Partner @BessemerVP Growth 👨🏽💻 Values 1st @render @doppelhq @hyperscienceai @hingehealth @forterglobal @implydata @canva @netlify @aimlab @coactiveAI
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In honor of #BHM I’d like to share the story of my favorite Black founder, Henry Robinson. He co-founded Genesys Software in 1985 with two fellow Black software engineers he met while at Westinghouse
He’s the reason I love & respect entrepreneurs
This is my father’s story 👨🏽💻✊🏽 – at San Francisco, CA
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We reached out to a customer using @render sandboxes to ask about their experience, and they said they had no idea they were using sandboxes.
Their agent chose Render sandboxes for their product without asking or informing them, because it was the best tool for the job.
This is the future of all product adoption.
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If KnowBe4 isn’t preparing organizations for how attackers actually operate, maybe it’s their time to go?
They helped define security awareness training. But the attacks have changed, and it's time training and simulations did, too.
Today's attackers work across every channel. They're impersonating executives, calling help desks, sending texts, and exploiting every channel where business happens.
Doppel is built for this new reality:
✅ AI-powered red teaming that tests actual resilience.
✅ Dynamic simulations across email, voice, SMS, and more.
✅ Training informed by real-world threats, not just static templates.
✅ Human risk insights that go beyond click rates and training completions.
The next era of Human Risk Management is here.
They're not actually going anywhere, but it might be time for you to move on. See why it's time to say farewell to KnowBe4: doppel.com/bye
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Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.
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Introducing Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agent.
render.com/sandboxes
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So excited to unveil Premier Flag, the future of professional flag football!! Such a fantastic milestone for flag athletes and fans worldwide! @BessemerVP @TMRWSports
Flag football has entered the professional level.
Introducing Premier Flag. The world’s best women and men coming together for a historic partnership with the @NFL.
See you in 2027 🏈
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Proud to lead the series F in @fal. On our investment:
Generative media is already one of the biggest categories in AI, but its so early. As models improve, new experiences are unlocked and the market grows. Gaming, video, ads, world models, image, 3d. All of it is just getting started.
@fal has become the key infra for all AI media, and the biggest waves are yet to come.
Most are building for LLMs and coding. @fal is building for creativity. They dominate that market, and are innovating across the whole stack from model to inference to workflow.
The team is the best in the business. Insanely fast, ruthless about performance, enormous ambition, and also humble, kind humans.
I have known @gorkem for more than 15 years and @burkaygur and @isidentical have become good friends along the way. I first got involved w them in the seed and
@BessemerVP has been a proud partner to them for many rounds. So excited to lead this round!
One of the hardest working Founders I’ve ever come across. Always keeps the main thing, the main thing @upwindsecurity
Customers 🫱🏼🫲🏾 Product Innovation
Will never burn out from doing that!
During this funding round, I chatted with @TheValuesVC about "burning out". We both agreed - You never burn out of hard work. You burn out of politics , of ego, of bad problems.
It's so fun to be tired of hard, meaningful work.
Up & Up.
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You can now give every @render API key the exact permissions it needs, and no more. In less than 30 seconds.
youtu.be/9ldllK7qZu8?si=xwNB…
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October is turning out to be @render's biggest month by far, so it's great to see we were already one of the fastest-growing startups this fall. No better time to join Render!
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How disposable software becomes the norm
(originally posted at every.to/thesis-statements/a…
Ask ChatGPT to analyze a spreadsheet, and it might write and run a Python script to find the answer. Once you have the answer, you may never need that script again. That is just-in-time, disposable software, and I expect most software run in the cloud will soon look like it.
Today, we build applications around needs we can anticipate. We invest in code review, testing, and deployment pipelines because we expect people to keep using what we ship. When writing a program costs almost nothing and takes seconds, building one to answer a single question starts to make sense.
Source control matters less for programs nobody will revise. We’ll need verification that works as code is generated and executed, without a human reading every line. Permissions and spending limits have to hold even when the program was written moments before it ran, and we’ll still need a record of what it did.
Agents will also take over the infrastructure decisions engineers now make in tools like Terraform. One task needs a few seconds of compute; the next needs a powerful machine for days. The agent will acquire those resources through cloud APIs, within the task’s budget and security constraints, and release them when it’s done. This is application-defined compute: the software chooses its infrastructure as it does the work.
This will make it practical to solve problems that never justified a full software project. A task can have its own software, even if nobody ever needs to do it again.
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We have raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation, led by Atreides.
Every major existing investor is back in, and we’re welcoming Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, Glade Brook and J.P. Morgan. We picked investors who think in decades. Several of them work with law firms and legal teams every day, so they can see where the work is heading.
Lawyers are moving from AI assistants to agents that do multi-step work. The money goes there. We’re growing our teams across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, and going deeper on the Legora aOS.
Thank you to the 1,000+ people at Legora, and to the 140,000 legal professionals who use what we build.
I say this a lot because I believe it: it’s the best time in history to be a lawyer. We're thankful to be a part of it.
Full story: legora.com/blog/series-e
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The internet has a trust problem. It’s what Doppel was built to solve.
Our co-founder and CEO, @KevinTian00, joined @sophiadew from @MTSlive to share the story behind Doppel, what inspired our mission, and how social engineering has evolved since.
Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=rykGpc0u…
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It's been inspiring to see Tolan grow beyond anyone's expectations and serve a need most AI products ignore.
Love powering their team on @render!
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
I spend countless hours talking to @spdholakia each week from that very room on Zoom (last week in person for 3 days 😊) Watching he & my guy @HarryStebbings spar for this long on all things AI was fun bc I get to see what its like for someone else to do it! s/o @twentyminutevc
“Intelligence is a bigger market than oil.”
@spdholakia on @20VC with @HarryStebbings — 31 years in software, and he’s felt this kind of magic only a handful of times. Every prior time, a trillion-dollar supercycle followed.
His most contested claim: in AI, capital is the moat.
Watch the full episode to learn more → youtu.be/-r2_5LboWL8?si=I76m…
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Most AI labs are racing toward general intelligence.
@doubleAI builds AI that out-reasons human experts in one domain at a time.
And unlike every AI coding tool, which works for the programmer, their "Maxwell" is the first one that works for the machine. 🧵
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Four leading venture investors. A timely conversation on today’s growth environment.
Next week at AlphaMarket, hear from:
• @laurachau | @Canaan
• @ThomasKrane | @insightpartners
• Elliott Robinson
@TheValuesVC | @BessemerVP
• @JaredSleeper | Avenir
Join Alpha Partners for our sixth annual Growth Investor Summit, bringing GPs and LPs together for candid conversations, presentations from hypergrowth companies, and 1:1 networking.
Plus, a little mind reading over cocktails, with a mentalist joining our networking reception.
October 21 | Midtown Manhattan
Explore the lineup and apply to attend -> alphamarket.com
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Last chance for AI 100 📣 In partnership with @NewcomerMedia, the AI 100 is the new definitive ranking of the top private AI companies.
Nominations close today, and selections begin tomorrow. Eligible companies either build AI or the systems AI runs on, at any stage of fundraising.
Submit your company today: theai100.com
ALT The AI 100
The very BEST product in the market is @render
Seems like the smartest guys, gals, and agents I know like @jasonlk are starting to figure it out 😊
I asked our agent for SaaStr AI Connect live with @HarryStebbings + @rodriscoll today if we wanted to move hosting ... where should we go?
It picked Render over Railway and Vercel. "My pick".
Honestly I had never heard of it. Maybe I should have, but I never had.
Now we'll test it -- first.
That's how you get leads in The Agent Age
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20 years in VC and I've never seen a tech wave redefine the rules + break its own benchmarks again & again
The @BessemerVP Cloud 100 measured software. The AI 100 measures what comes next, with @EricNewcomer + @NewcomerMedia 🚀
Nominations close Oct 15: theai100.com
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Today were launching Skills.
Ask a lawyer why they rewrote an AI draft and you'll hear the same thing: It's not wrong. It's just not how we do it here.
That's fair feedback. Every team and professional has their own way of working. How a review is structured. Which positions you'll give up, and in what order. How an email to a client should sound. Until now, the Agent didn't know any of that.
A Skill teaches the @WeareLegora Agent how your team wants something done. You write it in plain language, the way you'd brief a new team member on their first day. After that, the Agent applies it whenever the work calls for it, dynamically. No more time wasted looking for the right workflow.
Every firm and in-house team will leverage AI. The ones that pull ahead will be the ones whose AI works to their standards and can be used immediately. Legora's Skill system scales with versioning, permissions and the auditability required for the scale of the largest legal organizations globally.
We're also launching the Skills Library with 250+ Skills built and tested by our legal engineers from leading law firms and organizations all over the world. They cover commercial contracts, privacy, M&A, litigation, employment, bank and finance, IP and more.
Live today for every Legora customer: legora.com/skills