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Paraform (@paraformtalent), led by @0xjohnkim and @lijeffrey39, raised $40M Series B from @scalevp, @felicis, @ACapitalLP, and @Liquid2V to make recruiting performance-driven and signal-based.

TheGuarantors (@The_Guarantors), led by Julien Bonneville and Amanjot Khaira, secured growth funding from @warburgpincus to turn rental underwriting into real-time, data-driven infrastructure.

@KjHardrict @TalvyHQ @Link_Ventures The resume died the moment proof of work went public. Portfolios, build history, and collaboration trails tell the real story now. Let’s finish the burial properly.

@DevCuration @TalvyHQ @Link_Ventures Thanks for spreading the message! Let's kill the resume

Talvy (@TalvyHQ) raises $2M Seed from @Link_Ventures. Kelton Hardrict Jr. and @KjHardrict are building video-first professional profiles allowing recruiters to evaluate candidates through short-form introductions instead of static resumes.

100%. The gap between simulated and live environments is where most agent reliability dies. Real-world latency, unpredictable payloads, auth edge cases: none of that shows up in mocks. A true staging mirror isn’t a luxury; it’s the only way to harden agents for production-grade behavior.

@DevCuration @wndrco @sumeetvtweets Staging environments that mirror production are criminally underinvested in. Most teams test agents against mocked APIs and then wonder why everything breaks with real data and real latency. Glad someone is solving this.

Crafting raises $5.5M Seed from Mischief and @wndrco. @sumeetvtweets is building infrastructure that lets developers and AI agents test software in environments that mirror real production systems before deployment.

TransFi (@getTransFi), led by @OneRajkamal, raised $19.2M Series A from Turing Financial Group to compress cross-border payments into minutes and move money at the speed of intent.

Redbud VC (@redbudvc), led by Willy Schlacks, Jabbok Schlacks, and @brettcalhounn, raised a $25M Fund II from University of Missouri Endowment, Jim McKelvey, and @AngelList Fund of Funds to back overlooked founders at the pre-seed stage.

Laminar (@lmnrai), led by Robert Kim and @din_mlb, raised $3M from Atlantic.vc and @ycombinator to build open-source observability for AI agents.

Respan (@RespanAI), led by @Andydy42 and @raymond_huang26, raised $5M from @GradientVC Ventures and @ycombinator to monitor AI systems in production.

Multiply (@multiply_ads), led by @mattjayson and Ashish Warty, raised $9.5M from @MayfieldFund and @SorensonCap to connect media buying directly to revenue signals.

BusRight (@busrightapp), led by @KeithCorso1 and Phillip Dunn, raised $30M from @volitioncapital to modernize school transportation systems.

Tracebit (@tracebit_com), led by Andy Smith and Sam Cox, raised $20M from @FirstMarkCap, @Accel, and MMC Ventures to detect breaches through deception-based security.

Condor Software (@condorbiotech), led by Jennifer Kyle, raised $24M from @insightpartners, @felicis, and @645ventures to unify financial intelligence in life sciences.

Xbow (@Xbow), led by @oegerikus, raised $120M Series C from @dfjgrowth, @northzoneVC, and @AltimeterCap at a $1B+ valuation to automate offensive cybersecurity.

Obin AI, led by @apoorvsaxena1 and Valliappa Lakshmanan, raised $7M from @motive_partners to build an AI-driven workforce for finance.

Beautiful.ai (@BeautifulAI_), led by Jason Lapp and Mitch Grasso, raised $45M from @generalcatalyst to scale AI-powered presentation software.

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Enterprise software is no longer evolving in phases. It’s compressing in real time under AI. That’s the focus of @washingtonpost WP Intelligence’s March 20 briefing, “AI and the Future of Enterprise Software.” As AI moves from experiment to infrastructure, the question shifts from if to how it reshapes the entire SaaS stack. This isn’t a hype conversation. It’s operators, CIOs, CTOs, data leaders, figuring out where intelligence belongs inside real systems. Because the companies that get this right won’t just move faster. They’ll redefine how enterprise software actually works. #EnterpriseSoftware #ArtificialIntelligence #SaaS #TechStrategy #CIO

The market isn’t entertaining casual conversations anymore. Capital is tighter, time is sharper, and the rooms that matter are shrinking on purpose. Founders x Investors Night at PHD Lounge on March 20 leans directly into that shift, a late-night collision in NYC where access cuts off at 11:30 PM and the real signal happens before the room fills. This isn’t networking, it’s live deal flow in motion. Smaller room, curated mix, no stage to hide behind. In environments like this, relevance shows fast, conversations convert or disappear, and what gets decided rarely gets announced. #StartupEcosystem #VentureCapital #FounderEvents #NYCTech #PrivateMarkets

AI isn’t just accelerating systems. It’s exposing where they break. That’s the focus of Jellyfish’s March 19 webinar on platform engineering in the AI-native era. As AI moves from experiment to infrastructure, most teams are discovering the same thing: it doesn’t fix misalignment, it amplifies it. This session pulls operators into that reality, how to build golden paths, reduce toolchain chaos, and actually measure AI impact. Because right now, the difference isn’t who’s using AI. It’s who can operate it without creating more complexity. #PlatformEngineering #AIInfrastructure #DeveloperExperience #EnterpriseAI #EngineeringLeadership

The noise is up. The signal is thinning. That’s why CTO Lunch March matters. Today (March 19) in NYC, a tight room of CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders meets at Old Town Bar, no panels, no sponsors, no noise. Just operators comparing what’s actually breaking, scaling, and surviving. Hosted by Forest Mars, the rules are simple: no recruiting, no pitching, no spectators. Because right now, AI sounds clean in theory and messy in production. #CTO #EngineeringLeadership #AIInfrastructure #TechLeadership #StartupEcosystem

RAAPID, led by Chetan Parikh and Vatsal Ghiya, raised a Series A extension from @M12vc and @UPMCEnterprises to improve healthcare risk accuracy.