{"id":325389,"date":"2025-10-23T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325389\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:43:26","slug":"dallas-ai-startup-mythworx-closes-5m-seed-round-valuing-it-at-100m-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325389\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas AI Startup MythWorx Closes $5M Seed Round, Valuing It at\u00a0$100M \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MythWorx CEO Jason Williamson (left) and Co-Founder and Chairman Wade Meyers [Photos: Oracle\/MythWorx]<\/p>\n

Dallas-based AI startup MythWorx has closed a $5 million seed funding round led by Eagle Venture Fund IV, Eagle Freedom Fund I, and Eagle Freedom Fund II, along with investment from other leading angel investors. The funding gives MythWorx a valuation of $100 million, the company said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MythWorx recently emerged from stealth, saying\u00a0its compact model can outperform LLMs hundreds of times its size without pretraining.\u00a0Last month, Dallas Innovates wrote about the company\u2019s newly named CEO, Jason Williamson, and explored how MythWorx is betting its human-inspired AI architecture\u00a0can challenge the LLM status quo<\/a>\u2014and bring AGI closer to market.<\/p>\n

A next-generation AI startup with a \u201cunique AI\/AGI construct and architecture and pioneering reasoning capabilities,\u201d Mythworx said the valuation is significantly higher than other seed-stage AI startups, reflecting the \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d reduction in compute and power needs and human-like reasoning capabilities presented by MythWorx\u2019s model, Echo Ego v2.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis funding milestone validates the strength of our technology and the market\u2019s understanding and support of our new brain-modeled approach to AI,\u201d Williamson said. \u201cOur mission is to deliver AI that is smarter, faster and dramatically more efficient than traditional LLMs, to redefine what\u2019s possible with true reasoning capabilities. And we\u2019ve delivered\u2014with our model representing a \u2018black swan\u2019 moment for AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The startup said that Echo Ego v2 outperforms traditional large language models (LLMs) as it requires one-tenth of the power resources when completing tasks and answers questions up to eight times faster.<\/p>\n

\u2018True reasoning principles\u2019<\/p>\n

MythWorx said its model uses true reasoning principles and does not require pretraining to perform well on benchmarking, compared to LLMs that frequently use pattern recognition or memorized strategies during pretraining to score capably.<\/p>\n

The funding will further support MythWorx\u2019s growth by enabling hiring for key roles throughout the company, adding products and enhanced capabilities, and streamlining and accelerating the company\u2019s go-to-market strategy, the company said.<\/p>\n

Despite its smaller size, MythWorx\u2019s model outperforms models hundreds of times larger across a wide range of tasks, the company said\u2014adding that it performs well without pretraining, retries, or chain-of-thought prompting.<\/p>\n

MythWorx said it recently supported its claims through MMLU-Pro benchmarking testing. The company said it outperformed DeepSeek-R1 and many other LLMs during the benchmarking, without prior fine tuning. That contrasts with traditional LLMs that rely on multiple attempts or chain-of-thought reasoning to refine answers, MythWorx said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis financing allows us to move forward quickly with our go-to-market strategy of licensing our unique AGI capability to big tech, government, and Department of War sectors that have long anticipated the advent of true reasoning,\u201d Wade Myers, co-founder and chairman of MythWorx, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Wes Lyons, general partner at Eagle Venture Fund, said the funding will allow MythWorx to advance its mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to lead this seed round and partner with MythWorx,\u201d Lyons said. \u201cTheir breakthrough technology has the potential to redefine AI, and we believe their exceptional team has the vision and execution capabilities to build a category-defining company. We couldn\u2019t be more excited to support them at this early stage of their journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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