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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisToday at NetBox Labs, we're making our biggest tech and community announcements ever as we celebrate 10 years of NetBox. 🎉 Give this a watch to hear why I'm so excited - links to our announcements in the comments.
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisToday, NetBox Labs is making the biggest product innovation and community announcements we’ve made to date. We're evolving into an infrastructure intelligence platform that helps enterprises manage every lifecycle stage of infrastructure, from procurement through end of life. The platform now includes: - NetBox Data Exchange (NDX): The world’s largest curated dataset of infrastructure metadata that helps streamline more than 33 years of hardware across more than 15,000 hardware models across hundreds of manufacturers. - The NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server, along with a growing library of official agent skills: The entire NetBox Labs platform is now open to AI agents. - NetBox Asset Lifecycle: This native procurement pipeline is driven by the same infrastructure model your team already trusts. Think Bills of Materials, Purchase Orders, Shipments, Spares, and RMAs, with installation as a workflow against planned DCIM object. - NetBox Validation: This capability brings continuous compliance auditing, pre-change safety verification, and infrastructure resilience analysis into the NetBox Labs Platform. To celebrate the 10 years of NetBox, we will be hosting our inaugural NetBox Evolve conference at Kennedy Space Center this fall. Read more here: https://hubs.ly/Q04l1DJv0
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisWe’re excited to welcome Kate Ward as our Marketing & Communications Manager at Sorenson Capital! Learn more about Kate here: https://lnkd.in/gcZEcsuq
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Rob Rueckert shared thisRob Rueckert shared thisEnterprise software has a secret. The average business runs nearly 1,000 applications. Only 28% of them are integrated. The rest? They’re held together by professional services teams, forward-deployed engineers, and system integrators - human band-aids on a problem that was never supposed to require them. That's why we're thrilled to announce that Doyen AI has been acquired by Sage! Doyen AI was founded by Alex Holub and Ryan Gomes - both Caltech PhDs in AI with over 40 top-tier publications between them - Doyen AI built what the enterprise has needed for years: AI agents that handle the full technical services lifecycle. Implementation that used to take 12 months now takes under two weeks. Use case expansion that took a quarter now takes days. The band-aid, finally replaced. Sage recognized what we saw when we first backed Alex and Ryan in 2024: the biggest barrier to adopting a new finance system isn't the software. It's getting there. For SMBs especially, implementation complexity has long been the reason deals stall and customers churn before they ever see value. Doyen AI changes that equation. And inside Sage - serving millions of small and mid-sized businesses across accounting, HR, and payroll - the impact compounds fast. Congratulations to Alex, Ryan, and the entire Doyen AI team! We can’t wait to see the impact you have at Sage! Read more from Sage below ⬇️
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisWe’re grateful to be back on the Forbes Fintech 50 list. The last time we were recognized was 2021. Since then, we’ve not stopped innovating and investing aggressively - • We acquired Berbix, accelerating our DocV and biometrics suite, now growing more than 400% year over year. • We acquired Effectiv and launched RiskOS, now the leading identity and risk platform at the intersection of growth, cyber, fraud and AI, where we are now doubling the amount of revenue running through the platform month over month. • And we kept shipping - Advanced Prefill, Know Your Business, Workforce Verification, Age Assurance, Self-Serve, AI agent marketplace, Bank Account Verification, Local Graph, and more. • ARR exited the year growing 50% and crossing $300M. January accelerated above 60% and we have now been profitable for more than a year. Demand is at an all-time high across nearly every vertical as the battlefield transformed. Deepfake attacks are up 8,000%. Bot to human traffic up 50x. Synthetic identity fraud is now the fastest growing fraud category. The cost to commit fraud is collapsing because of AI. This recognition belongs to our incredibly talented team, their execution and their relentless pursuit of excellence. We couldn't be more well prepared for this moment as so many companies realize that only the best AI solutions are ready to stop the level of sophistication, speed and automation that they're under attack from. And a hearty congratulations to a number of our partners also on the Top 50 list Cardless, Mercury, Kalshi, Polymarket, Zip Co, and to one of the newcomers and a portfolio company of mine, Rillet!
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisMost recruiting teams are still stuck managing a web of disconnected tools. Sourcing platforms. ATS systems. Interview notes. AI add-ons that don’t talk to each other. What started as best-in-class software has turned into fragmented workflows that demand constant coordination. Meanwhile, hiring decisions unfold gradually. Signals emerge over time. Context matters. Yet most systems still force teams to reconstruct judgment after the fact. That model is broken. That’s why we’re proud to lead the $8M round in Elly. Elly is building an AI-native hiring platform that unifies sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking - automatically capturing what’s happening and surfacing what teams need to know next. Less time maintaining tools. More time evaluating talent. What sets Elly apart is depth. Instead of layering AI on top of legacy software, the team built from the ground up around how hiring actually works - turning interviews and feedback into compounding signals over time. Congratulations to Kristen Habacht, Nic Mahaney, and the entire Elly team! Read more from Rob Rueckert here: https://lnkd.in/gNna7Tvg
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Rob Rueckert shared thisRecruiting has become increasingly complex - and not in ways that create better outcomes. Most teams today are juggling disconnected sourcing tools, legacy ATS systems, interview notes, and standalone AI products that don’t share context. What should be a strategic process has turned into an exercise in coordination and reconstruction. Hiring decisions unfold over time. Signals emerge gradually. Judgment evolves. Yet most platforms still force teams to piece everything together after the fact. That model is broken. That’s why I’m excited about what Elly is building. Elly is rethinking recruiting as an end-to-end, AI-native workflow - one that understands what’s happening as it happens and surfaces what matters next. Less tool maintenance. Less manual overhead. More focus on evaluating people and building great teams. I've seen first-hand the magic of CEO Kristen Habacht through our work together as board members of GUIDEcx. She brings vision, solutions, clarity, and discipline to Elly. Nic Mahaney leads product with exceptional agility, helping the team translate ambitious ideas into systems that work in real-world environments. Together, the Elly team has built a platform designed for where recruiting is going - not where it’s been. Proud to partner with the Elly team and lead their $8M funding! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gzgU7T5YRob Rueckert shared thisToday we are officially launching Elly and sharing that we have raised $8M, led by Sorenson Capital, with participation from Atomic and Next Wave NYC. Hiring teams don’t struggle because they lack tools. They struggle because they have too many tools, and none of them work together. Most hiring software tracks steps, but misses what actually matters. The conversations, the judgment, and how decisions evolve over time. We built Elly as an AI-native hiring platform that brings sourcing, interviews, and applicant tracking into one connected system of understanding, so teams can focus on people, not process. Now that we have funding, we had to decide how to make a splash for our launch. 🔗 Press release in comments
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisWe’re excited to welcome Grace W. as our newest Early-Stage Investor at Sorenson Capital! Learn more about Grace here: https://lnkd.in/gckYwZJX
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Rob Rueckert reposted thisRob Rueckert reposted thisEarlier this week, The Economist covered AI shopping and quoted us on how brands need to translate merchant language into consumer language. Let me show you exactly what that means in practice. This morning, I ran a simple skincare query in Google's Gemini. I shared my current routine: - Dr. Dennis Gross daily peels - Caudalie Veno Perfect brightening serum - Tatcha Silk Cream - Kosas mineral SPF/primer [Yes! This is my latest skincare routine for real and I’m loving it!] Then I asked, “I want to add a vitamin C serum for my dry skin, low sting and that is not duplicative of ingredients above.” Gemini understood my full routine, analyzed ingredient overlap across 5 products, considered my skin type, but then didn’t quite hit the mark in providing me with a clear and relevant answer. Why is this? Well, the problem I’m seeing is that most product catalogs today cannot support this level of reasoning. Merchant language is still around brightening, hydrating, for all skin types, best seller, vitamin C serum, while the consumer queries are around ingredient overlaps, specific skin types, and far more nuanced needs etc. This is the new literacy AI requires, and most catalogs are not prepared. And here’s the urgency: The Economist reported that 33% of consumers will use AI for shopping this season, and among 18-24 year olds, it’s 84%. That means AI shopping is no longer “early adopter.” It’s mainstream, and when a technology becomes mainstream, tolerance for failure drops to zero. Your product content is about to be stress-tested by millions of highly contextual queries like mine. Brands and retailers need to be sure that their catalogs are able to speak in structured, ingredient-level, skin-type-aware, context-rich language so that they show up in the answers when their products are perfect for the consumer. And this gap is entirely solvable, but only if brands start focusing on their product content optimization in war-mode. Lastly, of course!, a big shoutout to Avantika Chilkoti for speaking with me for her article…sharing the link in the comments.
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Rob Rueckert liked thisRob Rueckert liked thisWe're incredibly excited to share that Evo Security, an identity and access management platform purpose-built for MSPs, has been acquired by Barracuda to expand its BarracudaONE platform. We partnered with Michael Roth and the Evo Security team in 2022, and were impressed by how Evo consolidated IAM and PAM into a single multi-tenant platform built around how MSPs actually operate. As Michael puts it, "identity and privileged access-based attacks are the new ground zero for bad actors." Evo's technology, now layered into Barracuda's existing ITDR and ISPM products and its broader BarracudaONE platform, creates one of the most complete identity and privileged access suites in the market. Congratulations to Michael Roth and the entire Evo Security team on this milestone! We're proud to have been on this journey with you and are excited for the impact you'll have at Barracuda! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gC3dkZit
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Rob Rueckert liked thisRob Rueckert liked thisA year ago, we announced our $150M Ventures III, an early-stage fund that’s a testament to consistency. In this fund, we invest between $1M-$10M in 25-30 companies that are between pre-revenue and $5M in ARR. This is all intentional, driven by our purpose to maximize the impact we can have on the entrepreneurs and companies we invest in. Impact and value are our edge. So far, we’re proud to share that we’ve backed 16 companies as part of Ventures III, 13 of which have been announced: 🔵 Andromeda Security – AI-powered identity security platform 🔵 Bureau – No-code fraud prevention and identity 🔵 Byron – AI agents for CPA tax prep 🔵 DiversiFi.ai – AI profit optimization for logistics 🔵 Doyen AI (acquired by Sage) – AI-powered customer onboarding and implementation for finance 🔵 Elly – AI-native hiring platform for recruiters 🔵 Flax Health – AI workflow automation for skilled nursing 🔵 Jump - Advisor AI – AI platform for financial advisors 🔵 Keye (YC F24) – AI due diligence for private equity investors 🔵 Multiply – AI-native media agency for B2B companies 🔵 NetBox Labs – Open-source network infrastructure management 🔵 SmartSuite – Connected work management platform 🔵 StrongestLayer – AI-native email security platform The most durable AI opportunities we're seeing aren't in the model layer - they're the ones that own proprietary data, understand complex workflows deeply, and solve real pain points. It’s an exciting time, and we’ll be announcing more investments out of Ventures III in the coming months We're actively investing in AI, Cybersecurity, B2B Software, and DevOps & Infrastructure across our early and growth-stage funds. So if you’re building something special, our Ventures team - Ken, Rob, Eric, Chris, PJ, and Grace - would love to hear from you!
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Rob Rueckert liked thisRob Rueckert liked thisI remember the first time I met Thomas Pace. Former Marine. Completely relentless. Five minutes into our meeting, I stopped thinking about the market size and started thinking: 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯. My team and I at Sorenson Capital invested in Tom Pace and NetRise in 2021, before they came out of stealth and before supply chain security was a board-level conversation. Today, Accenture announced its intent to acquire NetRise. I put together some thoughts about Tom, the journey to get here, and some lessons I learned along the way ⬇️Why We Bet on NetRise Before the World Knew It Needed ToWhy We Bet on NetRise Before the World Knew It Needed To
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Rob Rueckert liked thisRob Rueckert liked thisToday at NetBox Labs, we're making our biggest tech and community announcements ever as we celebrate 10 years of NetBox. 🎉 Give this a watch to hear why I'm so excited - links to our announcements in the comments.
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Rob Rueckert liked thisRob Rueckert liked thisToday, NetBox Labs is making the biggest product innovation and community announcements we’ve made to date. We're evolving into an infrastructure intelligence platform that helps enterprises manage every lifecycle stage of infrastructure, from procurement through end of life. The platform now includes: - NetBox Data Exchange (NDX): The world’s largest curated dataset of infrastructure metadata that helps streamline more than 33 years of hardware across more than 15,000 hardware models across hundreds of manufacturers. - The NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server, along with a growing library of official agent skills: The entire NetBox Labs platform is now open to AI agents. - NetBox Asset Lifecycle: This native procurement pipeline is driven by the same infrastructure model your team already trusts. Think Bills of Materials, Purchase Orders, Shipments, Spares, and RMAs, with installation as a workflow against planned DCIM object. - NetBox Validation: This capability brings continuous compliance auditing, pre-change safety verification, and infrastructure resilience analysis into the NetBox Labs Platform. To celebrate the 10 years of NetBox, we will be hosting our inaugural NetBox Evolve conference at Kennedy Space Center this fall. Read more here: https://hubs.ly/Q04l1DJv0
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