TGIF — but first! 🧠⚙️ Medha Agarwal and our newest team member, Noah Lin, are featured in Crunchbase today with: “New Value Models, New Playbooks: Tactics AI-First Companies Use to Scale.” 📖 Read it here → https://bit.ly/478a6If Proud of the sharp thinking from the team at defy.vc Crunchbase KCPR #AI #SaaS #GoToMarket #Scale #Software #Marketing #Sales #StartupPlaybooks
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Congratulations to Reveal Technology! Watch to learn more about Reveal Technology below, and how we met Garrett Smith: https://lnkd.in/gFnsyehs
"On the frontlines, whether a global conflict or a public safety operation, success increasingly hinges on having access to the best intelligence available offline, under fire, and in real time. That's exactly what Reveal delivers." We're excited to announce our $30M Series B funding, led by Ballistic Ventures, and to welcome cybersecurity leader Kevin Mandia to our board! This investment will help us accelerate our mission to deliver battlefield-ready intelligence platforms that operate offline, under fire, and in real time. https://lnkd.in/ghDk9HZC www.revealtech.ai Ballistic Ventures defy.vc Booz Allen Hamilton Shield Capital Next Frontier Capital Madison Valley Partners #investintheinfantry #defensetech #nationalsecurity #venturecapital #seriesb #innovation #cybersecurity #tacticaledge #battlefieldtech #situationalawareness #tacticalbiometrics #geospatialintelligence #ai #revealtechnology #farsight #identifi #missionfocused
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Excited to continue our partnership with Garrett Smith and the amazing team at Reveal Technology as they announce the their $30M Series B led by longtime friend Kevin Mandia and the team at Ballistic Ventures. Our history at defy.vc goes back to the inception of the company when we were fortunate to lead their friends and family round to support our Woodisde neighbor Garret alongside other neighbors at the time like Joe Lonsdale and even Kevin many years ago when defense tech wasn’t considered an investable venture market. Fast forward to today and the world is a different place thanks to the game changing technology Reveal builds for those that protect our nation and the world. Our firm created a dual use defense platform, Fairwater Labs six years ago because we saw the true grit, determination and passion this incredible team of former veterans combined with amazing technologists could produce. It has led to the creation of seven new companies, run predominantly by military veterans. Thank you to Garrett and the Reveal team for not only building an amazing company that serves our nation every day but for providing us the perspective and insight to commit to investing in a market that wasn’t always in fashion but is critically important and can drive venture returns with the right visionary leadership. Looking forward to the amazing path ahead for Reveal and a sincere thank you to this team and all of the armed services who use their software to help make our world a safer place. https://lnkd.in/g42mDWFV
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“Rocksalt is building a platform where creators and brands collaborate more like a real team—one with transparency, better data, and less chaos.” Big congrats to the team at Rocksalt on their $9.1M seed round! We’re proud to back this standout (returning) team reimagining how experts can become influencers with the help of AI. https://bit.ly/4kV8JzQ Thank you to Mary Ann Azevedo and Crunchbase! KCPR Brian Rothenberg defy.vc Lightspeed Gokul Rajaram Garuda Ventures Mike Volpe Anu Bharadwaj #AI #marketing #content #contentmarketing #search #experts #socialmedia #socialforums #linkedin #slack #inbound
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Congrats Arjun, Ajoy, and Anita on coming out of stealth! I'm excited to work with you all again!
We’ve raised a $3.5M seed round led by Lightspeed with support from defy.vc and amazing angels like Gokul Rajaram, Mike Volpe, and Anu Bharadwaj. When I was at HubSpot I fell in love with Inbound marketing. Perhaps because I’m a short CEO, I loved seeing the little guy win based on the size of his brain rather than his wallet. But classic inbound no longer works as people now ask AI instead of searching Google. With Rocksalt, we help SMBs influence buyers before they even ask AI. ** The Buyer Journey in the AI-era ** 1️⃣ Discovery in feeds – we stumble on ideas while scrolling LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack communities etc. 2️⃣ Research with AI – we quickly research in ChatGPT/Gemini and gut check with peers. 3️⃣ Laser-focused evaluation – we go directly to sites on our short-list, validating prior research and looking to trial right away. Most of the path above is invisible to sellers—and when the buyer surfaces, it’s fast and anonymous. ** Rocksalt helps you influence the above journey in your favor. ** Today, we are helping hundreds of users on LinkedIn and in Slack communities build their credibility with prospects – efficiently. Not only does this influence prospects when they are in-market, it also influences AI answers that cite social forums for the most up-to-date information. Huge thanks to our investors, early customers, and the Rocksalt team for believing in this vision. This is just the beginning. Check out our site and tell us what you think: rocksalt.ai
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Co-Founder & CEO @ Eudia | Building Augmented Intelligence for CLOs that scales legal judgment, accelerates strategic work, and eliminates repetition.
This isn’t an event. It’s a turning point. On September 3, over 100 CLOs and Fortune 500 legal leaders are heading to NYC for something that’s never happened before: The first Augmented Intelligence Summit. No panels. No platitudes. Just real conversations — behind closed doors — about how AI is reshaping legal work at the highest levels. For the past several months, we’ve been building quietly with some of the most forward-thinking CLOs in the world. At this summit, we’ll unveil what’s next: → How legal teams are moving from billable hours to billable outcomes → The internal systems powering enterprise AI adoption → A new model of work that will change how legal teams operate — forever If you’re not in the room, you’re going to wish you were. Here’s a preview of what’s coming. Comment below to join us. Link in comments. #augmentedintelligence #aisummit2025 #legalleadership
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We love to see the future of fintech, excited for Bazaar Technologies and Keenu and what they have planned for the people of Pakistan and their ecommerce ecosystem! #payments #ecommerce #paymentsplatform #BazaarWelcomesKeenu
In a milestone moment for Pakistan’s digital landscape, Bazaar proudly announces the acquisition of Keenu. This exciting step unlocks new possibilities as we create Pakistan’s first truly integrated e-commerce and payments platform — designed to simplify, unify, and empower our customers across the country. #BazaarWelcomesKeenu
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Big news. We acquired Johnson Hana. While others throw software at broken systems, we're rebuilding the entire foundation of legal work. "We're going to break what was a broken model and repurpose it into something that actually works better for everyone," says Dan Fox, CEO of Johnson Hana. This creates the first genuine end-to-end generative AI platform enabled through services. No more disparate providers. No more competing visions. Just aligned technology and services working toward transformation that actually matters. We're not here to add another tool to your stack. We're here to change how legal work gets done. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gRMvZW7k #AugmentedIntelligence
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Axios Exclusive: Predictive intelligence startup CRED raises $15M seed https://bit.ly/40r3Qaj Congratulations to Jon Carr-Harris and the CRED team!! Neil Sequeira KCPR #AI #predictiveintelligence #data #realtimedata #datasystems