Enterprise Compliance, Governance, and Security in DevTools

While boosting developer productivity is always at the heart of what we cover, this edition reveals a deeper, more critical trend: the relentless drive towards enterprise-grade reliability and operational robustness. From securing AI agents to streamlining complex backend infrastructure, the latest funding wins and launches show a clear focus on tools that empower developers to build with confidence, ensuring compliance, strengthening governance, and enhancing security at every layer. This week, we’re seeing how extensibility and meticulous engineering are becoming non-negotiable for devtools designed to thrive in demanding production environments.

🏆 Funding Wins

Mako Bags $8.5M To Make GPU Coding Actually Human

Writing efficient GPU code requires rare, specialized kernel engineers that most teams can’t afford to hire. New York’s Mako just raised $8.5M in seed funding led by M13, with strategic partnerships from AMD and Tenstorrent, to solve this exact problem. Founded by CEO Waleed Atallah, Mako built an AI platform that lets developers write in languages they know while handling the low-level GPU optimization magic.

This isn’t just a milestone for our team. It’s a turning point for how the AI industry thinks about performance engineering. (Atallah)

Results speak volumes: 3x faster inference, 80% infrastructure cost savings, and kernels 10x faster than torch.compile. Their MakoGenerate spits out GPU kernels in under 60 seconds across NVIDIA, AMD, and Tenstorrent hardware.

🚀 Brilliant timing for the GPU era! Read Mako’s full funding announcement.

Uno Platform Scores $2.54M While Others Chase Vibe Coding

Montreal’s Uno Platform raised $2.54M co-led by AQC Capital and Desjardins Capital, with Microsoft’s Scott Hanselman as angel investor. While everyone chases hobbyist developers with AI-powered low-code tools, the team, led by CEO Francois Tanguay doubles down on enterprise developers who need real productivity gains.

The startup spun out from consulting agency Nventive with a cross-platform .NET framework that lets developers code once and deploy everywhere. With 100+ million downloads and clients like Toyota and Microsoft, they’ve proven enterprise developers want serious tools. The funding will roll out their “Hot Design” feature for real-time UI tweaking.

1️⃣ Smart enterprise bet! Build cross-platform with Uno Platform.

Refold AI Raises $6.5M To Eliminate Enterprise System Integrators

Enterprise integration consulting is a $350 billion industry built on armies of billable contractors. Co-founders Jugal Anchalia and Abhishek Kumar survived enough ERP disasters to know there had to be a better way. Their Bengaluru-based startup Refold (formerly Cobalt) just secured $6.5M led by Eniac, Tidal, Ahead, and Karman Ventures to automate the whole mess with AI agents.

Already powering 30+ enterprises with 1,500+ users processing 30M+ API calls monthly, they’re collapsing multimonth projects into days. As Kumar puts it:

“We’re replacing 300,000 consultants with 3,000 lines of code.”

💙 Finally automating the consultants! Read the full funding story.

Cognition Reportedly Raises Nearly $500M On $9.8B Valuation

The biggest funding round in AI coding just dropped. San Francisco’s Cognition reportedly closed $500M Series C on $9.8B valuation after acquiring Windsurf’s agentic IDE last month, according to Delaware filings showing shares priced at $55.20 (up from $23.10).

Not that it needs an introduction to you but Devin (their flagship product) is a full-stack AI engineer handling entire development lifecycles: planning, coding, testing, debugging, and deploying with minimal human intervention. The results, outperform GPT-4 and Claude on real GitHub issues. Goldman Sachs, Ramp, Nu Holdings, and Bilt Rewards are already using the platform.

🤖 Massive validation for autonomous coding! Read the WSJ exclusive report.

VibeCode Raises $9.4M From Alexis Ohanian For Mobile Apps

Mobile app creation is still way too complicated for most people. That’s exactly what co-founders Ansh Nanda and Riley Brown set out to fix with vibecode, which just secured $9.4M led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, with Neo, Terrain, Dorm Room Fund, and Afore Capital participating.

They’ve already powered over 50,000 apps, plus new features including direct App Store submission, home screen installation, and a new agent working with any model (GPT-5, Kimi K2, etc.). Their mobile-first approach differentiates them in the crowded AI coding space.

📱 Impressive traction already! Create mobile apps with VibeCode and join 50K+ builders

🚀 3, 2, 1… Launches

Compozy Opens Multi-Agent Orchestration After Two Years Of Wrestling With AI Chaos

After two years battling complex multi-agent setups, vendor lock-in, and endless debugging, founder Pedro Nauck has launched Compozy as the declarative solution to AI orchestration nightmares.

The open-source platform unifies agents, tasks, tools, and signals into scalable YAML workflows, powered by Go and Temporal for enterprise-grade reliability. With 70% of dev time currently wasted on AI agent chaos and 80%+ of enterprises deploying GenAI apps by 2026, Compozy’s stateful workflow management, parallel task system, and Model Context Protocol support make multi-agent orchestration as simple as writing configuration files.

🤖 Star Compozy on GitHub and check out their website.

Alter Launches AI Agent Security Platform To Prevent Production Risks

Alter (YC S25) launched their identity and access control platform to solve what co-founders Srikar D. and Kevan Dodhia call the “choose between unacceptable risk or shelving AI initiatives” problem. Built by former ComputeAI and Goldman Sachs infrastructure veterans, Alter sits between every AI agent interaction, applying fine-grained RBAC and ABAC to verify identity and check parameters against policy in real-time. The platform eliminates long-lived credentials entirely, grants seconds-lived tokens with scope-narrowed access, and provides CISO-ready audit trails for SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance without slowing development velocity.

🔐 Essential for production AI agents! Request beta access at Alter and secure your agent workflows.

Autumn Becomes Stripe For AI Startups After YC Pivot

Founders Ayush Rodrigues and John Yeo pivoted the day before demo day and landed on Autumn (YC S25), a layer over Stripe that makes billing 10x easier for AI companies. The platform handles the complexity of AI pricing models through a simple API: /checkout for billing, /track for usage events, and /check for feature access, all while maintaining the same integration regardless of pricing changes. Already used in production by hundreds of developers and YC startups processing millions, Autumn eliminates the need to rip out and replace Stripe’s five different subscription functions and brittle webhooks every time AI companies change pricing (which they do constantly).

💳 Smart solution for AI billing complexity! Try Autumn and check them out on Product Hunt.

Ghostship Launches AI QA Agents To Catch Bugs Before Production

Jesse Choe and Gautham Ramachandran built Ghostship (YC S25) to solve the costly problem of shipping bugs that cause user churn. The YC S25 startup’s automated CI tool connects to GitHub and spins up AI agents for each PR, autonomously analyzing code diffs and crawling interfaces to find bugs before production. The competitive programmers who never finished college designed Ghostship to catch bugs faster than manual or automated end-to-end testing.

“Ghostship helps you 10x your UX by catching bugs before production.”

🕵️ Don’t get caught lacking! Book a demo with Ghostship and 10x your UX.

🔦 DevTools of the Week: RayCast

When Thomas Paul Mann and Petr Nikolaev launched Raycast in 2020, their goal was simple but ambitious: help people reclaim their focus by slashing the endless app-switching that fragments modern work. Since their $30 million Series B in 2024, Raycast has become the secret weapon for hundreds of thousands of Mac users who want to stay in the zone.

A Harvard Business Review study found knowledge workers switch between apps nearly 1,200 times daily, losing up to five workweeks a year to this “toggle tax.” Raycast acts as the ultimate shortcut, letting users perform tasks like sending Slack messages or checking GitHub notifications without leaving their current workflow.

With over 1,500 open-source extensions built by a vibrant community, Raycast integrates with tools like Jira, Notion, Zoom, and ChatGPT. As CEO Thomas Paul Mann says,

“Raycast isn’t just about saving time — it’s about never wasting it.”

Now expanding beyond macOS to Windows and iOS, Raycast aims to bring its productivity magic to even more users.

“Raycast provides users with virtually limitless opportunities to build a highly personalised productivity platform tailored to their unique workflows.” (Luca Eisenstecken – Atomico)

🖥️ Ready to reclaim your focus? Give Raycast a go and transform your workflow.

🤝 Acquisitions

Anthropic Acqui-Hires Humanloop To Boost Enterprise AI Tooling

Anthropic has acqui-hired Humanloop’s co-founders and most of its team to boost its enterprise AI tooling. Humanloop built advanced prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability tools that help enterprises run AI safely and reliably at scale. While Anthropic did not acquire Humanloop’s IP, it gains valuable expertise in AI safety and tooling, a crucial edge as it competes with OpenAI and Google DeepMind in enterprise AI. 🤝 Learn more.

Offchain Labs Acquires ZeroDev To Power Smart Account Infrastructure

Offchain Labs acquired ZeroDev to add smart account infrastructure to its Ethereum ecosystem tools. ZeroDev powers smart accounts for projects like APECHAIN and Crossmint, enabling better user experiences. This acquisition marks Offchain Labs’ move into consumer applications and full-stack developer support. ⚙️ Discover more.

Workday Acquires Flowise To Build More AI Agents

Workday acquired FlowiseAI , a low-code tool for building AI chatbots and multi-agent systems, to fill a gap in its AI developer offerings. Flowise’s open-source platform supports multiple LLMs and has enterprise customers like Accenture and AWS. The acquisition accelerates Workday’s AI agent capabilities in HR and finance. 🤖 Read the announcement.

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