Today @usemonk is announcing our $25M Series A co-led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital with continued support from @btv_vc. $3T sits in U.S. accounts receivable. Our mission is to close the gap between earning revenue and receiving it. For most B2B companies, that gap is 45-90 days, thousands of hours of manual work per year, and millions in trapped working capital. It's a tax every growing business pays. Monk invented the Intelligent Collections category. Most AR tools automate the easy parts. We built for the edge cases, portal uploads, PO mismatches, and disputes. On average, customers see 40% lower DSO, 24% higher collections response rate and 25 hours/month saved. Thank you to @ElevenLabs, @tryprofound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust. Our platform typically pays for itself in month one. Book a demo to learn more.

Guild.ai has raised a Series A to build the neutral control plane for AI agents. Universal by design. Guild is neutral toward models, vendors, and frameworks. Guild turns agents into shared production infrastructure, with a managed software center for trusted agent capabilities, and an agent hub for discovering and sharing agents. Read the full announcement: guild.ai/knowledge/guild.ai-… Our new site is live: guild.ai

Crew News! Our newest General Partner was the Head of Sales at OpenAI. She's bringing that wisdom to our founders -- along with a low ego and hard built empathy for what it takes to build a great business. Welcome, @aliisarosenthal!

Big news for me: I’m joining @AcrewCapital as a GP. At @OpenAI, I helped deploy a world-changing technology and had a front-row seat as companies tried to figure out what to actually do with it. I'm excited to share with AI founders everything I learned along the way.

Really glad to do this with you @henrythe9ths (@AcrewCapital)

Exclusive: Keycard, a new startup looking to secure AI agents for developers, has launched out of stealth with $38M from a16z, boldstart and others. Repeat entrepreneur and CEO Ian Livingstone (@ianlivingstone) says he's addressing the "missing pillar" in building with agents.

We’re thrilled to announce that Keycard has raised a combined financing round of $38M, led by @a16z, @AcrewCapital, and @Boldstartvc, to enable everyone to build, control, and adopt trusted AI agents in production. We’re defining the next-generation of identity and access, for the agentic era. 🧵 Full announcement below.

AI won’t just change what we discover in pharma, it’ll change how we make it. Biomanufacturing remains one of the most under-optimized layers of the pharma value chain: ⚙️ Tech transfer takes 12 months 💸 Batch failures cost millions 🏭 $120B spent annually on biologics manufacturing With rising margin pressure, geopolitical decoupling, and a pipeline dominated by complex biologics, we believe AI-native platforms that can: → predict batch failures, → simulate scale-up, and → optimize runs in real time ...will define the next generation of infrastructure companies in pharma. All of these changes will help define the next generation of manufacturing in pharma We break this down in our latest post: Biomanufacturing In An AI-Native World. Linked in thread! If you’re building in tech transfer, process optimization, or applied AI for biologics, reach out at kp@acrewcapital.com @AcrewCapital

Finally, I get to share this with the world! Cash flow keeps business owners up at night. That’s why I couldn’t be more excited about this launch. Today, we’re introducing 🔥 Gusto Money 🔥 —a suite of tools that gives small businesses the clearest view of their finances yet. We also unveiled: - Instant Pay for 24/7 payroll - Level-funded health plans that save ~20% - Gusto HR Partners for on-demand HR expertise - Payroll Hub to help accountants work faster This Showcase goes beyond features—it’s about giving small businesses control and confidence.

I’m excited to share @Guideline401k is joining @GustoHQ! (pending regulatory approvals) @kevinbusque team have helped 1M people save for retirement by putting customers first. Together, we’re excited to bring incredible retirement benefits to small businesses!

Today on The Information’s TITV: - @BobbySamuels, CEO at Protege and @nbt, General Partner at @footworkvc, discuss how the AI boom is fueling the demand for high-quality data. - Our reporter @Yueqi_Yang talks about Solana setting its sights on Wall Street. - @LaurenKolodny, Founding Partner at @AcrewCapital, discusses what’s next for fintech investing. 📺 Tune in at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET on bit.ly/4fQdKsT

It shouldn’t take 6 months and 5 vendors to make sense of your data. @definiteapp raised $10M to give you an AI-native data platform in an afternoon. Why does it normally take so long? Because the modern data stack is split across three heavyweight products: 1. Data Warehouse: a place to store all your data 2. ETL: pipelines to get data into your warehouse 3. BI: a place to build reports & dashboards Each of these comes from a different vendor, each with its own price tag and complexity. On top of that, you need data engineers and analysts to stitch them together and keep the system running. Let’s look at one of our customers, a b2b SaaS that raised $20M. Their current tech stack looks like many of our customers: * Postgres for their application database * Hubspot for CRM * Stripe for payments * A slew of other sources (customer success platform, Google Sheets, and event data) They wanted the same thing every company wants: a single source of truth for how the business is performing. Traditionally, this is done with dashboards. Their plan was to hire a few data people, buy a bunch of tools (Snowflake, Tableau and Fivetran) and hope for the best. Six months and a lot of pain later, maybe they’d have a few dashboards. Fortunately, they tried Definite one morning and by that afternoon their key metrics were live. How do we do it? Definite ships a full data stack (warehouse pipelines metrics & reports) in a single app. We’re built on the best open source infrastructure in the market with an AI agent that’s eager to make sense of your data. Instead of hiring, buying, stitching, and waiting; you have the answers you need in minutes running on a data stack that scales. And it's just a chat away. A huge thank you to our partners at @costanoavc (@JohnCowgill) and @AcrewCapital (@asadkhaliq), to our incredible team, and to our early design partners who have helped shape the product. And we’re hiring. If you’re a high-agency builder who wants to help reinvent analytics for thousands of operators, let’s talk —> mike@definite.app

.@TrustVanta just raised a $150M Series D. With @christinacaci at the helm, they're helping over 12,000 companies scale security and GRC the way they same way they scale software. Congrats to the team! 🚀

Today, we’re announcing @TrustVanta's Series D and new valuation – $4.15 billion – led by @Wellington_Mgmt alongside @sequoia, @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @GoldmanSachs, @jpmorgan, @craft_ventures, and @Atlassian. Vanta’s mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.

We’re thrilled to announce that @coinmetrics has agreed to be acquired by @talostrading, the premier provider of institutional trading and portfolio technology for digital assets. This strategic combination will create the first fully integrated institutional platform that unifies trusted market data with best-in-class execution and portfolio management. Institutions will benefit from seamlessly integrated workflows and deeper insights across the investment lifecycle. ➡️ Read the announcement coinmetrics.io/company-news/… 🎙️“Joining forces with Talos represents an exciting next chapter for Coin Metrics. Our combined expertise will deliver the industry's most powerful integrated platform for institutions to operate in the digital asset economy.” – @TimRiceCM, CEO and Co-Founder of Coin Metrics. 🎙️ “Coin Metrics’ dedication to accuracy aligns with our mission of providing institutions the most trusted and comprehensive infrastructure to trade and manage digital assets.” – @KatzAnton, CEO & Co-Founder of Talos Interested in learning more about Coin Metrics’ and Talos’s products? Reach out to sales@coinmetrics.io

Cato has raised $359M in its latest funding round, at a valuation of more than $4.8B. This investment builds on a decade of SASE leadership—backed by consistent growth, over 3,500 enterprise customers, and innovation in SASE and AI security. 🔗 bit.ly/466y2eT