This week has been packed with some seriously exciting updates in the world of developer tools. From new funding and product launches to game-changing innovations, we’ve got some awesome tools to talk about that are making life easier for developers.
These tools are designed to simplify complex tasks, speed up workflows, and help developers focus on what they do best: building great products. Let’s jump into the latest and greatest, and see how these tools are reshaping the future of development.
🏆 Funding Wins
Cogna Secures $15M Series A to Shake Up ERP with AI-Driven Solutions
Recently named one of The Europas 100 hottest startups, U.K.-based Cogna has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Notion Capital, with support from Hoxton Ventures and Chalfen Ventures. Founded by Ben Peters, Cogna tackles the often cumbersome, costly world of enterprise resource planning (ERP)—the backbone software managing everything from procurement to finance. By using AI to create custom solutions tailored to each client’s needs, Cogna offers an alternative to traditional, billion-dollar ERP contracts and complex integrations. Major clients like Cadent Gas and Network Plus are already on board.
LocalStack Raises $25M Series A to Empower Local Cloud Development
LocalStack, a Swiss startup simplifying cloud development, has closed a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital, with CRV and Heavybit participating. Co-founded by Waldemar Hummer and Gerta S., LocalStack enables developers to run AWS environments locally, reducing the costs and complexities of cloud testing. With 900 paying clients, including Apple and IBM, LocalStack has seen rapid adoption since launching as an open-source project in 2017. This latest funding supports LocalStack’s plans to expand multi-cloud capabilities, including early support for Snowflake and Azure.
Read more about LocalStack here
Northflank Secures $22M to Simplify Kubernetes for Developers
Northflank, co-founded by Frederik Brix and Will Stewart, has raised $22M in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, alongside Vertex Ventures, Kindred Ventures, and others. Northflank provides a developer-focused platform that streamlines deploying complex workloads on Kubernetes, removing infrastructure headaches while enabling teams to deploy across multiple clouds. Supporting clients like Sentry and Writer, Northflank is designed to give developers control without complex setups, allowing teams to focus on building, not managing infrastructure. The funding will fuel Northflank’s plans to expand Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) support and develop new deployment tools.
Learn more about Northflank’s funding here
Tessl Raises $125M to Transform Software Development with AI
Tessl, co-founded by Guy Podjarny of Snyk, has secured $125M in funding—$100M in Series A led by Index Ventures, plus an earlier $25M Seed round led by boldstart ventures and GV. Tessl is reimagining software creation with an AI-native platform that shifts from code-centric to spec-centric development, aiming to make building software faster, more adaptable, and more secure. “We’re creating a new paradigm where humans express what they want to build, and AI handles the implementation,” Podjarny explained. Tessl opens its waitlist today, with plans to launch in early 2025.
Cyber Upgrade Secures €2.5M to Simplify Cybersecurity Audits with AI
Cyber Upgrade a Lithuania-based cybersecurity provider co-founded by CEO Aurimas Bakas, has raised €2.5M in Seed funding led by Superhero Capital, with backing from Specialist VC, FIRSTPICK, and NGL Ventures. Cyber Upgrade’s AI-powered platform, designed as a “copilot” for cyber audits, helps companies manage compliance via Slack and Microsoft Teams. This latest funding will support further development toward an autonomous AI system. “Our vision is to provide a powerful tool enabling companies to achieve the same level of cyber protection and audit readiness as Fortune 500 companies, without needing an expansive and costly in-house team,” shared Bakas.
Explore Cyber Upgrade’s innovative approach here
Athina AI Lands $3M Seed Round to Bring Production-Ready AI to Every Team
Athina AI (YC W23), backed by Y Combinator, has raised $3 million in seed funding, with support from investors including Kleiner Perkins Scout Fund, Flourish Ventures, and Snorkel AI’s CEO Alex Ratner. Co-founded by Shiv Sakhuja and Himanshu Bamoria, Athina helps teams build, test, and deploy complex AI applications that are resilient and production-ready. Already trusted by industry unicorns like Perplexity, Doximity, and Meesho, Athina’s platform simplifies the rigorous testing and monitoring that AI development demands. With fresh funding, Athina aims to expand its reach in the U.S., providing companies with a faster, collaborative AI development experience.
Find out more about Athina’s mission here
🚀 3, 2, 1… Launches
Upbound Elevates Crossplane Development with New Dev Tools and Portal
Upbound, led by CEO Bassam Tabbara, has launched a comprehensive developer experience for the Crossplane project just in time for KubeCon. This release introduces tooling that lets developers treat control planes like software projects, with support for multiple languages, favorite editors, and seamless testing. Additionally, Upbound’s new ClickOps consumer portal complements existing GitOps and CLI tools, enhancing ease of use for app teams. New Individual (free) and Team plans make Crossplane accessible to all, while upgraded enterprise-grade security features bolster package integrity.
Learn more about Upbound’s latest tools here
MemryX Launches Developer Hub to Simplify Edge AI Development
MemryX Inc., co-founded by CEO Keith Kressin, has unveiled its Developer Hub, a new go-to toolkit for deploying AI on edge devices with ease. Aimed at developers of all levels, the hub offers open-source tools, tutorials, and resources that make integrating MemryX AI accelerators into real-world applications simple. Unlike traditional platforms, the Developer Hub skips the limitations of a fixed model zoo, letting users run virtually any model on MemryX’s efficient MX3 chips without needing extra modifications. This platform supports seamless, low-power edge AI deployments that require no complex setup.
Discover MemryX’s Developer Hub here
Codeium Captures Attention with Windsurf Editor for Real-Time AI-Driven Coding
Codeium, has launched the Windsurf Editor, an innovative AI-enhanced code editor that seamlessly integrates copilot-like collaboration with the independence of AI agents. This tool introduces “AI Flows,” allowing the AI to stay continuously aligned with developers’ work, enabling fluid, real-time code creation. “The Windsurf Editor creates a seamless mind-meld between developers and AI,” said Varun Mohan, Codeium’s CEO and co-founder. Available as a fork of Visual Studio Code, Windsurf offers powerful features that anticipate developers’ needs, transforming AI into a true coding partner.
Explore the Windsurf Editor here.
Mintlify Bridges the Documentation Divide with New WYSIWYG Web Editor
Mintlify’s new Web Editor opens up documentation to non-developers, making it easy to create, edit, and publish content through a Notion-like interface. This release by the Mintlify team aims to reduce reliance on Git, allowing teams across roles—from product managers to marketers—to jump in and enhance documentation without extra dev support. Built with a focus on collaboration, Mintlify’s Web Editor empowers teams to keep docs up-to-date, fostering a smoother workflow for all. “Developers understand the pain points of documentation better than anyone, so we built Mintlify hyper-focused on their challenges. Fast forward to today, Mintlify powers documentation for engineering teams at thousands of companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Scale, and Zapier,” writes Co-Founder Han Wang on the company’s blog page.
Explore Mintlify’s Web Editor and streamline your docs here.
BuildShip V2 Takes Visual Development to New Heights
BuildShip V2 is now live on Product Hunt and ready to supercharge your workflow! With the introduction of the Infinite Canvas for limitless creativity real-time trigger connectors and powerful enterprise-grade features like GitHub integration—BuildShip V2 is the ultimate platform for building APIs and automating complex tasks. “We’ve reimagined BuildShip to deliver a production-ready experience that empowers teams to build faster and smarter,” said Co-founder Harini Janakiraman.
Trench Offers Open-Source Scalable Analytics for Developers
Trench created by the Frigade team (YC W23), provides an open-source analytics infrastructure for tracking events, page views, and user identification, designed to handle the demands of high-scale environments. Built on Kafka and ClickHouse, Trench delivers a production-ready Docker image that scales to millions of end-users, making it a solid alternative to traditional tools like Segment and Google Analytics. The solution eliminates the cost and performance bottlenecks of Postgres while offering real-time querying and event tracking, all within a simplified architecture. Congrats to Christian Mathiesen and Eric Brownrout.
PearAI Brings Effortless AI Integration to Your Development Workflow
PearAI, founded by Duke Pan and Nang Ang, is reimagining AI-powered development with its open-source AI code editor. Addressing the pain points developers face with multiple AI tools, PearAI offers a unified solution, integrating top AI tools into a single interface for smoother workflows. No more juggling subscriptions or clunky integrations. With V1, developers get a curated inventory of tools like Continue, Aider, and Perplexity—all in one place, seamlessly connected.
Alex Brings AI-Powered Code Generation to Xcode
Alex (YC F24), a sidebar copilot for Xcode, integrates powerful AI tools like Claude, OpenAI, and Perplexity to streamline the iOS development process. With features like Cmd+L, Cmd+K, Tab-to-Complete, and Codebase Search, Alex helps developers write Swift code more efficiently. Founded by Daniel Edrisian, Alex is already being used by developers in startups and large companies to speed up development in their production codebases.
Check out Alex here and see how it can enhance your workflow.
OpenFunnel Creates AI-Powered GTM Agents for Developer Tools
OpenFunnel (YC F24), is revolutionizing the go-to-market strategy for developer tools with its AI-driven “GTM Agents.” These agents actively monitor developer channels like GitHub and Discourse, identifying engagement opportunities through second-order thinking. By understanding your product, ideal customer profile, and competitors, OpenFunnel’s GTM Agents help drive adoption while streamlining the sales process for developer tools. Founded by Aditya Lahiri and Fenil Suchak, OpenFunnel is on a mission to make it easier for developer tools to reach the right users. We’re extremely excited by what these guys are doing.
Learn more here.
🔦 DevTools of the Week
Dapr Graduates to CNCF: Simplifying Distributed Application Development
Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) simplifies the development of distributed applications with a set of integrated APIs for communication, state, and workflows, built to run across cloud and edge environments.
Recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Dapr has rapidly become a vital tool for developers tackling the complexities of microservices architectures. It abstracts away the complexity of cloud-native infrastructures, allowing developers to focus on business logic.
With over 3,700 contributors and adoption by more than 400 organizations, Dapr provides key capabilities for building production-ready applications using best practices for security, resiliency, and observability.
Founded in 2019 by Yaron Schneider (CTO of Diagrid) and others, Dapr is now a mature project that has evolved within the CNCF ecosystem. Its vendor-neutral approach and thriving community continue to drive its success.
Learn more: dapr.io
Langfuse: Empowering LLM Development with Open-Source Tools
Langfuse (YC W23) was founded in 2023 by Marc Klingen, Max Deichmann and Clemens Rawert who sought to create a platform that would streamline the iterative process of developing and improving LLM-based applications, focusing on observability and ease of integration.
Langfuse’s platform offers a range of tools for production tracing, prompt management, evaluation services, and SDKs for Python and TypeScript. It supports integrations with popular frameworks like Langchain, OpenAI, and LiteLLM, and allows developers to collaborate on complex workflows with greater visibility and control. Its open API gives developers the flexibility to build their own use cases and workflows.
Langfuse has grown rapidly, evolving from a handful of core YC users to thousands of developers and teams in startups and enterprises. Next week, Langfuse will kick off its Launch Week #2, further enhancing its support for new model capabilities and making it easier for developers to integrate Langfuse into their AI workflows.
Langfuse’s mission remains clear: to provide the most robust and versatile open-source platform for LLMOps, giving teams the tools they need to improve their AI applications quickly and efficiently. With features like evaluation services, prompt versioning, and the new LLM playground, Langfuse is a go-to solution for teams looking to build and scale AI-powered applications with ease.
Learn more: Langfuse Website
These updates are a testament to the incredible work happening across the tech industry, and it’s exciting to see the tools that will make developers’ and their teams’ lives easier.
If you’ve got some exciting news of your own, we’d love to hear about it and share your journey with the community!
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