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Bilal Mahmood retweeted
The right Human-Computer Interface doesn’t just change computers. It changes what humans can do. And every great shift in computing came from software and hardware built together.
The Mouse and the GUI brought Personal computing.
The Touchscreen, iOS and the App Store put Mobile computing in our hands like never before.
AI is the most powerful technology we’ve ever built. But for most of us, its has been trapped in software. Imagine what we could do when we pair it with the right hardware interface.
We have spent the last 15 months obsessing over this Interface, built from the ground up, for AI. The fastest way for humans to communicate with computers.
We couldn’t be more excited to show you.
November 5. Everything Changes.
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
@HyphenateAI just raised a $45M Series A at a $270M headline valuation.
We're bringing autonomous finance to every enterprise in the world. 🧵
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Led by @nexusvp, with participation from @BCapitalGroup and returning investors @FoundationCap, @boldcap and Gaia Ventures, this round brings our total funding to $54M.
Finance teams carry a long list of work because somebody has to do it.
Hyphenate’s self-learning agents take responsibility for that work across the systems companies already run, with evidence behind every action and finance teams involved where judgment matters.
The results are already building:
→ 86x revenue growth
→ 11x customer growth in 12 months, including six public companies
→ 40% of customers expanding within their first year
This funding will help us take our agents deeper across the finance function and into strategic finance, giving teams more capacity for the decisions that move their businesses forward.
Thank you to our customers, team and investors for building this with us.
Read the Bloomberg coverage: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Stoked to lead $45M Series A for @HyphenateAI and partner with @ramkris, @ajkrish95, and the team!
Finance doesn't need another dashboard. It needs someone to get the work done. Finance has an unusually high bar for accuracy, controls, and auditability. Most AI tools help finance teams work faster. Hyphenate takes on the work itself: cash reconciliation, invoicing, collections, subledgers, and the close, layered on top of the ERP and banks a company already runs. No rip and replace!
It is showing up with great autonomy in production. HiBid cut its close from three weeks to one day. Groupon and Synthesia are rolling it out across finance. And 40% of customers expand within their first year.
Excited to help build the AI-era finance function with you, Ram and Ajay! Thank you for partnering with @nexusvp! Also, excited to join hands with friends at @FoundationCap (@ashugarg, @JayaGup10), @BCapitalGroup, @sathyanellore, @arashf!
#AI #AIinFinance
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Hyphenate has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, securing capital for an effort to create AI agents that can run finances for businesses bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
We’ve raised a $2.5M pre-seed to fix hardware hiring.
The most reliable way to know if an engineer can do the job is to watch them work.
In hardware, that’s been almost impossible to do at scale.
Colare runs simulation-based assessments that show how candidates actually work, in the tools they’d use on the job, before anyone books an interview.
We assess across:
- Mechanical (CAD, DFM, FEA)
- Electrical (PCB, schematics)
- Systems
- Manufacturing, & more.
Candidates solve problems from first principles.
Hiring teams see that across their whole pool, so engineers only interview people who’ve already cleared the bar.
We're already working with everyone from seed-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar aerospace manufacturers.
If you’re hiring hardware engineers, let’s talk:
colare.com/
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Colare raises $2.5M to help firms vet engineering candidates with advanced simulations ift.tt/PgxCR6S
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
AI startup Vectorial lands $3M in funding to simulate human behavior for consumer research ift.tt/8TzAvjd
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
We called it in April: Get ready for a wave of TBPN clones after its blockbuster OpenAI deal
businessinsider.com/get-read…
they made a @tbpn for the girlies
they not only ripped off the format but also made it at their same time 🥲
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Today's a big day for Stuut: we just raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners for our autonomous agent that handles the work between order and cash for the world's leading enterprises. $93M total raised, and we're just getting started.
This round is all about our customers.
We're building on overwhelming demand for our AI coworker that automates all of the work between order and cash for the world's leading enterprises. It's grinding, repetitive work, and Stuut takes it on so our customers can focus on the judgment calls.
We’ve already moved over $3B for enterprises including ZoomInfo, Honeywell Technologies, and PerkinElmer, with Stuut unlocking 40% more cash flow for our customers. You'll be hearing more of their stories over the next week
We're growing fast, and if you want to join a rocket ship, now's the time. Take a look at our open roles here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/stuut-ai
Special thanks to Julian Marcu / Thomas Krane at @InsightPartners for believing in our vision. We're extremely grateful to @a16z, @ActivantCapital, and @M12vc Microsoft's Venture Fund, for joining.
Above all else, thanks to our customers for trusting us. Their finance teams are thinking years ahead, thinking about what they'll be able to accomplish when AI owns a large part of the process. We'll be with them every step of the way.
Read more below!
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Today, we’re excited to share Stuut has raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing our total amount raised to $93M.
I told the guy at my local bodega, and he couldn’t care less about our cash. Frankly, that’s fair. Our job is to care about yours.
The 1000s of juggernaut companies that run America are rebuilding around AI, and they're doing it with finance teams that are already swamped. Every enterprise we've spoken to says the same thing: they know AI can help, but they don't have the time or team to make it happen.
Stuut is the first AI coworker that does all of the work between order and cash for the world's leading enterprises. It's grinding, repetitive work.
We’ve already moved over $3B for enterprises including ZoomInfo, Honeywell and PerkinElmer, with Stuut unlocking 40% more cash flow for our customers.
This round is how we keep up with overwhelming demand, and how we go after the bigger job: carrying every transaction from the moment a company decides to sell something until the cash is in the bank. Our customers know we’re in this for the long haul.
Our investors do too, and special thanks to Julian Marcu / Thomas Krane at @InsightPartners for believing in our vision. We're extremely grateful to @a16z, @ActivantCapital, and @M12vc Microsoft's Venture Fund, as well for joining.
Thanks to the @StuutAI team for their dedication.
Thanks to our customers for trusting us.
And to the guy at my bodega: maybe the Series C will do it?
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
🚨 NEW: @Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is coming to Axios BFD.
November 17. New York City.
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Bilal Mahmood retweeted
ChatGPT for writing, Gemini for research, Claude for code. The subscriptions add up, and none of them knows what you told the others. More than 1 million people a month now keep it all in one app, Use.ai.
What it plans to add next is in the full story, linked in the comments.
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Many companies know what they spend on AI, but not what they get back. What can be done about it?
The link to the full story is in the comments.
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Autoheal raises $7.9M led by Innovation Endeavors for self-healing AI agents that fix incidents, patch security flaws and cut AI coding costs at Nomura.
#autoheal #innovationendeavors...Show more
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Autoheal wants to manage the work AI coding agents leave behind, claiming cost reductions of up to 30% per task
venturebeat.com/ai/autoheal-…
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Autoheal raises $7.9M to evaluate and fix AI agents with… AI agents ift.tt/SQWlxKb
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
Fearn raises $5.5M from Kindred Ventures and a16z speedrun to draft startup patents in days at a $9,000 flat fee, with a refund if no claims are allowed.
#fearn #aipatentlawfirm...Show more
Bilal Mahmood retweeted
The days of waiting weeks for a patent are over.
Today we’re launching Fearn, a modern patent firm with flat fees, turnaround in days, and human expertise embedded in every part of the application cycle, all built on our own operating system, FearnOS.
One detail I'm especially proud of: in our editor, expert edits can't be overwritten by AI. Technology executes the mechanical work while people make the judgment calls. That's how we move fast without cutting corners.
Legal services are at an inflection point. We think founders deserve a new standard, and we're excited to start delivering it.
Today, we're killing the billable hour for patent work.
Fearn Legal (@fearnlegal ) is a modern patent firm built from the ground up on our own operating system, FearnOS.
What that means:
→ Flat fees, not hourly billing
→ Drafts in days, not months
→ Experienced patent attorneys reviewing every application
→ One platform for your entire portfolio, with permissions you control
If you're building something worth protecting, we'd love to help.