Buy The Mailbox, Not The Marketing
I cancelled Apollo. Replaced Clay with Python. Run our cold email pipeline on Claude for four bucks a day. The one thing in the stack I'd never DIY is the actual mailbox.
Founder of Digita Veracity. Writes The Wire (source-of-truth filings + cap-table analysis), Reviews, and Guides for B2B SaaS RevOps operators.
I cancelled Apollo. Replaced Clay with Python. Run our cold email pipeline on Claude for four bucks a day. The one thing in the stack I'd never DIY is the actual mailbox.
Apollo wants $99 per seat per month. The same workflow runs on Claude for about $4. Here is the exact pattern.
Choice AI Inc. filed Form D on June 24 for a $21.7M raise, $18.7M sold. The cap table is one person. A search for the company name on LinkedIn returns zero results. This is what real stealth-mode looks like in 2026.
Consensus NLP Inc., a Boston company, filed Form D on June 24 for a $29.7M raise, fully sold. The cap table includes DJ Patil (former US Chief Data Scientist), Jared Hecht (founded Fundera and GroupMe), and Eric Olson (eight SEC insider filings, medical device pedigree). This is one of the more interesting boards in any tech Form D this month, and nobody has written about it.
CoreMap, Inc., a Burlington Massachusetts cardiac mapping medtech, filed Form D on June 24 for a $45M raise. The cap table includes Adam Rothstein — a SPAC-and-deal veteran with 108 SEC insider filings, including the BuzzFeed listing. His presence on a cardiology hardware board is the unusual part.
Hadron Group filed Form D on June 23 for a $30M raise. The board reads like a Fortress family reunion with a Meta product exec attached. This isn't a normal Series A.
a16z and Sequoia bet on an AI operating system for home services. Now comes the AE-hiring binge that breaks the CRM.
The exact architecture we use to ship 50 personalized cold emails per day for $4 in compute. No Apollo. No Clay. No SDR team.
A two-signal scout stack for B2B SaaS outbound. Funding from EDGAR, scale from Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby. TechCrunch demoted to enrichment.
The honest math on infrastructure, deliverability, list-building, and the part most operators don't budget for. Spoiler: it's not the tooling that breaks first.
Quartermaster AI filed a $48.6M Form D on June 23 with the full amount already in. William Trenchard, a First Round partner, sits on the board. The company builds AI for ocean monitoring and the platform engineering team is already hiring on LinkedIn. This is what a real Series A looks like.
Spaxial Interactive, Inc. filed a $25M Form D on June 18 for a spatial-AI foundation model. The sold-to-date number is $2.5M. The structure says more about how the round is being built than the headline number does.
Thunder GPU Inc. (the entity behind Thunder Compute) filed Form D on June 16 for a $17.6M raise. CEO Carl Peterson has been writing a small-developer GPU manifesto on LinkedIn for weeks. The cap table includes Matrix Partners. The thesis writes itself.