Change Was Always Coming
Your Saturday VC Breakfast Rundown
Let’s stop treating change like a variable. It’s the default setting. Every founder who’s still standing didn’t just build a great idea, they built it through the storm. Around the pivot. Inside the moment when everything started to move faster than they were ready for.
The builders in this list don’t just tolerate change. They train for it. They’ve embraced that in a world that reinvents itself daily, the edge belongs to those who adjust quickly and honestly.
That doesn’t mean they’re reckless. It means they’re aware. They see the shift coming before it screams. They move early. They build flexible. They release the version that’s good enough to learn from, not perfect enough to hide behind. They don’t protect the past, they partner with the future.
What you’ll see here isn’t polish. It’s resilience. Products that broke and got rebuilt better. Models that got torn down and rebuilt leaner. Teams that got smaller and stronger. Every one of these companies is proof that change isn’t a threat. It’s the invitation.
And if you’re serious about building something that lasts, you take that invite personally.
Portless just closed an $18M Series A (Commerce Ventures, eGateway Capital, FJ Labs) to fix cross-border e-commerce. Izzy Rosenzweig, Jonathan Frankel, and Leandro Vieira Dias built a Shenzhen-to-doorstep logistics machine with sniper-level speed and customs hacks. 5.2-day delivery. 300% YoY growth. Portless hit scale while everyone else was still prototyping. When tariffs shifted, they shipped faster.
Amperos Health raised $4.2M seed (Uncork Capital, Neo, Nebular) for Amanda, its AI biller gunning for America’s $26B unpaid claims circus. Michal Miernowski, Wilson Wang, and Alvin Wu aren't chasing denials, they’re deleting them. 90%+ accuracy, 75K+ calls automated, and $120M in recovered revenue. Amanda’s plugged directly into claims workflows, no middleware, no manual. Health systems are watching RCM backlog drop overnight.
Interactly.ai emerged from stealth with pre-seed backing (Afore Capital, SeedtoB Capital) to tame healthcare admin chaos with agentic multimodal AI. Nava Davuluri and Shiva Chaitanya built a system that actually talks, thinks, and pushes clean updates to EHRs like Epic and Cerner. 70% manual work gone. They’re running on structured orchestration, not speculation. The AI isn’t just augmenting staff, it’s replacing bloat.
Reserv locked $25M Series B (Flourish Ventures, Accenture Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures) to make insurtech TPAs sexy. CJ Przybyl and Martha Dreiling are flipping insurance ops with real AI, multiLLM stacks, and zero fluff. 80+ MGAs and Lloyd’s of London are already onboard. Financials reconcile to the penny with integrations that run in weeks, not quarters. Project Spotlight from Accenture just amplified their enterprise tech reach.
EdgeX Labs scored a strategic investment from Ryze Labs to power its decentralized edge computing AI platform. Davy Wang is deploying 10K+ nodes and engineering local inference for 21M test devices. EdgeX OS is giving cloud-native compute the boot and moving AI autonomy to your device. XR7 Dual Gateways are already live and coordinating AI agents worldwide. Hardware-level privacy and $EX tokens are baked into the system.
Burstverse popped up with undisclosed seed funding (Borderless, Big Brain Holdings, Maelstrom) to drop an LLM-native wallet for DeFi. Adrian Patel is holding down media while the product handles chain-spanning, intent-driven commands across BNBChain, Solana Foundation, Ethereum, and Base. Their crypto copilot turns user intent into real-time, cross-chain execution. It’s AI-Native DeFi, fully executable from natural language. The UX jump is generational, not incremental.
SWTCH Energy landed another $4M (Constellation Technology Ventures) to juice up multifamily EV charging. Carter Li and Laura Bryson are turning parking chaos into clean load management infrastructure. Cortex platform cuts install costs by 40% and expands chargers 10x. With 2,500 chargers live at Greystar and roaming access to 600K+ charging points, the scale is real. VisionAI enforcement and demand response are already next up.
Let’s connect and keep the momentum going across the tech ecosystem. Whether you’re a founder shaping the future, a leader driving change, a VC backing bold ideas, or an investor spotting the next big thing—together, we’re pushing boundaries. Proud to be building the future with you.
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