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Nozomio has raised a $6.2M seed round to help developers give the right context to their AI agents through indexing millions of documents like codebases, docs, and more. Founded by Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, who dropped out of high school in Kazakhstan to join YC, Nozomio is building Nia, a context augmentation layer that helps coding agents gain the right context, boosting performance by 30%+. The round was led by CRV, BoxGroup, and LocalGlobe, with participation from Y Combinator, 20VC Product, and angels including Paul Graham, Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Gustav Söderström (Co-president of Spotify), and more. We’re excited to see what’s next for Nozomio as they push toward superhuman code intelligence. Congrats to Arlan and Nozomio on the round! https://lnkd.in/gWuYzNZc

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ICYMI: Last week at #MongoDBlocal New York, we announced a new integration with CrewAI! 🚀 CrewAI, the open-source framework for building and orchestrating AI agents, now integrates with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search. This new integration makes it simpler for you to design agents that collaborate, delegate, and scale complex workflows like research, analysis, and report writing. Learn how to implement agentic RAG at scale with MongoDB Atlas and CrewAI: https://lnkd.in/g7yvtdCj

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Myridius & Ramesh Ramani are featured in Houlihan Lokey's latest report, From Code to Creation: How AI Is Reshaping Digital Engineering. They dive into how AI is powering smarter low-code/no-code platforms, giving real-time recommendations, and helping companies make faster, data-driven decisions. Plus, they reveal Also, learn why industry expertise and intellectual property are more critical than ever—even as AI takes over routine coding tasks. Explore the full report to see how AI is influencing modern digital engineering practices ▶ https://hubs.li/Q03MXZFG0 #AI #DigitalEngineering #GenAI #LowCode #Myridius #Ramesh #HoulihanLokey #TechInsights #Myridian

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Aurva, the first unified platform for access monitoring and AI observability, has officially launched out of stealth with $2.2 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from DeVC and industry leaders including former Meta executives Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan, and Postman founders Ankit Sobti and Abhinav Asthana. Founded by former Meta engineers Apurv Garg (CEO) and Krishna Bagadia (CTO), Aurva brings real-time observability to AI usage, directly tied to data access and flows. “Enterprises must rethink how they monitor sensitive data usage in real time across humans, services, and AI agents. We built Aurva to bring observability to AI usage and connect it directly to data access and flows,” said Garg. Their approach is inspired by Hipster, Meta’s internal data access control platform, but reimagined for modern enterprise AI workloads. Aurva already monitors billions of transactions daily across fintech, SaaS, and banking, serving clients like Razorpay and Meesho. “Aurva gives us real-time, identity-aware visibility into data access, helping us prevent unauthorized use and privilege escalation while meeting regulatory guidelines,” said Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security at Razorpay. The platform leverages eBPF technology to provide low-overhead, real-time monitoring, a step beyond legacy database monitoring tools. “Aurva’s team has proven they can build at scale, and they are bringing a robust enterprise-grade solution to market at the right time,” said Jishnu B., Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. Chris Bream, former Security Executive at Meta, added, “Aurva is redefining what access monitoring should mean in an era of autonomous agents and service-based access by tying activity back to real identities.” With this funding, Aurva plans to expand its engineering team, deepen AI observability, and scale globally.

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Clay Raises $100M Series C to Redefine GTM Engineering for the AI Era AI go-to-market (GTM) automation platform Clay has raised $100 million in Series C funding, increasing its valuation to $3.1 billion. This comes just six months after the company expanded its Series B. The round was led by CapitalG, Alphabet International’s independent growth fund, with contributions from Sequoia Capital, Meritech Capital, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, boldstart ventures, and new investor Sapphire Ventures. This latest round brings Clay’s total funding to $204 million. Founded by Kareem Amin (CEO) and Varun Anand (Co-founder), Clay’s platform helps businesses automate large-scale sales and marketing workflows. It combines data from over 150 sources with AI-powered agents to perform tasks like prospect research, outreach personalization, and opportunity discovery. More than 10,000 companies currently use it, including OpenAI, Canva, Intercom, Rippling, and Anthropic. One of Clay’s major contributions to the industry is the creation of the GTM Engineer role. This new job category focuses on designing and managing automated revenue systems. Since the role was introduced two years ago, more than 280 GTM Engineering positions have been listed across tech firms like Cursor, Webflow, Notion, and Lovable. Independent agencies built by GTM engineers have also started generating million-dollar revenues, supported by seven dedicated bootcamps that have already trained over 2,500 professionals. The GTM Engineer profession is becoming a high-demand, high-salary alternative to traditional sales ops, with a median salary of $160,000. This is about 20% more than similar roles. The field does not require a computer science degree, making it an accessible path amid concerns about AI job displacement. Clay’s platform is also enabling innovative AI use cases. For example, it can monitor satellite images to estimate parking lot density for B2B targeting. It can also track competitor brand mentions to trigger outreach campaigns, all within fully automated pipelines. The company expects to generate $50 million in revenue for its data and integration partners by 2025. Its broader ecosystem of 108 partner agencies is driving hundreds of millions in collective revenue. Present in 60 community clubs across 30 countries, Clay is also gaining traction in emerging markets like India and Pakistan. The newly raised capital will help scale the platform, speed up product development, and support the global rollout of GTM Engineering as a scalable, mainstream career path. This funding milestone emphasizes the increasing demand for AI-driven solutions that not only automate work but also create entirely new types of jobs. This shift is changing how businesses view sales, marketing, and technical operations in the AI era.

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🚨Alert: Industry-transforming addition to Presto's Voice AI platform! We’re excited to welcome Michael Chorey, founder of Wendy’s FreshAi, to Presto as Co-Founder and President of Presto IQ— a new dynamic data unit built on Presto’s market-leading Voice AI platform, and in his new role, he’ll supercharge our best-in-class drive-thru Voice AI platform. “I build for the parent in the drive-thru, the crew member on their first shift, and the operator trying to make a thousand decisions. The Presto team is the only one that shares this vision, and I'm excited to bring Presto IQ to market.” — Michael Chorey, Co-Founder of Presto IQ Presto IQ is the first AI-native data offering for QSRs — designed to power real-time personalization across the drive-thru, the kitchen, and the operator dashboard. “In order to deliver AI to restaurants, you need deep restaurant industry experience, and Mike is one of the few leaders in the QSR space who understands the big picture and also how to operationalize it at the ground level.” — Krishna K. Gupta, Co-Founder of Presto Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gDu_gJyS #QSRTech #restaurantoperators #VoiceAI #PrestoIQ

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At our Accelerate offsite, Citadel Securities Technical Fellow Herb Sutter sat down with Bjarne Stroustrup, known for designing and implementing the C++ language. They discussed the development of C++, and Bjarne offered career advice for junior developers looking to improve their skills. Watch the full conversation: https://bit.ly/47r96iQ

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Our CEO Aaron Katz sat down with SiliconANGLE & theCUBE at the NYSE to discuss ClickHouse's journey from open source project to powering companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Tesla for observability and real-time analytics. Key insights from the conversation: ⚖️ The open source balance: Why striking the right mix between community contribution and monetization "is not for the faint of heart" 🚀 Developer-first growth: How following the Datadog playbook of self-service led to 200+ new customers last month alone 📊 Performance transparency: Why ClickHouse maintains public benchmarks (ClickBench) instead of hiding performance data 🔔 Going public philosophy: Aaron's contrarian view on why tech companies should IPO when unit economics are strong ⚡ Real-world scale: Sub-second queries over petabytes of data across fraud detection, security, and observability use cases As an aside, it was also pretty cool to learn that theCUBE uses ClickHouse as well! https://lnkd.in/eY4NYku8

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📣 SoftBank Corp. continues to expand their AI computing platform with their recent deployment of #NVIDIADGX SuperPOD with DGX B200 systems. Their new DGX SuperPOD will serve their LLM development efforts and be a critical resource for other companies and research institutions in Japan. SoftBank’s AI computing platform: ✅ Has over 4,000 #NVIDIABlackwell GPUs installed ✅ Delivers a combined computing capability of 13.7 exaflops ✅ Scaled with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking Learn more now ➡️ https://nvda.ws/45n67Fb

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📊 𝟰𝟴% 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗣𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. At SuperReturn, Anduin’s Paul Ipavec shared why tech is now the deciding factor in fundraising: 🔹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀. LPs choose firms that prove they can scale. 🔹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. Static PDFs won’t cut it—investors expect simplified pre-populated workflows. 🔹 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵. Free your team from manual work so they can build LP trust. The key takeaway: 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱. At Anduin, we’re helping firms future-proof fundraising with smarter technology. How are you preparing for the next wave of LP expectations? #SuperReturn #SRCFO #PrivateEquity 

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Don't miss Lior Gavish, CTO & Co-founder of Monte Carlo, on The AI Agents Podcast with Demetri Panici. 🎧 They discuss the growing need for data + AI observability and reliability in the era of AI, building in-house AI agents, and how to future-proof data reliability as organizations lean into automated workflows at scale. Whether you're a data professional, engineer, or tech leader, this conversation explores practical strategies to build more reliable AI-driven systems. Check out the full episode: https://lnkd.in/eB6MNyhG #AI #Agents #AIAgentsPodcast #datareliability #AIreliability #DevOps

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Botpress (CDL'20), a platform for building and deploying AI agents, has raised $25M in Series B funding. Botpress was founded to address the infrastructure challenges that prevent most companies from moving AI agents into production. While large language models have unlocked new capabilities in reasoning and language understanding, deploying reliable agents still requires significant supporting infrastructure. #BuildSomethingMassive CDL-Montreal https://lnkd.in/g4rYGkMx

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Dallas Innovates highlights RealPage, Inc.’s recent acquisition of Rexera, a California-based AI SaaS company. “Through this strategic acquisition, RealPage is leading the way in delivering innovative AI solutions to create meaningful value for our customers so they can focus on what matters most: serving their customers,” said RealPage CEO & President Dana Jones. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eSK_nDra #RealPage #PropTech #AIinRealEstate #InnovationInAction

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PlayerZero has emerged from stealth with $20M in funding 🎉 Founder Animesh Koratana and team have built the first predictive software quality platform to solve code quality issues with applied AI. "PlayerZero’s unique ability to automate debugging and predict problems before they happen represents a category-defining opportunity. Their impressive early traction and technical execution convinced us this team can capture significant market share in the rapidly expanding AI developer tools landscape.” -Ashu Garg, General Partner PlayerZero’s new platform CodeSim simulates how code will behave before it’s deployed so teams can catch problems before they reach customers, and is already running in production at companies like Zuora, Georgia Pacific, and Nylas. 📄 Learn more about PlayerZero’s launch: https://lnkd.in/e_w_SD9S

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Devin writes 25% of total code volume at Hamming AI, a fast-moving startup that builds voice agent testing infrastructure. We sat down with CEO Sumanyu Sharma to talk about their approach to making tasks “Devinable”. Hamming’s top tips: 1. Well-bounded tasks + clear specs + objective evals = success 2. Use Devin as a scout to explore and try out ideas quickly 3. Favor functional programming patterns over object-oriented because they’re easier for humans and agents to reason about 4. Add plenty of tests to your code to help Devin check and refine its work Check out the full case study here for actionable tips: https://lnkd.in/gsbD25jM

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Quantinuum Eyes $10 Billion Valuation According to Bloomberg News Quantinuum is exploring a new fundraising round that could double its valuation—again—bringing it to an estimated $10 billion. With backing from Honeywell, a $50M commitment from Quanta Computer Inc. 廣達電腦 and NVIDIA in the conversation, this signals a major confidence boost in quantum's commercial potential. Quantinuum's hardware-software approach positions it uniquely in the quantum stack—yet technical and market barriers remain. Still, momentum like this makes one thing clear: quantum is entering a new phase of strategic capital and scaled ambition. More details in our article—link in comments. #QuantumComputing #Quantinuum #DeepTech #QuantumInvestment #TechnologyTrends #TheQuantumInsider

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