Acrew Capital retweeted
We raised $25M to make local government software that works.
Big thanks to our Series A leads, @lachygroom & @AcrewCapital, to @operatorpartner & @CooleyLLP for joining. Thank you to @contrary, @generalcatalyst, @ScribbleVC, & @BasisSet for the support.
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Proud to be named to TIME’s 2026 list of America’s Top Venture Capital Firms, in great company alongside many firms we respect and coinvest with frequently! @AcrewCapital
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"In the Series A, the Sequoia rejection included a line about how inspiring it was that I had two little kids at home while I was pitching them."
-- @Get_Writer CEO May Habib (@may_habib) with some real talk on being a working mom in Silicon Valley 👀
"Everybody wants to hear you say that there is nothing more important to you than being a billionaire," she says. "And the reality is, my kids are more important than that."
Now, when investors ask Habib about her family, her instinct is to stress that her in-laws take care of the kids, while she works 90 hours a week.
"It's sad that's the instinct. At the same time, I know that if I weren't working that hard, if our whole team weren't working that hard, it would have been much harder to get to where we are today."
Catch the full interview on The Upstarts Podcast, presented by @Rippling 👇
"Survive. Don't sell. Don't quit."
@Get_Writer CEO May Habib (@may_habib) has lived this mantra through a pivot, casual VC bias, and living in the shadow of the buzzier, brasher AI labs.
"Anthropic and OpenAI salespeople walk in like heroes, get a contract, and leave to literally never be seen again,” she says.
She's built Writer into a $1.9B valued business with customers like Accenture, Cigna and Vanguard anyway, by focusing on old-fashioned ROI, and AI tools built for "normal" people: non-coders who she argues are otherwise in danger of getting left behind.
On this can't-miss episode of The Upstarts Podcast, Habib isn't pulling any punches 🥊
We talk tokenomics "insanity," and why she believes more accountability is needed In AI spending: "People should be getting f***ing fired."
We also cover her pivot from Qordoba to Writer, and why Writer trains its own models, but doesn't want to be a lab.
And she calls out as venture capital's ongoing gender bias -- including one famous firm that wrote that her mom status was "inspiring" while they passed 👀
This season is presented by @Rippling 🫡
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
1:55 How Writer helps ‘normal’ people
9:31 The temperature in the C-suite around AI
16:56 The killer use case for Writer’s tools
21:16 Pivoting from Qordoba to Writer
22:31 Vinod Khosla, Sequoia, and bias in VC
27:43 ‘Survive, don’t sell, don’t quit’
30:33 Why Writer trains models, but isn’t a lab
33:38 Anthropic, OpenAI and how Writer can compete
40:52 Why people should be fired for buying AI badly
Enjoy!
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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, @profound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust.
Our platform typically pays for itself in month one.
Book a demo to learn more.
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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
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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!
@aliisarosenthal is an N of 1.
First commercial hire + Head of Sales at @OpenAI , helped scale from research lab to $10B in revenue.
Thrilled to welcome her as @AcrewCapital's newest GP. Founders, you just got the playbook. 🚀
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
Really glad to do this with you @henrythe9ths (@AcrewCapital)
Awesome to host another intimate AI Founder Dinner with @VishalLugani, @LaurenKolodny and @tgr from @AcrewCapital ($1.5B+ AUM) at Via Aurelia — joined by some of the sharpest builders, researchers, and founders pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
In the room:
- Fast growing Lean AI startups scaling to $50M+ ARR in 5 months
– Founders of breakout companies who just raised $100M+
– Top Researchers from frontier labs like Anthropic
– Multiple repeat founders and operators scaling real AI revenue today — not just raising rounds
The conversations ranged from:
→ Agent frameworks and emergent behaviors
→ Why lean AI startups might outpace traditional teams
→ AI x fintech, healthcare, education, vertical SaaS and more
Lesson for founders:
AI-native companies are no longer theoretical. They’re shipping. They’re scaling. And they’re already generating 8+ figures in revenue.
👇 If you're building in AI, I’m tracking the fastest-growing Lean AI-native startups every week:
Share + follow for more future private events.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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.
ALT $38M inception round notice from keycard.ai led by a16z, Acrew, and boldstart with support frrom Essence, TapestryVC, mtf.vc, Mantis, Exceptional Captial, and Vermillion Cliffs.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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!
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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
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.@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! 🚀
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One of the most painful financial experiences for most humans is also incredibly overlooked: settling an estate after losing a loved one. 💸💔
It’s slow, bureaucratic and confusing. And it comes at one of life’s most painful moments.
It’s also one of the biggest opportunities for AI to create real, human impact.
That’s why we’re proud to lead the $20M Series A in @letalixdoit— the first and only AI driven estate settlement platform.
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Led by the extraordinary @AlexandraMysoor and @htamassia, Alix is setting the bar for a new wave of consumer fintech where AI-native companies, powered by technology that’s finally good enough, can solve meaningful and complex financial pain for everyday people.
Welcome to the Crew, @letalixdoit.
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Acrew Capital retweeted
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.
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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
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