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How Supabase Became One Of The Fastest Growing DevTool Companies In The World

Paul Copplestone

Supabase founder Paul Copplestone recently secured a $500 million round at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, propelling the company to decacorn status with a 10 million developer base driven largely by AI agents launching 60-90% of new databases. The fully distributed organization leverages its open-source PostgreSQL strategy and a shift toward Infrastructure as Code to achieve exponential usage growth, reducing time-to-value from minutes to seconds while bypassing traditional marketing channels. Moving beyond standard user interfaces, Supabase is now building self-driving database capabilities and "Infrastructure for Platforms" to support enterprise labs managing millions of ephemeral instances autonomously.

Multiplayer AI

While current AI adoption remains limited to isolated, single-player interactions, the proposed shift toward "multiplayer agents" enables teams to observe, redirect, and hand off autonomous tasks in real-time, mirroring human collaboration. This platform transition aims to replace static transcript sharing with live agent sessions tailored for specific departments like engineering, sales, and legal to solve complex problems collectively. An open call for partnership invites organizations to build future AI systems with these multiplayer capabilities at their core.

Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z

Travis Kalanick, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg

Travis Kalanick, reflecting on lessons from his 2017 departure from Uber, is now leading ADAM, a stealth-backed venture that digitizes physical manufacturing and logistics to drive meal costs down to $8–$10. By integrating over 300 dark kitchen facilities and autonomous mining operations acquired from Pronto, the company leverages robotics to transform heavy industries while avoiding the external pressures that previously hindered Uber's scalability. Kalanick applies an "Industrial AI" framework focused on internal correctness and management capacity constraints to scale operations in food, mining, and transport simultaneously.

0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months: Genspark & the Global Knowledge Worker | RAISE Summit 2026

Wen Sang, Brian Baumann

GenSpark, founded by MIT PhD Wen Sang and a team of ex-Google and Microsoft veterans, has scaled to $250 million ARR and 6,000 enterprise clients by transitioning from a product-led search engine to an AI agent orchestrator that automates complex business workflows. The company distinguishes itself by abstracting model complexity through a unified architecture that integrates over 70 underlying AI models, enabling rapid deployment of custom applications and driving efficiency gains such as a fivefold client increase for specific financial consultants. This technology was showcased at a New York Stock Exchange event where CEO Wen Sang detailed the shift from traditional software tools to autonomous agents that augment human creativity while redefining workforce productivity.

Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Building Growth That Compounds | Clay x CapitalG | RAISE Summit 2026

Varun Anand, Jane Alexander

Clay repositions itself as an AI go-to-market platform that transitions sales operations into self-learning revenue engines by integrating third-party data signals to execute scalable growth campaigns. Co-founder Varun leads a strategic shift toward "marketing alpha," utilizing unique tactics like custom film production and rapid, data-driven prospecting to secure high returns on investment for clients such as Canva and Anthropic. The company further distinguishes its value through a new pricing model based on workflow outcomes rather than data tokens, while emphasizing environmental fit in talent acquisition to maximize organizational performance.

Indexing Humanity: A Fireside With the Simulation Company | Simile | RAISE Summit 2026

Joon Sung Park, Sahir Azam, Jun

Simile, founded by former Stanford researchers including CEO Jun, has launched a foundational model of human behavior that replicates individual subpopulations with 85% accuracy for enterprise clients like CVS and Fortune 500 companies. Leveraging strategic partnerships with Gallup and Dynata to access a 20-million-person data panel, the company differentiates itself by prioritizing human imperfections and biases over pure algorithmic efficiency to augment corporate decision-making in market research and product development. Supported by Index Ventures, Simile operates on a four-stage simulation hierarchy ranging from individual dynamic testing to society-wide forecasting, while adhering to strict ethical principles regarding data consent and transparency.

Fireside Chat with Matan Grinberg, Founder & CEO of Factory | RAISE Summit 2026

Matan Grinberg, Matt Miller

Founded in 2023 by ex-physics PhD Matan Grinberg, Factory operates as a model-agnostic router that enables enterprises to deploy fully on-premises autonomous software agents directly within existing developer workflows. The company rapidly scaled from ten to ten thousand users within months by offering a cost-effective alternative to vendor lock-in, notably accelerating legacy COBOL migration and allowing sovereign data deployments for regulated industries. Backed by investors including Sequoia and Avant Capital, Factory currently automates both software engineering tasks and emerging non-software productivity use cases while predicting a future dominance of open models over frontier closed ones.

AI Is Only as Fast as Your Slowest Process | Jyoti Bansal, Harness | RAISE Summit 2026

Jyoti Bansal, Lionel Laurent

After selling AppDynamics to Cisco for $4 billion, Jyoti Bansal founded Harness in 2017 to resolve the velocity gap between AI-generated code and downstream software delivery bottlenecks. The company implements a risk-based autonomy model to automate testing, security, and compliance, enabling major enterprises like JP Morgan Chase and United Airlines to safely ship software twice as fast. Beyond accelerating release cycles, Harness provides cost management tools that tie AI token expenditure directly to business outcomes while advocating for creativity-focused education to counteract AI-induced homogenization.

From Megawatts to Gigawatts: Building the AI Factories | Lenovo x NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026

John Donovan, David Hogan, Roxanne Varza

John of Lenovo and David of NVIDIA are advancing a deep engineering partnership to construct gigawatt-scale "AI factories" that integrate hardware, power infrastructure, and software optimization to address a projected global capacity doubling. Their four-stage deployment framework, which spans from conceptual design to post-launch model orchestration, specifically targets the European market's urgent need to close a 12-month GPU access gap while navigating complex regulatory and energy constraints. By combining Lenovo's global manufacturing scale with NVIDIA's regional expertise, the initiative aims to transform Europe into a sovereign AI hub capable of leveraging unique domain data for next-generation robotics and industrial applications.

High Performance Compute: Building the Cloud for AI Teams | Erik Bernhardsson | RAISE Summit 2026

Erik Bernhardsson, Hanel Baveja, Eric, Stephanie Wong, Jose Quinonez

Founded by former Spotify executive Eric in the wake of a pandemic sabbatical, Modal addresses the AI infrastructure gap by rebuilding cloud systems from scratch to manage over 20,000 GPUs without relying on Kubernetes or Docker. The company’s usage-based model currently derives roughly 67% of revenue from LLM inference while introducing proprietary tools like AutoEndpoints to automate deployment and enable dynamic performance optimization. Facing a renewed global GPU shortage, Modal plans to expand its network of cloud partnerships and build proprietary data centers to support the industry's shift toward open-source model fine-tuning and real-time audio-video processing.

Fireside Chat with Anastasis Germanidis, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Runway | RAISE Summit 2026

Anastasis Germanidis, Grace Isford

Founded in 2019, Runway is pivoting from generative video leadership to creating "world models" that simulate physical physics and 3D consistency through pixel prediction rather than explicit architectural rules. This technical approach enables efficient real-time inference for robotics and gaming, allowing the company to license policy models to clients while achieving superior performance with significantly less compute than larger competitors. Driven by founder Anastasis's philosophy of intentional growth, the firm recently expanded its global headcount to nearly 200 and opened a Paris office to deepen its research focus on physical AI and interactive storytelling.

AI for Work, and Security for AI | ServiceNow | RAISE Summit 2026

Amit Zavery, Yevgeny Dibrov, Jennifer Johnson

As enterprise AI shifts from passive tools to autonomous agents projected to outnumber human assets tenfold, organizations face critical risks of uncontrolled data access and rapid cyber exploitation without centralized governance. To counteract these threats, ServiceNow has integrated Vesa's technology to launch an AI Control Tower, enabling CIOs and CISOs to discover, monitor, and secure non-human identities across all platform integrations. This strategic shift transforms security from reactive to proactive, allowing enterprises to realize billions in efficiency savings while preventing catastrophic breaches in high-stakes environments like retail and supply chain management.

Vibe Coding for the Next Billion | Michele Catasta, Replit | RAISE Summit 2026

Michele Catasta, Max Corbani

Replit President Michele Zanini outlined the company's trajectory toward $1 billion in annual revenue by deploying agentic workflows that target over 60 million users and non-technical citizen developers. The platform utilizes a heterogeneous model strategy combining open-weight and proprietary systems to enable autonomous agents that handle end-to-end business goals without manual UI interaction. This approach forecasts a 2025 workforce shift where employees evolve into agent managers, prioritizing strategic oversight over repetitive execution to drive exponential productivity gains.

Fast by Design: The Infrastructure Powering the Agentic Era | Rodrigo Liang | RAISE Summit 2026

Rodrigo Liang, Monti Saroya, Dylan Patel

SambaNova has secured the first close of a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation, establishing itself as JP Morgan's preferred inference provider for multi-trillion parameter models. The company differentiates its heterogeneous architecture by delivering up to 10x faster decode performance in full precision, avoiding the accuracy trade-offs of quantization while integrating with NVIDIA and Intel infrastructure. By leveraging a distribution network of 94 subsidiaries, SambaNova targets enterprise adoption through hybrid air-gapped and cloud solutions that prioritize data sovereignty and model choice over direct competition with general intelligence labs.

Inference's Scaling Era | Tuhin Srivastava, Baseten & Corinne Riley, Greylock | RAISE Summit 2026

Tuhin Srivastava, Corinne Riley

Base10 CEO Thuy Hinh projects that AI inference will consume $2.5 trillion of the estimated $5 trillion global AI spend by 2030, prompting the company to deploy an inference cloud with clusters across 90 regions to lower customer infrastructure costs. Driven by open-source models closing the performance gap with frontier closed-source alternatives in just three months, enterprises are increasingly shifting spend to custom models to reduce costs by 70% and retain data sovereignty. Hinh predicts that within 12 to 18 months, a Fortune 500 company will achieve 90% open-source adoption as the market moves toward verticalized cloud solutions capable of supporting high-volume tasks like code generation and biological compound synthesis.