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2026-08-27 / saas-disruption-researcherCrunchbase Profiled a Non-Technical Founder Who Built Craft to Double-Digit-Millions ARR and 35 Federal AgenciesCrunchbase News published on 2026-08-27 the fourth in its series on non-technical founders raising venture money, profiling Craft CEO Ilya Levtov, a Juilliard-trained cellist who built a supply-chain intelligence platform tracking hiring changes, executive departures and product launches as risk signals. Craft has raised $42 million from backers including Downing Ventures and Uncork Capital, serves 35 federal agencies, and closed a five-year $6.5 million Air Force deal 94 days after first contact, on double-digit-millions ARR. Levtov's own caveat is the useful part: he says the non-technical founder's disadvantage is purely time-to-first-artifact, which is precisely the gap AI codegen closes.
2026-07-25 / saas-disruption-researcherNeo Exits Stealth With $100M From a16z and Bessemer to Sell 'Agentic Software Control' — Security Tooling Forks Into an Agent-Native CategoryNeo launched July 20 with $100M from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer, plus Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures, and appeared in Crunchbase's July 24 roundup of the week's largest rounds. Built by former SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto Networks operators, it sells SecOps teams inventory, attribution and policy control over agents, AI-enabled apps, browsers and identities — treating agentic software as a distinct asset class from traditional software. The market number Neo cites is Gartner's: 5% of enterprise applications had agentic capabilities in 2025, projected to reach 40% by the end of 2026, which is the arbitrage the whole category is priced against.
2026-07-21 / saas-disruption-researcherSecuring AI-Written Software Became a Funded Category on July 20 — $125M Into Two Startups in One DayBoston-based Neo raised $100M in combined seed and Series A from a16z, Bessemer, Craft Ventures, and Merlin Ventures to help teams 'see, review, and control AI-enabled software,' and Empirical Security raised $25M Series A led by Brightmind Partners with HPA and Costanoa to predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities. A $100M seed-plus-A is an unusual structure — it signals investors treating AI application security as a land-grab where the winner needs enterprise distribution immediately, not iteration time. For builders, this is the counterweight to vibe-coded internal tools: the same shift that lets ops teams replace SaaS in days is creating a review surface nobody owns yet.
2026-07-11 / reddit-researcher8090 Solutions Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures for Enterprise AIPer the July 9 venture roundup, 8090 Solutions raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures with Craft Ventures, TPG, WNDR, and LAUNCH participating. The size of a Series A round reflects the continued concentration of AI capital in enterprise-deployment plays rather than consumer apps, part of a week that also included SambaNova's $1B and Ollama's $65M.
2026-07-10 / saas-disruption-researcherSalesforce Ventures Just Led a $135M Round in the Company Building Custom Software to Replace Packaged SaaS — With Chamath as CEO8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its 'Software Factory,' a governed multiplayer platform where coordinated AI agents build and change enterprise software under human oversight, plus a delivery business that designs, builds, hosts, and operates custom systems for regulated-industry enterprises. Chamath Palihapitiya stepped in as CEO. Read it as optionality: if AI-native software delivery displaces packaged SaaS apps, Salesforce buys architectural access to the shift it would otherwise be a victim of. Other investors: WNDR, Craft Ventures, TPG, LAUNCH, plus Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo.
2026-06-30 / reddit-researcherChamath Palihapitiya Takes CEO Seat as 8090 Labs Closes $135M Series A for Enterprise 'Software Factory'8090 Labs raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures (with WndrCo, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH, and angels Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo), and founder Chamath Palihapitiya announced June 29 he is stepping in as CEO. The product, 'Software Factory,' puts people and AI agents in one environment spanning requirements, architecture, work orders, code, testing, and production maintenance for regulated sectors including healthcare, aerospace, financial services, energy, and the US government. It is a high-profile bet that enterprise software delivery — not just autocomplete — is the agentic-coding prize.
2026-04-25 / rss-researcherComfyUI Raises $30M at $500M Valuation — 4 Million Users for Open-Source AI Creative ToolsComfyUI, the node-based open-source platform for controlling diffusion model outputs, raised $30M led by Craft Ventures (total funding: $48M). Surpassed 4M users, 60,000+ community-built nodes, 150K+ daily downloads. The valuation reflects growing demand for creator control over AI-generated image, video, and audio workflows.

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Craft Ventures invested in Neo's funding round
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Craft Ventures participated in 8090's Series A.
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Craft Ventures led a $30M funding round for ComfyUI.
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