Morning VC Brief丨2026.04.03

Week14 Highlights丨Whoop, depthfirst, Crosby, Conductor, ThinkLabs, Coder, Anvil Robotics, Momentic

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eric gu
April 03, 2026

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Table of Contents

01. Venture News

1/ Consumer Wearables Startup Whoop Fitness raised $575M Series G

  • Product: Fitness and health tracking wearable company with subscription platform

  • Highlight: $10.1B valuation (up from $3.6B); 2024 revenue $1.1B (+103% YoY); Abbott partnership

  • Investors: Collaborative Fund(Lead)

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2/ Security AI depthfirst raised $80M Series B

  • Product: An AI-native security platform (“General Security Intelligence”) that analyzes code, infrastructure, and business logic to detect vulnerabilities and deliver ready-to-merge fixes within developer workflows.

  • Highlight: Launched proprietary security model dfs-mini1, optimized for tasks like smart contract security, delivering 10–30x lower cost vs frontier models

  • Investor: Meritech Capital (Lead), Forerunner Ventures, The House Fund, Accel, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures

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3/ AI‑Native Hybrid Law Firm Crosby Raises $60M Series B

  • Product: AI‑powered legal execution platform combining generative AI agents with expert lawyers to accelerate and improve contract review, negotiation simulations, and legal operations for high‑growth teams.

  • Highlight: Crosby has rapidly scaled since stealth, negotiating over $1 billion in contracts and slashing turnaround times compared to traditional law firms

  • Investor: Lux Capital and Index Ventures (Lead), Sequoia Capital, 01 Advisors, Bain Capital Ventures

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4/ AI Coding Orchestration Platform Conductor Raises $22M Series A

  • Product: Developer tool that runs and manages teams of AI coding agents across isolated workspaces, letting engineers review and merge the agents’ generated code in parallel.

  • Highlights: 10× user growth since January 2026 and adoption by engineering teams at major tech firms such as Google, Meta, Stripe, Amazon, and Spotify

  • Investors: Spark Capital and Matrix Partners (Lead)

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5/ Power Grid Management ThinkLabs AI Raises $28M Series A

  • Product: Physics‑informed AI platform that models, simulates, and optimizes electric grid behavior to help utilities manage reliability amid surging demand

  • Highlights: The AI platform can evaluate vast numbers of grid scenarios rapidly and with high accuracy, making it significantly faster than legacy engineering tools

  • Investors: Energy Impact Partners (Lead), NVentures, GE Vernova, Powerhouse Ventures

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6/ AI‑Dev Infrastructure Platform Coder Raises $90M Series C

  • Product: Coder offers centralized, self‑hosted cloud development environments that let enterprises run human and AI coding workflows securely across governed, standardized workspaces, improving compliance and collaboration between developers and AI tools.

  • Highlights: Coder reports strong enterprise traction, including 300% year‑over‑year bookings growth and 184% net dollar retention, signaling deep adoption and product‑market fit

  • Investors: KKR (Lead), Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), Uncork Capital

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7/ Physical AI Modular Robotics Platform Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M Seed

  • Product: Hardware-software-manufacturing platform that lets businesses design and assemble customizable robots from modular components, described as “Legos for robots,” lowering the barrier for physical AI system prototyping and deployment.

  • Highlights: Robots range from approx. $1,900 to $10,000 and have been delivered 100+ units globally across >50 customers, including research and industrial partners such as Nvidia’s GEAR lab and Path Robotics

  • Investors: Matter Venture Partners(Lead), Humba Ventures, DNX Ventures, Spacecadet Ventures, Position Ventures

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8/ AI‑native Software Verification Platform Momentic Raises $15M Series A

  • Product: AI‑powered software testing and verification layer that lets development teams describe end‑to‑end flows in plain English, automatically generating and running adaptive tests to catch bugs and validate releases.

  • Highlights: Already serves thousands of teams including Notion, Xero, Webflow and Retool, executing over 200 million automated steps in a single month and identifying hundreds of thousands of bugs before production

  • Investors: Standard Capital (Lead), Dropbox Ventures, Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform

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