Ansa Capital

Breakfast and free LOVEABLE Pro credits? We had a blast cohosting our ML Breakfast with 50 leading founders and engineers this week. Building community is always key focus for Ansa Capital and it was great to meet so many new faces. Thanks Morgan Barrett, Julien Reiman, the NYC Breakfast Club and everyone who joined us! Let us know if you'd like to come to the next one. Marco DeMeireles Arielle Warren Josh Chin Douglas Aaron, CPA Wali Khan Celia B.

Selector AI has an incredible 2025! 80% of our customers are now Fortune 1000 - the definition of blue chip growth. Congratulations on announcing our latest round of funding!

Good intentions won’t cut it anymore. Sustainability is now a requirement. We are so excited that our portfolio company, Gravity, was named one of the carbon measurement platforms recommended to Amazon suppliers. “Amazon’s Sustainability Exchange reflects a broader shift we’re seeing across global supply chains: emissions disclosure is becoming a core business requirement,” explained Saleh ElHattab, founder and CEO of Gravity. “More and more we’re seeing partners turn to Gravity to ensure that the disclosure exercise for them and their supply chains is not just a painful chore. We make it manageable and a powerful tool for cost-cutting.” ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ezt4y6vp

We’re hosting an intimate, peer-to-peer breakfast featuring Junaid Ahmed, Vice President of AI & Applications at Datadog. If you’re an engineering leader looking to learn from a proven operator, compare notes with peers, and get early visibility into emerging developer tools, we’d love to have you join us. (Plus, of course, delicious breakfast 🥐☕) 📅 Wed., March 11 | 8 – 11:00 a.m. 📍 Soho, Manhattan Attendance is limited and approval-based! (https://lnkd.in/evf3gZRC) Meghan Gill Ghazi Masood Allan Jean-Baptiste Marco DeMeireles Josh Chin Douglas Aaron, CPA Arielle Warren Wali Khan Ashley Henry Celia B.

US Healthcare administrative spending is ~$1T annually, but the workflows that underpin industry remain outdated and heavily labor-intensive. Behind every patient interaction sits a dense layer of administrative work: intake, documentation validation, eligibility checks, payer communication, and follow-ups that determine whether care actually gets delivered and reimbursed. Despite decades of digitization efforts, much of this work remains manual, fragmented, and deeply inefficient. AI-native solutions like Synthpop - Healthcare AI are the only way to fulfill rising demand and increased patient expectations. The early value delivered to customers has been extremely compelling; Ansa Capital is thrilled to lead the Series A, join the Board and partner with Elad Ferber Jan Jannink and the Synthpop team. Read more about our investment in the comments. Allan Jean-Baptiste Josh Chin Arielle Warren Douglas Aaron, CPA Ashley Henry ilana stern Medha Agarwal Arun Penmetsa Mark Stephenson Scott Holzberg Hajdi Cenan

Huge congratulations to everyone at Defense Unicorns on the well-deserved $136M Series B! A few years ago, we had the opportunity to partner with Defense Unicorns at the Series A, when the company was still early and decidedly non-obvious. At the time, they had just 3 customers. From our earliest conversations, Robert 🦄 Slaughter and 🦄 Jeff McCoy had a clear mission: make software a strategic deterrent for our nation. During their time in the Air Force, they kept experiencing a major risk to national security: despite how advanced US commercial software is, the systems that we rely on to protect our country are often heavily outdated due to software deployment complexities.  Defense Unicorns exists to close that gap — making modern software easy to deploy and operate anywhere it's needed. Thrilled to see that work validated with a $136M investment led by Bain Capital (Dewey Awad Zach Berger), marking an important milestone for both the company and the category. Even more exciting is what this unlocks next — scaling a platform that is quickly becoming foundational infrastructure for how software is built, shipped, and secured across the most demanding environments in the world. On a more personal note, I’m deeply grateful to have been on this journey. Defense Unicorns was our first core investment as a fund and remains one of the largest investments at Ansa Capital. Rob and Jeff took a real bet on us as their first institutional partner — just as we bet on them.  As a board member, it’s a privilege to build deep, trusted working relationships across so many parts of the company, and I consider myself fortunate to have that here. Big congratulations to everyone at Defense Unicorns — onward 🦄 🚀 Allan Jean-Baptiste Josh Chin Douglas Aaron, CPA Ashley Henry Arielle Warren Ansa Capital

Huge congratulations to everyone at Defense Unicorns on the well-deserved $136M Series B! A few years ago, we had the opportunity to partner with Defense Unicorns at the Series A, when the company was still early and decidedly non-obvious. At the time, they had just 3 customers. From our earliest conversations, Robert 🦄 Slaughter and 🦄 Jeff McCoy had a clear mission: make software a strategic deterrent for our nation. During their time in the Air Force, they kept experiencing a major risk to national security: despite how advanced US commercial software is, the systems that we rely on to protect our country are often heavily outdated due to software deployment complexities.  Defense Unicorns exists to close that gap — making modern software easy to deploy and operate anywhere it's needed. Thrilled to see that work validated with a $136M investment led by Bain Capital (Dewey Awad Zach Berger), marking an important milestone for both the company and the category. Even more exciting is what this unlocks next — scaling a platform that is quickly becoming foundational infrastructure for how software is built, shipped, and secured across the most demanding environments in the world. On a more personal note, I’m deeply grateful to have been on this journey. Defense Unicorns was our first core investment as a fund and remains one of the largest investments at Ansa Capital. Rob and Jeff took a real bet on us as their first institutional partner — just as we bet on them.  As a board member, it’s a privilege to build deep, trusted working relationships across so many parts of the company, and I consider myself fortunate to have that here. Big congratulations to everyone at Defense Unicorns — onward 🦄 🚀 Allan Jean-Baptiste Josh Chin Douglas Aaron, CPA Ashley Henry Arielle Warren Ansa Capital

What an incredible time at Ansa Capital’s 2025 Annual Investor Meeting last week! Ansa’s strategy, From Undercovered to Consensus, proved its strength this year as several companies in our portfolio grew significantly and raised additional capital. Highlights from the day: • Ansa Update: Our co-founders shared exciting updates on our new investments, stellar growth, and the opportunities ahead • Founder Spotlights: We heard from leadership across six portfolio companies: Gravity, SpecterOps, Defense Unicorns, Selector, Synthpop - Healthcare AI, and Conduktor, each sharing real traction, hard-won learnings, and the next chapter of their growth • Firmwide Support: Updates across the platform, including a deep dive on Ansa’s operating system for its investors, Ansa ARC, and our go-to-market support through the Ansa Revenue Council. As David McGuire, CEO of SpecterOps, shared: “As an open-source company, we've worked with Revenue Council members like Jeff Yoshimura, former CMO of Elastic, and Scott Williamson, former Chief Product Officer at GitLab, to develop strategies to increase paid conversion from our free community and efficiently scale our business.” Thank you to our sponsors Cooley LLP and Citizens, our partners, and our broader ecosystem. And to our founders, thank you for your vision and ambition! Marco DeMeireles Allan Jean-Baptiste Josh Chin Douglas Aaron, CPA Ashley Henry Wali Khan Arielle Warren

We’re excited to share that Meghan Gill (formerly SVP of Operations at MongoDB) and Ghazi Masood (formerly CRO at Retool) have joined Ansa Capital as Venture Partners. Meghan and Ghazi bring decades of operating experience scaling iconic software companies—from MongoDB’s journey from open-source project to public enterprise, to Retool’s rapid growth into a leader in developer tools. At Ansa, they’ll work closely with our team to identify new founder relationships and help portfolio companies accelerate early commercial traction. We’re also thrilled to welcome several new members to our Revenue Council and Advisor Network, including senior executives from Databricks, Stripe, Elastic, Snowflake, and Anduril, among others—broadening our resources available to our founders. Thank you for your partnership! Ahsan Rahim, CFA Brian T. Flynn George Young Jeff Frazier Jeff Yoshimura Matthew Kaplan Sarah Branfman Scott Williamson Tai Rattigan Vince King Ash Mazhari Hakon Mattson Juan C. Rojas, MD, MS Laurence Trifon Louis Jeansonne, MD, MMM, Mainak Mazumdar Peter Barker Roland Costea Ross Feinstein San Banerjee Sule Baptiste Tyler Healy cc Marco DeMeireles Allan Jean-Baptiste Arielle Warren Douglas Aaron, CPA Wali Khan Ashley Henry

Engineering teams shipping agentic AI aren’t just adding a model; they’re introducing autonomous actors that interpret intent, chain tools, and take real actions. Companies need layered defenses to ensure security and compliance. We’ve put together this comprehensive Agentic AI Security Market Guide across 8 categories of Agentic AI Security, including what to look for from vendors and the leading companies innovating security today. Read the Agentic AI Security  Market Guide on the Ansa blog. Thanks to our contributors and team!