Issue #10August 14, 20269 links

CodeRabbit raises $143.0M Series C for AI code review

CodeRabbit raised a $143.0M Series C for its AI code review tool, which provides line-by-line suggestions and Q&A inside the code. Skan AI raised $63.0M for enterprise process intelligence, and Blacksmith, founded in 2024 by engineers from Faire and Cockroach Labs, raised a $45.0M Series B to run GitHub Actions on gaming-grade CPUs.

Interesting

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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.

Funny Slop

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A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age

This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away.

AI Demis

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The New Software Lifecycle

By Addy Osmani

Software Engineering Lifecycle

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Nvidia’s Risky Business

Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.

AI finance

Dev Tools

dograh.com

Dograh — Open-source voice agent infrastructure

Self-hostable voice agent platform. Bring your own models, drive it from MCP, deploy on your servers or our cloud.

Voice AI

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Xirp — Know your systems, so your agents can too

Xirp connects to your services, ownership, docs, and architectural decisions so every AI coding session starts with real context, not guesswork. Battle-tested at Spotify. Powered by Spotify Portal.

Context AI Spotify

Cool Company Raises

$63.0M

Skan AI raises a $63.0M round

Skan AI, the leader in enterprise process intelligence, provides the industry's first living system of record for process execution. Through comprehensive capture of human-system interactions, Skan AI creates operational blueprints that enable AI agents to execute complex workflows with full context, compliance, and control. Fortune 500 enterprises deploy Skan AI to transform operations across any industry and use case, including service delivery, claims processing, underwriting, and financial operations.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning $50M+Information-Technology-Services

$45.0M

Blacksmith raises a $45.0M Series B round

Blacksmith makes CI faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable by avoiding hyperscaler-based solutions and running GitHub Actions on high-performance hardware with gaming-grade CPUs — tuned for maximum throughput and enhanced with growing observability capabilities. This approach eliminates build bottlenecks, lowers infrastructure costs, and gives teams a clear view into pipeline health. In the AI era, where rapid iteration is critical, Blacksmith keeps development cycles moving — enabling faster validation, safer deployments, and more competitive release schedules. Founded in 2024 by engineers from Faire and Cockroach Labs, Blacksmith is backed by Google Ventures, Y Combinator, and leading dev infrastructure angels.

Software Gv Y Combinator Peak Xv Partners $10M+

$143.0M

CodeRabbit raises a $143.0M Series C round

CodeRabbit provides detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and conversation capabilities for Q&A within your lines of code.

Information-Technology Software Smash Capital Atomico $100M+

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