Morning VC Brief丨2025.05.28

Week22 Highlights丨Superblocks, Palmstreet, Barndoor AI, Pallet, RevenueCat, GrowthX

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eric gu
May 28, 2025

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Table of Contents

01. Venture News

1/ Enterprise App Builder Superblocks raised $23M Series A

  • Product: Clark is the first AI agent enabling collaborative internal enterprise app development with centralized governance, applying org-specific design, security, and engineering standards

  • Highlight: Adopted by enterprises like Instacart for mission-critical workflows

  • Investor: Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, Greenoaks

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2/ Live Shopping Community Palmstreet raised $25M Series A

  • Product: Live shopping platform connecting creators and enthusiasts in niche categories like handmade crafts, rare plants, and reptiles

  • Highlight: 1M+ members; 5x sales growth in 12 months; 300% revenue increase for sellers

  • Investor: a16z (Lead), Craft Ventures, Headline

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3/ AI Governance Platform Barndoor AI raised $13.6M Seed

  • Product: Centralized control plane for managing AI agents’ access, policies, and security across enterprises

  • Highlight: First platform offering granular context-aware controlsreal-time anomaly alerts, and unified management for all AI agents

  • Investor: Crosslink Capital (Lead)

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4/ AI Logistics Automation Platform Pallet raised $72M Series B

  • Product: CoPallet, an AI workforce automating complex logistics workflows

  • Highlight: Saved a midsized carrier millions by reallocating 25 employees from repetitive tasks

  • Investor: General Catalyst (Lead), Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital

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5/ Subscription Management Platform RevenueCat raised $50M Series C

  • Product: Powers subscription infrastructure for 70k+ mobile apps, now expanding to web payments and developer tools

  • Highlight: SDK adopted by 1/3 of new U.S. subscription apps

  • Investor: Bain Capital Ventures(Lead)

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6/ Marketing Content Platform GrowthX raised $12M Series A

  • Product: Combines AI workflows with human expertise to deliver outcome-driven content marketing solutions

  • Highlight: $7M annual run rate, 40+ clients (Reddit, Webflow), 300% traffic growth for some clients

  • Investor: Madrona (Lead)

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