We went digging through the latest round of agent funding, and the money is going straight into specialist workflows.
Example:
- Gumloop closed a $50M round, so employees at Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, and Instacart can build their own agents.
- Alta raised $25M to run go-to-market as a "Company Brain" for revenue teams at Snowflake, Deel and Atlassian.
- LinqAlpha raised $22M for agents that read filings and transcripts for 70-plus financial institutions.
In fact, analysts expect 30 to 40 percent of the roughly $450B vertical SaaS market to get reshaped by agents between 2026 and 2028.
What can you do as someone building in AI:
- You need to start owning one workflow end-to-end within the tools the customer already uses.
- Regulated industries are turning into the best defended niches like finance, healthcare, revenue ops.
- If your product is a thin layer on top of an API, that's the thing to fix this quarter.
This is exactly why we built VentureVerse the way we did. Not one general-purpose assistant, but a set of AI apps built for the specific jobs founders actually do. Be it deck reviews, market research or financial models, legal review, GTM.
Let's Build Better,
The VentureVerse Team