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    Huge congrats to all of the companies on @FortuneMagazine's Cyber60 List. Proud to have 8 of these companies in our portfolio: – Early-stage category: @Ent_Security, @neo_ai_security, @jetstream_sec – Early growth-stage category: @WorkOS – Growth-stage category: @cyera_io, @Horizon3ai, @upwindsecurity, @TrustVanta Way to go!
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    The world is looking to cybersecurity for innovation right now. The Fortune Cyber60 companies are providing the solutions that keep defenders ahead. These are the teams doing the hard work every day to protect organizations in the AI era, as threats get faster and more sophisticated. 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟴 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝟲𝟬: @Ent_Security, @neo_ai_security. @jetstream_sec, @WorkOS , @Horizon3ai, @upwindsecurity, and @TrustVanta Full list:
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    The world is looking to cybersecurity for innovation right now. The Fortune Cyber60 companies are providing the solutions that keep defenders ahead. These are the teams doing the hard work every day to protect organizations in the AI era, as threats get faster and more sophisticated. 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟴 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲’𝘀 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝟲𝟬: @Ent_Security, @neo_ai_security. @jetstream_sec, @WorkOS , @Horizon3ai, @upwindsecurity, and @TrustVanta Full list:
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    RT @FoundTheSpace: What better way to announce a $250m funding round at a $2.45b valuation than with a picture from orbit of the signatures who made it happen.
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    RT @XonaSpace: $250M in new funding. $2.45B valuation. Six satellites launched this week. Xona's Series D builds on major milestones in technology readiness, manufacturing scale, and commercial deployment as we accelerate toward serving users in 2027. The next era of global navigation is closer than ever.
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    RT @pbuckendorf: While the broader tech ecosystem spent hundreds of billions teaching AI to manipulate words and generate text. @AirSpaceIntel is different. We are deeply focused on the models that orchestrate the most complex systems across critical industries. Today's $325M Series C underwrites our expansion across transportation, defense and energy.
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    Un_prompted. October 1. San Francisco. The goal: create the highest signal summit for marketing & growth in the age of AI. 200+ founders, CMOs, and growth leaders came together to hear from 19 speakers. They all converged on one theme: agents are the new customer. The recap video is live: We rounded up seven takeaways from our speakers, now on the Craft blog, and all of the content will be released over the next few weeks - follow @unpromptedcraft to get every content drop, including: Fireside chat keynotes from: – @amasad (@Replit) & @DavidSacks – @AntWilson (@supabase) & @mikerobinson13 Panels with: – Hilary (@LinkedIn), @tbragin (@ClickHouseDB) & Bridget (@ElevenLabs) – @brunovfestrella (@clay), @grinich (@WorkOS) & @DJ_CURFEW (@clickup) – @sarikagarg (@HubSpot) @jdewitt29 (@vercel) & Nate (@awscloud) Plus lightning talks from: @theninomedina (@AnthropicAI), @bokelley, @ChrisClickUp (@clickup), @morgane_paloma (@braintrust), @shubgaur (@SpaceXSI) @mgonto (advisor @supabase)
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    Check out our seven takeaways from the event, and stay tuned for each full session & analysis over the coming weeks:
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    Closing keynote with @amasad and @DavidSacks at #unprompted2026 @Replit went from roughly $2M - $500M ARR in the last two years. “You can make a vibe coding platform, but gaining the trust of the enterprise takes infrastructure maturity. That is a lot more work, and it is kind of boring work. Most entrepreneurs do not like it but the boring work is why you stay sticky” - Amjad
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    Dev marketing stopped being a content calendar problem. It became an outcomes, speed, and machine readability problem. From Lightning Rounds at #unprompted2026: @shubgaur (@spacexai): Stop handing bots tasks. Hand them outcomes. Persistent bots compound like employees, and staffing starts to look like outcome staffing rather than headcount. @morgane_paloma (@braintrust): The ratio flipped. Most of the work is rapid response now. Model drops, competitor moves, and market moments outrank the editorial calendar. @mgonto (@supabase): Your site is already seen more by agents than by humans. llms.txt, Markdown pages, prompt CTAs. Make it easy for agents to consume you.
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    Agent led growth (ALG) just joined PLG and SLG, and the Systems panel made the why feel obvious. From "Agentic systems of record" at #unprompted2026: the systems of record are not going away, because compliance, auditability, and trust still need a durable home. What is changing is the interface. Agents can run the workflow in Slack and email while syncing the truth underneath, so you stop stuffing every job into a vendor’s forms. Permissions remain the failure mode nobody can afford. And once agents are users of your product, shipping another integration is not enough. Your documentation has to teach the model what you can do and why it should care. @jdewitt29 (@vercel): Having really good documentation is super important for ALG. Content is king. @sarikagarg (@HubSpot) · @jdewitt29 (@vercel) · Nate Slater (@awscloud)
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    If agents can’t use your product, you are invisible. From “AI Productivity & Connectivity” at #unprompted2026 @grinich @WorkOS: make something agents want. Not letting agents sign up and use your product will soon feel like not having a website in the late 90s. @DJ_CURFEW @clickup: ask what someone with maximal agency would do. Nothing about how you came out of the womb makes you technical or non technical. It is all learned. Best time to be alive. Built in meritocracy. Mod @brunovfestrella @clay
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    AI did not kill performance marketing. It raised the bar. @theninomedina @AnthropicAI: build for tomorrow’s models. Codify taste. Design the system. @bokelley: AI makes decent marketers. It does not invent the spark. Scale amplifies ideas. It does not create them. @ChrisClickUp @clickup: people still spend ~50x more time on social than on LLMs. Launches are easy. Staying remembered is the work. #unprompted2026
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    From "Earning attention from agents" at #unprompted2026 Buyers ask ChatGPT first. The shortlist got small: search used to show ~40 options, AI answers show ~5. You win that shortlist two ways. Get recommended in the answer. Or plug into the agent so people try your product without leaving the chat. @ElevenLabs is already doing that with MCP, and those AI referred users convert ~4x better. Your own website is not enough. Outside voices (employees, creators, community) get cited more. At @ClickHouseDB, about half of traffic is bots now, and that is good: those crawlers are how AI finds you. Hilary Batsel @LinkedIn · Bridget Ferris @ElevenLabs · @tbragin @ClickHouseDB
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    From "The next million AI companies" at #unprompted2026 @AntWilson (@supabase) with @Michael_Robinsn: "This idea of time to value, or time to the first wow moment, was something we really tried to optimize for. Getting someone to try your thing is really difficult. And then getting them to love it is even harder. So you just need to bring that moment as close as possible. And we got it down to 40 seconds in the first few weeks. I'm on the website, I'm making a first query, and I think now it's probably even less if you speedrun it. You can do it with an agent, like 3 seconds."
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    #unprompted2026 is about to start. The highest-signal room for marketing and growth in the age of AI. Every company now markets to two audiences: the agent that builds the shortlist, and the human who makes the call. Invite-only. Off the cuff. Hot takes.
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    RT @aaronjcort: Your next buyer might be an agent. Your next developer might be your marketer. Performance marketing used to mean buying attention from people. Now agents are starting to buy and sell the media - humans on the other side still decide what's worth their time. Developer marketing used to mean winning over engineers with docs and DevRel. Now the "developer" is anyone with a prompt, and an agent reads your docs before a person will. Unprompted will feature two lightning rounds. Six stellar execs & operators, five minutes each, one sharp idea each. No Q&A. Just the play. @craft_ventures is excited to announce our Unprompted Lightning Rounds... 1️⃣ Performance marketing in the age of AI: → @theninomedina (Growth & Demand, Anthropic): growth at Slack, Netlify and now Anthropic. Nino has spent his career scaling world-class performance programs and getting skeptical technical buyers to say yes. → @bokelley (Co-Founder & CEO, Apostra): built AppNexus and sold it to AT&T for $1.6B, and basically invented programmatic advertising. If anyone can tell you where agentic media is going, it's Brian. → @ChrisClickUp (Head of Social, ClickUp): Chris turned a project management company into one of the most-watched brands in B2B, with 200M+ monthly impressions. He’ll tackle what humans actually watch. 2️⃣ Developer marketing in the age of AI: → @shubgaur (Grok Bot, SpaceXAI): leading voice on Grok (aka the Grok Whisperer) and ships his own developer tools for founders around Grok Bot, so he sees developer adoption from both sides. → @morgane_paloma (VP, Marketing, Braintrust): helped scale Vercel from $15M to $200M and led revenue marketing at GitHub from $200M to $1B. Few people have marketed to developers at this scale. → @mgonto (Growth Advisor, Supabase): sixth employee at Auth0 through its $6.5B sale to Okta, then growth advisor for Vercel, n8n, Clerk, and Supabase. Gonto’s my first call for what actually works for devs. _________________________ Two days out to Unprompted in SF and we are at capacity and working off a waitlist. Apply now for a chance at a waitlist seat:
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    Imagine a future where the most active user in your systems never actually logs in... Announcing our Unprompted Systems panel, powered by @HubSpotStartups: "Agentic systems of record." @sarikagarg (GM, @HubSpot) moderates, with @jdewitt29 (COO, @vercel) and Nate Slater (Head of Startups, @awscloud). Agents as the input layer, humans as the relationship and the taste, and one source of truth for both, from the customer record down to the cloud. Unprompted is now at capacity. Apply to be first in line if a seat opens up:
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    Your most active user may never actually log in... For decades, every system of record was built around a person. That's flipping across the entire stack. Agents are logging calls and working the pipeline in your CRM, writing and deploying code to production, and spinning up the cloud infrastructure and data pipelines underneath it all, at machine speed, all day long. Every system of record becomes something new: one source of truth for both agents and humans, whether it holds your customers, your product, or your infrastructure. Agents become the input layer – they log the call, push the commit, provision the resources, and keep every record clean. Humans move to the front: the relationship, the judgment, and the taste that decides what's actually good. Excited to announce @craft_ventures 's Unprompted Systems panel: "Agentic systems of record," powered by @HubSpotStartups. → @sarikagarg (GM, @HubSpot) will moderate. Sarika leads the products that thousands of revenue teams run their business on every day, which makes her one of the few people who sees this shift actively play out across an entire market. → @jdewitt29 (COO, @vercel): one of the sharpest GTM execs in AI & tech. Jeanne built and led go-to-market at Stripe before joining Vercel, and she's one of the most sought-after voices on how great companies actually scale. → Nate Slater (Head of Startup Solution Architecture, @awscloud): Nate leads AWS's work with startups, putting him across the table from more early-stage AI founders than almost anyone. He sees what's working, and what's next. _________________________ Unprompted is officially at capacity. Apply to be first in line for any seat that opens up: → When: Unprompted is October 1st in San Francisco. → Who it's for: the world's best AI founders, marketing leaders, growth practitioners, GTM engineering innovators, applied AI tacticians and high-growth operators. Apply now:
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    Your most active user may never actually log in... For decades, every system of record was built around a person. That's flipping across the entire stack. Agents are logging calls and working the pipeline in your CRM, writing and deploying code to production, and spinning up the cloud infrastructure and data pipelines underneath it all, at machine speed, all day long. Every system of record becomes something new: one source of truth for both agents and humans, whether it holds your customers, your product, or your infrastructure. Agents become the input layer – they log the call, push the commit, provision the resources, and keep every record clean. Humans move to the front: the relationship, the judgment, and the taste that decides what's actually good. Excited to announce @craft_ventures 's Unprompted Systems panel: "Agentic systems of record," powered by @HubSpotStartups. → @sarikagarg (GM, @HubSpot) will moderate. Sarika leads the products that thousands of revenue teams run their business on every day, which makes her one of the few people who sees this shift actively play out across an entire market. → @jdewitt29 (COO, @vercel): one of the sharpest GTM execs in AI & tech. Jeanne built and led go-to-market at Stripe before joining Vercel, and she's one of the most sought-after voices on how great companies actually scale. → Nate Slater (Head of Startup Solution Architecture, @awscloud): Nate leads AWS's work with startups, putting him across the table from more early-stage AI founders than almost anyone. He sees what's working, and what's next. _________________________ Unprompted is officially at capacity. Apply to be first in line for any seat that opens up: → When: Unprompted is October 1st in San Francisco. → Who it's for: the world's best AI founders, marketing leaders, growth practitioners, GTM engineering innovators, applied AI tacticians and high-growth operators. Apply now:
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