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From the beginning, ‘higher quality code,’ was the mission and rallying cry for the Graphite team. We’ve enjoyed the proverbial front-row seat, having led the company’s seed financing and sat on its Board ever since. And today we have the thrill of seeing the company join Cursor.

In the cofounders own words: “We chose to join forces with Cursor because of the opportunity to create something phenomenal together: the end-to-end platform for building with AI. We’ve long dreamed of connecting the surfaces where we create, collaborate on, and validate code changes, and this deal dramatically accelerates the timeline on which we can make that a reality.”

A journey (and outcome) like this one is what we hoped for when starting Homebrew and there will be more to reflect and write about. But for now, we give Greg, Merrill and Tomas our enthusiastic congratulations; a big salute to the whole Graphite team; a thank you to Peter at a16z and Christine at Accel; and excitement for Cursor, which is bringing on board an amazing organization.

Founder<>Market Fit is something we talk about often at Homebrew. Is there a natural story - in skills, in interest, in mission - between the people starting this company and the problem they’ve chosen to solve? When these line up positively you find startups that have a clear ‘right to win.’ Clarity Pediatrics is an example. And it just raised a $14.5 million Series A to accelerate its journey.

Clarity provides speciality care for chronic childhood conditions - diagnoses that often fall between the gaps of primary care, or traditionally encounter painful delays in navigating the health system. It started with ADHD, expanded to anxiety, and is servicing obesity next. The comorbidity rate of conditions in children is quite high, so expansion isn’t just about business goals, but being able to treat the patient.

When we first met cofounders Christina LaMontagne and Dr. Alesandro Larrazabal their motivations and capabilities for this challenge were clear. And they’ve been able to build a foundation where business goals and clinical efficacy are paired. As they’ve found, “89% of parents who participate in our group behavioral programs said Clarity had a ‘large’ impact on their lives, and 3 in 4 families report that challenging child behaviors improved after only 8 weeks.”

If bringing Clarity to even more kids is a mission you want to sign up for, well, they’re hiring.

And if you’re interested in Clarity for your family, school, patient population, just check them out.

Software can give superpowers to ordinary people. That’s always been a core investment belief at Homebrew. It’s driven many of our commitments to founders looking to deliver benefits not just to the wealthiest consumers or largest corporations, but to individuals, teams, and small businesses. And with Leona Health announcing its $14 million funding, we’re thrilled to put sweat, reputation and capital behind their mission.

Leona is using technology to more effectively connect doctors and their patients - starting with an AI Co-Pilot in LatAm. Part of its development philosophy is to ‘meet people where they are’ which informed their development of a WhatsApp native strategy, the dominant health care communications platform in the region.

Of course it’s never just about the market opportunity at this stage - you have to believe first and foremost in the team. When we met Leona CEO Caroline Merin it was clear that her background in the region via exec roles at Rappi and Uber provided insights that others lacked. And her technical cofounder Tom Chokel was equally well-prepared, having worked in health care and across large technology systems before.

If helping to bring better health care to millions and millions of global consumers is an adventure you’d like to embark upon, well, they’re hiring in San Francisco and Mexico City.

Good people know other good people, so when one of the Habi cofounders told us a good friend of his was starting a new company, we were intrigued. And when we heard more about what they were actually doing, and the team that had assembled to work together, we went from ‘intrigued’ to committed. Shortly thereafter, we agreed to lead Numbi’s pre-seed financing.

Numbi is building the AI-powered G&A engine for LatAm. Business owners can work with them to streamline and modernize their accounting, payroll and legal systems. Giving them more accurate and high quality information to make decisions, and freeing up time to focus on building their companies.

We’re at an extraordinary moment in time where companies of all sizes - and in all geographies - are going to have access to what might have been only available to a few. Join Numbi and become part of the opportunity.

We previously wrote about how Oboe helps you learn with AI, and since that time, many people have taken notice. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to us that today Oboe is announcing a $16 million Series A. Oboe creates courseware to help you get smart about, well, anything.

Besides the thrill of backing CEO Nir Zicherman for a second time, we generally believe in a future where some of AI’s most exciting abilities are to augment human ability, not replace it.

In Oboe’s own words, “People learn best when they’re taught by the best teachers. We’ve rearchitected our generation pipeline to ensure that learning content is approachable, narrative-driven, and high quality. Nothing should ever feel like AI slop.”

What do you want to learn about?

Oh, and they’re definitely hiring.

“Quanta doesn’t sit on top of someone else’s general ledger. It is the ledger.” In most fundraising blog posts the most important line is the capital amount, but in our opinion, this declaration is what makes Quanta’s Series A announcement interesting.

CEO Helen Hastings set out to build infrastructure and Prism, their just launched agentic reporting product, begins to show what is possible when you combine foundation and application layer. Accel recognized this too and doubled down to lead the Series A, giving Quanta the next set of resources they need to deliver full service accounting to modern customers.

If you would like to see what Quanta can do for your business, book a demo.

Or if working at the intersection of AI and fintech with a small close-knit SF team appeals you, well, they’re hiring.

Nava set out to create a modern benefits brokerage, using technology to help companies, plan administrators, and their employees spend less time stressing about programs. And they’ve been doing just that, especially now that AI tooling can make workflows even simpler. With Nava HQ, AI-enabled compliance checking helps automate all the tasks which used to be manual for a company. To that end, Nava recently announced a $30 million Series C raise to supercharge the next phase of their business.

So if you’re running benefits for your company, check out Nava. And if joining a well-funded startup working in a HUGE MARKET, well, they’re also hiring.

There are two ways to collect geographic data. Spend billions of dollars trying to create your own proprietary data set (see Google, Apple, etc). Or develop a novel way to invite the world to do it with you, and Hivemapper’s Bee Maps project certainly qualifies as novel. Using affordable hardware, contributors to the map share in any value the data set creates via the $HONEY token. It’s been so successful that companies like Lyft and Volkswagen are taking note. As are investors -- Hivemapper just announced a $32 million financing to boost expansion.

Want to become a Bee Maps contributor? Read more here.

AI can solve complex problems, it just requires complex data sets to train on. That’s where Datacurve comes in, providing unique and high value proprietary coding data. The foundational model labs have quickly taken note, already Datacurve’s customer list is quite impressive for a young company. And this also attracted investor attention, namely our friends at Chemistry who are leading the recently announced $15 million Series A. We’re thankful that amidst a ton of demand, the Datacurve founders included Homebrew in the round as well, and are excited to get to work on their behalf.

So, if you’re a foundational model company, or otherwise building meaningful capabilities on top of one, you should speak to Datacurve.

And if working at a place like Datacurve sounds right for you, they’re hiring.

AI workflow automation has quickly transformed many of healthcare’s back office functions around insurance, billing, document management, and such. But when you start touching actual patient care you need more than just a ‘mostly correct’ model. Enter Altira Health, a startup run by industry operators to deliver clinical-grade Voice & SMS AI for post-discharge and care-gap follow-up.

Cofounders Levent and Matt met while leading important initiatives at Carbon Health (where Homebrew is also an investor), and we were thrilled to help back their pre-seed round, just recently announced.

Altira is moving quite quickly and already offering demos to interested customers in the healthcare industry.

We’ve been fortunate to have a spot on the cap tables of some great financial services startups, and seeing the growth of companies such as Chime, Finix, Gusto, and Plaid has made us even more confident that there is a next generation coming up behind them. But building in or for FinTech comes with its own set of challenges - industry regulations, lots of PII, multiple stakeholders on the customer side. It takes a special team to crack this nut.

Enter Eloquent AI. These experienced cofounders are already gaining traction with an AI-driven automation platform for operations in the financial services industry. Just as they’ve attracted customers, they’ve also attracted investors, and recently announced a $7.4 million seed round to continue growing the team and building the product. We’re excited to be participants in this fundraise and to support Eloquent.

If you want to check out Eloquent as a solution for your company, you can book a demo. And if working for a well-funded, early YC startup in a huge market appeals to you, well, they’re hiring.

Learn how to learn. That would be advice that a parent gives their child, a teacher gives their student. For some, the rapid advancements in AI might challenge this statement - why learn when AI can answer - or even do it for you? Sure, that’s one approach and it’ll be applicable in many aspects of your life. But what if there was another path? What if AI wasn’t a substitute for learning but actually a partner in helping you learn? About anything.

Hello Oboe! Launching today, Oboe lets you create courses about, well, any topic you want to learn about. Combining pedagogy underpinnings with an AI backbone, you can generate a path to knowledge, even mastery, for just about anything or anyone. And not just in text, but also with accompanying media. In CEO Nir Zicherman’s own words,

With a single prompt, Oboe magically creates a course to teach you whatever interests you. And when I say course, I don't mean something heavy, intimidating, prescriptive, and standard. That's the old way of learning. Oboe courses are lightweight, fast, beautiful, accessible, approachable, fun, and effective. That's what learning should be.

Besides opening today to early usage, Oboe is also announcing its first funding, a $4 million seed round that we were eager to participate in, having previously backed Nir and his cofounder Mike Mignano when they started Anchor (exited to Spotify).

The product is young but being built by a team in New York with all the right goals in mind. Try it out today - what will you learn? Maybe how to make a perfect cup of coffee?

We met Bluejay Founders Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi while they were in the midst of YC and were immediately struck by their core insight: the key to widespread enterprise AI adoption is not better models. It's a better test suite.

That started as a product hypothesis, and quickly turned into actual customer momentum. In fact, since they left their teams at AWS Bedrock and Microsoft Copilot in March, they've been doubling their growth every three months and now are working with multinational corporations, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. Bluejay solves the manual testing problem and eliminates non-determinism for voice & text AI agents through human simulation, a new testing paradigm that evaluates your agent's efficacy against 1:1 replicas of your real customers.

Homebrew was impressed! And alongside other investors, committed to a $4 million seed round that Bluejay is announcing today.

If you’re using voice agents and looking to increase the speed and quality of your deploying, Bluejay is here to help.

The universe works in strange ways. LORIS was a recent Wordle answer (it’s a nocturnal primate -- we got it in 3 of 6) and later that same day we received a note from LorisAI CEO Etie Hertz that he had an exciting update for us. Today that news is public: LorisAI has been acquired by Contentsquare!

We’re very excited to see the companies join up and believe there is even more great news to come from Contentsquare. Thank you to Etie and the LorisAI team for all the hard work. Onward!

“You’re going to LOVE these founders” is always a great message to receive from folks who know us well. Typically it means that regardless of *what* they’re working on and how *hot* the deal is (or not), we’re going to learn something from talking with them. We’re going to be impressed not just by what they’re building, but how and why. And we’re going to leave the conversation thinking about how we might be able to help, even before an investment has been made. This was the case with Scrunch, which just announced its $15 Million Series A.

What does Scrunch do? It helps brands (and other website owners) prepare for a future where agents are visiting their pages as much, or more, than humans. To do this they’re launching AXP, the Agent Experience Platform, which creates a parallel AI-ready version of your website, optimized for LLMs and served invisibly to AI agents. Smart, right? You can learn more about Scrunch AXP at their website (video demo and sign up ready!).

If building the future of AI-enabled web infrastructure sounds exciting to you, Scrunch is hiring.

Stripe is known as a company with a very high bar for bringing talent into its organization. This is true not just for individuals they hire, but for teams they add via acquisition as well. We’ve had the chance to work with the Orum team for several years and so it didn't surprise us that they and their money movement platform were on Stripe’s radar as well. As Orum founder & CEO Stephany Kirkpatrick shared last week, it made too much sense for the two to join up.

While we’re excited for the team to make a big impact at Stripe, we also know that relationships span companies, and Stephany, we can’t wait to work with you again down the road!

It’s always fun to say ‘we’re in’ as an investor, and we did so pretty quickly after meeting the Airweave team while they were finishing up YC. The team had identified a real problem faced by many developers and companies hoping to get the most out of AI agents. And the solution they had in mind was novel and the beginning of a vision for enabling the agent economy. Fortunately, their response to our interest was ‘great, we’d love to have you involved’ and we ended up participating in their recently announced $6 million seed round.

In their own words, “Airweave started as a solution to our own frustration: agents couldn’t meaningfully search or understand our apps, limiting their potential to do useful work. This funding accelerates our mission to empower agents with critical knowledge and unlock the agent economy’s full potential.”

Powerful right? You don’t need to talk to some SDR to learn more - just hit their github.

Of course they’re hiring, so if this sounds like a problem you want to solve, let them know.

In some ways it’s quite simple. We were fortunate enough to back Quinten and Evan when they previously built Even, and we were excited to do so again. More broadly though, what they’re attempting with Tolan is conceiving AI Companionship with a thoughtful, responsible and fun POV. That feels important and, along with their third cofounder Ajay, we can’t imagine a team better suited to do this well. Early evidence suggests that they’ve discovered something novel, as more than 100,000 people are paying for the Tolan app. Now they also have a $20 million Series A to continue developing their vision.

As Wired writes when asking what ‘healthy’ AI could look like, “Tolans were designed to offer a different kind of AI companionship. Their cartoonish, nonhuman form is meant to discourage anthropomorphism. They’re also programmed to avoid romantic and sexual interactions, to identify problematic behavior including unhealthy levels of engagement, and to encourage users to seek out real-life activities and relationships.”

We look forward to seeing the future of Tolan! If you want to try the app, download Tolan here. And if joining the team excites you, they’re hiring.

Why does someone build a company and what do they hope success brings them? For some, the impact is largely aimed at their bank account and speaker bio. That’s fine, monetary reward and notoriety aren’t incompatible with impact, but we’ve always been attracted to founders for whom the end goal is bigger. Founders like Mackenzie Burnett and startups like Ambrook fall into that latter camp. And so, from the first time we met her as the company was just getting started, at every opportunity we’ve been offered to support the company, we’ve enthusiastically said YES.

Ambrook builds financial software for family run businesses, starting with agriculture. Mackenzie, and her cofounders Jeff and Dan, have always contended that the foundation for Many Good Things™️ is financial sustainability. That if you cannot run your business with security, confidence and data, you cannot plan for the future; you cannot invest in new people, equipment, or techniques; you cannot become a leader in your community. They’ve been building quietly for several years, out of sight of most Silicon Valley thought leadership, but not invisibly. Certainly their customers have noticed the speed with which they ship. And a select number of investors felt the gravitational pull as well, resulting in the recently announced $26.1 Million Series A financing.

But it’s just the beginning - as Mackenzie writes, “We still believe in the American Dream. And we’re here to build for the people living it.”

If Ambrook can help you live the American Dream, as a customer, or as a team member, they’d love to hear from you.

You founded a startup to:

1. Change the world
2. Build a great team
3. Live the American Dream
4. Manage payroll, compliance, and benefits. Plus a whole bunch of other back office tasks.
5. All of the above

Probably not (d), which it what Warp solves for you - the only payroll platform built to automate your back-office and save you from penalties – in under 15 minutes. And now it has an $18 million Series A to continue building out the agentic tech underlying its modern software. No annoying forms. No designs that look like they were built in the 1990s. No feature sets originally built for 600 person legacy businesses. Warp is built for startups.

We’re thrilled to be a small supporter of Warp and excited about what’s ahead.

If you’re a startup that wants to spend more time on (a), (b) and (c) , Warp is ready for you.

And if you want to join a fast growing startup in NYC, Warp is hiring.