Melius, founded in 2026 by three former Ramp engineers, raised $25 million from General Catalyst and CRV for AI agents that handle creative production work. The investors are backing a team that has already thrown out one product, and a creative platform that is only months old.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 21%
- Operator
- Operator 26%
- Investor
- Investor 53%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
buildConfirmed4 publishers Tavus says 26 of 54 people took its Griffin video model for a real person in one-minute live calls, a 48% rate from its own study. The company is keeping Griffin from customers until its disclosure and safety features are ready.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 45%
- Operator
- Operator 30%
- Investor
- Investor 25%
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Raindrop replays real production traffic against every pull request to test agent changes
The San Francisco company now has $50m in total funding and a research preview, Simulations, that runs anomaly detection over replayed user traffic on each pull request. It works only if you already have traffic.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+31
- Incentives82
- Confidence56
buildOne report1 publisher Raindrop replays production agent traces against synthetic services on every pull request
The $35 million Series A funds a bet that a failure caught in production can be rerun as a pre-merge test, and making that work means standing up stateful fakes of every database, payment system and API the agent touched.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives78
- Confidence44
Rundoo raises $30M to replace the hardware store's system of record, not decorate it
Battery Ventures led a $30 million Series B into a company selling POS, CRM, ledger and e-commerce under one agent to 500-plus independent supply stores.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives82
- Confidence45