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DevTools
59 startup drills in DevTools
RISING
Kampala
$500K
Seven Years of Reverse-Engineering Sneaker Bots, Turned Into a Real Business
DevTools · build tooling
RISING
Hyper
$500K
Your AI Agent Forgot Everything by Lunch. Hyper Fixes That.
AI/Infrastructure · build adjacent
RISING
Scope
$500K
Your Next Power User Is an AI Agent – and It Hates Your UX
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Dalton Mills
$9M
$9.2M Raised Before Shipping a Single Product
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Gigacatalyst
$500K
The Coming Death of Closed SaaS – and What Comes After
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
InstaSwitch
$5M
Everyone Locks Users In. What If You Helped Them Switch?
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
SEEDLING
Contral
undisclosed
Vibe-Coding Gave Everyone a Gun. Most People Still Can't Aim.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
SEEDLING
AgentDiscuss
undisclosed
If You're Building for Human Users, You're Already Behind
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Humans Fix AI
undisclosed
The Best Time to Enter a Market Is When the Old Model Is Dying
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Ivee
$5M
When AI Makes Software Near-Free, Specialization Is the Only Moat
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
One.five
$27M
Vibe Manufacturing – AI for Physical Products Is the Next Frontier
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Design Rails
$500K
Your App Gets Paid What It Looks Like It's Worth
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Lancey
$2M
10x Efficiency Doesn't Come From Improvement – It Comes From Cutting
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Wabi
$20M
Apps Need Their Own YouTube – Not Just an App Store
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
RISING
Locus
$500K
AI Agents Need Their Own Email, Wallet, and Identity
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Alloy
$3M
Most AI Dev Tools Target Startups – the Money Is in Existing Ones
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Clad Labs
$500K
A Y Combinator Startup Built a Developer IDE With a Casino Inside
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Woz
$7M
AI Alone Wasn't Enough – They Added Humans and Raised $6M
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Crosby
$26M
A Legal Firm in Your Inbox – for the Cost of a Tool Subscription
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Enhance Labs
$2M
Talking Out Loud With AI Beats Prompt-and-Wait
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Dart
$500K
Every Legacy Platform Just Became Vulnerable – Build AI-Native Instead
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
RowFlow
$500K
Big Money in a Small Thing Everyone Already Uses
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Ion Design
$500K
When Code Is Cheap, Design Becomes Your Moat
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Axal
$500K
The Integration Veto Is Now a $500K Problem AI Can Solve
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Blaxel
$500K
The Cloud Was Built in 2005 – AI Agents Need Something Different
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
StackOne
$24M
The App Era Is Over – Integration Is the New Frontier
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Autoblocks AI
$2M
Don't Build Voice AI – Sell Shovels to Those Who Do
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bilanc
$500K
Are Your AI Coding Tools Actually Making Developers More Productive?
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PROVEN
Incident.io
$96M
$96M Says Incident Response Is a Real Product Category
DevTools · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ion
$500K
The Visual Editor That Lets PMs Ship Without Touching the Queue
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Scoutt
undisclosed
How Do You Hire a Developer If You Don't Speak Developer?
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tometo
$500K
What If an AI Managed Your Developers Instead of Replacing Them?
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Woz
$500K
Where Do You Find a Technical Co-Founder?
DevTools · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
NextByte
$500K
Stop Hiring Coders. Start Hiring AI Collaborators.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Silo Team
$1M
Engineers Stay 1–2 Years. That's a Crisis.
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Upshift
$500K
How to Grow Your Product Faster Without Growing Your Team
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
CodeCrafters
$2M
Stop Teaching People to Code. Start Teaching Coders.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Reo.Dev
$5M
You're a Developer? Then Build for Developers.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
MutableAI
$500K
Engineers Stay 1–2 Years. Their Code Stays Forever.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Astronuts
$150K
Astronuts Wraps AI Dev Tools Inside an Outcome – Not a Feature List
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Cogna
$5M
Internal Software Is Built Badly Everywhere – That's the Business
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Zylon
$3M
The AI Interface War – and Why Chat Is Losing
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Airfocus
$15M
Most Product Roadmaps Get Built Before Anyone Touches an OKR
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Prismatic
$34M
A $62B Market Built for Developer Teams to Own
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Workshop
$21M
Workshop Centralizes Internal Newsletters Across Email, Slack, and SMS
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Relay
$8M
Relay Adds AI and Human Decision Points to Workflow Automation
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Pirros
$3M
Pirros Is GitHub for Construction Drawings, With Reusable Details
DevTools · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Rubix
$400K
Rubix Labs Builds AI to Replace Early-Stage Product Managers
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Topline Pro
$5M
Topline Pro Uses AI to Build Conversion-Ready Websites for Trades
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
HostGPO
$6M
HostGPO Negotiates Wholesale Prices for Short-Term Rental Operators
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Produce8
$4M
Produce8 Makes Remote Team Activity Visible Without Status Meetings
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Planera
$5M
Planera Replaces Gantt Charts With Visual Whiteboards for Small Builders
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Snapfix
$3M
Snapfix Uses Photos as the Primary Format for Maintenance Tasks
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Bloomfilter
$7M
Bloomfilter Translates Software Development Activity Into Business Costs
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Livvwork
$750K
Livvwork Uses AI to Recommend Which Days Hybrid Employees Should Come In
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Grata
$6M
Grata Gives Frontline Workers Portable Career Profiles That Follow Them Across Jobs
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Finch
$59M
Finch Is a Universal API for Connecting SaaS Products to 200 HR Systems at Once
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Finch
$19M
Finch: One API for 140 HR and Payroll Systems
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
MVP Match
$5M
MVP Match Matches Companies With Vetted European Freelance Developers
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
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