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Arrakis Technologies (@arrakistech) comes out of stealth with $38M in funding from leading investors including @blossomcap and @Accel. Sovereign AI deployment in the physical economy is one of the most important missions anyone could work on. Western reshoring and economic prosperity rest in the balance. That's why we're building Arrakis. We are an AI deployment company that partners with ambitious enterprises to transform their operations into software. We encode operational know-how into agents that execute complex processes semi-autonomously and learn under human supervision. Six months in, here's where we are: 1. Partnered with the most mission-driven team I could have asked for. My co-founders Haroun Beltaifa, @Romain_Fd and @MichaelGalkov, and a founding team from Palantir, Revolut, ElevenLabs, Datadog, DeliveryHero, ASML, KKR and Blackstone. We are now forward deployed at the edge across the US, Europe and APAC, encoding and redesigning industrial processes from first principles. 2.⁠ Signed NYSE-listed customers after our agents delivered significant P&L improvements through 60-90% cycle time compression at 99%+ accuracy on complex workflows. These companies now experience the future of self-driving industrial operations, where work no longer waits for constant input but moves forward proactively with humans overseeing every critical decision. In weeks, their most skeptical operators became our most vocal champions, and direct CEO referrals are now our main source of growth. 3. Raised $38M from @blossomcap, @Accel, @Global_Founders, @mainobjectvc, and leading angels including @oliviergodement, Head of Business Products @OpenAI, Junaid Hussain, founder @Cambridge_Aero, @oliveur, founder @datadoghq and more. The future of industrial AI is Arrakis Technologies.

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.@ArmatureYCP26 helps companies monitor and optimize how AI agents experience their products. It runs real agent workflows and improves your MCP or CLI. Reinventing the Agent Experience! Congrats on the launch, @Totzenberger and @louis_scremin! ycombinator.com/launches/QQc…

Today @usemonk is announcing our $25M Series A co-led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital with continued support from @btv_vc. $3T sits in U.S. accounts receivable. Our mission is to close the gap between earning revenue and receiving it. For most B2B companies, that gap is 45-90 days, thousands of hours of manual work per year, and millions in trapped working capital. It's a tax every growing business pays. Monk invented the Intelligent Collections category. Most AR tools automate the easy parts. We built for the edge cases, portal uploads, PO mismatches, and disputes. On average, customers see 40% lower DSO, 24% higher collections response rate and 25+ hours/month saved. Thank you to @ElevenLabs, @profound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust. Our platform typically pays for itself in month one. Book a demo to learn more.

Coding agents are surprisingly bad at spreadsheets. They'll cobble together a Python script that silently breaks formulas, misreads cached values, or corrupts formatting. The problem isn't the model, it's the tools. We built Witan to fix this. witanlabs.com/agents

The public markets have decided that SaaS revenue durability and growth is challenged at best and extinct at worst. So where is value in a world of uncertainty. Gnarly, f****** hard, backend businesses. Fintech for one. Airwallex and @awxjack the level of integrations, partnerships, permissions with banks around the world. Insanely hard. OpenAI ain’t coming for this. 😉

Revenue automation software has a credibility problem. Numbers appear in dashboards. And accountants are told to just trust them. Our team at @usemonk took a different approach. We set out to make every number traceable and defensible. Today, @zhou_squared shares our product philosophy on building for accounting/finance professionals. We’ve been fortunate to have the support of our customers and experts in this build. Thank you for continued feedback!

The average dunning email gets ignored. You are literally sending "please ignore me" messages to customers who owe you money. Playbooks - our workflow system for intelligent collections - is now live on the @usemonk platform. A system that reasons, not just reminds. We filmed a 60 second video showing you an experiment between @zhou_squared and @francescocoacci collecting $100K. Finance, biz-ops and post-sales teams should not be spending time chasing customers. Many spend 10+hrs/week doing what Joe did in this video: - context switching between tools (slack, gmail, quickbooks, google sheets) - breaking flow from deep work - sending reminders because the average dunning email is ignored But agentic collections are not enough. Every customer relationship is different. Some need white-glove treatment and others a nudge. That’s why we built playbooks, giving every business a customizable collection workflow. With playbooks you can: - create triggers and workflows specific to a customer segment (tone shift, conditions, escalations to sales/customer support) - auto-resolve AP questions with context from relevant email threads - pause automatically when product questions or upsells opportunities come up Playbooks is how you get paid while you sleep. And we do it with professionalism and empathy that your customers deserve. Heading into Q1 with a gap between signed ARR and actual cash? Watch the video. And if you want to see bloopers from Frank/Joe filming, comment “payday” + tag a teammate and we will send you bloopers from the shoot.

Where are the European Super Angels? These are high volume, incredibly well connected angel investors that often go on to raise their own funds. The US is FULL of them (e.g. @JoshuaKushner, @sacca), where Europe doesn't seem to have many. I know of: @danonanthony: Operator and now investor at rerail. Investments include @fuseenergy, @TideBusiness and @TrueLayer @AlexBerriche: Founder, scout at @sequoia and angel into @lovable, @fyxerai and Tandem Health Who else is out there? I interviewed Alex on the latest @ScalingEurope show which I'll link below.

$3 Trillion is currently stuck in unpaid invoices. An average invoice takes 59 days to clear. If you're doing >$10M in revenue, getting paid in 30 days instead of 59 days will literally make you millions over 2 years. Introducing Monk. It collects your money faster and pays for itself in 30 days, guaranteed. Fast-growing companies like ElevenLabs and Profound rely on Monk. The Problem: 39% of the $3T stuck is due to two stupid reasons: 1. "Please fix this comma in the invoice and then we'll pay you'" (this happens 2-3 times per transaction) 2. "Sorry the payment reminder got buried in my inbox" (automated emails get ignored) A payment that should take 2 days, takes 10 days. Your cash on hand is embarrassingly behind "recorded revenue". To fix this, we raised $4M led by @btv_vc with participation from @gtmfund and @danonanthony. For our first product, we had to innovate on 3 dimensions: 1. Monk turns signed contracts into invoices with near-perfect precision - We leverage frontier models to extract key terms from your deals and turn them into invoices. 2. ⁠Monk collects payments agentically with a 24% better reply rate than automated emails: - Tuned to write emails that feel like a human request, not spam. Your invoice is competing with everything in their inbox. - We know how to find an alternate point-of-contact when someone is OOO, when to reach out, and what tonality yields a higher response rate. If you had someone on your team whose invoice emails got answered 24% more than others - that would be a big deal. You’d make them the head of revenue collection. 3. Granular visibility into your cashflow: - Understand your cash position, aging, or expansion/contraction at customer level. Book a demo at monk.com/book-a-demo-form and we guarantee that Monk will pay for itself within 30 days. If you've read this far, we are giving away 40 water-tight contract templates. This would cost >$10K to any agency, startups, or freelancer, to create from scratch. Retweet this and comment 'Monk' and we'll send them to you.

Revealed: Phoebe, an AI ‘immune system’ for software founded by former Stripe executives Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, will this week announce that it has raised $17m in seed funding, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cherry Ventures. news.sky.com/story/ai-immune…

Welcome to the rebel alliance 🏴‍☠️ Me + @danonanthony went deep with @the_euvc + @LPhypeman on new wave of small funds + solo GPs in Europe. - why speed + value add at first round matters right now - rise of "headless round" (no trad lead) - conviction without consensus

Adyen & Stripe '24 annual reports are out! Processed volume: Adyen: $1.34T, +33% YoY Stripe: $1.4T, +38% YoY Valuation: Adyen: $56B Stripe: $91.5B Employee count: Adyen: 4.3k Stripe: 8.2k Both profitable, Adyen EBITDA of $1B. Note: Stripe has higher margins!