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South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus on backing founders of color. Zach Ellis, the firm’s founder and managing director, spoke to TechCrunch about his final close. He said the fund is general and will invest in founders nationwide, though it does have a preference for sectors that “reflect the industrial strength of Houston,” such as healthcare, energy, space, and climate. Texas Capital Bank and The Great Commission Foundation of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas also participated in the round. So far, South Loop has made 13 investments and hopes to invest in a total of at least 30. “We thought it was important to have a fund focused on diverse founders here in Houston, given Houston’s diversity,” he said. Houston is one of the nation’s most diverse cities, ranking at number five. Asked if he was worried about the anti-DEI backlash, as his fund targets founders of color, Ellis offered a simple response. “We strongly believe that venture capital should be accessible to everyone and that underinvested and diverse teams offer a unique opportunity for significant returns,” he said. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Despite his growing love for Houston, Ellis actually hails from New Orleans and started his career in the military. “I’ve always been a very mission-driven person, so after serving seven years active duty in the Navy, I transitioned to the corporate sector.” That led him to work as a health care consultant, which later exposed him to a corporate innovation group. That group then taught him about how to use technology in a way that helps people with the mundane aspects of everyday life. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe we get paid to do this,’” he recalled. “And my colleague said, ‘You should see what the VCs do.” He networked until he landed on the corporate venture team at PepsiCo, where he performed a mix of technology scouting, corporate partnerships, and investing in food and agriculture-related funds. From there, he went to Ohio State, where he helped manage a pool of money to later invest in Midwest-focused VC funds and startups spun from the university. “It was around that time that the pandemic happened, the George Floyd murder happened, and I was able to reflect on my career and the impact I was having and the fact that I was often the only Black or brown face in any room that I was in,” Ellis said. “I wanted to do something about it.” Serendipitously, he received a call from a friend in Houston, who told him that the city was working to raise its profile in tech and innovation. His friend, in particular, said many stakeholders had an appetite to support a fund backing founders of color. That, and he had already told many of them that Ellis would be the perfect person to lead one. So, Ellis came down to Houston and birthed the idea for South Loop Ventures. He described the fundraising process as “difficult.” “We began just as the market started to slow down, and it continued to become more challenging,” he said. “While we had strong initial momentum, it ultimately took us 24 months to complete.” He met most of the fund’s current investors through a network of stakeholders, adding that Mercury Fund in particular helped connect him with other investors in the ecosystem. Next, Ellis is hoping to lure in some more tech talent to the city. That, and, of course, pour some money into founders looking to build the next big thing. “People are naturally drawn to live here, which I believe will help attract top-tier founders who will see not only the business opportunities but also feel welcome and comfortable,” he said. “With South Loop’s support, we aim to ensure they also feel empowered.”

Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told TechCrunch exclusively. In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software. The news was notable considering that Brex originally was a startup focused on startups. It provided corporate cards aimed mainly at startups and SMBs. Brex gradually evolved its model with the aim of serving as a “financial operating system” for companies. When the company announced that it was branching out into software, its goal was to diversify its revenue streams. So instead of just primarily making money off of interchange fees, it was seeking to also generate recurring revenue from subscriptions to its software. But over the years, it seems that Brex has realized that there are some aspects of serving enterprise customers that it may not have the capabilities to do in the way that it wanted to. And, according to chief business officer Art Levy, the majority of its revenue today still comes from interchange fees (although software is steadily growing, he said). So in what might be a considered surprise move, Brex announced last fall that it was partnering with Navan to offer “BrexPay for Navan,” combining its corporate card with Navan’s travel management in a product aimed at enterprises. Once Navan (formerly called TripActions) expanded from just offering travel services after the COVID pandemic hit into overall expense management, it was increasingly competitive with Brex. So the news that the two were joining forces raised a few eyebrows. And Tuesday, Brex is now announcing another partnership aimed at boosting its offering to the enterprise. It is partnering with Zip, a five-year-old procurement startup that raised $190 million at a $2.2 billion valuation last October, to offer “Brex for Zip,” the two companies shared with TechCrunch exclusively. The new offering embeds Brex’s virtual cards directly into Zip’s platform with the goal of giving enterprises “the ability to streamline procurement and payment workflows, prevent unauthorized spend before it happens and simplify global operations with a single card program.” Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Brex co-founder and CEO Pedro Franceschi and Zip CEO and co-founder Rujul Zaparde told TechCrunch that one reason the partnership made sense was that the two companies together serve more than 30,000 businesses, with some overlap. For example, companies which both Brex and Zip count as customers include Anthropic, eToro, BetterUp, Carta, Coinbase, Gong, Zapier, Wiz, NeuroLink, among others. Both are heavily focused on growing their enterprise customer base and hope that the new combined offering will strengthen their respective positions in that segment. In the first quarter, Brex saw its enterprise revenue grow by 70%, and net revenue retention for the segment climb by over 130%, according to Franceschi. Meanwhile, Zip was the largest quarter on record overall for Zip, with 155% growth within its strategic enterprise segment, Zaparde told TechCrunch. Besides those mentioned above, other companies that Zip counts as customers include OpenAI, Discover, Snowflake, Reddit and Sephora. In Brex’s case, the startup realized that what Zip had built for procurement was further along than what it could offer when attempting to sell to the enterprise. “When you’re a startup, but you don’t really have a complicated procurement workflow, then typically a corporate card works. But when you go into a more sophisticated enterprise, something like Zip really comes alive in a differentiated way, because you have a complicated procurement process,” Franceschi told TechCrunch. Interestingly, Zip touts that it has “never lost a single enterprise customer.” Brex’s humility is also notable considering that the startup itself admitted to trying to do too much too fast, and thus hitting some road bumps in its growth. At a TechCrunch Disrupt panel in 2022, co-founder Henrique Dubugras acknowledged that the startup needed to focus more strategically on serving its startup customer base. But perhaps Brex is really getting the last word. The decisions to partner with Zip and Navan also mean that Brex is spending less money on building out products. As such, the moves could also potentially be traced to reducing cash burn, something that Brex too has admittedly been working on. In January 2024, Brex announced it had cut 282 employees, or nearly 20% of its staff, in a restructuring. The move came after reports the company burned $17 million in cash each month during the fourth quarter of 2023 and that it was trying to preserve runway. Efforts to slow cash burn seem to be paying off, according to Franceschi. In the first quarter, cash burn for Brex was down about 90% year-over-year, he said. Burn baby burn Since its 2017 inception, Brex has brought in over $1.5 billion in both primary and secondary transactions. It was valued at over $12.3 billion at its peak in 2022. As of February, the startup was expecting its annual net revenue to reach $500 million this year. In April, the company saw over a 154% increase in realized revenue. Brex is not yet profitable, although Franceschi expects that it will be by year’s end. Going public is still on the roadmap, too. Eventually. “We want to be a public company, but we want to go public when we are ready to do so,” Franceschi told TechCrunch. “There is a lot to this, but getting the governance structure is crucial. While we are closer on the IPO front, there are other considerations as well such as financial profile and market conditions.” Meanwhile, it seems to be leaning in on this strategy of partnering with other companies. In the case of its teaming up with Navan on travel, Franceschi said Brex recognized that it could meet its smaller customers’ needs but that it might benefit from help in serving its enterprise base. “We kept hearing the same thing from customers: disconnected systems were slowing them down,” he told TechCrunch. The phrase for these sorts of relationships could be described as “coopetition,” or the combination of cooperation and competition. In fintech especially, many companies are realizing that it makes more sense to partner with or invest in other startups that have built something they are interested in offering or improving upon. For example, equity management startup Carta recently wrote a check into SimpleClosure’s $15 million raise after abandoning its own plans to build a similar product. For both Brex and Zip, the decision to partner ultimately boiled down to listening to their customers. “It was just a very natural partnership,” Zaparde told TechCrunch. “And really, the customer base pulled it out of us.” Franceschi agrees. “We asked ourselves, ‘how can we build a deep product integration where one plus one equals five, and that’s what we’re bringing to market now.”

Enterprise data intelligence platform Alation acquired Numbers Station to help give its customers access to AI agents that run on top of their structured data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Numbers Station, which builds AI-native data applications, is a Series A-stage startup that’s raised more than $17 million in venture capital from firms including Norwest Venture Partners, Madrona and Factory, among others. Alation plans to integrate Numbers Station’s products into its own as soon as the end of this quarter, Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani told TechCrunch. “One of the things that gave us a lot of confidence is the [companies] are architected in such a fundamentally complementary way that we could get the integration done really fast,” he said. Data and knowledge consumption is increasingly happening through large language models, Sangani said, but the fact that LLMs are prone to hallucinate means that enterprise haven’t yet been able to meaningfully adopt AI data tools. Sangani said that his company’s next stage of data management had to include a translation layer that sits between the LLMs and an enterprise’s data. Numbers Station was a natural choice to provide that layer, Sangani said, because it already builds AI agents that work on structured data. The fact that Venky Ganti, a former co-founder at Alation, worked at Numbers Station for a handful of years didn’t hurt, either. “[The] ability to basically make LLMs have the ability to talk to the core databases that fuel and run the enterprise, we think is basically the problem to solve to make LLMs scale inside of the enterprise,” Sangani said. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Alation started to build its own AI agents last year, Sangani said, including one for data quality and one for documentation that the company expects to release this quarter. But acquiring a company like Numbers Station allows Alation to offer workflow automations faster. “What we bring to bear is all of the metadata and all the context around the data and this massive, gnarly library of connectors and all of this enterprise knowledge,” Sangani said. “And what they bring to bear is the ability to bring these LLMs, and take their cutting-edge technologies, and operate on that data.” Alation was founded in 2012 and currently works with more than 600 enterprise customers including Nasdaq, Hertz, and Samsung, among others. The company has raised more than $300 million in venture funding from firms including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sapphire Ventures. The company was last valued at $1.7 billion in 2022.

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Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape. From GitHub’s early Copilot to contemporary tools like Cursor and Windsurf, most AI coding assistants operate as an exceptionally intelligent form of autocomplete. The tools generally live in an integrated development environment, and users interact directly with the AI-generated code. The prospect of simply assigning a task and returning when it’s finished is largely out of reach. But these new agentic coding tools, led by products like Devin, SWE-Agent, OpenHands, and the aforementioned OpenAI Codex, are designed to work without users ever having to see the code. The goal is to operate like the manager of an engineering team, assigning issues through workplace systems like Asana or Slack and checking in when a solution has been reached. For believers in forms of highly capable AI, it’s the next logical step in a natural progression of automation taking over more and more software work. “In the beginning, people just wrote code by pressing every single keystroke,” explains Kilian Lieret, a Princeton researcher and member of the SWE-Agent team. “GitHub Copilot was the first product that offered real auto-complete, which is kind of stage two. You’re still absolutely in the loop, but sometimes you can take a shortcut.” The goal for agentic systems is to move beyond developer environments entirely, instead presenting coding agents with an issue and leaving them to resolve it on their own. “We pull things back to the management layer, where I just assign a bug report and the bot tries to fix it completely autonomously,” says Lieret. It’s an ambitious aim, and so far, it’s proven difficult. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW After Devin became generally available at the end of 2024, it drew scathing criticism from YouTube pundits, as well as a more measured critique from an early client at Answer.AI. The overall impression was a familiar one for vibe-coding veterans: with so many errors, overseeing the models takes as much work as doing the task manually. (While Devin’s rollout has been a bit rocky, it hasn’t stopped fundraisers from recognizing the potential – in March, Devin’s parent company, Cognition AI, reportedly raised hundreds of millions of dollars at a $4 billion valuation.) Even supporters of the technology caution against unsupervised vibe-coding, seeing the new coding agents as powerful elements in a human-supervised development process. “Right now, and I would say, for the foreseeable future, a human has to step in at code review time to look at the code that’s been written,” says Robert Brennan, the CEO of All Hands AI, which maintains OpenHands. “I’ve seen several people work themselves into a mess by just auto-approving every bit of code that the agent writes. It gets out of hand fast.” Hallucinations are an ongoing problem as well. Brennan recalls one incident in which, when asked about an API that had been released after the OpenHands agent’s training data cutoff, the agent fabricated details of an API that fit the description. All Hands AI says it’s working on systems to catch these hallucinations before they can cause harm, but there isn’t a simple fix. Arguably the best measure of agentic programming progress is the SWE-Bench leaderboards, where developers can test their models against a set of unresolved issues from open GitHub repositories. OpenHands currently holds the top spot on the verified leaderboard, solving 65.8% of the problem set. OpenAI claims that one of the models powering Codex, codex-1, can do better, listing a 72.1% score in its announcement – although the score came with a few caveats and hasn’t been independently verified. The concern among many in the tech industry is that high benchmark scores don’t necessarily translate to truly hands-off agentic coding. If agentic coders can only solve three out of every four problems, they’re going to require significant oversight from human developers – particularly when tackling complex systems with multiple stages. Like most AI tools, the hope is that improvements to foundation models will come at a steady pace, eventually enabling agentic coding systems to grow into reliable developer tools. But finding ways to manage hallucinations and other reliability issues will be crucial for getting there. “I think there is a little bit of a sound barrier effect,” Brennan says. “The question is, how much trust can you shift to the agents, so they take more out of your workload at the end of the day?”

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“I’ve got a pretty wild story to tell you,” the early YouTube star Caspar Lee says in a TikTok. He goes on to tell the story of how a startup founder slid into his LinkedIn DMs with a pitch about an eco-friendly deodorant called Wild. He ignored the message at first, but his cousin Sasha Kaletsky, then a Bridgepoint investor, asked Lee if he and some other creators wanted to get in on the seed round. This April, about five and a half years later, Wild sold to Unilever for £233 million, or around $286 million. Wild would be just the tip of the iceberg for Kaletsky and Lee. In 2019, they formed Creator Ventures, a seed and pre-seed venture capital fund focused on consumer internet companies. Now, Creator Ventures is launching its second fund with $45 million, more than double its previous $20 million fund. Creator Ventures already has a track record of making some solid bets on seed-stage startups. Eleven Labs, an AI audio company now valued at over $3.3 billion, was part of Creator Ventures’ Fund I. Soon after Unilever acquired Wild, another Creator Ventures-backed company, Runna, exited to running app Strava. The firm has also invested in buzzy newsletter platform Beehiiv, and it led AI language learning app Praktika‘s seed round. After six years working with its first fund, the Creator Ventures Fund II will continue investing in consumer-facing companies, but with a closer eye on AI — that’s not a surprise to hear in 2025. “There’s a trillion dollars of spend that goes through the iOS and Android app stores every year, and if even a small proportion of that becomes taken by consumer AI apps, that’s going to be a whole lot of unicorns,” Kaletsky told TechCrunch. Aside from the interest in AI, Kaletsky sees some other burgeoning trends in the consumer internet space. He’s particularly interested in microdrama streaming apps, which have long been popular in Asian markets, but have started making a real dent in the U.S. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW “The crazy part about ReelShort, which is fascinating, is the pricing,” Kaletsky said. “People sometimes don’t realize they’re charging $20 a week… it’s far more expensive than Netflix.” So far this year, according to app store data provider Appfigures, the microdrama apps DramaBox and ReelShort have made $99 million and $152 million from in-app purchases in the U.S., respectively. Those figures reflect a 203% and a 233% year-over-year growth from the same time frame in 2024. Some of Creator Ventures’ bets are a bit more speculative. Kaletsky and Lee are also excited about an app in their portfolio called Status, a social network-like app where users post updates to an audience of AI bots, meaning that no one actually sees what they post. The bots might love your posts or cancel you. The company markets itself as “Sims but social media.” These AI bot-filled social network startups have been cropping up over the last year, though to a skeptic, the appeal of AI-only social experiences may seem dubious. But according to Creator Ventures, Status has over 1 million global users after launching earlier this year. Though Creator Ventures isn’t necessarily a creator economy fund, the entrepreneurial parallels between startup founders and content creators like Lee remain at the center of the firm’s vision. “A lot of consumer internet founders find that the real exciting go-to-market strategy is around social,” Lee said. “A lot of these founders are becoming creators in their own right… and that’s something I love to get involved in as someone who comes from that world.” Fund II is propped up by Level, Cendana, Vintage, Isomer Capital, Sequoia, and other partners. Kaletsky said that some of the Fund II backers hadn’t invested in consumer-dedicated funds in over ten years. “I think, hopefully, people are starting to see the potential of consumer in this era,” Kaletsky said. Lee added, “It’s nice for us to be able to invest in things that our friends and family can come across.”

Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The new capital, which brings Gravitee’s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used to fund the development of new product features and Gravitee’s expansion into new markets, said CEO Rory Blundell. Modern data systems are complex. APIs, for example — the set of rules that allow different apps to communicate and exchange data — often come with their own tools and protocols. Blundell makes the case that companies risk creating blind spots and slowing down innovation without a control plane to tie disparate systems together. “[C]ompanies are integrating AI agents, streaming data, APIs, and hybrid systems faster than ever,” Blundell said in a statement. “As a result, many companies face major risks around security, observability, and control of their API and event infrastructure.” Blundell founded Gravitee in 2015 alongside developers Azize Elamrani, David Brassely, Nicolas Géraud, and Titouan Compiegne. What started as an open source project quickly evolved into a business. Today, Gravitee offers paid services to fund development of its freely available software. The Gravitee platform can be deployed on-premises, self-hosted, or used as a part of Gravitee’s software-as-a-service plan. Features across all releases include a tool for designing APIs and deploying them ahead of mock testing as well as a dashboard from which users can visualize the components of their API deployments. Gravitee competes with Blobr, which offers software for exposing and monetizing enterprise APIs. Another top rival is StepZen, a company developing graph tech to help connect and visualize various APIs. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Blundell claims that Gravitee is differentiated by its support for both asynchronous APIs (i.e. APIs that return data at a later time) and synchronous APIs (APIs that return data immediately). Some vendors don’t offer this. Gravitee has hundreds of customers today, according to Blundell, including Blue Yonder, Michelin, Roche, and Tide. Annual recurring revenue reached $22 million in fiscal year 2024. Gravitee employs around 130 customers and plans to end the year with roughly 200.