# Bad Influence story: Plurai raises $13 million seed round for AI agent simulation testing

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 09:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/d952b746-1ca7-4b72-a225-38564792ae45

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Latest update (11-11 09:00): Plurai raises $13 million in seed funding for AI agent simulations

Overview: Plurai says it raised $13 million in seed funding led by Team8, with participation from U&I, Velocity and Mercer. The startup builds a digital twin of a company's systems to test and fix AI agent failures. It then uses the resulting data to post-train smaller open-weight models, which it says can match mid-tier frontier models at much lower cost.

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1. 11-11 09:00 · TechCrunch · AI · [Plurai raises $13 million in seed funding for AI agent simulations](https://badinfluence.news/items/hw9oy84ocx9kn5rw2iekap8iv)
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