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Olivia Benjamin

@oliviaqbenj

Partner at Operator Partners; ex- @baincapvc and @goldmansachs, proud @barnardcollege alum

New York, NY Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Vivek Raghunathan
Vivek Raghunathan@vivek7ue·
Super excited to be partnering with @bradmenezes and team. He is truly one of a kind, and we are excited to make @superblocks on Snowflake happen 🚀
Brad Menezes@bradmenezes

Announcing Superblocks on Snowflake: Secure Enterprise Vibe Coding on the AI Data Cloud This couldn't be more timely. Vibe coding is exploding inside the enterprise. It’s also becoming the fastest path to a data breach. Every CEO is trying to accelerate adoption of vibe coding for business users automate, without blocking on engineering. Every VP of Data and CIO is trying to figure out how to lock down their data, harden their permissions, and gain centralized visibility. That’s exactly what this partnership unlocks. Superblocks becomes the enterprise platform for governed vibe coding across business teams, deeply embedded within Snowflake: > Snowflake Postgres becomes your secure vibe coding database. Superblocks spins it up in every app for fast writes and net new operational workflow data >Snowflake Cortex becomes the inference engine for Superblocks. Your prompts and vibe coded AI features run within your trusted security perimeter >Snowflake Warehouse governance is enforced. AI apps use federated token passthrough so your existing row level access policies, dynamic data masking, tag-based-access controls are respected “With Superblocks on Snowflake, any business team can safely build AI applications governed on their Snowflake data. It’s a dream come true.” -Unmesh Jagtap, Director of Product, Snowflake Now enterprises can stop playing whack-a-mole, and move your organization past the AI prototype graveyard. If you’re a Snowflake customer, book a demo (link in comments) Thanks to the Snowflake team for the partnership: Christian Kleinerman, @vivek7ue, Bala Kasiviswanathan, Unmesh Jagtap, and Myles Borins for helping shape how the industry democratizes governed AI app development while centralizing control on the AI Data Cloud.

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dharmesh
dharmesh@dharmesh·
Could not have said this better myself. AI agents will *operate* and use enterprise platforms as needed. They're not going to vibe code their own on the fly -- and they shouldn't be allowed to. The AI agent shouldn't be able to see a conversation discussing increasing Susan's salary to $300k and then decide that Susan's salary is now $300k and store that in it's own memory. It should know that HR system is being used, how to access it (API, MCP, CLI) and retrieve the accurate, verified salary (when needed).
Brad Menezes@bradmenezes

If you feel like Anthropic is going after every enterprise software market and that the big SaaS enterprise platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday are toast, you are wrong. This simplistic thinking fundamentally misunderstands the difference between an AI Agent and the Enterprise Platform. Let me explain: > An AI agent executes tasks. An enterprise platform defines, orchestrates, and gives the agent context to execute that task. > An AI agent has access. An enterprise platform governs agent permissions. > An AI agent can act. An enterprise platform can audit, control, and enforce. > An AI agent may go rogue. An enterprise platform guarantees compliance deterministically. > An AI agent is powerful in isolation. An enterprise platform is powerful in coordination across teams and business units. Furthermore, an enterprise platform can be multi-model, multi-cloud, and multi-integration. It is future proof for the customer in a dynamic market. CIOs buy Enterprise Platforms and will continue to do so, as long as those platform deeply integrate AI Agents within deterministic, governed, auditable, business processes.

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Brad Menezes
Brad Menezes@bradmenezes·
The most interesting part of the Superblocks 2.0 launch this week wasn’t the 4M views. It was what IT leaders told us about the pressure they’re under right now: From the top → boards and CEOs mandating AI adoption and transformation From the bottom → employees bringing in shadow AI tools that IT can’t see or control — creating the biggest risk they’ve seen in their careers And it’s putting IT in an impossible position: Move fast and risk security, or shut it all down and lose the AI transformation their company needs. But this is a false choice. As Jensen Huang said on the Dwarkesh podcast, “Thinking about the world in extremes is childish.” The answer isn’t speed or control. It’s both. The only way to accelerate AI adoption, with real, enterprise-scale vibe coding is to start with governance and IT controls. You need a seatbelt to get in the a racecar. We’re building that seatbelt for IT. And it’s needed now more than ever.
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Olivia Benjamin@oliviaqbenj·
Let's go @superblocks! 🚀What vibe coders and enterprise IT/security teams have been waiting for
Brad Menezes@bradmenezes

Introducing Superblocks 2.0: AI-generated enterprise apps – finally under IT control. Vibe-coded apps just became the #1 attack vector in the enterprise. Business teams are building on production data, while IT has zero visibility. No reviews. No audits. No permissions. No control. AI hackers are about to get 100x better. Anthropic proved it with Mythos. Superblocks 2.0 is the only platform to take back control: > Business teams build AI-powered apps with permissions baked in. > IT and Security can audit everything and lock down anything, instantly. > Engineering sets the standards. Every app follows them. Instacart, SoFi, and LinkedIn run Superblocks in production today. And larger organizations we can't yet name are too: A Fortune 500 just shut down 2,500 Replit users to standardize on Superblocks, running the platform air-gapped in their AWS environment. A 150,000-employee global services firm replaced Lovable with Superblocks to unlock AI-built apps on restricted internal systems. Every IT leader we’ve demoed to using Replit, Lovable or v0 asked for early access. Today we open access to the world. The genie is out of the bottle on employee vibe coding. Let it run wild, or take back control – superblocks.com

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Aditya Bandi
Aditya Bandi@bandiaditya·
I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised $44M to build a new home for product design. Meet @noondesign. No workflow is more broken and fragmented in 2026 than the product designers’. The very same people who care most about building software don’t have software purpose built for them. @kushagrasinha7 and I have lived this problem first hand as designers ourselves. That’s why we built Noon. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design not only how a product looks, but also how it works. With AI at its core that works in seconds, not minutes. For the first time, you can create, iterate, build, test and ship. All in one canvas. No translations or roundtrips to the codebase and back. Comment “Get Noon” and we’ll get you on the list for early access.
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Jake Stauch
Jake Stauch@jakeserval·
Serval is #1 on the Enterprise Tech 30. What a surreal moment. Special to see so many of our customers here like @clay, @vercel, @togethercompute, and many more we'll announce soon. I’m so grateful for the entire @getserval team that powers this rocket ship, especially my cofounder Alex McLeod and COO @TatianaBirgisso, who have assembled unrivaled teams across engineering and GTM. It’s Serval now. newcomer.co/p/mintlify-ser…
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Ryan Daniels
Ryan Daniels@ryanjdaniels·
📣 Update: we raised our $60m Series B from @Lux_Capital, @IndexVentures and @01Advisors, with participation from @sequoia, @eladgil and @BainCapVC . When we came out of stealth 283 days ago, we had negotiated contracts worth $30m for our clients. As of last month, that number is over $1 billion. We work with the most ambitious companies in the world, including @tryramp, @clay and @RogoAI. Today, we want you to hear from some of them directly. Contracts are the rails of commerce. @crosbylegal is a hybrid AI law firm that gets them signed 80% faster. We’re announcing our Series B to keep scaling the dream law firm.
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Brad Menezes
Brad Menezes@bradmenezes·
The enterprise software reckoning is here. For decades, companies have shaped their workflows to meet what rigid SaaS providers offered. Matthews real estate decided they were done with that. Matthews took control of their destiny using enterprise AI vibe coding across business teams to deliver tailored LLM-based solutions to automate work across departments on @awscloud. But here's what made it actually work at scale: governance. Every prosumer AI vibe coding tool they tried fell short the moment security entered the conversation. They couldn't get inside the VPC. They couldn't inherit existing policies. They couldn't give the organization a grip on who was building what. Superblocks and Clark AI was the unlock, democratizing development and centralizing control. "If you're not already looking at Superblocks, you are so far behind the curve." – Ryan Casey, VP Product & Innovation at Matthews. In every industry, the companies that thrive in an AI world will reinvent how work is done by empowering the builders across their organization, while eliminating shadow AI from the picture entirely.
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Rustam X. Lalkaka
Rustam X. Lalkaka@lalkaka·
Today we're introducing @usefiretiger. You and your AI agents write code. Firetiger makes sure it works. Our team and I have plenty of incident war stories building @Cloudflare, @segment, @Twitch. In the agentic coding era, the volume of code changes + quality issues in prod is ever increasing, but observability vendors aren't incentivized to close the gap. They make money when you write more data to them, not when your software actually works. Firetiger is the agentic operations layer for the agentic coding era. We combine production observability data, codebase understanding, and knowledge of your business to find problems before your customers do and fix them before they notice. We've raised $7.6 million led by @sequoia with participation from angels who believe in better software, including @eastdakota, @calvinfo, @NicoRosberg, @dok2001, @jeffawilke, and @alanaagoyal. You can sign up for @usefiretiger today, self serve. We charge for agents that directly make your software better and more reliable, not for observability data ingested, with plans starting at $599/month. Observability is dead. Long live outcome engineering.
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Dedalus Labs
Dedalus Labs@dedaluslabs·
If you think MCP is safe, think again. More than half a million devs were jeopardized by poor security standards. Today, we expose the truth about MCP.
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Dedalus Labs
Dedalus Labs@dedaluslabs·
MCP is a pain in the ass. To fix that, we’re launching DAuth: the first secure, multi-tenant MCP auth solution. OAuth isn’t enough. It doesn't support dynamically passing API keys, and you can’t trust passing credentials to non-OAuth servers, since secrets are exposed. This forces existing MCP marketplaces to be OAuth-centric and single-tenant. But OAuth is annoying to implement and assumes security expertise. DAuth works for every auth case. We encrypt your credentials on the client-side, guaranteeing MCP servers never see them. You can finally ship agents with peace of mind. For the first time, MCP is ready for takeoff 🛫
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Or Hiltch
Or Hiltch@_orcaman·
Today we are launching @openwork_ai, an open-source (MIT-licensed) computer-use agent that’s fast, cheap, and more secure. @openwork_ai  is the result of a short two-day hackathon our team decided to hack, which brings together some of our favorite open source AI modules into one powerful agent, to allow you to: 1. Bring your own model/API key (any provider and model supported by @opencode is supported by Openwork) 2. ~4x faster than Claude for Chrome/Cowork, and much more token-efficient, powered by dev-browser by @sawyerhood (legend) 3. More secure - contrary to Claude for Chrom/Cowork, does not leverage the main browser instance where you are logged into all services already. You login only to the services you need. This significantly reduces the risk of data loss in case of prompt injections, to which computer-use agents are highly exposed. 4. Free and 100% open-source! You can download the DMG (macOS only for now) or fork the github repo via the link in bio (@openwork_ai). Let us know what you think (or better, send a pull request)!
Claude@claudeai

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work. Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code.

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Michael R. Bock
Michael R. Bock@michaelrbock·
1/ After 5 years, I’m proud to share that @ColumnTax has found a new home. We’ve been acquired by @AiwynAI. I couldn’t be more sure this is the right move for our business, tech, and team. These pics are the moments we started & sold the company:
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Jake Stauch
Jake Stauch@jakeserval·
IT powers the workplace, and they’re hurting. Their tools are abysmal. Their workloads are unsustainable. They’re stuck in a vicious cycle of break/fix. But IT doesn’t just want to fix things. They want to BUILD things. They want to BUILD automations for: ☑️ help desk requests. ☑️ onboarding and offboarding ☑️ software access requests and reviews ☑️ asset management ❌ They DON’T want AI slopbots. ❌ They DON’T want tradeoffs between efficiency and security. ❌ They DON’T want legacy software that belongs in a museum. At Serval, we built the AI platform IT teams deserve: an all-in-one suite of AI-powered tools to automate help desk requests, build workflows, transform ticketing, and manage software access and assets. Serval is more than the next generation ITSM. It’s a reimagining of how IT operates. It’s rocket fuel for IT teams. It’s a glimpse into a future where IT BUILDS - not just for themselves, but for the entire organization. We heard from one customer “I would give up a kidney to keep Serval in our org.” The good news is, we won’t ask you to 🙂 But that’s how big this pain is and how much value Serval delivers. Today, Serval takes a huge leap forward, announcing our $75M Series B led by @sequoia, taking our valuation to $1 billion just 20 months after founding. This is still the beginning, and there is so much to build. But today I’m so proud of our team and all we’ve accomplished for our customers. Thank you to the servals that have worked so hard to make this possible, especially my cofounder Alex McLeod and our COO/my wife Tatiana Birgisson. Thank you to our customers who have believed in our vision from the very beginning. Thank you to our new investors, including Sequoia, Meritech, Evantic, Tenacity Capital, Sound Ventures, Radical VC, and Frank Slootman, alongside returning investors Redpoint, First Round, and General Catalyst. And most of all, thank you to all the IT teams that enable our most meaningful work. We’re working to repay the favor. ⬇️ See thread below for feature by Reuters, and our blog post on the raise!
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Beth Turner
Beth Turner@ElizabethTurner·
Today I’m launching @Valkyrie_vc - a $45M early-stage fund investing in AI, infrastructure, and critical industries. Grateful to the founders, partners, and friends I’ve worked with along the way. You’ve truly shaped how I invest and why I built Valkyrie. To the founders: Valkyrie was built for you. To partner with you. To build what matters. This is our new frontier. Let’s build it. Thank you to @_pheebini at @Forbes who captured the story → forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…
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