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We're excited to announce our $65 million seed round to build the operating system for autonomous enterprise AI. Sycamore enables organizations to deploy and operate AI agents with speed, security, and full operational control. The round was led by Coatue Management and Lightspeed, with additional participation from Abstract, Dell Technologies Capital, 8VC, Fellows Fund, and E14 Fund. AI agents are the next major platform shift in enterprise computing. Models can now reason and act, but enterprises lack the infrastructure to deploy them safely and at scale. Sycamore is building that foundation. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gnUPJPWi

After months of building in secret, I’m finally excited to release Enclave to the world. We are launching with $6M in seed funding led by 8VC. 🚀 I am incredibly proud to be building this alongside my co-founders, Dvir Segev and Yanir Tsarimi. I have been programming since I was 12. After years of building and breaking systems at Unit 8200 and Enso Security, I have seen the same story play out repeatedly. Teams drown in hundreds of low-value alerts while the one architectural risk that actually breaks the system slips through. The problem is that security tools are optimized for what is easy to detect. They find patterns and signatures but ignore how services interact or how data flows across trust boundaries. As code moves faster, the mental model of a system’s architecture cannot scale. You cannot ask a standard scanner to secure a system that is evolving faster than a human can reason about it. Velocity is meaningless if the output just sits in a manual review queue for days. Security requires an independent, model-agnostic lens. You would not let a builder also be the building inspector. In our private beta, we have already uncovered critical vulnerabilities in production environments that standard scanners missed entirely. We will be sharing that research soon. 🛡️ We are also backed by the founders of Stripe, Salesforce, Box, and VMware. These leaders understand that the real bottleneck to shipping is the last mile of oversight. Thank you to Aaron Levie, Patrick Collison, Diane Greene, Jeremy Stoppelman, Matt Huang, Suhail D., Jeffrey Queisser, Josh Stein, Marc Benioff, Dylan Smith, Vivek Gopalan, for helping us get Enclave off the ground. To mark today's launch, Ben Bergman at Business Insider sat down with us to explore why traditional security is broken in the age of AI. Give it a read: https://lnkd.in/dXc77BaG

Forbes just covered our $60M Series C — and we couldn't be more excited 🚀 Rocketlane was featured in Forbes for raising a Series C led by Insight Partners, as enterprises move from AI experimentation into the Outcome era, where PS teams are at the center of delivering real results. We're especially grateful for the recognition because it reflects exactly what we've been building toward: an agentic platform that helps PS teams stop tracking work and start doing it. A huge thank you to our customers, our team, and Insight Partners for making this possible. ♥️ And if you haven't seen how we announced it — go check out the song we released on our page 🎤 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gMPBnDTB

Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that Glimpse has raised a $35M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with continued participation from 8VC & Y Combinator bringing our total raised to $52M. From inception, our founders, Akash Raju, Anuj Mehta, and Kushal Negi set out to provide brands with real operating leverage using AI - turning manual & inefficient back office workflows into sources of recovered revenue into the P&L & true retail intelligence. Today, we handle critical retail finance workflows like deductions management, revenue recovery, cash application, and trade analytics for over 200+ brands & partners including Suave Brands Company, Q-Tip, PLTFRM, BERO, and more. Thank you to all of our customers who have allowed us to support their retail growth and to all of our partners for supporting our journey. We’re just getting started.

AI is reshaping how legal work gets done, but most law firms still can't answer basic questions: What does our work actually cost? Where are our best people spending time? Are we pricing this right? The practice of law gets the headlines. The business of law is where the leverage is. PointOne is the intelligence layer that fixes that. The platform automates timekeeping, billing compliance, and firm intelligence, so lawyers stop leaving money on the table and firms actually understand their own business. As clients push for fixed fees, caps, and transparency, that foundation becomes critical. And the same model applies well beyond law: accounting, consulting, any industry where billable hours drive revenue. We're proud to double down from seed and lead their Series A. Congratulations Katon Luaces, Jeremy Ben-Meir, and team. https://lnkd.in/gqct8g-V

Proud to have invested at seed and renew our commitment as Series A leads!

Ontologies were the unsung heroes of the Smart Enterprise wave, mapping the countless intricacies that underpin effective workflows—and ultimately giving models the context to reason from unstructured data. Now, a new challenge has emerged: how to translate the hard-won operational knowledge of an enterprise into clear instructions for agents executing increasingly complex tasks. Co-founded by Palantir AIP leads Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis, Edra distills the exhaust of daily work into living playbooks for agentic resolution. Today, Edra announced their Series A. In our latest blog, Alex Kolicich, Bela Becerra, and Vivek Gopalan explain why we led the seed, why we renewed our commitment, and why Edra is poised to create one of the most valuable assets of the era of intelligent systems: https://lnkd.in/gZf29gjS

A vibrant design culture is one of the strongest accelerants for an early-stage company. It's a magnet for customers, investors, and top talent across functions. It's also in short supply. Among the "unfair advantages" we give our companies, 8VC's Design Lab is one of the foremost, and our Head of Design, Luke Bugbee, has helmed this effort for nearly a decade. Luke sat down with Studio Everywhere to explain how the magic is made. CC: Deny Khoung Luke Zane Evan Pun

The desire for fine goods launched the Age of Exploration. Centuries later, Quince pioneered new supply chains to make affordable luxury not only real, but ubiquitous. Today, Quince’s announced their Series E fundraise, at a $10B valuation. To mark the occasion, Alex Kolicich and Drew Oetting shared the untold story of how 8VC became Quince's first investor, and why we've never been more bullish: https://lnkd.in/g8F88PKE

U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe G. recently joined 8VC PixelEight to share how the National Design Studio is revolutionizing the US Gov web experience for millions of users. We rounded out the evening revisiting retro games as a treasury of design inspiration. If you want to attend future design community events with difference-makers like Joe G. (as well some of your most talented fellow designers), sign up here: https://t.co/dIP1RiipJJ