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The team at Legora just hit a milestone that very few companies ever reach — and they did it in a space that's been notoriously hard to crack. Watching this team build, iterate, and earn the trust of legal teams around the world has been something special. We are proud to be part of this exciting journey and look forward to what Max Junestrand and this talented team do next.
I want to take a moment to recognize a gravity-defying achievement by the entire Legora team. We have grown from $1M to $100M in annual recurring revenue in just under 18 months. In this time, we've grown into a truly global company with over 400 colleagues - and built the platform where legal work happens. Powering more than 1,000 teams worldwide. It is all about the people, and I couldn’t be prouder of the Legora team and thankful to our customers and partners. This achievement is as much yours as it is ours.
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Earlier this year I announced Accel leading the Series A in depthfirst, and I feel as though I barely blinked and I'm back to share the news of their Series B. It's a testament to this incredible team, the immense progress they've made towards their vision, and the palpable urgency of the threat. It's clear that the speed and sophistication of AI threats is among the most critical threats of our era and on the heels of #RSA it's evident that the industry is eagerly seeking tools that can truly secure software in the face of these advanced threats. depthfirst is meeting this moment. depthfirst is an Applied AI lab consisting of exceptional builders across every function (and they are hiring!) led by inspiring leaders Qasim Mithani Andrea Michi and Daniele Perito. I feel privileged to support them in their critical work. A hearty welcome to the thoughtful team at Meritech Capital and friends at Forerunner and Mantis Venture Capital and more! I can't wait to blink again and see just how much impact they have made in securing the world around us.
Today, we’re announcing depthfirst’s $80M Series B, led by Meritech Capital. It comes less than 90 days after our Series A led by Accel. We started depthfirst because we believed something important was changing fast: AI is making it dramatically easier to write code. This means much more code is being shipped than ever before. AI is also making it dramatically easier to attack software. So more attacks are happening than ever before. This means that companies are at a bigger risk than ever to be breached. Here’s how depthfirst fixes this: 1. depthfirst finds vulnerabilities in your code: Our AI agents scan your entire codebase to understand how your systems work. Then they look for vulnerabilities. 2. It tries to attack your system like a real hacker would: If it can’t break a vulnerability, it doesn’t flag it. So your team only sees real problems, not false alarms. 3. When it finds a real problem, it fixes it for you. It rewrites the code and opens the pull request. Your developers can approve it in one click. —----------- For years we were told that AI couldn’t be applied to cybersecurity in a meaningful way. We didn’t believe it. We believed two things: AI would change how software is attacked and it would change how software is defended. This means security companies need to adapt or will get disrupted. And now we’re seeing it happen in real time in the stock market. Since launching a few months ago, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing software businesses like Lovable, Supabase, and ClickUp. And today, we are also introducing our first in-house security model, which outperforms frontier models while running at a fraction of the cost. To celebrate the launch and further our mission of securing the world’s software, we’re giving away a free agent skill vibe coders can use to help secure their apps. This agent skill will scan your code base and try to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could use to attack. Comment “depthfirst” and I’ll send it to you. Grateful to Meritech Capital, Accel, Forerunner, The House Fund, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alt Capital, Mantis Venture Capital, and all our investors for believing in this mission. And to our customers for choosing to build with us.
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NEW: You can now build AI Agents that monitor the market, manage your cash, and execute your trades. The Agentic Brokerage has arrived.
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🚀 Production finally has a brain. And we just gave it $110M to grow. 🚀 Today, Dash0 is announcing our $110𝐌 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐁 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 $1𝐁 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Less than three years ago, we started with a simple but radical belief: observability shouldn't be a tax. Your data should belong to you, not your vendor. We built on #OpenTelemetry. We kept pricing honest. And engineers voted with their wallets: 600+ customers, $155M raised, and a unicorn. 🦄 But here's the real news: we're not an observability company anymore. We're building the 𝐀𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Autonomous agents that don't just watch your systems. They fix them. Before you're paged. Before your users notice. Before it becomes a war room. #Performance. #Reliability. #Security. #Usability. That's Agent0. And this funding is the fuel. Huge thanks to the people who believed: 🔹 Rana Yared and Balderton for leading and joining our board 🔹 Thomas Preuss and DTCP welcome to the family 🔹 Accel and Harry Nelis for your early belief 🔹 Cherry Ventures 🍒 and Christian Meermann for doubling down 🔹 Ross Mason, Rytis Vitkauskas from DIG Ventures - "tripling down" - those words hit different 🔹 Jonathan Jasper, Florian Schindler and Philipp Schindler from July Fund and Karine Peters from T.Capital - proud to have you alongside us To the Dash0 team: you built something the world didn't think was possible this fast. This is your moment. To every engineering team still paying the Datadog tax, drowning in alerts, doing incident response at 3am: 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮. And we are just getting started! 🚀
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Today, OpenAI announced it will acquire Astral. I wrote up a bit more of the story, from the very beginning days and first meeting Charlie Marsh - and how his side project turned into a big, amazing ambition to change Python tooling for everyone. Congrats to the whole Astral team on everything you've built and contributed to date to the Python ecosystem - ruff, uv ty - and we're excited for your next chapter at OpenAI!
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𝐖𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 $120𝐌. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲? 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝. 🎉 A few years ago, we set out to solve a problem that didn't have a name yet. Today, Non-Human Identity is the fastest-growing category in enterprise security, and we built the platform defining it. Then AI agents entered the enterprise, and the problem we set out to solve became the problem everyone has. This round accelerates one mission: secured agentic access for the enterprises building the future. To our incredible investors, Craft Ventures, Cyberstarts, Sequoia Capital, and Accel: thank you for backing what we saw coming. Full story in the comments. 👇 #OasisSecurity #NHI #agenticai
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OpenAI announced today that it’s acquiring Astral. This is a testament to Charlie Marsh and the entire Astral team’s craft, dedication, and skill for building tools that developers love. Thank you to Charlie and to everyone at Astral for welcoming us as partners on this journey. We’re cheering you on in this next chapter. Read more from Casey Aylward about what Astral has accomplished and where they’re headed next. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eg66tuxY
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Pie Creator Club is growing — and coming to a city near you.
I started Pie because I believe the most important thing happening on the internet is people using it to get off the internet. It is the damn phones. At Pie we want you to see your friends more, to make new ones, to find your people, to belong to communities, and to show up. Two years in, we're scaling the Pie Creator Club, a group of 700+ creators across the US who curate or host IRL gatherings in their cities. We're now live in Chicago, Austin, LA, NYC, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Columbus, Dallas... and increasingly dozens of cities nationwide. Members use Pie as the social layer on top of their events because People I Enjoy "Pie" is what lives beyond the RSVP — the profiles, the group chats, the "are you coming Saturday?". Our creator club members grow Pie by doing what you already love. When someone attends a great dinner and stays connected to the host and three new people on Pie afterward — that's not a campaign. That's the product working exactly how it should. You don't need a massive following or existing community. You just need to be the person who gets people in a room and gives a shit about what happens when they're there. Any city. Any format. Any size. Club Members can earn up to $3,500 per month. Do you know a creator we should know? Is it you? Apply to Pie Creator Club — https://lnkd.in/g6vFQr_7
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