David Ongchoco

@akkkkiira @ArgaLabs @jtaylor This is cool!

Introducing @ArgaLabs' newest feature: red-team your agent, hosted on any software, autonomously. We built infrastructure that enables us to recreate a behavioural clone of any app, aka Digital Twin (inspired by @jtaylor), extremely fast. Here’s an example of Arga testing newly-added guardrails to a bot in our Discord digital twin. The clones have full official API/SDK support, are fully functional, and you can directly preview your changes on the Arga website. We also support red-teaming on your app — where we spawn a swarm of agents into your app, hosted in our remote sandboxes. Our agents understands your program by gathering external context (we support almost every mainstream platform out there) to generate user stories, and they click through like real users to uncover unexpected behaviour. Let our agents find bugs, because you were never meant to be QA for AI.

@timthwang @NitraFinance Let’s go team Nitra 🚀🚀🚀

Today we’re announcing that @NitraFinance has raised a combined $187 million in financing as we build the AI-native operating system for healthcare practices. We're also announcing that Dr. Richard Park, founder of CityMD and healthcare legend, will be joining Nitra’s Board.

@khookhar Congrats on the raise! Lets go 🚀

My mom passed away from breast cancer when I was 14 years old. What I remember most is how much work it was just to be sick. Referrals were made and forgotten, every new doctor meant starting over, and my family was left to fill in the gaps because the healthcare system never carried that weight for us. I started Amigo because there are too many stories like mine. We build, train, and deploy AI agents that can safely deliver care across clinical use cases such as intake and triage, chronic care management, and 24/7 virtual care. AI is transforming every industry it touches, but healthcare has a higher bar. There's no room for errors or hallucinations, and definitely no second chances with patient lives. That's the problem no one in this space has solved. We asked ourselves “how do you make AI safe enough to deliver care?” The answer was obvious: clinical agents need to be trained the same way we train doctors. So we pioneered the industry's first Digital Residency program, training every AI agent against millions of simulated patient cases until they reach a 100% safety pass rate. And it’s working. In just the last six months, Amigo agents have completed over 3 million patient encounters around the world with zero safety incidents. I'm proud to announce that Amigo has raised $17M to make healthcare work for everyone, including our $11M Series A led by Madrona with participation from Optum Ventures, General Catalyst, and GSV Ventures. We have a real chance to build something better together. For healthcare organizations thinking about how AI can safely expand the reach of their care teams, I'd love to talk.

I'm building open source AI apps on @ValyuOfficial for the industries that haven't had their Cursor moment yet. First up: automotive. Research agent that pulls patents, SEC filings, academic papers then generates reports and deliverables. No more $50k consulting invoices.

A lot of unexpected things have happened this month @ValyuOfficial.... 1/ Open-source apps built on our Search and Deepresearch APIs went viral on Reddit and X. Millions of impressions, thousands of signups - the OSINT community, financial analysts, researchers, consultants. 2/ The US Air Force Academy and other leading university faculties started using our tools in coursework. We found out organically. 3/ At events, more and more people come up to us because they've seen our posts. The bottom-up growth is real.

@jai_mansukhanii @generalmagic_ai Congrats on the raise and new chapter!!!

We just raised $7.2M USD to make insurance feel magical. Nobody has ever said "my insurer was so easy to deal with." We're changing that. @generalmagic_ai builds AI agents that text your customers and complete insurance workflows end to end. 30 minute quotes now take 3.

FLORA is up on the Nasdaq billboard in NYC Times Square today. Cool to see this recognition, but we're just getting started - it's only been 2 years since we started FLORA out of an art & tech grad program called NYU ITP (and only 1 year since I dropped out to focus on FLORA full-time). Excited for the hard work ahead of us - we're just getting started in our mission to make creatives more powerful.

Every computing era needs its own creative interface. Adobe defined it for personal computing. Generative computing doesn't have one yet. We're building it at FLORA.

LM Studio can now connect to Claude Code! Use your GGUF and MLX models locally, privately, and for free. Works in the terminal and in VS Code 🚀👾

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/nod…

Congrats to the @floraai team!! Proud to be early supporters in them.

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟮𝟬 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝟭𝟲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 In December, we launched Grep, an AI agent for business due diligence, as a research preview. Within two weeks, hundreds of people were using it in underwriting, maritime law, logistics, oil and gas, crypto, sales and marketing and much more. Today, we're launching the next version with 20 AI experts across 16 industries to help you carry out deep research and get serious work done. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗽 Most people are still stuck with AI that doesn't help them get work done. Chatbots that aren't specialized in their domain or vertical agents built for 2024's models—rigid workflows that break easily. Meanwhile, software engineers using Claude Code or Cursor are shipping 10x faster because those tools figured out what actually works. Modern coding agents load up the right context. Then get to work on your objective. That's what Grep does too. You give it an objective—"research this company to verify it is legitimate," "analyze this market and identify potential leads," "tell me who previously owned this vessel," "evaluate this vendor's compliance risk," "carry out a background check on this employee." Grep picks the right Expert and starts investigating across 50+ specialized sources, including corporate registries, court records, financial filings, sanctions databases, shipping data, academic journals and much more. This deep research provides the context to help you complete your task. Then you dig deeper. Ask follow-ups. Probe specific angles. The expert already has all the skills and integrations to help you get work done. But work doesn't end with research. Grep helps you turn that research into docs, decks, slides, reports, and even code. The context carries through, so the AI Expert can help you execute, not just inform. We're pretty excited about Grep and would love your feedback, especially if you are an early adopter of AI in your domain but aren't satisfied with your existing workflows. If you want to try Grep, join the waitlist at grep.ai - we'll be starting with a small group of beta users and expanding as we make our AI Experts even better with user feedback. P.S. Huge thanks to @awesomic for the launch video 🎬

Only the paranoid survive. This is what keeps me up at night but also what makes this infinite game so fun.

@forwarddeploy Good stuff

🤝 2026 is shaping up to be the year of acquisitions and acquihires The wave has already started and it’s accelerating. Having been on both sides of the table (as both acquired and acquirer), I’ve been helping founders and portfolio companies navigate processes and get in front of the right buyers over the past few weeks. Key rule: discretion matters Timing, positioning, and signal control make all the difference. If you’re a founder thinking about an exit and want to chat privately or get connected to prospective buyers, my DMs are open! Fellow angels, happy to support you and your portcos as well!

@bonatsos @generalcatalyst Thank you for being an inspiration to so many young folks including myself back when we were first getting started with Comma! The story of how you found Snapchat to be one of the first investors is still one of my favorite ones! 🫡

After 15 wonderful years @generalcatalyst I am moving on to new adventures. The best days for GC are ahead! Super grateful to every single one of my teammates that I had the fortune to work with over the years. I learned a lot. Very thankful to our limited partners too for their long-term support. Equally importantly, it's been the privilege of a lifetime to work with so many inspiring tech startup founders from the very early days.