Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99% accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99% quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

📣 We just raised our $45M Series B from @TCVTech and @firstharmonic, with participation from @BainCapVC, @firstround, and @AlkeonCapital. Sales is the most expensive function in most companies — and one of the hardest. Hundreds of accounts, different context, different stakeholders, different dynamics, and a different path to close. No one can do that perfectly. Critical things get missed. So we gave every account its own AI agent — working 24/7, maintaining full context, progressing it through the funnel, and guiding reps and leaders on what to do next. The greatest privilege has been building alongside companies like @Samsara @tryramp @ironclad_inc and @attentiveHQ — enterprises with thousands of sellers who are already living in the future. There are only two unbounded upside problems out there: building and selling. Every company sells. and @useactively is building the system they'll all run on. We’re excited to pull every revenue team into the future we know is inevitable.

We just raised a $45M Series B at a $500M valuation led by @a16z and @SalesforceVC to build the knowledge infrastructure for AI

EXCLUSIVE: startup Simple AI has raised $14M to help customers like Omaha Steaks boost sales with AI phone reps. Is AI ushering in a voice revival? We talked to founders @catheryn_li and @Zach_Kamran -- both former YC staffers -- about what's going on. upstartsmedia.com/p/simple-a…

Announcing Artie’s $12M Series A. When Robin Tang and I started Artie, the idea was simple: make it easy to deploy real-time streaming pipelines. Streaming pipelines used to be something only a few companies could afford to build. Guaranteeing transactional integrity, handling schema evolution, recovering from failures, and keeping latency low at scale is hard. Most teams limp along with brittle systems. But today, with AI systems that make decisions, trigger workflows, and interact with customers, stale data isn’t just slow - it’s incorrect. Real-time data is becoming non-negotiable. Today, companies like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, are processing 700B rows of data annually with Artie to power AI/ML workloads, customer-facing analytics, and operational systems. @artie_labs is a fully managed real-time data streaming platform. We move data across systems in real time - so teams can rely on fresh, accurate data to power AI products - without building or maintaining streaming infrastructure. We raised this round to double down on a simple belief: the next generation of data infrastructure will be streaming-first. Huge thank you to @daltonc and @Standard_Cap for leading the round, with continued support from @ycombinator, @PathlightVC, and incredible angels including @arashf, @bennstancil, @chrisbest, @charleshearn, and @lennysan. I also want to thank our team, customers, and partners for supporting our mission. And thank you to Chris Metinko and @axios for capturing the exclusive story. P.S. - If you want the same streaming infrastructure that Netflix and DoorDash have, but want to skip the multi-year build - reach out.

agents meet optimizations @joshpxyne

If we ever get an office I hope it vibes like this

I get asked a lot what it was like to work with Steve Jobs. Probably the biggest thing I learned is that there is no "good enough" when it comes to the basics: communicating, motivating, and most importantly, thinking. Steve was obsessed with the quality of his own thinking. He was able to generate a mental map of a problem space faster and more deftly than anyone I've known because he worked at it. Over the course of a career, that skill compounds more than anything else. Thanks for the conversation @jaltma

I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and then Sam at YC. He’s advised some of the best founders through his work at YC Continuity and now his own fund First Harmonic. I love talking to Ali and always learn something new. Hope you enjoy.

I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and then Sam at YC. He’s advised some of the best founders through his work at YC Continuity and now his own fund First Harmonic. I love talking to Ali and always learn something new. Hope you enjoy.

Excited to share that we’ve raised a $40M Series B at @unifygtm to transform growth into a science. Many of the fastest growing companies like Cursor, Perplexity, Flock Safety and Airwallex choose Unify to reimagine growth in an AI-native world. This round comes just 9 months after announcing our Series A, and was led by Battery with participation from OpenAI, Thrive and Emergence 👇