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In partnership with Anthropic and Perplexity, I brought together Stanford engineers to go from idea → working product in a single day. It was our first ever Stanford Accel Leadership Program hackathon.
🔍 Perplexity’s Kesku unveiled their newest Search API, giving builders the flexibility to choose any model for their LLM stack.
💻 Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar and Kashyap M. ran a live 5-minute quick start on Claude Code that allowed even non-coders to ship fast.
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We’ve all seen how powerful coding models have become. But inside large enterprises, generating code is now the easy part. The hard part is navigating years of context.
That’s where Steve Basher and the team are focused at SolveAI. The team moves with urgency and depth. And they’re grounded in one belief: enterprise AI only matters if it delivers in production.
Today SolveAI comes out of stealth. Excited to announce the pre-seed we led and Series A led by our friends at GV (Google Ventures).
Excited for the journey ahead and congrats Steve Basher and team, welcome to the Accel family!! 🚀
Lucy WimmerTom HulmeNorthzoneNever LiftMantis Venture CapitalOutlier Grove
Today, SolveAI comes out of stealth, announcing its pre-seed round led by Accel and Series A led by our friends at GV (Google Ventures).
While coding models are reshaping the way software is built, shipping is still hard, especially in the enterprise. Steve Basher, formerly a forward-deployed engineer at Palantir, founded SolveAI to change this and put software creation in the hands of the people closest to the work. Their AI development platform lets any employee describe their needs in plain language and generate a proposal in seconds. Its specialized agents then handle development end-to-end, from planning through ongoing maintenance.
Read more from Cecilia Wang about SolveAI’s team, what they’re building, and where they’re headed next. ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/ey-Tprvd
Today, SolveAI comes out of stealth, announcing its pre-seed round led by Accel and Series A led by our friends at GV (Google Ventures).
While coding models are reshaping the way software is built, shipping is still hard, especially in the enterprise. Steve Basher, formerly a forward-deployed engineer at Palantir, founded SolveAI to change this and put software creation in the hands of the people closest to the work. Their AI development platform lets any employee describe their needs in plain language and generate a proposal in seconds. Its specialized agents then handle development end-to-end, from planning through ongoing maintenance.
Read more from Cecilia Wang about SolveAI’s team, what they’re building, and where they’re headed next. ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/ey-Tprvd
Self-serve on Flint is officially live.
For years, custom landing pages for every campaign — even every customer — felt obviously valuable and operationally impossible.
Not anymore.
No more endless briefs. No design bottlenecks. No engineering tickets.
In an era where anyone can build anything, marketing is your only competitive advantage.
But customization is now the expectation, and marketing teams are struggling to keep up.
Introducing Flint AI. Flint builds tailored, on-brand pages for every ad, keyword, customer.
- Graphite turned their Google Ads keyword cluster into targeted landing pages, reducing CAC by 50%
- Amigo turned a list of target accounts from Clay into 341 personalized landing pages with relatable use cases for every buyer. All done in 15min.
- Cognition and Windsurf doubled their conversions using Flint.
Here's how it works:
1. Import your website. Over 24-72 hours, Flint replicates your design system.
2. Connect your data: CRM records, ad keywords, SEO trends, Clay tables
3. Watch Flint generate dozens of revenue-driving pages and have them live on your subdomain
As building products becomes easier, personalized marketing becomes even more essential. Flint makes sure every customer gets the perfect landing.
When we soft launched 3 months ago, thousands of businesses joined our waitlist. Now, Flint is available for every business.
Sign up on our website for a 2-week free trial. Comment "FLINT" for 100 free credits on top of the free trial credits.
Accounting has become one of the most complex jobs in the enterprise. Global operations and shifting regulations have pushed the work well beyond “closing the books.” Yet the industry has stayed stubbornly manual.
Matt Harpe and Mitchell Troyanovsky founded Basis to build an AI accounting platform that can actually do the work end-to-end. Basis customers tell us it changes the way they operate, allowing accountants to focus on higher-value tasks.
Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading Basis’s Series B. Read more about the round from Miles Clements, Joshua Fang, and Christine Esserman. ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/eZVQzD7y
Code Metal is focused on verifiable AI code translation for edge environments, helping teams translate and validate code for mission-critical environments.
We’re pleased to continue supporting the team as they build in this category.
Congratulations to the Code Metal team on this milestone!
https://lnkd.in/gH4i6jMK
AI systems are becoming part of how businesses operate day-to-day and how people make critical decisions. As that shift gains momentum, the standard for building these systems increases.
Capability matters. So do judgment, safety, and clarity about how these systems should behave in the world.
We are continuing to support the team at Anthropic because they build with discipline and quality and know how to earn trust over time.
We've closed our Series G, raising $30 billion in funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue Management. This investment will allow us to deepen our safety research, continue innovating in product, and power our infrastructure expansion as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are.
Today, our run-rate revenue is $14 billion. It has grown over 10x in each of the past 3 years, driven by our position as the intelligence platform of choice for enterprises and developers.
Read more: https://lnkd.in/gYPT6wXB
Fluency has raised a US$6M seed round led by Accel to solve the $600B enterprise AI problem.
For decades, we hired brilliant people to move information from one system to another.
To remember context that machines forgot. To make decisions that should have been automatic.
Now, enterprises are rushing to deploy AI faster, but 95% of these initiatives will fail because companies can’t identify where it will actually yield ROI.
Current enterprises AI deployments will fail because:
1. They have no way to universally map how their enterprise functions, with zero visibility it’s impossible to determine where AI will help
2. They rely on process mining, consultants, employee anecdotes to deploy AI. This misses 95% of context behind work which is essential for agents to actually function.
That’s why Oliver and I built Fluency.
We believe that humans will be able to solve at the highest level of abstraction while AI handles everything else.
It is only possible if AI can be deployed on the right problems, the right workflows, with perfect execution.
Fluency creates a living model of how work flows across your enterprise - capturing the context, decisions, actions and results that no system can see today. The understanding of how people concurrently work and think to solve the most challenging problems.
This has enabled our customers Aon, PVH Corp. and HMH to identify where AI will deliver the highest leverage before spending a dollar, prove ROI with data on every AI initiative to their board, and optimize workflows org-wide.
Today, we surface your best AI transformation opportunities, show you how to optimize them, and prove ROI in one platform.
Tomorrow, we’re building towards the autonomous enterprise, where humans can solve the toughest problems in the world whilst agents handle all other tasks.
Massive thanks to Abhinav Chaturvedi, Siddharth Prabhu, Accel, DST Global Partners, Carya, Mixture of Experts, Archangel Ventures, NextGen Ventures, Brad Tabone and all that support us.
To the team: You’re building the AI foundation for the world’s most important companies, thank you.
We’re hiring world-class engineers in San Francisco (data, full-stack, AI/ML) who want to build the future of enterprise work. DM me.
If you’re a CEO, COO, CIO or leading AI/ digital transformation and tired of guessing which pilots will work - let’s talk. Looking forward to seeing you at our dinner series this year.
I spent so much time trying to stay on top of customer feedback, iterating on product, and closing the loop with customers at Treasury Prime - it's what separates good teams from great teams. But it's also exhausting.
That's why I'm excited to share that we raised a $4.4M pre-seed with Accel and Inovia Capital to build Modem: an AI teammate that continuously ingests, understands, and acts on feedback so teams can ship faster. It's been game-changing for us, but let me know what you think. Signups are open.
https://lnkd.in/dhftPzr9
We've just announced that we’re leading Vega's Series B.
Founded by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega is reimagining the legacy Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market. Since we led their Series A last year, they’ve started working with Fortune 200s and global banks, established a commercial base in New York, and built a strong leadership team spanning New York and Tel Aviv, including Yonni Shelmerdine, Hadas Ofir Peled, Mike Doherty, and Ofir Nir.
Read more from Andrei Brasoveanu about how a morning run with Shay in Central Park turned into a conversation about Vega’s ambitions and what comes next. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e7mhtWhS
