Pruven Capital

Why does the worlds “most interesting founder” only work with Pruven Capital. It’s because Pruven Capital is able to contribute to between 20-80% (actuals from our portfolio) of the ARR for our founders?? Something that even the most accomplished founders need help with. How do we do it? 🔥 Scale of our ecosystem (which extends much beyond our 10 amazing LPs from the Insurance/Asset Mgt/Wealth Mgt/Retirement ecosystem) 🚀 Our disciplined playbook to get the chain reaction started - Land with One of our LPs -> Expand to Multiple of our LPs -> Extend to the broader network of 50+ enterprises in our ecosystem based on referenceable outcomes within our LP base While there is NO silver bullet in enterprise GTM, what we have been able to do for our #founders comes pretty close.

As the firm, known to have the "best hair" in the venture business, it was only a matter of time before we came up with a hair native KPI for venture/startup journey of Founders: If you are a Founder who wants to be on the trajectory on the right of the chart below (and why would you not) you MUST work with Pruven Capital to supercharge your enterprise GTM journey. As you can see the math is clear - that is the only way to achieve both monetary and follicular gains... CC: Brian Quinn, Travis Skelly, Jared Moberg, Sudip Chakrabarti, Zsombor Vincze

Accounting is at a breaking point. Talent is exiting the industry, and for those who stay, the "mechanical" work of data entry and document chasing is drowning out the high-level professional judgment that makes accountants valuable. That’s why Pruven Capital invested in Accrual. We didn’t invest in a tool to replace accountants. We invested in an AI-native engine designed to amplify them. At its core, Accrual deploys AI agents that act as tireless preparers: ◼️ Scanning every document for missing info. ◼️ Generating targeted follow-ups. ◼️ Producing draft returns. ◼️ Applying corrections on command. The goal? Remove the "grunt work" so professionals can focus on higher value advice. Automate the ordinary to humanize the extraordinary 💪 Cosmin and Siddarth are the kind of founders who don’t just see a gap in the market, they see a way to rebuild it. Congrats to Cos, Sid and the Accrual team on your Series A! I'm looking forward to partnering with Acrrual and fellow investors Hemant Taneja, Marc Bhargava, Christopher Kauffman at General Catalyst, Greg Robinson at Edward Jones, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi #VentureCapital, #Accounting, #GenerativeAI, #FinTech

I analyzed 300+ Anthropic job postings. Here is what it revealed about their GTM playbook. Anthropic is no longer just a research lab, they've built a full-scale enterprise operating machine. With over 300k business customers and large accounts growing nearly 7x YoY their hiring plans reveal how they plan to maintain the momentum. Three signals stand out: 1️⃣ The Consulting "Trojan Horse": Anthropic is hiring Global Partner Leads to manage partnerships with Accenture, Deloitte and other System Integrators. They know large enterprises do not always want to self-serve. They want to buy and build through their consulting partners that already control meaningful portions of their digital transformation budgets. 2️⃣ The Vertical Takeover: Anthropic is hiring AEs for every industry from Defense and Healthcare to Financial Services. If you're building a vertical AI wrapper, take note. Anthropic is not waiting for the ecosystem to form. They are hiring industry experts and going direct to your customers. This includes regulated, high-value use cases where buyers care about outcomes, compliance, and reliability. 3️⃣ Safety as a Product Moat (Not Marketing) Anthropic has 50+ open roles across safety infrastructure, privacy engineering, and alignment. This is not a side team. For regulated industries, safety is not a talking point. It is a technical requirement. While other labs optimize for creative output, Anthropic is staffing to support high-consequence decision making inside real enterprises. The Uncomfortable Truth for Founders: You aren't just competing with other startups. You're competing with Anthropic + SIs + Enterprise Tech Teams. That’s a tough fight, unless you build real, defensible value. How to win? At Pruven Capital, we help founders build real moats and selling directly into our strategic LPs and network. Our LP base includes some of the largest financial services and insurance institutions in the world, and we work hands-on with founders to turn that access into real deployments. We've backed founders building moats across the following: ✅ Deep workflow integration → Gradial is embedded directly into marketing operations ✅ Outcome-based pricing → SPRX, Glade.ai aligned with how enterprises buy and measure value ✅ Proprietary data and distribution → Accrual, Trunk Tools own the customer and the data Doug Tallmadge, Dominic Vitucci, Kiran Bellubbi, Cosmin Nicolaescu, Sarah Buchner, Sam Zimmerman, Ryan Zauk, Colleen Mearn, Lauren Johnston #EnterpriseAI #Claude

No code (AI or human generated) survives first contact with end users - QA/Testing is critical.. We had a ring side view to the challenges the dev teams at Pruven Capital's LPs were facing in scaling QA/Testing in the wake of rapid adoption of AI Codegen. This led us to partnering with Nithin Michael at Skyramp - They are the only platform that has created a deterministic test generation suite that can support all the various types of testing needs and more importantly keep the test suites current and automatically updated as the application evolves. Developers/QA Managers - Please reach out if you are having a difficult time keeping up with AI Codegen. Help is here in the form of Skyramp CC: Sequoia Capital, Shaun Maguire, Sudip Chakrabarti

What a year 2025 has been for Pruven Capital... Thank You to our amazing LP base (that includes 10 of the largest incumbents in insurance/asset mgt/retirement/wealth mgt ecosystem like Prudential Financial, TIAA, Lincoln Financial, WTW, Generali, Nippon Life Benefits, PGIM, Nuveen, a TIAA company, Mutual of Omaha, Generali Investments, Nissay Asset Management), our founders and our team at Pruven Capital in making 2025 an amazing one and here's to 2026... CC: Travis Skelly, Sudip Chakrabarti, Brian Quinn, Jared Moberg, Zsombor Vincze

Hard to believe 2025 has come and gone. What an incredible and intense year in all ways. We're thrilled and grateful for our progress and excited by tripling down on what makes Pruven Capital distinctive in 2026. Thanks as always to our incredible #Founders and our #LPs: Prudential Financial,PGIM, WTW, Lincoln Financial, TIAA, Nuveen, a TIAA company, Generali, Mutual of Omaha, Nippon Life Benefits, and Nissay Asset Management. You are why we exist. cc: Ramneek Gupta, Travis Skelly, Sudip Chakrabarti, Jared Moberg, Zsombor Vincze