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Foundational Industries, the New York City developer of AI-operated manufacturing plants and modular data center infrastructure, raised a $25M seed co-led by BoxGroup and Zigg Ventures, with Abstract Ventures, Adverb Ventures, Buckley Ventures, and Offline Ventures participating.

  1. Robert Sebastian in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Co-Founder, Product @ Forward (8 yrs; Foundational Industries Founder’s previous startup)

    2. Other Experience: Special Projects @ Google, Consultant @ BCG, Trader @ GS, Wharton MBA, Dartmouth BA Economics

    3. Description: Left Forward in 2024 with no updates

  2. Bali Raghavan in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: CTO @ Forward (5.5 yrs; Foundational Industries Founder’s previous startup)

    2. Other Experience: VP Engineering @ Opendoor, Amazon Go @ Amazon

    3. Description: Stealth since 12/24

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  3. Jonathan Lesser in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: COO @ Forward (6 yrs; Foundational Industries Founder’s previous startup)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Global Sales, Operations and Markets @ Airbnb, Sr. Director of eCommerce Revenue @ StubHub

    3. Description: Stealth since 12/24

Revoy, the San Francisco startup building a detachable electric dolly that sits between a truck's tractor and trailer, raised a $27M Series A led by Standard Capital, with Doerr Capital, Time Ventures, Y Combinator, and Leap Ventures also participating. Total funding is now $41M. Revoy is run by CEO Peter Reinhardt and founder/CTO Ian Rust. Reinhardt co-founded Segment (acquired by Twilio for $3.2B in 2020) and then Charm Industrial ($125M raised, $100M Series B led by General Catalyst), and his co-founders from both companies are now unattached or building again.

  1. Calvin French-Owen in SF (EIR @ Thrive Capital)

    1. Role: Co-Founder @ Segment (9.5 yrs; Revoy Founder’s previous startup)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ OpenAI, Visiting Partner @ YC, MIT CS

    3. Description: Thrive EIR since 10/25

    4. Contact: Site

Procore Technologies agreed to acquire DroneDeploy, the San Francisco robotics and visual intelligence platform, for $845M in cash. DroneDeploy had raised over $150M from Energize Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Emergence Capital, Future Fund, AirTree, Scale Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, and AngelPad.

  1. Brendan Playford in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Demand Generation @ DroneDeploy (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Gopher ($0M from DCG, Animoca Brands, FBG Capital), Co-Founder & CEO @ Pngme ($21M from Octopus Ventures, Unshackled), UCL MSc Physics

    3. Description: Stealth since 6/26

  2. Andrew Dennison in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Services Director @ DroneDeploy (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ basepath (acq by Teamworks), Founder & COO @ Uplift Data Partners (acq by DroneDeploy), Senior Director, Product @ Teamworks, Director of Business Development @ SkySpecs

    3. Description: Stealth since 2/25

Cognition, the three-year-old San Francisco startup behind autonomous coding agent Devin, acquired The Interaction Company of California — the two-year-old Palo Alto startup whose Poke assistant handles everyday tasks through messaging apps — in a deal valuing it in the low nine figures.

  1. Max Lee in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ The Interaction Company of California (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ build.ai ($5M seed from Abstract Ventures, Pear VC, HF0), Founder @ ResumeSwap, UC Berkeley

    3. Description: “Building consumer”

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter, [email protected]

  2. Yasmeena Khan in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product & Analytics @ The Interaction Company of California (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Business Analyst @ McKinsey, Oxford MSc, Stanford BS Symbolic Systems

    3. Description: Left Interaction on 3/26 with no updates

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