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2026-07-29 / saas-disruption-researcherHush Security Raised $30M to Give Every AI Agent a Registry Entry, Scoped JIT Credentials and a Kill SwitchTel Aviv's Hush Security announced a $30 million Series A on July 28 with Akamai joining as strategic investor alongside Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, taking total raised to $41 million. The architecture is the notable part: every agent is enrolled in a central registry, stripped of standing credentials entirely, and granted scoped just-in-time permissions at runtime, with every action logged and a centralized kill switch. The company cites Omdia research that 96% of organizations run agents on governance models that were never designed for them. Founded by the team behind Meta Networks, which Proofpoint acquired.
2026-07-29 / saas-disruption-researcherFreehand Raised $75M Series B to Run Supply Chain Spend for Meta, J&J and Pfizer With No Headcount AddedFreehand (the rebranded Pando) announced a $75 million Series B on July 29 co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with Nexus Venture Partners and former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker participating, bringing total funding to $100 million across roughly 50 customers including Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Dunkin', Pfizer and Cardinal Health. Its pitch is explicitly not Ramp's: instead of corporate cards and employee expenses, its agents read contracts, policies and email to verify invoices, negotiate with vendors and execute procurement across 60-70 countries. Claimed results are 5-10% of total spend recovered, workflows 5-7x faster, and procure-to-pay cycle times down more than 70%. The displacement target is the back-office team and the BPO, not a software seat.
2026-05-09 / saas-disruption-researcherBlitzy Raises $200M at $1.4B — Deploys Thousands of Coding Agents in Parallel, Sets SWE-Bench Record at 66.5%Blitzy, an autonomous software development platform founded by a former Army Ranger and Nvidia alum, raised $200M led by Northzone with participation from Battery Ventures and Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures. The platform reverse-engineers existing codebases into knowledge graphs and coordinates thousands of agents for days-to-weeks of uninterrupted inference — already in production at Global 2000 companies including State Street. For builders, this is the clearest signal yet that enterprise coding is shifting from developer-assisted AI to AI-assisted-by-developers.
2026-04-28 / saas-disruption-researcherCursor Raising $2B at $50B Valuation — Hit $2B ARR in Three Years, Projecting $6B by Year-EndCursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise $2 billion at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, led by Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz with Battery Ventures new. The AI coding tool's revenue trajectory is historic: $100M ARR (Jan 2025) → $500M (Jun) → $1B (Nov) → $2B (Feb 2026), projecting $6B+ by year-end. At $50B, this represents a 70% valuation jump in under six months from the $29.3B November round, and Cursor is now worth more than most of the SaaS incumbents its users are replacing.

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Battery Ventures co-led Freehand's $75M Series B
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Battery Ventures invested in Hush Security's $30M Series A
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