Bilal Baloch

Team8 and Battery Ventures are excited to lead Koi's $38M A-Round, joining seed investors Picture Capital, NFX and Cerca Partners for a total of $48M in funding. Huge shoutout to founders Amit Assaraf 🎏, Itay Kruk 🎏 and Idan Dardikman 🎏 for pioneering the next wave of endpoint security, covering the blind spots that traditional EDRs and MDMs were never built to protect! [Coming full circle and partnering again with Itay and Idan from Sygnia, a Team8 portfolio company! Amit, you chose well!] From packages and containers to extensions, AI models, and MCPs, Koi delivers visibility, AI-driven risk analysis, and automated enforcement to secure the software perimeter of today’s enterprises. Already protecting over 500,000 endpoints worldwide, Koi’s platform is helping some of the world’s largest companies govern self-installed and unmanaged software. By giving security teams control without slowing innovation, Koi is defining a new category in cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ewtqE4Pk Ori Barzilay, Sarit Firon, Amir Zilberstein, Assaf Mischari, Ori Yankelev, Asaf Azulay, Eyal Eliakim, Uri Shamay, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Dan Amiga, Mickey Boodaei, Barak Schoster Goihman, Dharmesh Thakker, Gigi Levy-Weiss

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I've been spending some time thinking about the second-order effects of what happens as large, multi-stage venture funds account for a greater share of VC AUM. One area of particular interest to me is the evolving conversation around how multi-stage firms will think about conflicts in a world where they need to be in the biggest, power law companies. https://lnkd.in/d2RZXcEw

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I'm happy to announce that Founder Institute is bringing on Paul O'Brien as our first Head of Public Affairs. Paul joins FI with decades of experience tackling the systemic reasons startups and local ecosystems fail due to misaligned policy, underperforming startup programs, or institutional neglect of the realities of launching endurable businesses in today's economy. From Austin to Silicon Valley and beyond, Paul has championed the idea that education is infrastructure, and that cities should treat entrepreneurial development as essential as roads, broadband, and water. At FI we couldn't agree more, and as AI transforms our economy I believe the future of our society will be found at the convergence of how we teach, how we govern, and how we serve entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, I speak to government and economic development officials every week that are completely neglecting the education and development of new entrepreneurs in their regions. In his new role, Paul will help us push FI's mission to empower communities of entrepreneurs forward through Policy Engagement, University and Civic Integration, and Ecosystem Accountability. If your city, university, or organization is ready to integrate structured entrepreneurial incubation and acceleration with policy and capital strategy, now’s the time to connect! 🔗 Read the full announcement - https://lnkd.in/eenwHujW (and welcome on board, Paul! 👏 )

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🚨 New investment announcement! (cc Alastair (Alex) Rampell, Seema Amble) We Andreessen Horowitz are leading Salient's $60M Series A. Salient builds AI for loan servicers. In the last 18 months, they've processed more than $1B in transactions and helped lenders cut handle times by 60%. Consumer lending is a massive market (~80% of households have debt). Lenders are currently weighed down by heavy customer support volume, handled manually now across text, email, phone, and chat. Salient's agents automate this - and monitor for UDAAP and other violations. Salient's co-founders Ari Malik and Mukund Tibrewala hustle - embedding themselves with customers to understand and build for their custom workflows. They're already working with major lenders including Westlake, ACA, Exeter, and CPS, as well as three publicly listed banks. Learn more about our investment, and why we're so excited to partner with the Salient team, here: https://lnkd.in/gxas8_he

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🚀 Companies that innovate in physical industries move through three phases: research, development, and industrial scale. Research and development are critical, but at the end of the day, what truly matters is our ability to scale-to take innovation out of the lab and into the real world. That’s where impact happens. In defense, energy, manufacturing, construction, mining, and other foundational industries, scaling determines whether a breakthrough becomes a prototype or transforms entire sectors. At Eclipse, we’re focused on that last mile: industrial scale. It’s where our experience, time, and energy go, because scaling innovation is what drives real progress for the country and the world.

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We’re thrilled to continue supporting Trunk Tools as they announce their $40M Series B. In just a short time, Sarah Buchner and the team have built something truly remarkable: an AI-native platform purpose-built for the realities of construction. It’s already helping general contractors improve jobsite safety, boost productivity, and navigate the complexity of modern builds. Construction is one of the largest and most operationally challenging industries in the world. Trunk tools is proving that applied AI, when deeply embedded in frontline workflows, can drive real impact where it’s needed most. More on the raise and their vision here: https://lnkd.in/dYmymA5y

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