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We're hiring! Founders Circle Capital is looking for a Summer 2027 Venture Capital Analyst Intern to join our investment team in San Francisco.
This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience at a growth-stage venture firm backing companies like @AppliedInt, @baseten, @ClickHouseDB, @databricks, @ElevenLabs, @higgsfield_ai, and @WeAreLegora.
Over 10 weeks, you'll work directly with our investment team to:
→ Evaluate investment opportunities and conduct due diligence
→ Research emerging markets and develop investment theses
→ Participate in Investment Committee discussions
→ Build AI-enabled tools to improve investment workflows
→ Pitch your own investment ideas
You'll have direct access to experienced investors and a front-row seat to how investment decisions get made.
We're looking for undergrads graduating December 2027 or Spring 2028. No prior VC or investing experience is required. Exceptional interns will also be considered for full-time opportunities.
Apply by Friday, November 13 at 11:59pm PT (rolling review, so early is better): airtable.com/appwM7oLacDuTcE…
.@Algolia has appointed Steven Chung as Chief Revenue Officer and Veronica Servantez as Chief Marketing Officer as it enters its next phase of enterprise growth.
Steven brings experience scaling revenue organizations at companies including @starburstdata, @PagerDuty, and @BigCommerce. Veronica joins from @Genesys, with previous leadership experience at @BigCommerce and @Rackspace.
Together, they’ll help expand Algolia’s position beyond traditional search and product discovery as the company builds a broader retrieval layer for generative AI applications and autonomous agents.
Congrats to Steven, Veronica, and the Algolia team!
Read more here👇citybiz.co/article/900559/al…
Six of our portfolio companies are featured on the 6th annual Intelligent Applications 40 list from @MadronaVentures, which recognizes private companies shaping the future of applied AI.
Congratulations to @AppliedInt, @WeAreLegora, @databricks, @baseten, @ClickHouseDB, and @vercel!
See the full list here 👇madrona.com/ia40-intelligent…
Big news from @Vercel! Amit Agarwal joined the company’s board of directors.
Amit spent 13 years at @datadoghq, helping scale the company from its early days through IPO and beyond $2.5B in annual revenue, while helping build a product-led growth model that has become widely recognized across enterprise software.
He joins Vercel as the company enters its next phase of scale, recently crossing $500M in annualized run-rate revenue and expanding from frontend infrastructure into a broader platform for AI-native development.
Read the full details here: apnews.com/press-release/bus…
Founders Circle Capital retweeted
It's a done deal!
We have officially completed our acquisition of @Fin_AI! 🚀
By bringing their customer agent platform to Salesforce, we’re expanding customer choice with fast-to-deploy, autonomous service agents that resolve complex queries end to end across every channel.
Welcome to Salesforce, Fin!
Read the news: sforce.co/3V20lY7
Founders Circle Capital retweeted
New: Ramp's top SaaS vendors for August 2026
1/ This month, we saw continued growth in model serving / routers as more firms shift spend to cost-saving + open source AI.
2/ A few underrated areas of growth: a lot of competition for AI customer service / sales / voice agents, and seemingly no clear winner in this category given how many different competitors show up on this list month-over-month.
3/ Plus, 9% of firms are using AI to generate images and video for marketing and advertising.
That's about half the adoption rate of Figma, and growing quickly.
Founders Circle Capital retweeted
Think big. That’s always been a driving motivator for us, and now we have a partner to match our ambition. Today, we’re proud to announce Applied Intuition’s strategic collaboration with HUMAIN to deploy physical AI across Saudi Arabia, starting with autonomous trucking. This is a major step toward our goal of making a billion machines intelligent.
Together, we will deploy thousands of autonomous trucks throughout key Saudi logistics corridors by 2030. This will make it the largest autonomous trucking network in the world, and our Self-Driving System and Vehicle OS technology will be the centerpiece of this collaboration with HUMAIN.
This is physical AI at national scale.
appliedintuition.com/blog/ap…
The Department of War awarded @hiddenlevelinc a $100 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract to scale its passive sensing technology across the U.S. military.
The size of the OTA reflects a broader shift in defense procurement toward faster, more flexible pathways for bringing commercially developed technology into military use at scale.
Read the full announcement👇prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Congrats to @databricks on their latest round! We are proud to be part of their Circle. See the details from CNBC👇 cnbc.com/2026/08/13/databric…
Physical AI is entering a new chapter, and @AppliedInt is helping shape the infrastructure behind it.
The company introduced Dana, a new agentic platform for developing and deploying intelligent, safety-critical machines. As systems become more autonomous and complex, the tooling used to build, test, and manage them is evolving too.
Read more about the launch 👇
appliedintuition.com/blog/da…
Founders Circle Capital retweeted
Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2.
We also shared:
🚀 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase
🚀 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year
🚀 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow
And we raised $5B in our latest fundraise.
We’ll use this capital to invest in:
1️⃣ Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents
2️⃣ Genie, our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data
3️⃣ Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs
@iamVictorDey shares more in @Forbes:
forbes.com/sites/victordey/2…
In 2023, we met @MaintainX founder and CEO @CTurlica and invested alongside the company’s Series C. This week, @Autodesk officially completed its acquisition of MaintainX.
We’re thrilled for Chris and the entire MaintainX team and excited to see what they build with Autodesk!
Two of our Partners, @mkjung and Owen Van Arsdale, share their thoughts on the acquisition in our latest blog post: founderscirclecapital.substa…
In the AI era, ten seconds is too slow.
Models and agents need fresh context in real time, making database latency a direct constraint on the quality of the products they power. @ClickHouseDB was built for this moment, returning answers across billions of rows in fractions of a second while often significantly reducing infrastructure costs.
@ceo_clickhouse, Alexey Milovidov, @izrailevsky, and the entire ClickHouse team are building the cloud-native data infrastructure behind some of the world’s most demanding AI applications, and we're proud to be part of their Circle! 👏
Read more from @mkjung and @DominickRichiu2 about why we invested and how the journey began with a conversation on a chairlift: founderscirclecapital.substa…
Our portfolio company @DragosInc has reached a major milestone: @Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in the company as part of a broader investment in operational technology cybersecurity, alongside acquisitions of runZero and NetRise.
The transaction is further proof that OT security has moved beyond a specialized industrial niche and that Dragos is one of the companies defining the category. As critical infrastructure, industrial operations, data centers, and physical systems become more connected, OT security is moving closer to the center of enterprise and national risk conversations.
dragos.com/resources/press-r…
.@AppliedInt expanded its self-driving system into Japan, one of the world’s most complex automotive markets.
For the autonomy category, this is an important milestone because the bar is shifting from controlled demos to adaptability across geographies, regulations, road conditions, and driving norms.
Global deployment is becoming one of the clearest tests of whether autonomy systems can move from technical promise to real-world operating scale.
Check out the full announcement 👇
appliedintuition.com/press-r…
We’re excited to welcome Ron Hirson as a Venture Partner! 👏 He will be working alongside The Circle by Founders Circle Capital team to launch CPO|Circle, our new community for growth-stage product executives.
Ron has spent his career building and scaling companies as a founder, operator, product leader, and public-company executive. He co-founded BOKUand helped take the company public (LON:BOKU), co-founded The Digs Network, which was acquired, was CPO at Ingenio (acquired by AT&T where he led all local digital products), and served as Chief Product Officer at DocuSign (DOCU).
At DocuSign, Ron oversaw Product, Design, Research, and Data Science, and led the Strategy Team. This gave him firsthand insight into the strategic, organizational, and cross-functional challenges product leaders face as companies scale.
Through CPO|Circle, Ron will partner with The Circle team to create a curated space for candid peer exchange, practical learning, and meaningful relationships among product executives navigating similar inflection points.
We’re thrilled to have Ron bring his experience, judgment, and empathy for builders to Founders Circle Capital as we build CPO|Circle.
Growth-stage product leaders interested in joining can apply here: thecircle.founderscircle.com…
.@vercel announced a broader agentic infrastructure platform as it reported that coding agents now account for more than half of deployments to its infrastructure, up from less than 3% six months ago.
The agent category is moving quickly from experimentation to production infrastructure, raising new questions about how software is built, deployed, governed, and monitored when humans are no longer the only actors in the development lifecycle.
Read how agentic infrastructure is moving into production: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
