AI tooling is becoming more capable, but developers are still spending time solving infrastructure, workflow and visibility challenges around it. This week’s launches focus on making AI systems easier to operate in production, from model orchestration and browser automation to data movement and agent oversight. 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
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The Role Senior customer-facing pre-sales role for a developer-first AppSec platform.
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What You’ll Do Lead enterprise sales cycles, run Proof of Value engagements, and integrate the product into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
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Requirements 6 to 8 years in customer-facing or pre-sales engineering, with strong depth across DevOps, AppSec, and CI/CD.
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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
Aryon Security Raises $29M for Cloud Security Policy Enforcement Before Production
Aryon Security has raised $29 million in Series A funding led by Brightmind Partners, with Datadog Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Blumberg Capital and Viola Ventures joining. Founders Ron Arbel, Ariel Litmanovich and Yair Ladizhensky are building a cloud security enforcement layer that blocks risky changes before they reach production. That is the key distinction. Most cloud security teams still discover misconfigurations after deployment, then spend weeks cleaning up live environments. Aryon is pitching policy enforcement at the point of change, across pipelines and manual changes alike. For teams dealing with regulated cloud estates, migration work or M&A, that means less alert noise and fewer late remediation loops. 🔐 Impressive work on the Series A. Give Aryon a look.
Pi Security Picks up $35M for Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation Across Code and Cloud
Brightmind Partners and Third Point Ventures led Pi Security’s $35 million round, with backing from George Kurtz and Armis founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael. Co-founder and CEO Guy Arazi says Pi absorbs code, design docs, cloud infrastructure and internal communications so it can remediate vulnerabilities, not just flag them. That matters because detection is no longer the hard part. Security teams can already surface more issues than they can realistically fix. The harder step is shipping repairs that are correct, durable and safe across the wider system. Pi is betting that the next security control point is autonomous remediation with full environment context. 🛠️ Great news for the automated security space. Give Pi a closer look.
Flux Secures $5M for Code Based Engineering Visibility and Risk Tracking
Code-first engineering intelligence startup Flux has raised $5 million, led by Calibrate Ventures with support from True Ventures and Glasswing Ventures. Founded by Ted Julian, Flux is developing a platform that reads code changes directly and links them to quality, security, technical debt and team behaviour. The approach stands out because most engineering reporting still relies on tickets and status updates, which reveal little about what has actually changed in the codebase. As AI-assisted development increases software output, that gap is becoming more significant. Flux is targeting engineering leaders who want a clearer view of how code is evolving, whether AI tools are changing development patterns and where risk is building before it becomes an operational issue. 📈 A solid win for engineering transparency. Find out why Flux was built from the company themselves.
Backing the Builders Not the Models: Niteshift Raises $7M
Niteshift has secured $7 million in seed funding led by Accel to help developers avoid getting locked into a single AI model. Founders Arpit Agarwal and Suman Kar are building infrastructure that allows engineering teams to route coding tasks to whichever LLM is most efficient for that specific job. As the performance of models like Claude, GPT and Gemini continues to shift, this abstraction layer ensures that developers aren’t stuck with a declining tool. The platform handles the complexities of prompt management and evaluation across different providers. This investment marks a significant bet on the idea that the future of AI coding is multi model rather than platform specific. 🏗️ A well timed move for AI infrastructure. See what Niteshift is building.
Soffi Steps Out of Stealth With $4.6M for Collaborative Product Development
Soffi, a San Francisco startup founded by Cris Dobbins, has emerged from stealth with $4.6m in pre-seed funding led by Innovation Endeavors, with participation from Motive Force Ventures and Darkmode Ventures. The company is building a collaborative development environment for enterprise product teams that want designers, product managers and engineers working in the same live product space, not in separate tools and handoff chains. By integrating with existing codebases, design systems and data, Soffi aims to help teams move from product idea to production-ready software with less friction. The new funding will go towards product development, enterprise growth and team expansion. 🎉 A strong start for Cris Dobbins and the team. Give Soffi a go.
🚀 New DevTools Launched
Respan Launches AI Gateway for Routing, Evals and Prompt Optimisation
Respan has introduced a new AI gateway designed to streamline how developers manage model routing, evaluations and prompt performance. Founded by Swarup Mahanti, the platform acts as a central hub for LLM operations, allowing teams to swap models or update prompts without deploying new code. The tool provides built-in evaluation features to track output quality and routing logic to ensure requests are sent to the most cost-effective or highest-performing model for any given task. This launch addresses the growing need for infrastructure that can handle the complexity of multi-model applications while keeping latency low. 🚀 Huge congratulations to Swarup Mahanti and the team. Give Respan a go.
BROWSERBASE INTRODUCES BROWSE.SH TO GIVE AGENTS WEB MEMORY
Browserbase has released Browse.sh, an open-source catalog of reusable browser automation skills that solves the problem of agents “rediscovering” web workflows. Rather than forcing an AI agent to figure out the DOM of a complex site like GitHub or Ramp from scratch every time, developers can now install specific SKILL.md recipes via the browse CLI. This approach significantly reduces token consumption and execution time by providing proven paths for navigation and data extraction. The platform includes a library of over 250 pre-built skills and features Autobrowse, a system that analyses session traces and failure points to generate new workflows. It effectively transforms brittle browser scripts into reliable, repeatable primitives for the agentic era. 🚀 Fantastic work on the launch. Explore Browse.sh.
ARTIE LAUNCHES SELF SERVE DATA EMPOWERING FASTER REPLICATION
Artie has officially moved to a self-serve model, allowing data engineers to deploy real-time replication pipelines without the traditional friction of sales calls. The platform specialises in Change Data Capture (CDC), enabling row-level database changes to be streamed into warehouses or storage layers in under a minute. By automating schema evolution and ensuring exactly-once delivery, Artie eliminates the need for teams to manually maintain complex Kafka or Debezium infrastructure. This shift to self-serve is a major win for teams moving at high velocity, as it simplifies the process of syncing production databases with analytics environments. It provides the reliability of enterprise-grade pipelines with the ease of use typically reserved for modern SaaS tools. 📈 Congratulations to the Artie team. Start replicating with Artie.
BACKPLANES REVEALS SPOTLIGHT TO AUDIT CLAUDE CODE SESSIONS
Backplanes has introduced Spotlight, a specialised tool designed to bring transparency to Claude Code and Codex sessions. As AI agents become more autonomous, understanding their decision-making process during a coding session is critical for security and debugging. Spotlight captures these sessions as they conclude and generates detailed reports that highlight file access, commands executed, and interactions with external services. It identifies anomalous behaviour and surfaces key patterns, allowing engineers to verify that agents are following best practices. By turning opaque terminal sessions into readable logs, Backplanes provides a necessary layer of oversight for teams integrating AI into their core development workflows. The tool is currently available for free to both individual developers and teams. 👏 Great to see this from Backplanes. Give Spotlight a go.
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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