Acrew Capital

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, @tryprofound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust. Our platform typically pays for itself in month one. Book a demo to learn more.

@GuildAI Excited to continue building together. 🙌

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/guil… Our new site is live: guild.ai

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!

@LaurenKolodny @aliisarosenthal @OpenAI Current and future Acrew founders will get such a wealth of wisdom from Aliisa! N of 1 is right.

@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. 🚀

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.

@aliisarosenthal @OpenAI Welcome to the crew, @aliisarosenthal!

Really glad to do this with you @henrythe9ths (@AcrewCapital)

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.

@KeycardLabs @a16z @Boldstartvc Welcome to the Crew. 👋

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.

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

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.

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!

@thisritchie @definiteapp Welcome to the Crew. 👋

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

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

.@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! 🚀

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. perspectives.acrewcapital.com/alix-where-com…

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.