Naveen Kashyap retweeted
The best time to join a rocketship is before everyone knows about it.
I’m excited to launch The Next 50: the 50 hottest early-stage startups to keep an eye on (and try to join).
Using @harmonic_ai’s data, the juiciest startup dataset out there, we looked at every early-stage startup and ranked them on headcount growth, recent funding, and investor interest.
We then picked the top 50.
Here's the full list: lennysjobs.com/next50
We’ll update it quarterly, and I’d love your feedback on what other factors we should consider.
P.S. This is in addition to the Lenny 100, the top 100 well-known companies with the highest talent density, tackling the most ambitious problems: lennysjobs.com/lenny100
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
What does it take to automate procurement at the world's largest manufacturers, where critical information is scattered across emails, documents, and decades of institutional knowledge?
Following our recent Series A investment in @fragmentdata, 8VC's @jack_moshkovich sat down with @pranavmulgund to discuss the company's origins, the engineering challenges behind building AI that can reason across these disparate sources, and how Fragment is turning that context into autonomous action.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Congrats to @pranavmulgund, @stopitnaveen, and the whole team at Fragment! Amazing team building in a huge and overlooked market
Enterprise software has spent decades digitizing paperwork while leaving the hardest work to people. We're changing that.
Today, we’re launching @fragmentdata with $56 million in funding, including a Series A led by @8vc and a seed co-led by @generalcatalyst and @A_StarVC, with angels including @roelofbotha, @nikesharora, and @jeffawilke.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Every supply chain runs on exceptions: a late shipment, a mismatched invoice, a price that drifted. @fragmentdata turns a company's own knowledge into action to resolve them, starting with direct procurement. Proud to back the team as they announce $56M in total funding. fragment.ai/blog/fragment-ra…
Enterprise software has spent decades digitizing paperwork while leaving the hardest work to people. We're changing that.
Today, we’re launching @fragmentdata with $56 million in funding, including a Series A led by @8vc and a seed co-led by @generalcatalyst and @A_StarVC, with angels including @roelofbotha, @nikesharora, and @jeffawilke.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Amazing content! Love the creativity here @generalcatalyst
Our founders look so dashing!
Many manufacturers run on exceptions that their software can’t resolve, @fragmentdata's agents resolve them end to end.
Today, Fragment comes out of stealth with $56M in total funding. General Catalyst co-led their seed round, and are back to support their Series A. Listen to @pranavmulgund and @stopitnaveen discuss the procurement and economic impact of the iPhone in this short clip.
cc: @vedantsuri, @yuris
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Pranav is the kind of person who reads algebraic geometry textbooks on plane rides for fun, so of course he’d fall in love with a problem most people would find unglamorous.
In June 2025, he quit his job to go all in on @fragmentdata. He’d known for a long time that it needed to exist, and that Naveen was the only person he’d build it with. He set the bar at something necessary enough to work on for the next 20+ years, and while most startups pivot every few weeks, he never did. I’ve never met someone whose conviction runs this deep.
That’s what gets you through the long days at the office + every weekend + the crazy road of selling to enterprises + all the ups and downs. When you love what you do, and you do it with people you love, working all the time is kind of the best thing ever :)
It’s not just Pranav. Everyone at Fragment is exceptional and owns so much. Go to a Fun Fragment Friday, where they cook for each other, and you’ll see it. I’ve never seen an office with cooler hobbies and quirks.
No team more deserving, and this is just the beginning. So proud @pranavmulgund ❤️
Enterprise software has spent decades digitizing paperwork while leaving the hardest work to people. We're changing that.
Today, we’re launching @fragmentdata with $56 million in funding, including a Series A led by @8vc and a seed co-led by @generalcatalyst and @A_StarVC, with angels including @roelofbotha, @nikesharora, and @jeffawilke.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
@pranavmulgund, @stopitnaveen, and the rest of @fragmentdata are gonna pull up and automate your procurement like
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Fragment launches from stealth today with $56M of funding. We co-led their seed round and are excited to participate in the Series A, led by our friends at @8vc.
Enterprise software has automated transactions for decades. But when something goes wrong, people still have to fix it. @fragmentdata changes that with AI agents that investigate and resolve complex exceptions, starting with direct procurement.
Many manufacturers run on exceptions that their software can’t resolve, @fragmentdata's agents resolve them end to end.
Today, Fragment comes out of stealth with $56M in total funding. General Catalyst co-led their seed round, and are back to support their Series A. Listen to @pranavmulgund and @stopitnaveen discuss the procurement and economic impact of the iPhone in this short clip.
cc: @vedantsuri, @yuris
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Many manufacturers run on exceptions that their software can’t resolve, @fragmentdata's agents resolve them end to end.
Today, Fragment comes out of stealth with $56M in total funding. General Catalyst co-led their seed round, and are back to support their Series A. Listen to @pranavmulgund and @stopitnaveen discuss the procurement and economic impact of the iPhone in this short clip.
cc: @vedantsuri, @yuris
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Enterprise software has spent decades digitizing paperwork while leaving the hardest work to people. We're changing that.
Today, we’re launching @fragmentdata with $56 million in funding, including a Series A led by @8vc and a seed co-led by @generalcatalyst and @A_StarVC, with angels including @roelofbotha, @nikesharora, and @jeffawilke.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Now that I’ve had time to think about it, here’s three reasons (maybe more to come) why the federal judge’s ruling on the mask mandate irritates me
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
In 2012, NASA moved a space shuttle through city streets in LA to the California Science Center
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Naveen Kashyap retweeted
Some 3,000 elegant terns fled the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve after a drone crashed there, leaving behind 1,500 to 2,000 eggs, none of them viable.
Nobody is sure what happened to the birds, which are highly sensitive to perceived threats.
latimes.com/california/story…
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
The richest man on Earth quits his job and blasts into space and nothing has ever seemed so suspicious to me.
My older brother just got the vaccine. I’ll report back here with updates on his transformation into a zombie.
Naveen Kashyap retweeted
The Trump administration announced yesterday it will open up all 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest to logging & other forms of development.
pat.ag/TreesDoBetterTW
