Notable Capital

Excited to announce we’ve been named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups 2025 - the same list that once featured DoorDash, Figma, and Anduril Forbes’ track record speaks for itself: - 56% of past picks - 140 out of 250 - have gone on to become unicorns, with another 42 acquired. - Only two have gone public for less than $1B. - And just 2% have shut down. For me, the goal has never been a valuation milestone. It’s to build a company that defines a category - the way Stripe did for payments, Twilio for communications, Okta for identity, or Datadog for observability. We want to power the next generation of agentic tools. And we’re just getting started. 🚀

At Amex Ventures, we’re proud to foster meaningful partnerships between innovative startups and American Express. We’re excited to share that Homebase and American Express recently launched an exclusive offer that supports our shared goal of empowering small businesses. Huge thanks to Notable Capital for introducing us! Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/eNp8EekZ

Are headless browsers the future of how we interact with the web? Forbes thinks so. Big congrats to Paul Klein IV & the Browserbase team for being named to the Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list for 2025. Check out the full list of inspiring founders: https://lnkd.in/g-btpHsz And in case you missed it, check out the link in the comments for Glenn Solomon & Dan Cahana's interview with Paul, exploring how he landed on the idea for Browserbase as a "means of last resort" and how we can create a web that AI agents navigate like humans.

Spotted 👀 in Bloomberg: How Handshake is pairing over 1,000 AI trainers, including music graduates, plant biologists & chemists with the top AI labs. https://lnkd.in/g-_H47rh

IT’S OFFICIAL: Voted Best Booth at Black Hat 🎩🏆

With the launch of their AI Agent for Vendor Risk Management, Drata is redefining how enterprises evaluate and manage vendor risk—moving an entire industry toward autonomous, AI-powered trust management. We’re continually impressed by what Adam, Troy, Daniel, and the entire Drata team have accomplished, and we can’t wait to see what’s next. More on this milestone: https://lnkd.in/gs2HFiqe

Last week, we capped off this summer’s NextGen AI Fellowship cohort with our first-ever Pitch Day event! 14 of our 29 NextGen fellows delivered compelling 2-minute pitches in front of our incredible judging panel: Jeff Richards, Managing Partner at Notable, Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD & Host of the “How I AI” Podcast, and James Cham, Investor at Bloomberg Beta. Our judges chose 3 winners: 🥇 Adam Elitzur for Songlingo: A language learning platform that turns the songs you love into lessons. 🥈 Ana Vizitiv for Greencentive: Transforming grocery store food waste into consumer savings & grocer profit with dynamic pricing powered by AI. 🥉 Ryan Haraki for Perception AI: Building security infrastructure to enable the AI-powered web. It was an amazing way to end the NextGen AI Fellowship, now in its 5th year. NextGen is a highly curated, 6-week summer program designed to develop the next generation of founders and help bring their boldest ideas to life. (Thank you to Esther Kim for leading this amazing cohort!) If you’re an undergrad who wants to join our Summer 2026 cohort, sign up for our email list to be the first to hear when applications open up later this fall: https://lnkd.in/gDWPFM_D

Out of stealth! Excited to share that Notable Capital leads Echo’s seed round. Eilon Elhadad & Eylam Milner are operating like the proven, 2nd-time founders they are—they spent months in deep conversation with CISOs at Fortune 500 companies before writing a single line of code and nabbed paying enterprise customers before exiting stealth. Learn how they’re building vulnerability-free application infrastructure from the ground up on the Notable blog: https://lnkd.in/gSvZ4seF

Put simply: fal is on a tear. The pace that Burkay Gur & Gorkem Yurtseven have set is remarkably impressive—and yet, they keep exceeding it, storming past milestones. As the generative media industry continues to grab eyeballs, fal is ready to power the next era of creative content. After leading the Series B, we're proud to continue to back this incredible team in the Series C alongside Meritech Capital Kindred Ventures Shopify Ventures First Round Capital Andreessen Horowitz Salesforce Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners. More on why we doubled down: https://lnkd.in/gGv_Zchd

1 million developers. 100+ enterprise customers. Billions of AI-generated assets each month. fal’s momentum has been breathtaking. When Notable Capital led their Series B late last year, we were blown away by Burkay Gur & Gorkem Yurtseven’s relentless speed of execution. And it hasn’t let up—they’ve grown revenue more than 50% just in the last 2 months. We’re thrilled to continue partnering with the fal team in their $125M Series C. fal initially wowed us with their technical excellence—consistently running at up to 10x lower latency than competitors while processing 100M+ inference requests daily with 99.99% uptime. That foundation is still crucial, but fal has evolved far beyond just fast inference into a full-stack approach. As we look to the next chapter of fal, they’ve got huge ambitions to build the defining platform for the entire generative media ecosystem. Burkay & Gorkem have proven they have the chops to execute on that bold vision. Read more about why we’re thrilled to continue partnering with this incredible team alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Kindred Ventures, Meritech Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Shopify (link in the comments)