
Anders Ranum
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Anders Ranum
@aranum
VC @SapphireVC | Proud backer of @Tractian, @Alation, @Auth0, @Dremio, @Exabeam, @Feedzai, @jupiterone, @InfluxDB, @StackHawk etc.



We raised $125M to build the platform for agent engineering. Thank you to our investors (@IVP, @sequoia, @benchmark, @AmplifyPartners, @SapphireVC, @CapitalG, and more) for their belief in us, and to our customers like @Replit, @clay, @TrustVanta, @Cloudflare, @Rippling, @Cisco, @Workday, and many more for their trust. Read more here about what this means for the future of building agents: blog.langchain.com/series-b/?utm_…


Congratulations to @hwchase17, @ankush_gola11, & the @langchain team on their $125M Series B! 🎉 @rajeevdham & @aranum sat down with the Co-Founders to talk about LangChain’s evolution from open-source project to enterprise-grade agent platform used by Fortune 500s, & why we’re proud to back them. 🎥 Watch their full conversation below & 📖 read more on why we’re investing: sapphireventures.com/blog/langchain…

🔐Just as cyber threats grow in complexity (& Gen AI continues to act as both catalyst + adversary), we’re keeping pace with the companies leading the charge. In our latest blog, "State of Cybersecurity: Growth, Risk, and Resilience," we explore why 87% of CIOs plan to increase security spending in 2025, driving growth in a $270 billion market. Explore our Cybersecurity Market Map, companies we believe are shaping what’s next across categories like AI security, identity & access, cloud-native protection, human risk + more. 🔗 sapphireventures.com/blog/state-of-… CC: @CasberW, @aranum, Kevin Burke, Jake DellaPasqua, Justin Liu



GenAI is disrupting all industries–from the most basic to the highly technical, including the future of development. 🛠️ Last week, we teamed up with @MenloVentures to bring together @dmwlff, creator of Claude Code at @AnthropicAI & Lukas Biewald @l2k from @weights_biases, for this discussion. A few key themes emerged: → AI is becoming a core part of the dev stack, enabling seamless integration with systems and workflows. → Speed is the new competitive edge. AI models are accelerating development, making time-to-delivery the key success metric. → Reinforcement learning (RL) is transforming AI models, improving their adaptability & performance in real-world scenarios. → AI-driven dev workflows are replacing traditional CI/CD, with AI handling more code generation, testing, and deployment. Cc: @adamdliu, @CasberW , @aranum, @jai_das, David Carter #GenAI #AIInfrastructure #LLMInfra #AIEngineering

Congrats to Founder and CEO @igmarinelli and the @tractian team on the $120M Series C! 🚀 Factory managers worldwide face an uphill battle against unplanned downtime, costing companies $1.4 trillion annually and significantly disrupting production. Tractian’s AI platform serves as an Industrial Copilot, helping companies ensure zero downtime and improve technician productivity. Learn more about why we’re excited to lead Tractian’s latest round and back the company on its mission to eliminate industrial downtime with the power of AI. 👇 #AI #CompaniesofConsequence #manufacturingAI










The rise of GenAI. A challenging macroeconomic environment. There's no silver bullet. David Carter, Sapphire Ventures’ Head of ENG Excellence kicks off our 2nd annual Hypergrowth Engineering Summit w/ a backdrop that’s both complex & inspiring. #SapphireHypergrowthENG


