Why Insight Partners Led Convex's $57M Series B for AI-Era Backends
Convex raised $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, with a16z and Spark returning — a bet that agent-written software needs a reliability layer Postgres never provided.
AI Infrastructure Venture Capital & Funding Trends
AI infrastructure has become one of the largest categories in venture capital, spanning compute, model serving, agent frameworks, and enterprise deployment layers. Our coverage tracks where investors are placing bets and which companies are defining the next layer of the AI stack.
AI Infrastructure Investment Themes
- Inference & serving: Model deployment, latency optimization, and cost efficiency
- Agent platforms: Orchestration, tooling, and enterprise workflow automation
- Data & observability: Training data, evaluation, and production monitoring
- Hardware adjacencies: Chips, edge compute, and specialized accelerators
Explore AI infrastructure funding news and analysis below.
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