They say, “No man is an island,” and the same holds true for developer tools. Collaboration fuels innovation, whether it’s working hand-in-hand with users to shape impactful solutions or crafting tools that seamlessly integrate into workflows.
This week’s newsletter highlights the power of collaboration—from AI tools transforming production operations to platforms accelerating GTM strategies—and celebrates the innovation happening when teams and tools work better, together.
🏆 Funding Wins
DryRun Security Snags $8.7M to Redefine Application Security
DryRun Security, founded in 2023 by AppSec veterans James Wickett and Ken Johnson, is tackling the growing challenge of managing security risks in today’s fast-paced development cycles. Their new Natural Language Code Policies (NLCP) and AI-driven Contextual Security Analysis (CSA) help AppSec teams detect code risks without the headache of maintaining scripted policy rules. The $8.7M seed round, led by LiveOak Ventures and Work-Bench, will fuel their engineering and Go-To-Market expansion.
“DryRun Security is a true leap forward in application security, enabling application security teams to identify code risk in a way that previously wasn’t possible.” – Creighton Hicks, Partner at LiveOak Ventures.
Learn more about their mission here.
Clay Raises $40M to Empower GTM Teams with Smarter Growth Tools
Clay, the go-to GTM development platform for teams like OpenAI and Canva, has raised $40M in pre-emptive Series B funding, led by Meritech, at a $1.25B valuation. Founded by Varun Anand and Kareem Mayan, Clay enables GTM teams to develop, execute, and evolve growth ideas seamlessly, integrating 100+ tools and AI agents.
“Our growth has been explosive. We 10x’d revenue in both 2022 and 2023, and we 6x’d revenue in 2024.”
With over 5,000 customers and a growing community of GTM engineers, Clay is reshaping how teams bring growth ideas to life by having a solid understanding of the challenges that GTM teams face and solutions to tackle them.
Explore their journey and where they’re heading here.
Render Secures $80M to Simplify Cloud Infrastructure for AI
Render, founded in 2019 by Anurag Goel, is on a mission to make powerful and intuitive cloud infrastructure accessible to all. The company has raised $80M in Series C funding led by Georgian, bringing their total funding to $157M. Render now supports a growing community of over 2 million developers globally. The platform’s language-agnostic approach balances flexibility and simplicity, empowering teams to innovate faster.
“Render’s Docker-based environment and automated deployments deliver the perfect combination of simplicity and power,” said Sean Yu, Co-founder at Bridge.
This funding will accelerate Render’s expansion into AI infrastructure tools and support for next-gen apps.
See how Render is building for the AI era.
🚀 3, 2, 1… Launches
Blacksmith Hammers Down CI Inefficiencies
Blacksmith, founded in 2024 by University of Waterloo graduates Aditya Jayaprakash (JP), Aditya Maru, and Aayush Shah, is tackling the developer productivity drain caused by slow Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. Using high-performance gaming CPUs, Blacksmith enables teams to run CI pipelines twice as fast and at 50-75% lower costs compared to traditional setups. After being accepted into Y Combinator’s W24 batch, Blacksmith is ready to bring their innovation to more teams worldwide.
Discover how Blacksmith is speeding up CI here.
Quantstruct Brings AI to Documentation Workflows
Quantstruct (YC W25), founded by Sarthak Srinivas and Newman H.., has launched an AI-powered technical writer to tackle the mounting challenge of documentation debt. By connecting to platforms like GitHub and Slack, Quantstruct’s agents update and validate documentation automatically, handling tasks like testing code snippets, ensuring accessibility, and taking screenshots. Already used by companies like Vapi, Quantstruct eliminates the need for manual updates while improving customer experiences.
Sign up to streamline your documentation process today.
Hyperbrowser Launches Web Automation for AI Agents
Hyperbrowser has unveiled a platform that gives AI agents reliable web scraping and browser automation capabilities without the typical headaches. With features like built-in stealth mode, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA solving, Hyperbrowser allows developers to launch thousands of concurrent browser sessions in under a second. This infrastructure powers applications ranging from sales research to automated KYC processes. Congrats to founders Shri Sukhani and Akshay Shekhawat on this latest launch.
Developers can try it for free or join their active Discord community.
Postman Dives Into AI Agents With New Builder
Postman has become a cornerstone in the DevTools world with over 500,000 organizations relying on its API platform. Last week, Postman entered the AI space with the launch of its AI Agent Builder. This tool combines large language models with Postman’s robust API ecosystem, offering a no-code visual editor that empowers both developers and non-developers to build and test AI-driven agents.
Build your AI agents with Postman here.
Streamvisor for Apache Pulsar Unveils Version 3.2
streamvisor has released version 3.2 for Apache Pulsar, introducing a data catalog feature and enhanced schema management capabilities. The data catalog organizes metadata, making topics easier to discover and manage, while schema deletion tools streamline outdated data cleanup. These updates aim to simplify workflows and improve governance for Pulsar users. A free community version is available to try now. Great work Alexander Preuß and the team!
Check out Streamvisor 3.2 here.
Apollo AI Caught Our Eye As a Passion Project
We love giving smaller passion projects a shout out, and this week Apollo AI caught our eye. Created by Aaron Ng, Apollo AI was built as a personal tool to test local AI models on iOS devices. This app allows users to run models like Llama 3.1 entirely offline, ensuring privacy and performance with no internet connection required. Apollo AI can also connect to local or custom AI servers using the OpenAI standard and integrates with OpenRouter if you log in. With no tracking other than crash reporting, it’s an ideal option for private, on-the-go AI exploration.
Download Apollo AI from the App Store here.
Pixee Launches Resolution Center for AppSec Teams
Pixee, co-founded by Arshan Dabirsiaghi and Surag P., has unveiled its Resolution Center—a command hub for application security workflows. This platform unifies SAST/IAST findings, AI-enabled triage, and automated fixes, streamlining security management. Book a demo to see how Pixee can transform your AppSec workflows.
Explore Pixee’s Resolution Center here.
🔦 DevTool of the Week
Resolve AI is Transforming Production Operations
We’re excited to spotlight Resolve AI this week, a company that’s redefining how engineers tackle software operations. Co-founded by Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal, Resolve AI launched in October 2024 with the mission of automating software operations and empowering engineers to focus on building rather than firefighting. The founders, who previously co-created OpenTelemetry and led Splunk Observability, bring decades of experience in tackling engineering bottlenecks.
Resolve AI has worked closely with a group of visionary customers—such as DataStax, Uni, and Blueground—since day one. This collaborative approach has enabled them to move quickly and make their AI Production Engineer production-ready in under six months. Customer feedback has been central to shaping their product, ensuring it delivers real-world impact and aligns with the needs of engineering teams.
Their flagship AI Production Engineer autonomously troubleshoots and resolves production issues, reducing Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) and boosting uptime and productivity. Resolve AI’s knowledge graph maps complex environments with up to 50,000 nodes and 500,000 edges, enabling their AI to navigate dependencies in real-time.
With $35M in seed funding led by Greylock and participation from figures like Fei-Fei Li and Jeff Dean, Resolve AI is set to expand its capabilities into incident prevention, cloud optimization, and beyond. Their vision is to enable engineers to oversee AI-managed production systems, transforming software operations at scale.
Explore how Resolve AI is empowering engineers to focus on innovation instead of firefighting.
Just as no tool thrives in isolation, your insights and updates keep our community strong. If you’ve got exciting developer tool news or product launches coming up, let us know!
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Have a great week ahead!
