labs, is edging toward a twenty‑billion dollar valuation ahead of its upcoming IPO. The company is expanding data‑center capacity globally and remains a vital backbone for compute scaling across enterprise and cloud markets.

🌐 Thinking Machines Lab Posts Major Talent and Funding Milestones

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex‑OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, confirmed the finalization of its two billion dollar seed round at a twelve billion dollar valuation. Meanwhile the firm has recruited over twenty former OpenAI researchers, reinforcing its push to build world‑class multimodal AI platforms.

📊 Midas Perspective

The flow of capital into AI infrastructure startups and legaltech platforms shows a maturation of investor focus toward operational scale and utility models. Rising valuations at firms like CoreWeave and Thinking Machines Lab reflect emerging market confidence.

Meanwhile, crypto AI funding momentum and regulatory tooling startups highlight growing demand for decentralized architecture and governance tools.

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