Craft Ventures Website, Blog & Press Pages

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Blog

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Building a Cyber GTM Machine: A Guide for Founders & Operators/articles/building-a-cyber-gtm-machine-a-guide-for-founders-operators
Cybersecurity founders can build scalable GTM engines by aligning sales, marketing, and hiring before growth rounds.
Our Partnership with Noetive: Building the Intelligence of Record for the Physical Economy/articles/our-partnership-with-noetive-building-the-intelligence-of-record-for-the-physical-economy
Bringing Self-Improving AI to the $30 Trillion Physical Economy
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Triple Down on Horizon3: The Autonomous Security Platform for the “AI vs AI” Era/articles/triple-down-on-horizon3-the-autonomous-security-platform-for-the-ai-vs-ai-era
Craft makes third investment in Horizon3, backing $250M Series E at $2B+ valuation, as autonomous AI hacking becomes critical for continuous security validation trusted by 7,000+ organizations including four Fortune 10 companies.

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Upwind reels in $300M for its automated cloud security platformsiliconangle.com/2026/09/03/upwind-reels-in-300m-for-its-automated-cloud-security-platform/
Upwind Security raises $300 million in a Series C led by returning investors Bessemer and TCV, reaching a reported $3.8 billion valuation. Its cloud security platform maps assets and their relationships, refreshing its data every 30 seconds, and uses Linux eBPF for telemetry collection. AI tools assess configurations, simulate attacks, filter lower-risk flaws, and generate bills of materials for AI applications.
Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article
Upwind raises $300 million, more than doubles valuation to $3.8 billion in five monthscalcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/0kbwgdw01
Upwind raises $300 million, bringing its valuation to $3.8 billion, more than double its level five months earlier.
Sep 2026 · CTechNews article
ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated mediatechcrunch.com/2026/04/24/comfyui-hits-500m-valuation-as-creators-seek-more-control-over-ai-generated-media/
ComfyUI, a startup offering node-based control over image, video, and audio generation from diffusion models, raises $30 million at a $500 million valuation. Craft Ventures leads the round, with Pace Capital, Chemistry, and TruArrow participating; the company says it has more than 4 million users. Its interface lets creators link specific generation components, and professionals use it in visual effects, animation, advertising, and industrial design.
Apr 2026 · TechCrunchNews article
David Sacks’ Craft leads $42M Series A in govtech startup Starbridgetechcrunch.com/2025/10/22/david-sacks-craft-leads-42-million-series-a-in-govtech-startup-starbridge/
Starbridge, a platform that helps sales teams identify public-sector business opportunities, raises a $42 million Series A led by David Sacks’ Craft Ventures. The platform brings together public data from sources such as PDFs, agency websites, meeting minutes, and directories, then ranks accounts by their likelihood of purchasing technology and tracks changes such as leadership moves and new initiatives. The round brings Starbridge’s total funding to $52 million, and the company plans to integrate its tools into systems such as CRMs and Slack.
Oct 2025 · TechCrunchNews article