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Replit is shipping product at such a blistering pace that even a fresh $400 million in funding at a $9 billion valuation reads almost like a footnote in the Forbes cover story on CEO Amjad Masad and their impact on democratizing software creation. The company just unveiled Agent 4 — the fourth generation of its autonomous coding agent in two years — that amplifies creative collaboration and design in the development process.

The company started in 2016 as a tool for professionals. One decade later, it is pioneering how anyone can build software. That transition didn’t happen overnight. It required countless intentional design choices — including ones as small as replacing the word “deploy” with “publish” — especially since most people aren’t versed in dev-speak.

We recently spoke with Replit’s other co-founder — Haya Odeh, VP of Design and Amjad’s wife — about the design decisions behind making software creation feel intuitive for millions of new builders. She also shares an inside look at design culture at Replit, and the taste and skills that all designers still need, even with AI at our disposal.

Healthcare innovations have long been focused on longevity. But living longer isn’t the same as living better; in fact, the proportion of our lives spent in poor health has remained the same.

In her latest piece, Jomayra Herrera introduces the Vitality Stack, a framework for how we invest across three interconnected layers — Prevention, Care, and Meaning — that power not just longer lives, but fuller ones. It ties together different healthcare areas — biomarkers, diagnostics, deprescribing, gut health and the workforce — that we’ve shared over the years. 

We’re thrilled to welcome Prakash Patel as our newest healthcare advisor. An orthopedic surgeon turned entrepreneur, he has built and led half a dozen companies, including GuideWell and Elevance, and brings deep insight into scaling healthcare innovation across our investments and portfolio companies.

Coral Care, the platform where families access in-home, insurance-covered pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy, raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Haymaker Ventures. With over 400 licensed clinicians in its network, families get help in under 10 days, and 90% of them report progress within 3 months. We invested in its pre-seed round in 2023, co-led the Seed a year later, and are thrilled to partake in this latest round.

NationGraph, the AI intelligence platform for businesses selling to public sector agencies, raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures. Surfacing data and signals from over 110,00 state, local and educational agencies, the company is leveling the playing field for public procurement. We’re proud to return for this round after investing in their Seed in 2024.

Pensive, an AI-assisted grading and feedback system for higher education, raised $6.8 million in a Seed round led by Mayfield. Already it has graded over 3 million questions, saving hours for thousands of instructors from leading universities, including UC Berkeley, Columbia and Arizona State. We first invested last year in its Pre-seed and returned for this round.

From the East Bay to the East Coast, the Reach team has been meeting with students and teachers across the U.S.

At UC Berkeley, Esteban Sosnik and Enzo Cavalie spoke at Haas School of Business’ LatAm Forum on AI’s implications for the future of work and opportunities for builders. Jennifer Carolan and Tony Wan held a fireside chat with Delta Consulting and Free Ventures focused on finding edtech solutions for the next generation of learners (recap here).

Over on the East Coast: Shauntel Garvey and Steve Kupfer spoke at NYU’s Edtech Entrepreneurship Class to share how sector-specialist investors evaluate ideas and provide value to founders. Wayee Chu judged the Startup Competition at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where early-stage startups competed for up to $500K in funding.

Next month, the edtech industry convenes in San Diego for the annual ASU+GSV Summit. The program is chock-full of Reach partners and portfolio founders. Will we see you there?

🗓️ The 2026 Reach Conference Calendar is the best way to see all the major industry events across learning, health, and work (filterable by sector, date, and location). If you’re hosting a conference or know of one we missed, reply to the newsletter.

Cambridge, MA • Flexible

The nation’s largest mental health partner for K-12 schools serving 350 districts across 15 states.

New York, NY • In-person

Revolutionizing access to pediatric developmental care: at home, in-network, no waitlists. 

New York, NY • 50% Travel

Creating accessible, research-based math learning experiences that develop students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Foster City, CA • Hybrid

Empowering the next billion software creators and developers.

Bay Area, CA • Hybrid

The Shazam for sheet music: AI sheet music transcription empowering musicians to play and share the songs they love. 

New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto • Remote

Helping the 80 million Americans working hourly jobs by earn a better living and live better lives.