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News: Announcing @levpgdog's $5.5M Seed
@reductoai, @tryramp, @modal, @HuntressLabs, and @tripstack all run their Postgres through the same open-source project, built by a team of three. Today we are proud to share that we led PgDog's $5.5M seed round.
Postgres is the most
Proudly announcing PgDog's $5.5M seed round from @BasisSet, @ycombinator, @pioneer_fund, and others.
Running Postgres in prod is hard. PgDog is a modern connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. It can be deployed anywhere and works with all Postgres hosts, incl.
i was almost entirely on claude code, then almost completely switched to codex, especially after the hermes + codex integration. the hermes + x/grok integration was also a big contributing factor and i now use grok primarily with a few agents.
ai operating environments
News: Takeoff41, Inc. launches out of stealth!
Takeoff is reimagining early healthcare for newborns. The team was recognized by @Nature for its work using AI to improve health outcomes for premature babies by optimizing their nutrition.
The company is building an entirely new
News: Announcing Basata's $21M Series A
There is perhaps no space more in need of the benefits of AI agents than healthcare. In such a consequential space, the decisions of "what" and "how" to automate are paramount. Basata is building differently, by showing up, sitting with
Mem0 is partnering with @BasisSet on the 2026 AI Fellowship, Agentic Memory Track.
If youโre an early-career builder excited about AI agents, memory, retrieval, and context engineering, this is for you.
As agents move from demos to real products, memory becomes core
Perspectives: Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2)
The agent era structurally favors open source and it's creating opportunities for founders and investors alike, both in the the infrastructure beneath AI, and in the products built on top of it.
Below AI,
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@BasisSet opened the 2026 AI Fellowship โ Commerce Track.
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Introducing the inaugural Prosumer AI 40 List, recognizing the 40 tools reshaping how individuals build, create, and operate, nominated by 25 leading venture firms.
The full list, and the thesis from @hanstung, @chelcietay & @Camiiikatz on why this category is surging:
Perspectives: The Future of Agents is Open Source (part 1 of 2)
The agent era rewards systems over single models, and those systems reward the control that open models bring. The more agentic software becomes, the more valuable openness becomes, not because open source is