... years ago, I was building a consumer transportation startup in Asia, and ended up raising $12m in a Series A financing from First Round Capital . For context, we were looking at investors that had done well in our sector (consumer transportation), and First Round had invested in Uber at Seed. With my second startup ( Metal ), we have built the AI-native operating system for founders raising VC that we wish had existed when we were raising for our first startup ... ... below write-up provides a playbook for founders raising Series

... just raised $100M here's what we're building Hey everyone! TwelveLabs just closed a $100M Series B and wanted to share what we're working on for anyone who hasn't come across us before. We're a video AI company. The core problem we're solving: video is the richest record of reality we have, but machines still can't really understand it. Most systems just convert footage to text and call it a day. We think that ...

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... That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower : Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money. From Coatue , who lead the round: ...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)? Three things: We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually ... ... Meanwhile solo founders are out here building profitable products with zero funding and getting ignored. I am not anti-Anthropic I literally use Claude every day to build but the disconnect between how much money flows into AI infrastructure versus

... answer is yes. Team size community engagement is the strongest predictor B2B categories (API, Payments, Fintech) convert at 3 the baseline Rank #1 on launch day 2.2 more likely to raise Series A We worked on this exciting research problem, and have launched today. Data is free, benchmark is available to anyone. Let me know if you all have any questions about the details! Comment from Bengeekly(@bengeekly): How do you know if launching on Product Hunt doubles your chances ... ... raising a Series

... www.youtube.com/watch?v=818wTRa1e48 Today we're announcing our $50M Series B, led by Peak XV, with participation from YC, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Kleiner Perkins, and our earlier investors. It brings our total funding to $72M. The round closed on the back of a year in which our enterprise revenue grew 10x, and our agents crossed 1,000,000,000 calls handled. Read their announcement . Comment from Robert Hughes(@robert_hughes5): @arpit_jain48  Crossing 1 billion handled calls ... ... Comment from Arpit Jain(@arpit_jain48): congratulations Comment from Ivan Stakhov(@ivan_stakhov): Congrats on the raise, team Comment from Blake at Vassant(@blakeatvassant): Congratulations!! Comment from Kumar Garapati(@kumarg01): Congratulations on crossing 1 billion calls and on the Series

... create Ishvana. It didn t start as a product, but just as a custom tool for me to build my own work. One day I d finally had enough of Microsoft Word. I was writing a fantasy series with deep worldbuilding, hundreds of characters, multiple magic systems, interconnected timelines and Word was buckling under the weight of it. But when I looked at the alternatives

... backed @Mintlify (YC W22) just announced a $45M Series B round, bringing their total funding to $67M, to "accelerate [their] mission of building the knowledge infrastructure for AI." Read in their blog announcement : Mintlify now powers documentation for over 20,000 companies, with content reaching more than 100 million people every year. This round accelerates our mission to become the knowledge layer that makes products understandable, usable and discoverable by AI agents. Rated 5-stars by the community, beautifully crafted ... ... knowledge infrastructure for AI framing makes total sense as a category. Docs are essentially the training data and grounding layer for any AI that has to understand your product. As someone building Hello Aria (AI productivity assistant, pre-Series

... everyone! We're working on CRONOS a time-series analytics engine that works without training data. The idea: instead of learning patterns from historical examples, we compute mathematical invariants directly from signals. Same engine works across completely different domains. What it does: Anomaly detection Trend prediction Multi-stream correlation Event detection Key specs: 122 nanoseconds per analysis (500,000 faster than LLM) Runs on ARM Cortex-M4, no GPU 100% deterministic same input, same output, always Zero-shot works from ... ... Space: 99.3% exoplanet transit detection (Kepler) Trade-off: we typically see 3-5% lower accuracy than supervised models trained on domain-specific data. But you can deploy immediately without collecting failure examples. We'd love to hear: What time-series

... just exposure, but the degree to which AI treats your brand as a credible source . Share of Voice (SOV): Represents your brand s voice share within AI narratives the probability that AI mentions your brand rather than a competitor when answering a topic-related question. Sentiment: Captures the emotional tone of AI mentions positive, neutral, or negative showing how AI portrays your brand. Together, these four metrics answer the two most fundamental GEO questions: How frequently does AI mention ... ... brand? and In what tone and context is the brand represented? 1.2 Trends and Competitor

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... news! DevSecOps, EU-based company @Aikido Security just announced a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation. @madelinelawren wrote in their blog announcement : Today, Aikido is used by 100,000+ teams globally, including customers like the Premier League, SoundCloud, Niantic, and Revolut. Over the past year, we grew revenue 5x and more than tripled our customer base. (...) The next chapter is about self-securing software. Not security as a reactive activity with dashboards and manual weeks long testing. Rather ...

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... everywhere (desktop, mobile, and now keyboards) For most people developers, writers, PMs, operators voice is already better than typing for a large portion of daily work. Snapshot: Pricing & Platform: Funding (publicly disclosed where available): Wispr: $81M+ total, including Series A and additional round in 2025 Aqua Voice: YC-backed; at least $500K+ publicly noted Willow Voice: YC-backed; thus also at least $500k raised Others : no public funding data; best understood as indie / bootstrapped / OSS. TL;DR: Your Award ... ... care most about speed, flow, and writing-style adaptation You use AI tools daily and want voice as a front-end to them You want the iOS keyboard for system-wide mobile input You want a tool backed by serious

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... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRcguXsZ... Hi everyone Bijoy here - the maker of Guitar Wiz. I ve put together a series of short walkthrough videos that highlight different parts of the app - from the chord library and tuner to the Song Maker and chord assist features. You can watch the full playlist here: Guitar Wiz Walkthroughs on YouTube Each video is focused, so you can quickly see how a specific tool works and whether it might fit into your own guitar practice or songwriting ...

... raised $32M Series B led by Sequoia ! The open-source code editor is scaling its collaborative AI vision , enabling real-time conversations with teammates & AI agents directly in the IDE using character-level permalinks. Total funding now >$42M. DeltaDB also sounds like a compelling enhancement of Git: Provides character-level permalinks that survive code transformations Enables real-time collaboration between developers and AI agents Creates a "living, navigable history" that includes not just code changes but also ...

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... leave YC (the accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox) to spin up Standard Capital. Here s what they re offering Write $5-10 million cheques for about 10 % of a company. Step in after seed money but before the usual Series A. Back teams who can build and improve AI products super fast. YC itself is putting money into the fund. They say this middle round is the spot where many founders get stuck. Why this matters to me (and maybe ... ... playbook will evolve. What do you think? If you re raising now, would you jump for a big cheque this early or keep stacking smaller rounds? Founders/investors who ve been here, does a cohort program still help at Series

... everyone, One year ago, we launched on this platform with a vision to transform voice AI. Today, Vapi has grown to 100,000+ developers and recently raised our $20M Series A. Voice AI has reached its tipping point. We're seeing hundreds of startups, agencies, and developers building innovative voice solutions for enterprises and SMBs on Vapi's platform. AMA about building better voice products, promising use cases, voice models, and what's coming in 2025. I'll be around ... ... training? I'm thinking about voice actors and how they can secure (or enhance) their livelihood as models evolve and become more indistinguishable from real humans. Comment from Ash Grover(@ash_grover): Congrats on the incredible growth and the Series