📝 PlayerZero raises $15M

Liam Gill
August 01, 2025

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PlayerZero, a startup founded by Stanford DAWN lab alum Animesh Koratana, has raised $15 million in Series A funding to combat a growing problem in the AI era: catching and fixing bugs introduced by AI-generated code before it hits production. With early backing from industry heavyweights like Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, PlayerZero is building AI agents trained to understand large, complex codebases, learn from historical bugs, and automatically detect and repair future issues — essentially acting like an immune system for enterprise software. Already in use by companies like Zuora, PlayerZero aims to safeguard against the deluge of “AI slop” created as language models increasingly take over software development.

This gold miner, with a pre-money valuation of only C$15 million, is completing a C$2 million pre-IPO equity raise to restart the Gold Road mine in Arizona, USA. The mine and mill, idled since 2021, are in excellent condition to capitalize on current high gold prices. Gold Road is Arizona's only fully permitted integrated gold mill and plans to list on the TSX.V this October. Management aims to reach 20,000 ounces of gold per year by 2025/26. This would generate over US$40 million EBITDA in 2026 and offer a substantial dividend yield paid in physical gold and silver, presenting significant upside from its current low valuation. Learn more. *

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