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Today we're launching the Open Defense Initiative: up to $5 million in depthfirst credits for critical open source projects to find and fix real, exploitable vulnerabilities. The timing matters: frontier models can autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities in widely-reviewed codebases. Open source models will catch up soon, and when they do, bad actors will have unfiltered access to these capabilities. We have a narrow window to harden critical software before that happens. This is the time to act, but until today frontier-level security, like what Mythos offers, has been reserved for a handful of large companies who are required to pay a lot for access. depthfirst is not only comparable in performance but also goes significantly beyond surface level findings, highlighting real, exploitable vulnerabilities due to its understanding of the system’s context and ability to verify like an attacker would. depthfirst found vulnerabilities in FFmpeg that Mythos missed, at a tenth of Anthropic's self reported spend. We want every defender to have these capabilities, starting with the open source projects the world runs on. If you maintain a critical open source project, apply for Open Defense credits through the form in the comments.

Excited to announce Meritech's investment in n8n. While the rest of the automation market focused on no-code, n8n embraced developers and unlimited flexibility. They've grown into the leading AI orchestration platform, with over 700K active developers and thousands of the largest enterprises. Anthony, Cathy and I are pumped to back Jan Oberhauser and the rest of the amazing team at n8n. https://lnkd.in/gT5EaQjG

Today we’re announcing Clay’s $100M Series C at a $3.1B valuation led by Alphabet’s CapitalG. When Clay started, our goal was to deliver the power of programming to an order of magnitude more people. It took years of experimenting to reformulate our mission to building a creative tool that lets GTM teams implement any idea they have for growing their company — effectively letting them program, and creating a new role, GTM Engineers. That initial vision is why we think of Clay as the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for GTM. Like designers have Figma, or devs have Cursor, or musicians have Ableton. More than anything, it’s been a pleasure to witness how the Clay community has formed, enabling so many people around the world to implement their ideas, create a ton of value, and (most importantly) have fun doing it. There are now: ▪️ 108+ agencies worldwide, many run by early-career folks who quickly built businesses with multimillion dollar run-rates ▪️ 400+ GTM Engineer jobs posted in the last 4.5 months alone ▪️ 60 Clay Clubs across 29 countries helping people learn this new profession ▪️ $50M+ generated for our 150+ data partners this year Huge thanks to Jane Alexander and the team at CapitalG for leading this round, with participation from Meritech Capital, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, boldstart ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. This funding will helps us more deeply invest in our product and community, to whom we owe our deepest gratitude. Thank you to our partners, our team, and our customers. We’re building a generational company that is transforming how businesses find and sell to each other. Join us — we’re hiring! → Check out The New York Times story by Michael de la Merced and our blog post in comments.