We're excited to back @andocorporation's $20M Seed as @saradu and her team work to reinvent team messaging as agents increasingly work alongside humans. Ando rebuilds the experience from scratch: agents as first-class teammates, not bots bolted on.

Is the old cybersecurity model breaking? Our partner @shardul_shah joined @RebeccaBellan on @TechCrunch’s Equity podcast to discuss the permanent, resilient need for cybersecurity, and how enterprises should be thinking about it in the AI era.

Today I'm excited to share that @usefootprint has raised a $25M Series B, bringing our total funding to $45M. Financial institutions are in an arms race with cartels and oligarchs. The movement of illicit money globally has grown by $1.3 trillion since 2023, now sitting at $4.4 trillion. And bad actors have taken full advantage of AI’s capabilities: generating fake identities and shell companies faster than any team can manually review. Yet, the work to combat financial crimes is still being done the old way - risk teams sifting through spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected tools one case at a time. AI lets us reimagine this sector. We're solving for this at @usefootprint by focusing on two things: time and memory. → Time: Percy runs your compliance program end-to-end in 1/10th the time, so your institution has extra eyes on every case, and your human analysts dedicate their time to the ones that truly matter. → Memory: Trust Fabric makes sure the grey area is removed and learnings are universal so your team (whether 5 or 500 people) catches more true positives and identifies fraud rings before they form. With this raise, we're doubling down on the thesis that risk operations will be re-envisioned for the AI-native era. As AI increases financial crime in the global economy, we're building the defense system that can expand to meet and defeat it. We're honored @QEDInvestors doubled down on their conviction, leading our Series B two years after leading our Series A. The same goes for those who have invested since day one: @lererhippeau, @indexventures, @BoxGroup, Operator Partners, Definition, and @animalcapitalco. And for new investors @am_mufg_jp, @commercevc, @lightbank, and @alumniventures. To the Footprint team: this company would be nowhere without your belief in building a digital world full of trust. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being on this journey with us. To our customers: thank you for trusting us with your most important decisions. Your partnership is helping us build a better future for financial crime compliance. Full story on our blog:

Two years ago, Chris Ellis and Adam Stevenson sold us on their vision of replacing one-size-fits all group plans with individual health budgets. With 5K+ employers now using @thatch_ai, we’re excited to partner again as they announce their $108M Series C!

We've raised €20M led by @IndexVentures, joined by @villigm (Bolt), @danieldines (UiPath) and @tom_okman (Nord Security). @nomosenergy is a full-stack power company. We connect home batteries, EVs, heat pumps and solar to the energy market, providing flexibility to Europe's electricity system. We run the energy business of category-leading OEMs and asset installers to lower household electricity costs, balance the grid and restore Europe's competitiveness. Because Europe's energy is Europe's power. Power to you.

Europe doesn't have an energy shortage. It has a coordination problem. Millions of homes generate and store power that mostly sits idle. We're proud to lead @nomosenergy's €20M round – backing the team building the operating system for Europe's energy transition, one home at a time.

Mistral was just getting started when we made our first check three and a half years ago. Today we're proud to back Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample & Timothée Lacroix again. The best is yet to come 🧵👇

You know it’s good when you invest four times in just over a year! We’re excited to partner with Bar Winkler and Roey Lalazar again as @wonderful_ai announces its $550M Series C to scale the AI operating system for the enterprise.

Just one day after setting up Revel, an intern at @OrbitalOps_ was already using it to independently run 40 hot-fires. Orbital Operations is developing a high-delta-V, high-thrust rocket vehicle around a first-of-its-kind cryogenic propellant management system to unlock rapid mobility across LEO, GEO, and beyond. Fresh out of @ycombinator Combinator W25, their small team—half of them interns—needed test software that could move as fast as they did. Before Revel, Orbital Ops had never run a test. They had no data recording, no automated sequencing, and no software team to build either. With Revel, they now: • Run dozens of tests in a day • Give interns ownership of entire engine subsystems • Operate five-plus test cells daily, up from a single test cart All without a single software hire. Thanks to @BenSchleuniger, Ross Doherty, @nicosuave9, Dane Patten, @stefan_salaices, and the rest of the Orbital Ops team for the partnership. Link to the full case study in the replies.

Today, @ArtificialAnlys announced their new Search Index, ranking leading web search APIs across quality, speed, and cost. On an equal-weighted mean of DeepSearchQA F1, BrowseComp accuracy, and AA-Omniscience accuracy, Parallel is ranked #1#.

.@inherent_labs just introduced Faraday, a 27B AI scientist that combines frontier coding agents with a trained layer of scientific intuition. The idea behind Faraday is that scientific discovery is a creative endeavor. There isn’t always a fixed objective to optimize for; progress depends on knowing which questions to ask and what to try next. Read and download the full report, or catch the highlights below 👇

We're partnering with @SlushHQ, @Anthropic, and @Siftedeu on Slush’s 20 Under 20 — 20 young builders, flights + accommodation covered, this November in Helsinki. Know someone under 20 worth sending? Nominate by Sept 7:

Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a universal interface for accessing and evaluating the world's AI capabilities. Most evaluations try to simulate the real-world. We believe the real-world is the ultimate verifier. People come to @DesignArena with a request. Models compete to fulfill the request, and users determine what works best for them. Their live user behavior evaluates the models, improves how work is routed, and helps people access the right intelligence. We've helped the world's leading frontier labs break the news on their SOTA capabilities. What's the limit? Join us and find out.

Five months ago, we launched @simile_ai with the belief that simulation would become a new way for the world to make decisions. Today, that belief feels less like a thesis and more like the beginning of a new category. Incredibly proud of my team. We are just getting started.

Exclusive: Inside $3.8B @chaidiscovery After leaving OpenAI & Stripe, co-founders Josh Meier (@joshim5) and Jack Dent (@jackdent) built a pioneering AI drug design model called Chai-1. Now? Their models are used by giants like Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Novartis. Their models design antibodies in hours, not years - with atomic-level accuracy confirmed in the lab. If they're right, we're closer than ever to curing complex diseases. We went to San Francisco to find out. They've raised $600M + from @saranormous @lachygroom @FEhrsam @ThriveCapital @sequoia @generalcatalyst @OpenAI @MenloVentures @IndexVentures @kleinerperkins + more. 0:00 AI drug design - how is it possible? 1:32 Josh: Leaving OpenAI for biology 2:34 90% of drugs used to fail 3:24 An outside scientist's honest take 4:40 Chai-3: Drug design in hours not years 5:30 Why Eli Lilly bet on Chai 6:20 When will this reach patients? 8:56 A hopeful future: Alzheimer's & aging

We’re thrilled to lead @simile_ai's $100M Series A! By building digital twins of real people grounded in real interviews and real data, we believe they’re creating the foundational infrastructure for decision-making in an AI-native world.

Some founders you meet, and it doesn’t matter what they’re building. You just know you want to be part of it. We’re thrilled to co-lead this investment in @FlappyAirplanes, and to welcome Ben Spector, Asher Spector, Aidan Smith and their team into the Index family.

Congrats, @temporalio! We're proud to back the company in its $146M Series C. Temporal's redefining durable execution, powering mission-critical & AI-driven workloads for teams at Snap, Netflix, Datadog & more.