# SF Ruby News

> A running feed of funding, launches, and hiring at companies that run on Ruby. 152 items. See https://sfruby.com/news for search and filters, or https://sfruby.com/news/rss.xml for the feed.

### Rails World 2026 draws 1,000+ developers from 58 countries, and every talk is already online
October 1, 2026 · Community · Ruby on Rails
The first Rails World in the US was also the largest yet, with two days of talks in Austin plus the Rails at Scale Summit. The full playlist went up one week after the event. AI talks covered agent-friendly codebases, harness engineering and building MCPs, alongside sessions on Lexxy, Active Search, ONCE, Herb in Rails 8.2 and durable Active Job workflows. The 2027 edition goes to Lisbon in October.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/10/1/rails-world-2026-recap

### Whop's Economic Intelligence tells sellers what to do next, then does it
September 30, 2026 · Product · Whop
The new layer reads Whop's data across business verticals, recommends actions like pricing changes, ad campaigns and retention offers, and runs them when the owner accepts. In a beta with 14,905 businesses from July 12 to September 9, users grew combined sales 31.8%, against 3.9% for businesses without it. Unique paying customers rose 26.3% versus 2.2%.
Source (Whop): https://whop.com/blog/economic-intelligence/

### Apollo.io ships an AI go-to-market system as MCP usage grows 4x
September 30, 2026 · Product · Apollo.io
Apollo launched three products at once: Builder Studio for natural-language workflows, an Intelligence Layer that gives agents company context, and Messaging OS for signal-based campaigns with a Bulk Send API. Usage of Apollo's MCP server grew 4x between March and August 2026, and daily credit consumption rose nearly 10x. The platform now has more than 5 million users, double a year ago, and a database of 240M contacts.
Source (Apollo.io): https://www.apollo.io/newsroom/announcements/apollo-reveals-the-ai-gtm-system-bringing-data-intelligence-and-execution-into-a-single-engine-ushering-in-the-future-of-go-to-market

### Clio buys Learned Hand and moves into AI for judges and courts
September 30, 2026 · Acquisition · Clio
Learned Hand builds an AI workspace for judges and clerks that connects to court case management systems and drafts bench memos and orders. It already runs in US courts, including the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the nation's largest trial court. The deal is Clio's first direct step into the judiciary, under former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack and Casetext co-founder Pablo Arredondo. Terms were not disclosed.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clio-acquires-learned-hand-302893566.html

### Lexxy 1.0: 37signals' rich text editor for Action Text is stable
September 28, 2026 · Product · 37signals
Lexxy is built on Meta's Lexical and writes the same HTML Action Text expects, with real paragraph tags, Markdown shortcuts, code highlighting and mentions. The 1.0 release adds alt text editing for images, focus trapping in dialogs and documented hotkeys, matching the alt attribute Action Text attachments gained in Rails this month. Jorge Manrubia presented it at Rails World.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/basecamp/lexxy/releases/tag/v1.0.0

### Rocky Mountain Ruby 2026 brings 24 talks to Boulder, six of them on AI
September 28, 2026 · Community
The two-day conference ran September 28-29 with Drew Bragg on building an AI agent in about 400 lines of Ruby, Giovanni Panasiti on agentic RAG with RubyLLM, and Andrea Fomera on onboarding into a Rails codebase with AI agents. Marco Roth brought "Herb in Rails 8.2" from Rails World the week before. Alan Ridlehoover closed with what programmers can learn from the human computers who came before them.
Source (RubyEvents): https://www.rubyevents.org/events/rocky-mountain-ruby-2026

### Shopify opens checkout to AI agents on every eligible store
September 28, 2026 · Product · Shopify
Agents running in a buyer's browser can now read, fill and submit Shopify checkouts through three WebMCP tools (get_checkout, update_checkout, complete_checkout), including Shop Pay, once the buyer approves. A week earlier Tobi Lütke announced Shop Pay checkout inside Meta's Muse agent across Shopify stores in the US, Canada and Mexico. Amazon and Adidas block AI agents from buying on their sites.
Source (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/shopify-opens-checkout-to-browser-based-ai-agents/

### Herb becomes the default ERB compiler in Rails 8.2
September 25, 2026 · Product · Ruby on Rails
New apps, and apps on config.load_defaults 8.2, now compile HTML templates through Herb, with Erubi kept for every other format. A new bin/rails herb:check task compiles every template and lists the ones Herb rejects. Marco Roth shipped Herb 0.11 on September 24, the week of his Rails World talk on HTML-aware ERB.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/9/25/this-week-in-rails

### DHH opens Rails World: convention over configuration is built for the agent era
September 23, 2026 · Community · 37signals
The opening keynote, livestreamed for the first time with Shopify's support, argued that Rails conventions make agent-written code cheaper in tokens and faster to review. DHH said writing code by hand is now an exception at 37signals, where the team has gone "pencils down". He showed HEY being rebuilt as six native apps with an agent-written Rust backend, and closed on total optimism.
Source (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
Reaction: Andy Croll, "Look at all the things he's not doing": https://andycroll.com/ruby/look-at-all-the-things-he-is-not-doing/
Reaction: Matt Solt, Ruby AI News, "The Future of Rails": https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-news-october-2nd-2026
Reaction: Dewayne VanHoozer, "Pencils Down: My Take on DHH's Rails World 2026 Keynote": https://madbomber.github.io/blog/engineering/pencils-down/

### Agents on Rails Stage 2: the best model ships 53% of Rails features at max effort
September 21, 2026 · Product · Ruby on Rails
Stage 2 gives models 20 feature tickets against 37signals' Fizzy, written the way a product person would, and grades them with hidden checks. GPT-6 Astra led at default effort with 35%, and reached 53% at max effort for 2.6x the cost. Claude Fable 5.1 held at 32% either way. DeepSeek 4.1 Flash first scored 37% by finding the agent's API key and pulling Fizzy's source from GitHub, so it was re-run in a locked sandbox and scored 17%.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/9/21/agents-on-rails-maximum-effort-and-deepseek-4-1-flash

### RubyLLM 2.0: seventeen providers, and agents that wait for human approval
September 18, 2026 · Product · RubyLLM
Carmine Paolino released 2.0 the same week he presented it at EuRuKo. Agents now support human tool approvals, cancellation and step-by-step control, and resume across requests and Active Job runs. New providers include Cohere, Deepgram, ElevenLabs and Ollama Cloud, plus video, speech, OCR, reranking and remote MCP. A Rails usage ledger tracks tokens and cost for every attempt, retries and fallbacks included.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm/releases/tag/v2.0.0

### EuRuKo 2026 in Brno: Matz finds Ruby the cheapest language for coding agents
September 17, 2026 · Community
Europe's yearly Ruby conference ran September 16-18 in Brno, Czechia, with keynotes from Matz and Koichi Sasada. Matz described an experiment where agents built a simplified Git in several languages, and the Ruby version came out cheapest and fastest. He also showed Spinel, his AI-assisted AOT compiler, speeding up Rails apps with the Roundhouse transpiler. Hana Harenčárová of GitHub explained how the company ships 1,000+ commits a day to its Rails monolith.
Source (Wolfgang Ziegler): https://wolfgang-ziegler.com/blog/euruko-2026-day1

### Thatch raises $108M Series C and becomes a $1B company
September 15, 2026 · Funding · Thatch
The Rails-built health benefits platform raised from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, with Eli Lilly, ADP Ventures and Paychex as strategic investors. Revenue grew nearly 7x over the past year, and more than 5,000 employers now give workers a health budget through Thatch instead of a group plan. The money goes to member tools, carrier partnerships and more payroll integrations.
Source (Thatch): https://thatch.com/blog/thatch-series-c-announcement

### Omada Health targets 20%+ yearly growth and a 30% EBITDA margin
September 10, 2026 · Traction · Omada Health
At its first investor day, Omada set long-term targets of at least 20% annual revenue growth, 80% non-GAAP gross margin and 30% adjusted EBITDA margin. Members grew from about 0.3 million in fiscal 2023 to 1.09 million, and revenue from about $123M to $310M over the same span. Gross margin rose from 57% to 68%.
Source (GlobeNewswire): https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/10/3359569/0/en/omada-health-to-present-updated-long-term-financial-targets-at-inaugural-investor-day.html

### PlanetScale opens Neki, sharded Postgres, in preview
September 10, 2026 · Product · PlanetScale
Neki spreads one Postgres database across many machines, with real Postgres and a primary plus two replicas on every shard, and reshards online. It comes from eight years of running sharded MySQL at millions of queries per second. Six days later PlanetScale made TIN, its full-text search extension, generally available, at 36x the queries per second of pg_textsearch under concurrent writes.
Source (PlanetScale): https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki

### Salesforce closes its acquisition of Fin, formerly Intercom
September 10, 2026 · Acquisition · Fin (Intercom)
The roughly $3.6B deal announced in June is now complete, and Fin joins Salesforce AI Labs. Fin brings more than 30,000 customers and a customer agent that resolves 76% of conversations on average across chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, voice and Slack. Pricing and plans stay the same.
Source (Salesforce): https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/09/10/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-fin/

### Instacart launches Clementine, an AI agent that turns a message into a grocery cart
September 9, 2026 · Product · Instacart
Clementine builds a cart from a request like "high-protein easy dinners for two", a recipe, or a photo of a handwritten list. It draws on Instacart's catalog, live store inventory and each customer's order history to suggest deals and reorder staples. It is live for most customers in the US and Canada.
Source (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/instacart-launches-an-ai-grocery-shopping-assistant-called-clementine/

### RubyGems 4.1 beta: PubGrub resolver, post-quantum gem signing, content-addressable gems
September 9, 2026 · Product · RubyGems
The first 4.1 beta replaces the Molinillo dependency resolver with PubGrub and adds ML-DSA signatures for gems. It also brings content-addressable gems, an opt-in OS credential store, a --cooldown flag that holds off fresh releases, and a global gem cache shared by RubyGems and Bundler.
Source (RubyGems Blog): https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/09/09/4.1.0.beta1-released.html

### Procore closes its $845M purchase of DroneDeploy
September 9, 2026 · Acquisition · Procore
Procore paid about $845M in cash for the drone and reality capture platform, which now runs as a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal was signed in July and closed September 9. It is Procore's second AI acquisition of 2026, after the agent platform Datagrid in January.
Source (SEC): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1611052/000119312526386428/0001193125-26-386428-index.htm

### Chime buys its partner bank Stride for $590M and raises guidance
September 8, 2026 · Acquisition · Chime
Stride, Chime's bank partner for more than seven years, becomes Chime Bank, N.A. once regulators approve, expected in the first half of 2027. Chime pays cash from its balance sheet and expects more than $100M in net synergies. It also raised its 2026 revenue outlook to $2.76-2.77B, up about 26-27%.
Source (SEC): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001795586/000119312526385383/d948605dex991.htm

### Claude Fable 5.1 ties for the top score on the Rails agent benchmark, at 40% less cost
September 2, 2026 · Product · Ruby on Rails
The second Agents on Rails leaderboard puts Fable 5.1 at 58 of 63 runs (92%), matching Claude Opus 5's accuracy for a bill about 40% lower and a 5.4-minute median run. It also posted the highest Rails API recall recorded so far, 41%. GLM 5.3 Flash, previously running unnamed as ox-alpha, hit 83% at $3.31 total, roughly five cents a run.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/9/2/agents-on-rails-claude-fable-5-1-and-glm-5-3-flash

### Ascend on why its insurance payments platform is still a Rails monolith five years in
September 1, 2026 · Community · Ascend
Eddie Galindo and Kagen Hearn take the On Rails podcast through rate limiting for enterprise customers: finding the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline, choosing feature flags over database configuration, and adding AI tooling to financial software. Ascend moves and reconciles money for insurance agencies, and is hiring Rails engineers on the SF Ruby job board.
Source (On Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/9/1/on-rails-kagen-hearn-and-eddie-galindo-ascend

### Two resolv CVEs land in every current Ruby: patch to 0.7.2
August 27, 2026 · Product · Ruby
CVE-2026-80212 lets malicious DNS responses drive unbounded memory growth until the process dies. CVE-2026-80213 is a hostname validation bypass: an app checking hostnames against an allowlist can be steered into resolving a different domain, opening the door to SSRF. Affects resolv 0.3.1 and below plus 0.4.0 through 0.7.1, which covers the gem bundled with Ruby 3.3, 3.4 and 4.0. Fix is resolv 0.7.2, or 0.3.2 on the 3.3 series.
Source (ruby-lang.org): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/08/27/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-resolv/

### Rails open-sources lemans, the Ruby harness it uses to benchmark AI agents
August 24, 2026 · Product · Ruby on Rails
Vladimir Dementyev, Svyatoslav Kryukov and Artur Petrov built lemans with support from the Rails Foundation, replacing the Python tooling the team had been using with a Rails-native one. It runs agents against standard Rails tasks, sandboxes them in Daytona or Docker, and verifies results with hidden test files and filesystem snapshots so an agent cannot grade its own work. Now at github.com/rails/lemans, with the tasks and results at rails/ai-evals.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/24/agents-on-rails-lemans

### Sixfold's Joanna Wang: code got cheap, developers did not
August 18, 2026 · Community · Sixfold
Wang, a senior engineer at Sixfold, builds AI underwriting tools that collect data and assess risk for insurance companies on Rails. Her On Rails episode traces the migration off a brittle homegrown orchestration system, and argues that cheap code generation raises rather than lowers the value of the architectural judgment behind it.
Source (On Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/18/on-rails-joanna-wang-sixfold

### Rails benchmarks eight AI models and finds that knowing Rails, not raw reasoning, separates them
August 13, 2026 · Product · Ruby on Rails
Svyatoslav Kryukov and Artur Petrov ran eight models against 21 atomic Rails tasks, three runs each, 504 runs total, drawn from real Writebook scenarios covering fixes, security, performance and features. No task named the Rails API it needed, so the test was whether a model reaches for the framework's own solution. Claude Opus 5 led on accuracy at 92%; GPT-5.6 Sol gave the best value at 84% for $0.52 and five minutes a task. Rails API recall ranged from 8% to 35%, and tracked the results more closely than general problem-solving did.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/13/agents-on-rails-the-first-benchmark-report

### Matz joins DHH on stage at Rails World 2026 in Austin
August 7, 2026 · Community
Rails World returns September 23-24 at the Palmer Event Center, and Ruby's creator sits down with DHH on day two for a fireside chat on Ruby, Rails, AI, and where programming goes next. The agenda adds pair programming with Test Double, a lightning track, board game night and a closing party; sessions are recorded and published within two weeks, with the opening keynote livestreamed. AppSignal returns as a Platinum sponsor for a fourth year, joined by first-timer Procore, which hosts the Rails at Scale Summit.
Source (Ruby on Rails): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/7/rails-world-2026-matz-agenda

### Airbnb's AI assistant now resolves 45% of issues as net income hits $816M
August 6, 2026 · Traction · Airbnb
Airbnb, famously built on Rails, grew Q2 2026 revenue 17% to $3.6B and net income to $816M (from $642M), while its AI assistant now resolves nearly 45% of support issues without a human, cutting support cost per booking about 16% year over year.
Source (Airbnb): https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-q2-2026-financial-results/

### RuboCop 1.89 sees your whole codebase with Rubydex
August 5, 2026 · Product · RuboCop
RuboCop historically linted one file at a time; the new opt-in Rubydex index lets 1.89 reason across an entire project, catching duplicate methods and typo'd constants and method names across files, plus lazy-loaded cops for faster startup. Announced by RuboCop creator Bozhidar Batsov.
Source (metaredux): https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/08/05/rubocop-1-89.html

### Chime posts a second straight GAAP profit and launches commission-free investing
August 5, 2026 · Traction · Chime
Chime's Ruby/Rails neobank grew Q2 2026 revenue 27% to $670M with $28M in GAAP net income — its second consecutive profitable quarter — and 10.4M active members (up 20%). It launched Chime Invest, commission-free investing with no account minimums, while its April Chime Prime tier drove accelerating growth.
Source (Chime): https://investors.chime.com/news-releases/news-release-details/chime-reports-second-quarter-2026-financial-results

### Shopify posts 34% revenue growth and tops $115B GMV in Q2
August 5, 2026 · Traction · Shopify
Shopify's Rails-powered commerce platform grew Q2 2026 revenue 34% to $3.58B, with GMV up 32% to $115.6B and free cash flow of $654M — 30%-plus growth across GMV, revenue, gross profit, and free cash flow at once.
Source (Shopify): https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-q2-2026-financial-results

### Block's Q2 profit jumps as AI lifts code changes per engineer 150%
August 5, 2026 · Traction · Block
Block (Square, Cash App), a longtime Ruby shop, grew Q2 2026 gross profit 25% to $3.17B and adjusted EPS 65% to $1.02, and raised full-year guidance to $12.51B. CEO Jack Dorsey credited AI-driven development for a 150% increase in code changes per engineer and a threefold jump in shipped Square features; Block also launched Buzz, its agentic collaboration platform, in July.
Source (Yahoo Finance): https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/block-q2-earnings-call-highlights-141600086.html

### Humid 1.0 does React server-side rendering in Rails, no Node needed
August 4, 2026 · Product · Humid
thoughtbot released Humid 1.0, under 200 lines of helpers that render React on the server via mini_racer's embedded V8, skipping a separate Node process — letting Rails own the JavaScript server-rendering story on its own terms.
Source (thoughtbot): https://thoughtbot.com/blog/humid-1-0-react-server-side-rendering-in-rails-can-be-easy

### Aurora Solar launches a marketplace to compare installers privately
August 4, 2026 · Product · Aurora Solar
Aurora Solar, the Rails-built solar-design platform, launched the Aurora Solar Marketplace, where homeowners get personalized solar-and-storage estimates and compare local installers side by side without handing over a phone number upfront.
Source (Business Wire): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aurora-solar-launches-aurora-solar-130000223.html

### Hinge Health turns profitable as revenue jumps 53% to $213M
August 4, 2026 · Traction · Hinge Health
Rails/Ruby-backed Hinge Health posted Q2 2026 revenue of $212.8M (up 53%) and swung to a GAAP profit, raising full-year guidance to about $858M and announcing a $105M acquisition of Cylinder Health. Growth is driven by its AI-powered, motion-tracked physical-therapy platform.
Source (Hinge Health): https://ir.hingehealth.com/news/news-details/2026/Hinge-Health-reports-record-second-quarter-2026-financial-results-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-Cylinder-Health/default.aspx

### Solid Queue 1.6 adds fiber workers, ideal for LLM-heavy background jobs
July 31, 2026 · Product · Solid Queue
Rails' database-backed job backend gained fiber-based execution — hundreds of concurrent fibers on one reactor thread instead of thread pools — explicitly aimed at I/O-bound work like LLM API calls. The contribution came from Carmine Paolino, author of RubyLLM, and the release hit the Hacker News front page.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0

### Chatwoot's Captain AI agent gains FAQ generation and an impact dashboard
July 30, 2026 · Product · Chatwoot
Chatwoot, the open-source Rails alternative to Intercom and Zendesk, upgraded its Captain AI agent to auto-generate FAQs from resolved conversations, added an assistant-overview dashboard (volume handled, resolution rate, time saved), and now shows which articles informed each reply.
Source (Chatwoot): https://www.chatwoot.com/changelog

### Rails-built Procore buys DroneDeploy for $845M to add AI reality capture
July 30, 2026 · Acquisition · Procore
Procore, the publicly traded construction-management platform built on Ruby on Rails, agreed to acquire reality-capture and robotics company DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, pairing aerial and ground jobsite capture with Procore AI. The deal is targeted to close by the end of 2026.
Source (Construction Dive): https://www.constructiondive.com/news/procore-acquires-dronedeploy-data-ai-cash/826667/

### AppSignal ships a hosted MCP server, piping Rails errors into your AI editor
July 29, 2026 · Product · AppSignal
AppSignal launched a public, hosted Model Context Protocol endpoint — no Docker, OAuth built in — that exposes errors, performance traces, logs, anomalies, metrics, and dashboards to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Zed, and Windsurf, so an agent can investigate a production Rails issue without leaving the editor.
Source (AppSignal): https://blog.appsignal.com/2026/07/29/appsignal-mcp-server-get-started-in-your-ide.html

### GitHub Copilot passes 50M users; one in three PRs now involves an agent
July 29, 2026 · Traction · GitHub
GitHub — a Ruby on Rails application — is Microsoft's clearest AI-era win: on the FY26 Q4 earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella said Copilot crossed 50 million users (about 30 million paid seats), and one in three pull requests on GitHub now involves an agent, atop Microsoft's record $90B quarter.
Source (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-msft-q4-earnings-report-2026.html

### Procore turns its first GAAP profit and ships embedded AI agents
July 29, 2026 · Traction · Procore
Procore's Rails-built construction platform hit its first-ever GAAP operating profit on Q2 revenue of $375M (up 16%), with free cash flow up 507% year over year, while launching a new suite of embedded AI agents powered by Datagrid intelligence.
Source (Procore): https://investors.procore.com/news/news-details/2026/Procore-Announces-Second-Quarter-2026-Financial-Results/default.aspx

### Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63M to ground its clinical AI
July 29, 2026 · Acquisition · Doximity
Rails-based physician network Doximity acquired clinical-reference company Pathway Medical for $63 million ($26M cash plus $37M equity), feeding vetted guidelines, drug data, and trial results into its Clinical AI Suite. Doximity reports more than 300,000 AI users and 165 signed health-system AI clients.
Source (Fierce Healthcare): https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/doximity-ceo-calls-2026-ai-investment-year-race-get-ai-front-doctors

### Rootly acquires ThinkHive to make incident-response AI agents reliable
July 28, 2026 · Acquisition · Rootly
Rootly, the Rails-built AI incident-management platform, acquired ThinkHive, which traces AI-agent behavior and correlates metrics, traces, and evals to catch hallucination and drift in production. The buy lets Rootly deploy incident-response agents with verified reliability.
Source (Rootly): https://rootly.com/blog/why-rootly-acquired-thinkhive

### Clio Work launches in Canada with agentic legal AI grounded in 470K cases
July 23, 2026 · Product · Clio
Clio launched Clio Work in Canada, an agentic legal AI that plans and executes multi-step tasks — fact extraction, source-linked research, strategy evaluation, drafting — grounded in more than 470,000 Canadian cases across 40-plus courts. It is the fastest-adopted product in Clio's history. Clio is a Rails company.
Source (Clio): https://www.clio.com/about/press/clio-work-canada-legal-ai/

### AngelList Link lets GPs query their fund from Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex
July 23, 2026 · Product · AngelList
AngelList introduced Link, an MCP-based agentic layer giving general partners conversational, read-only access to financials, documents, capital calls, and distributions from Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex. It upgraded 25,000-plus funds and SPVs to daily financials to support it. AngelList is a Rails shop.
Source (Crowdfund Insider): https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2026/07/293367-angellist-introduces-agentic-ai-fund-management/

### Coinbase lets businesses accept payments from AI agents via x402
July 23, 2026 · Product · Coinbase
Coinbase Business rolled out a payments stack built on the open x402 protocol that lets software agents pay merchants in USDC with no human checkout; developers can add x402 acceptance to any API, MCP server, or web service in three lines of code. Coinbase runs a Ruby/Rails core.
Source (CoinDesk): https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/23/coinbase-closes-the-gaps-in-ai-agent-economy-for-businesses-users-and-developers

### SF Ruby met at Sentry for a night of VMs, background jobs, and ERB internals
July 22, 2026 · Community · SF Ruby
The July SF Ruby meetup at Sentry ran a new format — fewer talks, more connecting, with a full round of stage intros — featuring Cameron Dutro (Cisco Meraki) on garnet-js and the YARV virtual machine, Alexander Baygeldin (Evil Martians) on fair background-job orchestration, and Marco Roth on the anatomy of an ERB rendering engine. The recording is up.
Source (SF Ruby): https://youtu.be/13a6XcrzQcc

### Whop's new CLI hands full API access to owners and their AI agents
July 21, 2026 · Product · Whop
Whop released a command-line interface that exposes its full platform API as plain-language commands, so a business owner — or their AI agent — can spin up a live product with a shareable checkout link just by chatting. Whop runs on Rails.
Source (SiliconANGLE): https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/21/whop-releases-command-line-interface-let-business-owners-ai-agents-access-digital-commerce/

### Fleetio's AI helped fleets reject $41.6M in unnecessary repairs in H1
July 21, 2026 · Traction · Fleetio
Fleetio, the Rails-built fleet-maintenance platform, reported customers rejected $41.6M in unnecessary repair-order line items in the first half of 2026 (up 112% year over year), with AI applied across $1.05B in asset assessments and 57% of enterprise fleets adopting its AI Service Advisor.
Source (GlobeNewswire): https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/21/3330517/0/en/fleetio-customers-reject-41-6m-in-unnecessary-repair-costs-as-ai-powered-maintenance-scales-in-first-half-of-2026.html

### Insta brings self-updating snapshot testing to Ruby
July 15, 2026 · Product · Insta
Marco Roth, creator of Herb, launched Insta, a snapshot-testing gem with inline snapshots rewritten via Prism, structural diffs, an interactive review CLI, and Minitest and RSpec support. Extracted from Herb and inspired by Armin Ronacher's Rust insta, it debuted at RubyConf 2026.
Source (marcoroth.dev): https://marcoroth.dev/posts/introducing-insta-snapshot-testing-for-ruby

### Matz opens RubyConf 2026 with "Extreme Vibe Coding"
July 14, 2026 · Community · Ruby
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto keynoted RubyConf 2026 with "Extreme Vibe Coding," walking through his AI-assisted workflow — including using Claude to mass-review and auto-merge pull requests on Ruby itself. Ruby's creator, publicly leaning into agent-assisted development.
Source (Ruby Weekly): https://rubyweekly.com/issues/809

### RubyConf 2026 lands in Las Vegas with a wave of agent-native talks
July 14, 2026 · Community · RubyConf 2026
Ruby Central's flagship conference (64 talks at Red Rock Casino, moved up from its usual November slot) ran keynotes from Matz, Dave Thomas, Obie Fernandez, Jessica Kerr, Richard Schneeman, and Jeremy Evans, with a heavy agent-native thread: "Convention over Hallucination: Harness Engineering for AI-Powered Rails," "Defying Gravity: Teaching AI to Write Better Ruby," and "Ractors in Ruby 4.0: Message Passing Without the Pain."
Source (rubyevents.org): https://rubyevents.org/events/rubyconf-2026

### Instacart brings same-day delivery to 2,400+ Tractor Supply stores
July 14, 2026 · Traction · Instacart
Instacart, whose backend runs on Rails, partnered with Tractor Supply to deliver pet food, livestock feed, and farm and garden goods same-day from more than 2,400 stores — as fast as an hour, with no markups — extending its reach into rural markets.
Source (Instacart): https://investors.instacart.com/news-releases/news-release-details/instacart-and-tractor-supply-partner-deliver-pet-supplies-farm

### Talkable launches an MCP for safe AI agents in referral programs
July 10, 2026 · Product · Talkable
Talkable, the bootstrapped Rails-built referral-and-loyalty platform, ships a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents run referral campaigns with guardrails. Another Ruby company going agent-native.
Source (Talkable): https://www.talkable.com/blog/talkable-mcp-agentic-referral-marketing/

### VergeSense brings AI predictive planning to Microsoft Places
July 8, 2026 · Product · VergeSense
VergeSense, the Rails-and-Sidekiq workplace-occupancy platform, brings its AI-powered Predictive Planning to Microsoft Places customers, forecasting office demand from real sensor data.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260708507910/en/VergeSense-Brings-AI-Powered-Predictive-Planning-to-Microsoft-Places-Customers

### Lime goes public on Nasdaq, ending a decade as a private company
July 1, 2026 · Funding · Lime
The San Francisco micromobility company, whose scooters and e-bikes run on a Ruby on Rails backend, raised about $167M in its IPO: 6.68M shares at $25, a roughly $1.66B valuation, trading under the ticker LIME. Uber, which owns 24% of Lime, anchored the offering. Lime booked $886.7M in revenue last year, up from $686.6M in 2024.
Source (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/lime-begins-life-as-a-public-company-after-years-of-uncertainty/

### Hanami 3.0 ships "in full bloom" as Hanami, dry-rb, and rom.rb unite under Hanakai
June 30, 2026 · Product
The leading full-featured Ruby web framework outside Rails reaches 3.0 with built-in mailers, i18n, and Minitest support, plus ~3.7x HTTP throughput and 14x fewer allocations per request. Hanami, dry-rb, and rom.rb now sit under one umbrella org, Hanakai.
Source (Hanakai): https://hanakai.org/blog/2026/06/30/hanami-3-0-in-full-bloom

### Brighton Ruby returns June 25 — 11 talks in one day
June 25, 2026 · Community
The long-running single-day UK conference returns with 11 talks: Rachael Wright-Munn's 'Your First Open-Source Contribution,' David Paluy's 'LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern,' and Brooke Kuhlmann's Hanami + htmx app for e-ink devices.
Source (Brighton Ruby): https://rubyevents.org/events/brighton-ruby-2026

### HackerOne joins OpenAI's Patch the Planet for open-source security
June 22, 2026 · Traction · HackerOne
HackerOne, the Rails-built security platform, signs on as a launch partner for OpenAI's Patch the Planet, an effort to find and fix vulnerabilities across widely used open-source software.
Source (HackerOne): https://www.hackerone.com/blog/patch-the-planet-open-source-security

### Lime sets a single-day ridership record in Seattle during the World Cup
June 19, 2026 · Traction · Lime
Weeks before its Nasdaq IPO, the Rails-backed micromobility company logged 83,000 trips in a single day in Seattle during a USA World Cup match, a company record for the city.
Source (GeekWire): https://www.geekwire.com/2026/lime-rides-world-cup-fever-in-seattle-to-single-day-ridership-record-during-usa-vs-australia-match/

### SF Ruby Meetup, June @ PlanetScale — Jeremy Evans on Implementing Core Set
June 18, 2026 · Community · PlanetScale
Thursday June 18, 5pm, 108 Natoma St. Jeremy Evans on 'Implementing Core Set,' Alan Ridlehoover's 'Indispensable: What Human Computers Can Teach Human Programmers,' plus a PlanetScale talk and interest circles. Hosted with Sam Lambert. 108+ RSVPs.
Source (Luma): https://lu.ma/ltipgvuh

### Nonprofits surpass $4 billion raised through Donorbox
June 17, 2026 · Traction · Donorbox
Donorbox, the bootstrapped and profitable Rails-built fundraising platform, crosses $4 billion in total donations processed for nonprofits worldwide. A quiet San Francisco hidden winner built on Ruby on Rails.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260617000724/en/Nonprofits-Raise-$4-Billion-Through-Donorbox-as-Giving-Continues-to-Evolve

### Salesforce to acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for ~$3.6B, a landmark Rails exit
June 15, 2026 · Acquisition · Fin (Intercom)
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Fin — the AI customer-service company known as Intercom until its May rebrand — for roughly $3.6 billion, its largest AI-agent acquisition to date. Fin's agent resolves about 76% of support requests autonomously, all running on a roughly 2-million-line Ruby on Rails monolith.
Source (Salesforce): https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/06/15/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-fin/

### Blastoff Rails 2026 in Albuquerque — June 11-12, Irina Nazarova + Kieran Klaassen keynote
June 11, 2026 · Community
Yearly U.S. Rails conference returns to Albuquerque, NM (June 11-12). 9 talks including keynotes from Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians) and Kieran Klaassen. Other talks: 'How to Become a Famous Ruby/Rails Agentic Developer,' 'Why We're Still Training Rails Developers in an Age of AI,' 'Fewer Tests, More Confidence.' Sponsors include Typesense, Avo, AppSignal.
Source (Blastoff Rails): https://www.blastoffrails.com/

### Pipefy turns AI conversations into executable workflows
June 11, 2026 · Product · Pipefy
Pipefy, the Rails-built no-code process-automation platform (San Francisco, via Curitiba), launches a tool that converts natural-language AI conversations into running business workflows.
Source (GlobeNewswire): https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/11/3310707/0/en/pipefy-launches-solution-that-turns-ai-conversations-into-workflows.html

### Ruby Central stands up Security Engineers in Residence for the gem ecosystem
June 10, 2026 · Traction
Backed by an Alpha-Omega grant, Ruby Central launches a team that finds, verifies, and reports real vulnerabilities in widely-used gems, prioritizing human review over raw AI signals. Its first fix: a ReDoS flaw in Nokogiri's CSS query tokenizer.
Source (Ruby Central): https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-security-for-the-ruby-ecosystem/

### Clio acquires Jurisage to power its Canadian legal-AI launch
June 10, 2026 · Acquisition · Clio
The Rails-built legal-practice platform (a $5B business) buys Canadian legal-AI company Jurisage, whose dataset spans 470,000+ Canadian cases across 40+ courts and includes the CiteRight drafting tool. The data foundation accelerates Clio Work's Canadian rollout. Terms undisclosed.
Source (Clio): https://www.clio.com/about/press/jurisage-clio-canadian-legal-ai/

### Stitch Fix revenue rises to $340M in Q3, guidance raised
June 10, 2026 · Traction · Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix, whose personalization platform runs on a Ruby polyglot stack, reports third-quarter FY2026 revenue up 4.7% to $340M and raises its full-year EBITDA guidance, a fifth straight growth quarter.
Source (SEC): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001576942/000162828026042186/exhibit991-q326.htm

### Apartment List launches Kaleno and Sunny, its AI apartment-search platforms
June 9, 2026 · Product · Apartment List
Apartment List, the Rails-built rental marketplace, launches two AI-powered platforms, Kaleno and Sunny, to automate apartment hunting for renters.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260609942101/en/Apartment-List-Launches-Two-New-Platforms-Designed-to-Ease-the-Burden-of-Apartment-Hunting-for-Modern-Renters

### Fresh Ruby roles on the SF Ruby jobs board — every listing re-verified
June 5, 2026 · Community
The sfruby.com jobs board got its monthly audit: every listing content-checked against live career pages. New and refreshed roles from Gusto (Staff, Payments/Risk), Superconductor (Principal Rails), Koah Labs (Backend, Product, Platform), Omada Health, CompanyCam, plus open roles at Thatch, Persona, Chime, Patch, Reset, and Finta.
Source (SF Ruby): https://sfruby.com/jobs

### Ontra ships an MCP server, piping private-markets data into Claude and ChatGPT
June 4, 2026 · Product · Ontra
Ontra, the Rails-built contract-automation platform for asset managers, launches a Model Context Protocol server so AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can query fund and legal data directly. Ruby joins the agent-native wave in private markets.
Source (Ontra): https://www.ontra.ai/press-release/ontra-launches-mcp-server-for-private-markets-fund-data/

### Factorial raises $150M Series D at $2.5B valuation — one of Europe's most valuable AI scale-ups, built on Rails
June 3, 2026 · Funding · Factorial
Barcelona-based HR platform Factorial (Rails backend, 200+ product engineers) closes a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst, with up to an additional $540M committed through GC's Customer Value Fund — more than $700M in total. 16,000 businesses across 90 countries, ~2,600 employees, hiring up to 50 people a week. Funds the shift to an AI-powered workforce operations platform plus a new Munich office.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/factorial-raises-150m-series-d-reaches-2-5-billion-valuation-to-become-one-of-the-most-valuable-ai-scale-ups-in-europe-302789074.html

### GitLab Q1 FY2027: $264M revenue (+23%), 'agentic era is creating structural tailwinds'
June 2, 2026 · Traction · GitLab
Rails Foundation Core member reports Q1 FY2027 revenue of $264.2M (+23% YoY), 14% non-GAAP operating margin, $149.2M operating cash flow, and 117% net retention. CEO Bill Staples credits accelerating platform activity and traction from GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260602438182/en/GitLab-Reports-First-Quarter-Fiscal-Year-2027-Financial-Results

### Natural builds payment infrastructure for AI agents on Ruby on Rails
June 1, 2026 · Community · Natural
The SF startup building agentic payments (wallets, pay, request, and credit across banking and stablecoins) runs Ruby on Rails under the hood. Out of stealth with a $9.8M seed, and currently hiring 15 engineering roles.
Source (Natural): https://www.natural.co/

### RubyConf Austria 2026 in Vienna — Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler keynote
May 29, 2026 · Community
22 talks over three days (May 29-31). Dave Thomas opens with 'Start Writing Ruby'; Chad Fowler answers with 'This is What We've Been Training For.' One panel seats Fowler, José Valim, Obie Fernandez, and Armin Ronacher. Plus Bozhidar Batsov on RuboCop 2.0, a Charles Nutter JRuby workshop, and Marco Roth's Herb & ReActionView progress update.
Source (RubyConf Austria): https://rubyevents.org/events/rubyconf-austria-2026

### Toptal acquires Adeva
May 26, 2026 · Acquisition · Toptal
The Rails-built talent network absorbs Adeva, a global IT talent network of vetted developers, architects, and tech professionals. CEO Taso Du Val frames it as deepening Toptal's expertise, scale, and delivery capacity. Terms undisclosed.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/toptal-announces-the-acquisition-of-adeva-302781293.html

### SF Ruby Meetup, May @ Checkr: fraud at scale, DSPy.rb, Chatwoot CEO
May 21, 2026 · Community
Thursday May 21, 5pm, One Montgomery St. Kurt Ude (Checkr) on engineering fraud solutions at enterprise scale, Waldemar Quevedo (Synadia) on building agents in Ruby with DSPy, and Pranav Raj (Chatwoot CEO, YC W21). 116+ RSVPs.
Source (Luma): https://luma.com/eyizxwjt

### Persona achieves FedRAMP Moderate Authorization
May 21, 2026 · Traction · Persona
The SF identity unicorn ($2B valuation, Rails backend) earns FedRAMP Moderate Authorization as the only identity-verification provider in the FedRAMP 20x Phase 2 pilot. Federal agencies can now deploy Persona directly via the FedRAMP Marketplace and Carahsoft.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260521233540/en/Persona-Achieves-FedRAMP-Moderate-Authorization-Giving-Federal-Agencies-Modern-Identity-Verification

### thoughtbot becomes second member of the Ruby Alliance
May 19, 2026 · Traction
The Ruby Alliance gets its second member after Gusto: thoughtbot commits engineering time and financial support to RubyGems and shared Ruby infrastructure. The coalition Ruby Central launched on May 11 is turning into a roster.
Source (Ruby Central): https://rubycentral.org/news/thoughtbot-joins-the-ruby-alliance/

### RubyGems repels a supply-chain attack — registrations restored in five days
May 16, 2026 · Traction
Thousands of attacker-controlled accounts flooded the registry with tens of thousands of malicious packages (May 11). RubyGems suspended new signups, yanked 500+ packages, shipped WAF and rate-limiting fixes with Fastly, and reopened registrations May 16.
Source (The Hacker News): https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/rubygems-suspends-new-signups-after.html

### Balkan Ruby 2026 in Sofia — 12 talks on AI and Rails internals
May 15, 2026 · Community
May 15-16. Jean Boussier on multiprocessing as the most efficient way to serve Rails apps, Marco Roth on HTML-aware ERB, Vladimir Dementyev (Evil Martians) with 'Drop your app/services!', Carmine Paolino's 'Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Web Apps,' and a PostgreSQL-to-SQLite migration story from production.
Source (Balkan Ruby): https://rubyevents.org/events/balkan-ruby-2026

### Fin launches Operator — an AI agent that manages the AI agent
May 14, 2026 · Product · Intercom
Two days after the rebrand, Fin debuts Operator: an AI back-office for the teams that configure, monitor, and improve the customer-facing Fin agent. Disclosed alongside: Fin crossed $100M ARR, growing 3.5x. General availability planned for summer 2026.
Source (Fin): https://fin.ai/operator

### Snapdocs and BNY launch automated eCustody for mortgages
May 14, 2026 · Traction · Snapdocs
Snapdocs, the Rails-built digital mortgage-closing platform, partners with BNY to automate collateral delivery and electronic custody, connecting Snapdocs' eVault to one of the world's largest custodians.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260514744846/en/Snapdocs-and-BNY-To-Launch-Automated-Collateral-Delivery-and-eCustody-Solution

### Doximity closes FY2026 at $645M revenue with 800K+ active prescribers
May 13, 2026 · Traction · Doximity
SF-based Rails Foundation Core member reports FY2026 revenue of $644.9M (+13%) and free cash flow of $317.5M (+19%). Record 800,000+ active prescribers use its workflow tools; nearly half already use its clinical AI, with prompts per user nearly doubling from January to April. FY2027 guidance: $664-676M.
Source (Doximity): https://press.doximity.com/articles/doximity-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2026-financial-results

### Clio crosses $500M ARR — up from $400M six months prior
May 12, 2026 · Traction · Clio
The legal practice platform and longtime Rails shop hits $500M in annual recurring revenue, 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.
Source (Clio): https://www.clio.com/about/press/clio-500-million-arr/

### Intercom renames the company to Fin, after its AI agent
May 12, 2026 · Traction · Intercom
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 nears $100M ARR inside a $400M+ ARR business, all running on the 2M-line Rails monolith. 1,400 employees and every contract stay intact.
Source (Intercom Blog): https://www.intercom.com/blog/today-intercom-becomes-fin/

### Sensor Tower acquires app-intelligence rival AppMagic
May 12, 2026 · Acquisition · Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower, the Rails-built mobile-market-intelligence company, acquires AppMagic to broaden its data coverage and add an SMB tier. Sensor Tower's Ruby stack tracks app installs and revenue across the mobile economy.
Source (PocketGamer.biz): https://www.pocketgamer.biz/hot-five-sensor-tower-acquiring-appmagic-grand-games-70m-series-b-and-switch-2-nears-20m-unit-sales/

### Gusto becomes first member of Ruby Alliance, Ruby Central's new ecosystem coalition
May 11, 2026 · Traction · Gusto
Ruby Central launches the Ruby Alliance — a coalition of companies making significant investments in the long-term health, resilience, and sustainability of the Ruby ecosystem and its infrastructure. SF-based $9.5B Rails unicorn Gusto signs on as the inaugural member.
Source (Ruby Central): https://rubycentral.org/news/gusto-joins-the-ruby-alliance/

### Shopify Summer '26 Edition: Horizon themes, AI block generation, 150+ changes
May 10, 2026 · Product · Shopify
Rails Foundation Core member ships 150+ changes: the Horizon theme system with 10 free themes and AI block generation via Shopify Magic, up to 50% faster cart and checkout, a ground-up POS v10, Sidekick answering plain-English questions over ShopifyQL, and Payments in 16 new countries.
Source (Shopify): https://www.shopify.com/editions

### Gusto Spring Showcase: ~75 features deepen Claude, ChatGPT, Slack
May 8, 2026 · Product · Gusto
SF Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) extends its agent-accessible footprint. Owners now run payroll and ask wage / overtime questions in natural language inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Slack — building on the April launch.
Source (Gusto): https://gusto.com/resources/company-news/spring-showcase-2026

### RubyLLM 1.15: image editing, cost tracking, Action Text safety
May 7, 2026 · Product
Carmine Paolino's RubyLLM (≈5M downloads, ~3,900 stars) ships image editing via paint, conversation cost tracking with cache-read/write buckets, and Action Text plain-text extraction so HTML doesn't leak into prompts. Aliases now include Claude Opus 4.7.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/crmne/ruby_llm/releases/tag/1.15.0

### Airbnb Q1 2026: $2.7B revenue (+18%), GBV $29.2B
May 7, 2026 · Traction · Airbnb
Rails-rooted travel platform raises full-year revenue growth outlook to low-to-mid teens. Flagged elevated EMEA/APAC cancellations from Middle East war but otherwise a clean print.
Source (Airbnb News): https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-q1-2026-financial-results/

### Block Q1 2026: record gross profit $2.91B (+27%), Cash App +38%
May 7, 2026 · Traction · Block
Adjusted EPS $0.85 (+52%). Raised full-year guidance to $12.33B gross profit / $3.34B adjusted operating income. Shares up ~10% pre-market. Cash App and Square continue running on Ruby/Rails.
Source (StockTitan): https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/XYZ/8-k-block-inc-reports-material-event-e61e67c1e641.html

### Omada crosses 1M members, joins Optum Rx Weight Engage for GLP-1
May 7, 2026 · Traction · Omada Health
SF Rails company posts Q1 revenue $78M (+42% YoY), 1.02M members (+51%, first time over 1M), and a small adjusted EBITDA profit ($1M vs. -$4M a year ago). Joins Optum Rx's Weight Engage portfolio for GLP-1 access — now contracted with all three major PBMs — and Eli Lilly's Employer Connect. Raises 2026 guidance to $322–330M.
Source (GlobeNewsWire): https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/07/3290526/0/en/Omada-Health-Reports-First-Quarter-2026-Results.html

### GitHub adopts Herb to lint 500K lines of ERB across the github.com monolith
May 6, 2026 · Traction · GitHub
Joel Hawksley, staff engineer at GitHub working on the github.com Rails monolith, publishes the inside story: Rails core wants Herb to replace Erubi, and GitHub — rendering ERB at the largest scale of any Rails app — was asked to validate the parser. 500K lines of ERB across 10K files. Herb caught invalid markup and Ruby syntax that erb_lint had missed (~150 mismatched-tag cases alone). Main blocker is compile speed (7–15× slower than Erubi today).
Source (hawksley.org): https://hawksley.org/2026/05/06/adopting-herb-at-github.html

### Instacart Q1 2026: first $1B revenue quarter, ads +16%
May 6, 2026 · Traction · Instacart
Rails-backed grocery platform crosses $1B in quarterly revenue for the first time. Total revenue $1.02B (+14%), GTV $10.3B, GAAP EPS $0.57. Advertising revenue grew 16% — its fastest pace since Q3 2023.
Source (Instacart IR): https://investors.instacart.com/news-releases/news-release-details/instacart-announces-first-quarter-2026-financial-results

### Chime turns first GAAP profit — $647M revenue (+25%), 10.2M members
May 6, 2026 · Traction · Chime
SF-based Rails fintech reports its first GAAP profitable quarter as a public company. Net income $53.5M, EPS $0.13 (vs. -$0.08 expected), adjusted EBITDA $118.6M (18% margin). Raises full-year guidance to $2.66–2.69B.
Source (Chime Investor Relations): https://investors.chime.com/news-releases/news-release-details/chime-reports-first-quarter-2026-financial-results

### Shopify Q1 2026: $3.2B revenue (+34%), first $100B+ GMV quarter
May 5, 2026 · Traction · Shopify
Rails Foundation Core member crosses $100B in quarterly GMV for the first time. Merchant solutions revenue +39%, free-cash-flow margin held at 15%. Stock dropped on softer Q2 guidance, but the print is a milestone for any commerce platform.
Source (Shopify): https://www.shopify.com/news/shopify-q1-2026-financial-results

### Doximity ships free Clinical AI Suite to U.S. clinicians
May 5, 2026 · Product · Doximity
SF-based Rails Foundation Core member bundles Ask, Scribe, and Dialer into one free product for U.S. clinicians. Scribe is already generating millions of clinical notes for 10K+ Doximity members in beta.
Source (Doximity Blog): https://blog.doximity.com/articles/introducing-the-doximity-clinical-ai-suite

### Great Question raises $13M Series A led by Inovia Capital
May 5, 2026 · Funding · Great Question
The Bay Area UX research platform (YC W21, Rails + React) raises $13M to expand its AI-driven research tools. Customers include ServiceNow, Brex, Canva, and Asana.
Source (Great Question): https://greatquestion.co/blog/series-a

### Bolt.new comes to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365
May 5, 2026 · Traction · Bolt.new
StackBlitz's Rails-backed AI app builder Bolt.new partners with Microsoft to reach Azure and Microsoft 365 customers, bringing prompt-to-app development to the enterprise. The core backend runs on Ruby on Rails.
Source (Bolt.new): https://bolt.new/blog/news-press-release-bolt.new-on-microsoft-azure

### Hinge Health revenue jumps 47% to $182M in Q1
May 5, 2026 · Traction · Hinge Health
Hinge Health, the digital musculoskeletal-care platform running Ruby on Rails microservices (NYSE: HNGE), beats first-quarter estimates with revenue up 47% year over year to $182M.
Source (The Motley Fool): https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/05/05/hinge-health-hnge-q1-2026-earnings-transcript/

### Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 in Asheville — 21 talks, agent-thread cluster
April 30, 2026 · Community
Two-day, single-track Ruby conference in downtown Asheville (April 30 - May 1). 21 talks including 'LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern,' 'Instillment of Successful Practices in an Agentic World,' and a lightning talk on 'Teaching Claude Code to Upgrade Rails.' Speakers: Joël Quenneville, Rachael Wright-Munn, Katya Sarmiento, Ifat Ribon.
Source (Blue Ridge Ruby): https://blueridgeruby.com/

### Saeloun packages Garry Tan's AI toolkit as a Rails workflow
April 29, 2026 · Traction
Rails consultancy Saeloun publishes a long-form walkthrough of the YC CEO's stack — Perplexity, Claude Code, Codex, Conductor, GBrain, gstack, Copilot/CodeRabbit, mandatory human gate — framed explicitly as the Rails AI setup. First time a Rails shop packages and evangelizes Tan's runtime-agnostic tooling as a Rails workflow.
Source (Saeloun): https://blog.saeloun.com/2026/04/29/ever-improving-ai-setup-rails-gbrain-gstack-codex-claude-perplexity/

### Stripe Sessions 2026: 288 launches, agentic commerce, Link AI-agent wallet
April 29, 2026 · Product · Stripe
SF Ruby company (Sinatra + internal framework) ships 288 new products at its annual conference. Agentic Commerce Suite expands with Meta and Google partnerships, Link adds an AI-agent wallet, and Stripe Reader T600 ships. 9,000 attendees at Moscone.
Source (Stripe Newsroom): https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/sessions-2026

### Checkr launches Profiles — verified identity that travels with you
April 29, 2026 · Product · Checkr
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.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/checkr-launches-profiles-giving-people-a-verified-identity-that-travels-with-them-302756790.html

### Herb v0.10 ships diff engine, dev server, and the foundation for reactive ERB
April 24, 2026 · Product
Marco Roth releases Herb v0.10 in time for RubyKaigi 2026, with a Syntax Tree Diff Engine, a Herb Dev Server (live page updates without full refresh, via the new @herb-tools/client package), compile-time optimizations for Action View tag helpers, and ActionView-specific static analysis. Marco's RubyKaigi talk: 'HTML-Aware ERB: The Path to Reactive Rendering.'
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/marcoroth/herb/releases/tag/v0.10.0

### Intercom launches Fin for Sales — AI agent now qualifies leads and books meetings
April 24, 2026 · Product · Intercom
Fin moves beyond support. Spring broadcast ships Fin for Sales (qualifying leads, booking meetings, starting trials), a free Fin Copilot tier (10 conversations/month per agent), and Fin Insights with CX Score and Optimize Dashboard. Fin growing 350% YoY across 8,000 companies — all on a 2M-line Rails monolith.
Source (SiliconANGLE): https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/24/intercoms-customer-service-agent-takes-new-sales-role/

### Matz unveils Spinel — AI-built Ruby AOT compiler, 11.6× faster than MiniRuby
April 24, 2026 · Product
At RubyKaigi 2026 in Hakodate, Yukihiro Matsumoto debuted Spinel, a native Ruby compiler that goes Ruby → AST → C → binary. Three-year-old idea, implemented in weeks with Claude Code. MIT licensed, 1.5K GitHub stars.
Source (The Register): https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/06/ruby-inventor-matz-working-on-native-compiler-with-ai-help/

### Rails World 2026 heads to Austin — 1,200 seats, AI/Agentic Systems track
April 23, 2026 · Community
Rails Foundation announces the biggest Rails World yet: Austin, Sep 23–24, 1,200-attendee capacity with dedicated AI / Agentic Systems and Trust & Security tracks. CFP closes May 16. Corporate tickets ($1,300) live; general admission ($699) on sale May 12, 10am CT.
Source (Rails Foundation): https://rubyonrails.org/2026/4/23/big-rails-world-2026-update-CFP

### RubyKaigi 2026: the world's largest Ruby conference heads to Hakodate
April 22, 2026 · Community
Three days in Hokkaido, Japan. Speakers include Matz, Charles Nutter (JRuby), and Satoshi Tagomori. Lightning talks on a chartered Hakodate tram.
Source (RubyKaigi): https://rubykaigi.org/2026/

### AngelList launches USVC — $500-minimum venture fund open to everyone
April 22, 2026 · Product · AngelList
SF-based Rails platform opens a regulated closed-end venture fund to every U.S. investor (no accreditation required) at a $500 minimum. Naval Ravikant chairs the investment committee. Holdings include OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Sierra, Crusoe, Vercel, and Legora.
Source (Crowdfund Insider): https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2026/04/274959-angellist-launches-usvc-a-regulated-venture-fund-available-to-everyone-minimum-investment-of-500/

### Ruby 4.0.3 ships ERB 6.0.1.1 security patch
April 21, 2026 · Product
A point release patching CVE-2026-41316: a Marshal.load deserialization vulnerability triggered when ERB and ActiveSupport are loaded against untrusted input. Recommended upgrade for every Rails app on Ruby 4.0.
Source (ruby-lang.org): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/04/21/ruby-4-0-3-released/

### Ruby Runway: first-ever global startup pitch competition from Ruby Central
April 17, 2026 · Community
Early-stage Ruby startups (under $500K raised) compete live at RubyConf 2026 in Las Vegas. 1st/2nd/3rd place plus Attendee Choice Award. Applications close April 17.
Source (RubyConf): https://rubyconf.org/ruby_runway/

### Shopify acquires Vantage Discovery to deepen AI search stack
April 15, 2026 · Acquisition · Shopify
Rails Foundation Core member absorbs the San Jose AI-search startup for an undisclosed amount. Vantage's semantic-search team joins Shopify's merchant + buyer AI stack. Comes in a Q1 of $3.2B revenue (+34%) and the first $100B+ GMV quarter.
Source (BetaKit): https://betakit.com/shopify-acquires-search-startup-vantage-discovery-for-undisclosed-amount/

### Handshake AI reaches ~$1.1B annualized gross revenue, up 349% — on a Rails monolith
April 15, 2026 · Traction · Handshake
The career network's AI data-labeling arm serves OpenAI and other frontier labs at a ~$1.1B annualized gross revenue run rate (+349% YoY, ~$450M net after contractor pay). The platform underneath: a Rails monolith (Puma, Sidekiq) decomposing into Rails Engines.
Source (Upstarts Media): https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/handshake-refounding-layoff-ai

### thoughtbot ships a Rails-audit Claude Code skill
April 13, 2026 · Product
Jose Blanco and Chad Pytel built a Claude Code skill that runs a structured Rails code audit against thoughtbot's Ruby Science / Testing Rails playbooks plus a security checklist, returning severity-tagged Markdown reports. MIT licensed.
Source (thoughtbot): https://thoughtbot.com/blog/ai-in-focus:a-new-claude-skill-for-rails-code-audits

### Garry Tan: "Thin harness, fat skills" — the agentic engineering thesis
April 13, 2026 · Traction
YC CEO publishes a 90-day retrospective on agentic engineering: push fuzzy operations into markdown skills, push deterministic operations into code, keep the harness thin. The clearest articulation yet of why opinionated, convention-driven frameworks compose well with LLMs — without saying Rails by name.
Source (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garrytan_i-posted-an-essay-on-what-ive-learned-about-activity-7448916360555929600-Sxl-

### Omacon NYC: DHH's sold-out 130-person event at Shopify celebrates agent-native tools
April 10, 2026 · Community
$299 tickets sold out in hours. ThePrimeagen, TJ DeVries, Dax Raad on stage. Celebrates terminal UIs, AI coding tools, and Omarchy — 37signals' Linux distro with 50K ISO downloads/week.
Source (Omacon): https://www.omacon.org/

### RubyGems.org ships DoS prevention and compromised password detection
April 9, 2026 · Product
AST-based gem content validation designed by Aaron Patterson, audited against all 180K existing gems. Have I Been Pwned integration already flagged 1,166 accounts with breached credentials.
Source (RubyGems Blog): https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/04/09/protecting-rubygems-from-the-outside-in.html

### Puma 8.0 "Into the Arena": IO-bound thread management
April 9, 2026 · Product
Default Rails web server adds IO-bound thread marking (puma.mark_as_io_bound), dynamic thread pool updates at runtime, and default IPv6 bind address.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/puma/puma/releases/tag/v8.0.0

### Stripe details Selective Test Execution for its 50M-line Ruby monorepo
April 9, 2026 · Traction · Stripe
Aditya Anchuri (Tech Lead, Ruby Infra Platform) publishes the inside story of Stripe's CI: 50 million lines of Ruby (Sinatra + internal framework), and Selective Test Execution that runs only ~5% of tests on average per PR. One of the largest Ruby codebases in the world, with engineering culture to match.
Source (Stripe Dev Blog): https://stripe.dev/blog/selective-test-execution-at-stripe-fast-ci-for-a-50m-line-ruby-monorepo

### Gusto acquires Mosey and ships payroll in Claude and Slack
April 8, 2026 · Acquisition · Gusto
SF-based Rails unicorn ($9.5B valuation) acquires compliance platform Mosey (April 8) — then ships payroll inside Claude and Slack (April 9). Two agent-native moves in 48 hours from a Rails Foundation Contributing member.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gusto-acquires-mosey-to-close-the-compliance-gap-for-small-businesses-302737584.html

### AtoB to acquire India's LogiPe for global fleet payments
April 8, 2026 · Acquisition · AtoB
AtoB, the Ruby-based "Stripe for transportation" fuel-and-payments platform (YC S20), acquires India's LogiPe to build a next-generation global fleet-payments platform spanning US trucking and international logistics.
Source (Telematics Wire): https://telematicswire.net/atob-to-acquire-indias-logipe-to-build-next-gen-global-fleet-payments-platform/

### JRuby 10.0.5.0 adds Java 26 and RISC-V 64 support
April 6, 2026 · Product
Targets Ruby 3.4 compatibility with official Java 26 support and RISC-V 64 architecture. Fixes 43 issues including memory leaks and JIT compiler bugs.
Source (JRuby): https://www.jruby.org/2026/04/06/jruby-10-0-5-0.html

### Intercom opens Fin API platform to developers
April 3, 2026 · Product · Intercom
Rails Foundation Core member opens its Fin AI agent to third-party developers. Fin Search API and Reranker API. Contracts from $250K/year. Fin is on $100M ARR inside a $400M ARR Rails monolith.
Source (Intercom Blog): https://www.intercom.com/blog/introducing-the-fin-api-platform/

### Coinbase, Stripe, and Shopify back x402 Foundation for AI payments
April 2, 2026 · Traction
Three Ruby-based companies — Coinbase (Rails), Stripe (Sinatra), and Shopify (Rails) — back the Linux Foundation's new open standard for AI-native payments. Coinbase and Stripe co-founded it with Cloudflare; Shopify joins alongside Google, AWS, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Visa.
Source (CoinDesk): https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/02/coinbase-s-ai-payments-system-joins-linux-foundation-gathers-support-from-google-stripe-aws-and-others/

### Thatch welcomes Venteur customers, consolidating ICHRA lead
April 1, 2026 · Acquisition · Thatch
SF-based Rails health benefits platform (Series B, $84.5M raised, a16z/Index/General Catalyst) takes over competitor Venteur's customers, employees, and broker relationships.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thatch-welcomes-venteur-customers-to-advance-shared-health-benefits-mission-302730756.html

### Salesforce acquires Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR
April 1, 2026 · Acquisition · Qualified
Qualified, the Rails-built agentic-marketing company (GraphQL, ClickHouse; $163M raised), is acquired by Salesforce. Its Piper AI agent turns website visitors into sales pipeline through real-time conversations, and now ships inside the Salesforce ecosystem.
Source (Salesforce): https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-qualified/

### Rails adds official AGENTS.md for AI coding agents
March 31, 2026 · Product
Rafael Mendonça França opens AGENTS.md; Xavier Noria merges. Project-specific guidance for Claude Code, Copilot, and other AI agents — Rails' monorepo structure, testing conventions, and contribution rules now live in the repo.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55991

### Ruby 3.2 reaches end of life — time to upgrade to Ruby 4.0
March 27, 2026 · Product
Final security patches for Ruby 3.2 (3.2.11) and 3.3 (3.3.11) shipped March 27. Ruby 3.2 officially EOL April 1. Upgrade to Ruby 4.0.x or stay on 3.4.x for continued support.
Source (ruby-lang.org): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/03/27/ruby-3-2-11-released/

### Basecamp becomes agent-accessible — new CLI and AI skill modules from 37signals
March 25, 2026 · Product · Basecamp
DHH ships a new API, CLI, and agent skill modules letting AI agents manage projects, create to-do lists, post messages, and arrange schedules. Next up: HEY and Fizzy.
Source (HEY World): https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-becomes-agent-accessible-3ae6b949

### Miro acquires Reforge to build AI-first product tools
March 24, 2026 · Acquisition · Reforge
Reforge, the Rails-built growth and product-education platform, is acquired by Miro to accelerate AI-first tools for product teams. The deal folds Reforge's programs and expertise into Miro's innovation workspace.
Source (Miro): https://miro.com/newsroom/miro-acquires-reforge-to-help-organizations-navigate-the-transition-to-ai/

### Apollo.io acquires Pocus, approaching $200M ARR — Rails monolith keeps expanding
March 20, 2026 · Acquisition · Apollo.io
SF-based Rails sales platform (230M+ contacts, approaching $200M ARR) absorbs enterprise revenue intelligence platform Pocus. 400% enterprise account growth in past 12 months.
Source (TNW): https://thenextweb.com/news/apollo-acquires-pocus-revenue-intelligence-gtm

### Herb v0.9: the ERB toolchain that gives the Rails frontend real IDE support
March 16, 2026 · Product
A fast C-based HTML+ERB parser that now understands Action View helpers like tag.*, content_tag, and link_to. As Hotwire pushes more UI logic into ERB, Herb brings the linting, formatting, and code intelligence that JS frameworks take for granted — and gives AI coding tools a proper AST to work with instead of raw string matching.
Source (Herb Blog): https://herb-tools.dev/blog/whats-new-in-herb-v0-9

### Apollo.io launches AI Assistant — first agentic GTM platform, built on Rails monolith
March 12, 2026 · Product · Apollo.io
SF-based $1.6B sales intelligence platform — powered by a Rails monolith serving 210M+ contacts — launches its AI Assistant out of beta. 20K weekly active users, 2.3x more meetings booked. Also launched a native Anthropic Claude connector.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apolloio-launches-ai-assistant-powering-end-to-end-agentic-workflows-in-the-first-ai-native-all-in-one-gtm-platform-302703896.html

### Lago launches Embedded — white-label open-source billing built on Rails
March 12, 2026 · Product · Lago
The open-source billing API (9K+ GitHub stars) launches Lago Embedded, letting companies ship billing as a feature in weeks. PayPal is an early adopter. Built in Ruby by a team with 10 years of Rails experience.
Source (Lago Blog): https://getlago.com/blog/lago-embedded-launch

### Chatwoot trending: 27.7K GitHub stars for the open-source Rails alternative to Intercom
March 12, 2026 · Traction · Chatwoot
The YC-backed, Rails-powered customer support platform is the fastest-growing Ruby repo on GitHub this month (+490 stars). Built by a 10-person team doing $870K in revenue.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot

### PagerDuty posts $493M in FY2026 revenue and a third straight profitable quarter
March 12, 2026 · Traction · PagerDuty
PagerDuty, the Rails-built incident-management platform (NYSE: PD), reports $493M in full-year revenue and its third consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability as it leans into agentic operations.
Source (Business Wire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260312052737/en/PagerDuty-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Fiscal-2026-Financial-Results

### Claude Code adds Ruby LSP to its official plugin directory
March 10, 2026 · Product
Anthropic merges Ruby LSP into its official Claude Code plugins, giving Ruby developers one-command install for go-to-definition, hover, and diagnostics — 900x faster than text search for finding call sites.
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/pull/106/files

### Intercom raises $250M as ARR tops $400M — all on a Rails monolith
March 9, 2026 · Funding · Intercom
The Rails Foundation Core member secures $250M in debt financing. Its 2M-line Rails monolith powers Fin, an AI agent nearing $100M ARR on its own. Plans to hire 650 globally.
Source (Business Post): https://www.businesspost.ie/tech/intercom-tops-400m-in-recurring-revenue-as-ai-agent-fin-nears-100m-milestone/

### YC CEO Garry Tan ships garryslist.org with Rails + Claude Code, open-sources his setup
March 7, 2026 · Traction
Garry Tan averages 10K LOC and 100 PRs/week building a Rails app with Claude Code. Open-sourced gstack — 6 Claude Code skills for planning, review, and shipping. "Rails was designed for syntactic sugar, and LLMs are sugar fiends."
Source (GitHub): https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

### Omada Health reports first profitable quarter — 58% revenue growth
March 5, 2026 · Traction · Omada Health
SF-based Rails company reports Q4 revenue of $75.8M (+58% YoY), its first profitable quarter with $5.16M net income. Membership grew 55% to 886K. Stock surged 14%. Guiding $312–322M for 2026.
Source (GlobeNewsWire): https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/05/3250649/0/en/Omada-Health-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results.html

### Checkr launches AI identity verification to combat deepfake hiring fraud
March 4, 2026 · Product · Checkr
SF-based Rails company launches IDV product with biometric liveness detection and forensic document analysis. Built with Socure. Also partners with Intuit to embed background checks in QuickBooks for 120K+ businesses.
Source (SiliconANGLE): https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/04/checkr-launches-identity-verification-combat-ai-driven-hiring-fraud/

### GitLab surpasses $1B ARR — authorizes $400M share buyback
March 3, 2026 · Traction · GitLab
Rails Foundation Core member crosses the $1B ARR milestone. Full-year revenue $955M (+26%). Added most $1M+ customers ever in Q4. Free cash flow grew 83% to $220M.
Source (BusinessWire): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260303140705/en/GitLab-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Fiscal-Year-2026-Financial-Results-Board-of-Directors-Authorizes-$400-million-for-Share-Repurchase-Program

### Charles Schwab completes $636M acquisition of Forge Global
March 2, 2026 · Acquisition · Forge
Forge, the Rails-built private-markets marketplace whose careers page says all future development happens in Ruby on Rails, is acquired by Charles Schwab for $636M. The deal gives Schwab clients access to pre-IPO shares. Forge trades under NYSE: FRGE.
Source (Charles Schwab): https://pressroom.aboutschwab.com/press-releases/press-release/2026/Charles-Schwab-Completes-Acquisition-of-Forge-Global/default.aspx

### Chime targets GAAP profitability in 2026, projecting $2.6B+ revenue
February 15, 2026 · Traction · Chime
The Rails-powered fintech that IPO'd at $11.6B reports 31% revenue growth and 9.5M active members. Rails Foundation Contributing member on track to become one of the largest profitable public Rails companies.
Source (StockTitan): https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/CHYM/8-k-chime-financial-inc-reports-material-event-d4e199b0cb62.html

### Shopify Winter '26 Edition: 150+ updates, Agentic Storefronts, $3.67B/quarter
February 11, 2026 · Product · Shopify
Rails Foundation Core member ships 150+ product updates including Agentic Storefronts (products in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot) and Sidekick AI app builder. Revenue $3.67B (+31%), GMV hit $124B. Authorized $2B share buyback.
Source (Shopify): https://www.shopify.com/editions/winter2026

### CodeCrafters raises $1.8M seed for advanced developer courses
February 5, 2026 · Funding · CodeCrafters
CodeCrafters, the Rails-and-Ember platform for hands-on "build your own Redis / Git / SQLite" programming challenges (YC S22), raises a $1.8M seed round to grow its catalog for experienced developers.
Source (CodeCrafters): https://codecrafters.io/blog/seed

### Spring Health acquires Alma — combined $6–7B entity, $1B revenue in year one
January 29, 2026 · Acquisition · Spring Health
The Rails-powered mental health platform (50M+ lives covered) acquires Alma's therapist network (120M+ lives). Nearly 10M mental health visits projected for 2026. SF office at 2 Embarcadero Center.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spring-health-joins-forces-with-alma-expanding-access-to-precision-mental-health-care-302673454.html

### Shippo ships the first agentic shipping platform, Shippo MCP
December 10, 2025 · Product · Shippo
Shippo, the Rails-built multi-carrier shipping API, launches Shippo MCP, an agentic layer that lets AI assistants buy labels, compare rates, and track packages on behalf of merchants.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/introducing-the-first-agentic-shipping-platform-shippo-mcp-302637453.html

### Bugcrowd acquires Mayhem Security to add AI to pentesting
November 4, 2025 · Acquisition · Bugcrowd
Bugcrowd, the Rails-built crowdsourced-security platform, acquires Mayhem Security to pair its human hacker network with AI-driven automation across penetration testing and vulnerability discovery.
Source (PR Newswire): https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bugcrowd-acquires-mayhem-security-to-bring-human-augmented-ai-automation-to-security-testing-302603363.html