This past Wednesday at Foundation Capital's Palo Alto office, we gathered with an incredible community to celebrate PlayerZero officially coming out of stealth.
The energy in the room was electric – leading AI researchers and engineering leaders deep in conversation about how…
Applications are now open for our 8th cohort of IIT Build.
IIT Build is Foundation Capital’s early-stage accelerator for IIT alumni — and one of the most coveted founder communities in the Bay Area.
We’ve backed 60+ IIT founders to date, and we’re looking for our next 8 to…
Every year, companies spend a staggering $140B on traditional ways of understanding their users like surveys and focus groups. This manual, episodic approach is quickly becoming outdated. AI agents are taking over tasks that used to eat up weeks, handling everything from…
Foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic have evolved from simple API providers into full-stack product companies. They see which apps take off and which features keep people coming back, then fold those capabilities into their own tools.
So how do you survive when…
Foundation model providers like @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI have abandoned the pure infrastructure play. They're vertically integrating at unprecedented speed: OpenAI's Agent Mode, Claude Code, Deep Research.
Your startup's success becomes their product roadmap. Build something…
Most financial institutions still run on people pretending to be software.
Behind the polished apps and established systems is a hidden workforce doing what looks like automation, but isn’t. It’s a single human from compliance, manually pulling data from System A,…
Companies are beginning to realize that AI code generation introduces an entirely new set of challenges. Instead of coding, enterprise teams now spend up to 70% of their time investigating and fixing AI-generated bugs. The same AI tools that promised to speed up development are…
Introducing Kombai, the first AI agent built for frontend development.
Kombai vastly outperforms SOTA models + generic agents in real-world benchmarks.
Watch it add a complex new feature to an OSS codebase with 500K+ lines of code.
More use cases and links in comments
PlayerZero has emerged from stealth with $20M in funding 🎉
Founder @akoratana and team have built the first predictive software quality platform to solve code quality issues with applied AI.
“PlayerZero's unique ability to automate debugging and predict problems before they…
Making the most of ICML in Vancouver? Come grab a drink with us TONIGHT!
We’re co-hosting the Turing Happy Hour for AI & LLM Leaders with the teams from @turingcom and @anyscalecompute.
@ashugarg and @robertnishihara will share thoughts on how frontier labs are using RL Gyms to…
Congratulations to @AirMDR_Company on their $15.5M seed round! We incubated the company alongside CEO Kumar Saurabh in summer 2023 and led their initial $5M round.
We're proud to continue backing this exceptional team as they leverage AI agents to bring a Fortune 500 quality SOC…
Over the past 18 months, stablecoins have moved from the edges of fintech into the spotlight. But this is just the beginning. Integration with the broader financial system is only starting to accelerate.
At Foundation Capital, we believe stablecoins - and the composability they…
"Visa and Mastercard generated a combined $64B in revenue across 400B transactions last year. If these 400B transactions were executed on Solana, total fee revenue would be closer to $400M, a 99% reduction in cost to merchants." -@FoundationCap
just use Solana.
It’s been just over a year since we introduced the idea of a new AI startup model: Services-as-Software.
Since then, we’ve studied dozens of founders building across legal, healthcare, customer support, RevOps, and procurement. And while the models and markets vary, four…
18 months in, AI isn’t eating SaaS—it’s eating the $4.6 TRILLION services budget.
Our latest blog tracks the first year of Services‑as‑Software companies and distills lessons for founders
Campfire is kicking off the week with a $35M Series A 🎉
@j_glasgow & @Meet_campfire team have built an ERP that works the way teams operate today, cutting tasks and giving finance teams a clear view of the business without the usual ERP overhead.
More: meetcampfire.com/blog/campfire-…
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