This week’s newsletter is a good one. We’ve got a standout AI product lead role in Palo Alto, fresh funding for next‑gen observability, diffusion models, and agentic browsing infra, plus new launches in React dev, SRE automation, web data, and real‑time intelligence. If you care about where devtools are actually going, start here.
First and foremost, a really great opportunity ⬇️
⚒️ DevTools Opportunity of the Week
AI Product Technical Lead (Frontend‑leaning) | Hybrid, Palo Alto | $300k base
Join a Series B developer tools company experiencing phenomenal growth. Lead AI-powered product experiences from ideation to production, integrating cutting-edge models into polished workflows. Mentor team, experiment and optimize for user impact, working across React, TypeScript, Node.js, and LLMs. Looking for 6+ years experience with strong frontend skills, LLM prompting expertise, and ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces.
>Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
🏆 Funding Wins
Tsuga raises $10M seed to redefine enterprise observability
Paris-based Tsuga, founded by Datadog veterans Gabriel-James Safar and Sébastien Deprez, raised a $10M seed led by General Catalyst to reinvent how enterprises monitor and debug software. Its “bring your own cloud” approach keeps data inside customer environments, already attracting scaleups and listed firms across finance and healthcare for next-gen observability. READ MORE AT TECH.EU.
Inception raises $50M to bring diffusion models to code
Stanford professor Stefano Ermon’s startup Inception secured a $50M seed from Menlo Ventures, M12, Nvidia, and others to apply image-style diffusion models to code and text. Its Mercury model offers record-breaking speed and cost efficiency, already integrated into ProxyAI, Buildglare, and Kilo Code—a bold new direction for generative AI infrastructure. READ MORE.
Anchor Browser raises $6M to power AI browsing infrastructure
Anchor Browser, founded by Idan Raman ⚓️, Dor Dankner ⚓️ and Guy Ben Simhon ⚓, raised a $6M seed led by Blumberg Capital and Gradient to enable secure, reliable AI web navigation. Its debut product b0.dev turns any website into an AI-actionable surface, with Groq, Unify, and Cloudflare already building on its infrastructure layer for agentic AI. READ MORE.
🚀 Other DevTools News
JSX Tool launches browser IDE to merge AI and React development
JSX Tool, founded by Jamie Sunderland and Dan Hyman, is a browser extension that connects your live React app to its underlying components and files, so you can locate any React component with a click. This lets developers express visual requests to LLMs that would otherwise be vague or cumbersome to describe in plain text and code snippets. On top of that, JSX Tool provides an in-browser IDE tailored for React development, so you can inspect, prompt, edit, and see changes without leaving the context of your browser. READ MORE.
Dataminr debuts developer portal and SDK for real-time intelligence integrations
Dataminr unveiled its new Developer Portal and enhanced SDK to simplify building with its AI-powered real-time intelligence. The platform centralizes APIs, documentation, and sample code for embedding Dataminr data—spanning event, threat, and risk detection—into partner products. Used by 100+ government agencies and two-thirds of the Fortune 50, Dataminr’s SDK accelerates integration of its multimodal AI signals into dashboards, apps, and workflows, helping developers deliver faster insights and richer customer. FIND OUT MORE.
Deeptrace rolls out AI SRE agent to automate production debugging
Deeptrace (YC F25), founded by engineers Andy Lee and Srinath Somasundaram, builds AI agents that triage, diagnose, and fix production alerts automatically—from investigation to generating PRs. Its Full Data Environment model maps logs, traces, metrics, and codebases for instant root-cause detection. The result: fewer firefights, faster recovery, and happier teams. Designed for modern DevOps teams drowning in noise, Deeptrace promises to give engineers their time back while raising reliability across complex distributed systems. HEAD TO THEIR WEBSITE.
Firecrawl launches v2.5: “The World’s Best Web Data API”
Firecrawl released version 2.5 of its web data API, powered by a custom-built browser stack and a new Semantic Index. The upgrade delivers higher-quality, AI-ready data extraction from dynamic sites like JS apps and PDFs. Developers can now retrieve current or historical web states via API calls, improving efficiency and coverage. Positioned as the “data layer for AI,” Firecrawl is building the backbone for scalable, reliable programmatic access to the entire internet. READ MORE.
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