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Team8 and Battery Ventures are excited to lead Koi's $38M A-Round, joining seed investors Picture Capital, NFX and Cerca Partners for a total of $48M in funding. Huge shoutout to founders Amit Assaraf 🎏, Itay Kruk 🎏 and Idan Dardikman 🎏 for pioneering the next wave of endpoint security, covering the blind spots that traditional EDRs and MDMs were never built to protect! [Coming full circle and partnering again with Itay and Idan from Sygnia, a Team8 portfolio company! Amit, you chose well!] From packages and containers to extensions, AI models, and MCPs, Koi delivers visibility, AI-driven risk analysis, and automated enforcement to secure the software perimeter of today’s enterprises. Already protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, Koi’s platform is helping some of the world’s largest companies govern self-installed and unmanaged software. By giving security teams control without slowing innovation, Koi is defining a new category in cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewtqE4Pk Ori Barzilay, Sarit Firon, Amir Zilberstein, Assaf Mischari, Ori Yankelev, Asaf Azulay, Eyal Eliakim, Uri Shamay, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Dan Amiga, Mickey Boodaei, Barak Schoster Goihman, Dharmesh Thakker, Gigi Levy-Weiss

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I’m proud to share that Isaacus has just completed its pre-seed round, raising $700k from Australian tech VCs Aura Ventures and Galileo Ventures 🎉. This is the first VC-backed investment in foundational legal AI research globally, and one of the first investments in Australian-made sovereign AI. As we leverage our investment to execute one of the most disruptive legal AI missions of the decade, we're sharing a primer on who we are, what our vision is for the future of legal AI, and how we plan on powering the next generation of legal tech companies. In a nutshell, we believe legal tech companies will be the law firms of the future. In fact, we’re already seeing legal tech companies like Josef and AccuFind Law directly competing with law firms by selling their own lawyer-grade, AI-enabled legal services to consumers and enterprises alike. We think that this new market of, what we call, legal tech firms deserves to be recognized as an industry of its own, one that is worth having solutions tailored to its unique pain points. Our mission is to solve each and every one of those pain points, whether by delivering superior legal research capabilities that cut far above and beyond those of general-domain retrieval models or by providing direct access to enormous amounts of high-quality legal data from the Blackstone Corpus, our proprietary, living, multijurisdictional repository of legal knowledge. We’re calling on like-minded, forward-thinking legal tech companies, AI-first law firms, and legal AI engineers interested in being a part of our mission to power the data and AI stack of the legal tech industry, whether as an early design partner or as a founding team member, to reach out. If you’d like to learn more about Isaacus, our vision and our plans for the future, you can read our full vision statement on our website: https://lnkd.in/gKsdqCni

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What is the true cost of a technology solution for an asset manager? In the latest Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, Arcesium MD and Head of Client & Partner Development David Nable discusses how private markets technology infrastructure is being architected for the future and how operations and streamlining technology processes can be turned into a strategic advantage for asset managers. David and I had a fascinating conversation. We covered: ➡️ How David’s background in prime brokerage and fund admin helped him approach the technology problems for asset managers. ➡️ How asset managers should approach where and how technology can be a strategic advantage. ➡️ What does it mean to be a tech-forward asset manager? ➡️ How does the growth of evergreen funds impact how firms manage their data and serve investors? ➡️ What still needs to be built next to continue to improve private markets market infrastructure. Thanks David Nable for sharing your experience and wisdom on private markets and market infrastructure. Thanks Ultimus Fund Solutions for your support of Alt Goes Mainstream. https://lnkd.in/eshC3AFJ

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I keep getting asked the same question by founders and investors: Why do so many deep tech startups fail, while a few break through? Over the past months, Jonathan Karl and I set out to answer exactly that at the Technology Briefing Center (TBC). The result is our new whitepaper “How to Cross the Valley of Death in Deep Tech”. We looked closely at why companies like BioNTech SE and Verkor made it through, while others such as Britishvolt, Northvolt, Lilium, and Arrival did not. Along the way, we drew lessons from Graphcore, Isar Aerospace, and Stegra on what it really takes to survive and scale in deep tech. What we found: even the boldest moonshots only succeed when they are built step by step. Skipping validation and rushing into scale kills momentum, investor trust, and companies. In the report, we highlight 5 critical phases that make or break startups in this space. For founders, investors, and corporates betting on Europe’s deep tech future, I hope this becomes a practical guide. 👉 You can request the report here: https://lnkd.in/dWq73gVB+to+Cross+the+Valley+of+Death+in+Deep+Tech&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1757484010 I’d love to hear your thoughts—what’s been your biggest challenge (or insight) crossing the valley of death?

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Singapore and APAC funds are waking up to something we've known for years: Australia is an absolute goldmine. Sachin Bhanot from Prosus Ventures joined us on First Cheque with Cheryl Mack & Maxine Minter to share why his team made an aggressive push into the Australian market in 2022, and why their portfolio is now 40%+ ANZ. His "holy smokes" moment came when he looked under the hood: "This is a market that significantly punches above its weight. You've had Canva, Atlassian, it's a highly efficient market. You've got incredibly deep talent pools and founders who think for themselves and are not afraid of solving large hairy audacious problems." What really caught his attention? Australian founders don't just build horizontal solutions to win on distribution. They tackle tough, underserved segments—electric utilities, financial services, critical infrastructure, commercial real estate. "These are segments that make up something like 50% of global GDP. They are highly underserved today. But these are segments that are hard to build, hard to sell, but once you do, the path to market leadership and global domination becomes very exciting." The competitive advantage is brutal efficiency: "If you are a half decent AI founder in the US today, you're going to raise a ton of capital and focus on the US market. If you are that founder in Australia, you're going to raise significantly lower capital, do much more with that capital, and be global first from day one." There's something powerful about having to do more with less, and benchmarking yourself against global competitors from day one. Listen to the full episode via the comments. 〰️〰️〰️ First Cheque is dedicated to open-sourcing conversations with experienced investors globally. Our aim? To enhance the craft of early-stage investors, from those writing their first cheques to the veterans in the game. DayOne.fm - We’re for founders and startup operators Co Ventures Aussie Angels Cheryl Mack #FirstChequePodcast #VentureCapital #Singapore

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Gemini CLI extensions ramping with great list of partners to start - well done Snyk, Carey Stanton and team! "Gemini CLI is an open-source, AI-powered agent for your terminal, and extensions are its power-ups — pre-packaged, easily installable integrations that connect it to external tools including everything from databases and design platforms to payment services. Each extension contains a built-in “playbook” that instantly teaches the AI how to use the new tools effectively. In just three months since Gemnini CLI launch, more than one million developers are building with Gemini CLI! more here: https://lnkd.in/ePRa8XKT

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