This week’s edition looks at the parts of the stack that still create real engineering friction. From database infrastructure and legacy modernisation to safer agent workflows and more usable observability, the companies featured here are focused on making complex systems easier to build, run and maintain. First up, the DevTools role of the week.
⚒️ DevTools Job Opportunities of the Week
Senior Solutions Engineer | London – OTE £190k | Texas, Chicago, New York, Boston – OTE $220k
- The Role Senior customer-facing pre-sales role for a developer-first AppSec platform.
- What You’ll Do Lead enterprise sales cycles, run Proof of Value engagements, and integrate the product into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
- Requirements 6 to 8 years in customer-facing or pre-sales engineering, with strong depth across DevOps, AppSec, and CI/CD.
- Best Fit Engineers who can read code, understand vulnerabilities, and speak credibly with senior technical stakeholders.
Contact Louise Ogilvy for more information and to apply.
🏆 DevTools Funding Wins
Nearly $200 Million for Tripo AI and Its 3D Asset and World Model Stack
3D content is still expensive to build, awkward to edit and hard to reuse across products. Tripo AI is going after that problem with serious backing. The company closed Series A+ and Series A++ rounds totalling nearly $200m, backed by INCE Capital, China Life Science & Technology Innovation Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group and Genesis Capital. Founded in 2023 by Simon Song and Guoli Su, Tripo AI builds models and tools for generating, editing and simulating 3D assets and persistent interactive environments. It also introduced Project Eden, a research effort focused on reusable multiplayer worlds. In practice, that means one stack aimed at creators, game developers and industrial teams that need spatial content and interactive environments without building each layer from scratch. 🚀 Big round, and a very clear product direction, see what Tripo AI is building.
Kodesage $6.6M Seed Round Funds On Premise AI for Legacy Software Modernisation
Some of the hardest software to change is still running banks, insurers, utilities and public systems. Kodesage is building for that reality, not for greenfield codebases. Founded in 2024 by Gergely Dombi, Miklós Szurdi and Gyorgy Szilagyi, the company raised a $6.6m seed round led by VentureFriends, with Portfolion and angels including Christian Szegedy and Mario Götze also taking part. Its on-premise platform extracts knowledge from code and documentation to build a continuously updated view of legacy systems, then uses that context for discovery, documentation, code conversion, test generation and support. Kodesage supports stacks such as Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, COBOL, PowerBuilder and RPG, which matters for teams modernising critical systems without moving source code outside controlled environments. 🛠️ A sensible approach to a very messy problem, read more about Kodesage.
Supabase Series F Backs Open Source Postgres Tooling for AI Apps
While this newsletter usually focuses on the earlier stages up to Series D, we have been watching Supabase for years and several aspects of this round are too relevant to ignore. The San Francisco startup raised a $500m Series F at a $10.5bn post-money valuation, led by GIC with existing investors like Accel, Y Combinator and Stripe joining the round. Supabase says the capital will fuel open source Postgres development, company growth and employee liquidity. Alongside the raise, the team released Multigres v0.1 alpha, an open source operating system designed to make self-hosted Postgres more scalable and simple to operate. For developers, these investments in the underlying database layer are critical as the industry tries to solve recurring issues with bloat, connection pooling and sharding at scale. 👏 A deserved one to watch, read the Series F update from Supabase.
🚀 New DevTools Launched
Ara Brings Next Step Planning Into the IDE
Most coding tools still wait for instructions. Ara (YC P26), launched by Adi S. and Sven Myhre, is designed to plan ahead. The IDE watches context across files, chats, terminals and browsers, then suggests or executes the next step in a workflow. It also keeps memory across sessions and tools. As coding agents reduce the time spent writing code, Ara is focused on the planning and context management work that still sits with developers. 🚀 Download Ara and let the team know your feedback!
InsForge Extends Git Style Branching to the Entire Backend
InsForge has launched Backend Branching, a way to create isolated copies of production backends for coding agents. Rather than cloning only the database, each branch includes Postgres, auth, storage, edge functions and configuration. Developers can review changes through a PR-style workflow before merging them back into production. As more teams use agents to build application features, Backend Branching provides a safer environment for experimentation. 👏 Congrats Tony (Yaowen) Chang and Hang H., see Backend Branching in action.
Superlog Uses OpenTelemetry and Pull Requests to Handle Incidents
Superlog (YC P26) is an open source observability tool that installs OpenTelemetry instrumentation from a prompt, keeps it updated and groups related issues into a single incident. When problems occur, it proposes fixes through mergeable pull requests in Slack. Co-founder Arseniy Shishaev positions it as an alternative to traditional observability workflows that require extensive setup and generate constant alert noise. The project is focused on reducing the work between detecting a problem and fixing it. 👀 Support their launch on Product Hunt.
Sazabi Builds Observability Around Logs, Slack and Agents
Founded by Sherwood Callaway, Sazabi is a new observability platform currently in closed alpha. Teams connect a repository, install the Slack app and send logs. Sazabi then maps services, monitors systems for anomalies and delivers context-rich alerts directly into Slack. It can also open pull requests or hand investigations to tools such as Cursor and Claude Code. The company is betting that observability workflows should be built around agents rather than dashboards. 🔥 Early days, but an interesting approach, book a demo with Sazabi.
Got launch news or funding to share? Send it to Natalie Harper.
Want more details on the opportunities here or want to register your resume with us, reach out to Becca Combe MIRP CertRP and Louise Ogilvy directly.
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