Factorial Raises $150M at a $2.5B Valuation
Barcelona's Factorial, the HR platform running a Rails backend with 200+ product engineers, closes a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst and becomes one of Europe's most valuable AI scale-ups.
General Catalyst commits up to an additional $540M through its Customer Value Fund: more than $700M in total. 16,000 businesses across 90 countries, ~2,600 employees, hiring up to 50 people a week. The money funds the shift from HR SaaS to an AI-powered workforce operations platform, plus a new Munich office. Tech.eu has the round details.
June 3, 2026 · PR Newswire
Intercom Renames the Company Fin
May 12, 2026
The 15-year-old company takes its AI agent's name: the corporate entity is now Fin, with Intercom continuing as the help-desk product. Fin crossed $100M ARR, growing 3.5x, inside a $400M+ ARR business, all on the 2M-line Rails monolith. Two days later it shipped Fin Operator: an AI agent that manages the AI agent.
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The legal practice platform and longtime Rails shop hits $500M in annual recurring revenue, up from $400M six months prior, serving legal professionals in 130+ countries. CEO Jack Newton frames it as joining "a rare class of profitable, accelerating AI platforms." Follows the $1B vLex acquisition and a $5B valuation.
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June 2, 2026
Rails Foundation Core member reports Q1 FY2027 revenue of $264.2M (+23%), 14% non-GAAP operating margin, $149M operating cash flow, and 117% net retention. CEO Bill Staples: "The agentic era is creating structural tailwinds for GitLab."
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SF-based Rails Foundation Core member closes FY2026 with $644.9M revenue (+13%) and $317.5M free cash flow (+19%). A record 800K+ active prescribers use its workflow tools; nearly half already use its clinical AI, with prompts per user nearly doubling from January to April.
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SF background-check platform ($2.2B valuation, Rails) ships portable verified identity: identity verification, background checks, and credential validation in a shareable profile that individuals own. Built against AI-era fraud; per Checkr's research, 62% of managers believe people now fake identity better than organizations detect it.
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- 5:10 Brian Scanlan (Intercom) — Turning Claude into a Full-Stack Engineering Platform
- 50:41 Konstantin Gredeskoul (Archive) — Stop Asking Useless Questions: Adaptive User Flows with Ruby DSLs and LLMs
- 1:20:07 John Woodell — Building Voter Mailers in Ruby
- 1:28:36 Miles Georgi — Ractorize: Wrapping Ruby Objects in Ractors
- 1:31:43 Matt Duszynski (NexHealth) — Volunteer Standup 😎
- 1:33:59 Jake Moffatt — My AI Development Workflow with Parallel Coding Agents
- 1:38:55 Michael Foley — Judging Code on Gut — Reading DHH's 2012 Ruby Rogues Letter
- 1:42:00 Ziggy the Hamster — Announcing 'Weird and Wacky Machines Running Ruby' at RubyConf 2026
- 1:46:25 Galileo Friedman (Superconductor) — Superconductor: Multiplayer Agent Workflows in the Cloud
- 1:58:23 Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians) — Whop Is Hiring an SRE
- 2:00:18 Hector Miramontes (RefundDesk) — RefundDesk: A Rails App for Customs Brokers to Claim Tariff Refunds
- 2:03:10 Chris Davis (Bootstrapital) — Semi-Autonomous Software: Putting the Human in the Loop with Rubot
- 2:14:52 Dmitry Kozlov — claude-yolo: Parallel Claude Code Agents in tmux
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14 talks · Sentry
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- 33:08 Mike Dalton (Calendar Vision) — How to Turn Images into Calendar Events
- 1:01:12 André Arko (gem.coop) — gem.coop: A Community-Owned Gem Hosting Service
- 1:03:29 Ziggy the Hamster — Announcing 'What Cursed Platforms Does Ruby Run On?' at RubyConf 2026
- 1:05:31 Miles Georgi — Ractors Are Just Actors with an R — Benchmarking Ractors vs Threads
- 1:07:08 Rhiannon Payne — Marketing Services for Ruby Startups
- 1:08:13 Daniel Farina (Ubicloud) — Ubicloud Is Hiring
- 1:09:30 Jake Moffatt — Building an Ambient OS on the Open Home Dev Kit
- 1:10:20 Justin Bowen — Ragents: A Ractor-Based Agent Gem (RubyKaigi 2026 Preview)
- 1:11:50 Cameron Dutro (Cisco Meraki) — garnet-js: Implementing the YARV Virtual Machine in TypeScript
- 1:15:12 Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians) — Solaris: Vibe-Coding an Internal Rails App Over Two Weekends
- 1:20:19 Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians) — Does Architecture Still Matter When AI Writes the Code?
- 2:03:09 Brandon Weaver (One Medical) — Q&A about Ruby Central
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