Nikhil Murthy

co-founder of @phonic_co | prev: ml @genesismolai, cs @MIT

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@scaling01 Don't necessarily need the final weights to test inference performance, right?

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@moinnadeem wow this was the first thing I saw when I opened the app

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

Ayush and the Warp team are laser focused and execution machines. Congrats on the raise! 🔥📈 it’s been fun seeing you go from doing psets in our MIT dorm to building Warp

[Ayush S @ayushswrites]

Today, we're announcing a $60M Series B led by @BatteryVentures, bringing our total funding to $85M in just under a year.

Also joining the round are founders and operators who’ve built generational companies of the last two decades – @tobi (CEO, Shopify), @arashf (Dropbox), @chughesjohnson (Stripe), and more.

The round came together in 6 days. Here's why.

Every major category in enterprise software is seeing multiple AI-native challengers. CRM, ERP, ITSM – all being rebuilt from scratch by a new generation of companies applying AI to solve persistent problems we couldn’t before.

Employee Management (also known as HCM) is the exception. It’s the last frontier, and we believe the most important one. The operating layer to manage people, run payroll, benefits, compliance, and IT, for every company in the world, is still built on architecture that predates AI by decades.

This fundraise is the story of how Warp is changing that. The average Warp customer is growing 5x faster than their peers, with 1/10th of the HR and admin overhead.

We’re seeing a massive shift happening in how the best companies run their people operations. From the fastest-growing AI-startups to massive public companies, the winning teams are running lean: HR, finance, and ops generalists who automate as much as possible, and use their time instead for strategic work that AI can’t automate.

Warp is the platform of choice for ambitious companies operating at this new pace. Legacy HCMs help humans track the work. Warp uses AI to proactively complete the work.

Workday was built for the last era. We're building for the next one.

And it’s working. We've –

- Doubled ARR in Q1
- On track to $2B+ payroll volume this year
- Signed enterprise customers with thousands of employees
- Launched entire product lines back-to-back: Warp benefits brokerage and Warp Fabric (our AI-native IT automation suite built in-house).

A few thank-yous:

1. Our customers, the fastest-growing companies in the world, who trust us with their most critical systems. We wouldn't be here without you.

2. Our team - 50+ people in NYC who've built this platform, taken on the hardest problems in business-critical software. We're just getting started.

3. Our investors doubling down in this round, and some of our earliest believers – @sound_ventures_ (@aplusk, @epsteineffie), @PeakXV, (@arnavsahu341), @harjtaggar at @ycombinator, @balajis, @kevinhartz, @kvogt, @amasad, @HOFCapital (@myfady), @colinevans (@OpenAI)

We're here to arm ambitious American companies with Workday-grade power, but with the usability and delight of an Apple product.

With this new funding, we plan to fund deeper AI agents, tax and compliance infrastructure, expand our product suite, and support even closely our fast-growing customers.

Come join us.

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@ayushswrites @BatteryVentures @tobi @arashf Congrats!!! 🔥🔥📈📈

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@ayushswrites @warpdotco This is so sick

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

someone needs to build slack for coding agents, I want to share them with team members!

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

AGI is achieved when LLMs admit they don't know

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@kyeburchard Ooh nice, will check it out!

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

90% of the time claude code messes up for me is because it compacted and lost context... very frustrating

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@ayushswrites 🚀

[Grace Isford @graceisford]

Thrilled to announce @Lux_Capital's latest $1.5B fund - grateful to continue to partner with founders inventing the future building the most essential infrastructure across AI, automation & bio. Just getting started! 🚀

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

college hackathons must be so different with vibe coding…

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

is the main reason nvidia is still on 4 nm node mostly cost? or maybe also yield because 3 nm is mostly used for low-power uses like apple's m-series chips that are small die? because 2 nm is coming very soon...

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

wifi at the wedding reception venue is great!!

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

when ur at a wedding but a customer calls 🫡

[Genesis Molecular AI @genesismolai]

Excited to share Pearl from Genesis Molecular AI (yes, we've updated our name!): the first co-folding model to clearly surpass AlphaFold 3 on protein-ligand structure prediction.

Unlike LLMs that train on vast public data, drug discovery AI faces fundamental data scarcity. Our 3D foundation model – #pearlAI – solves this with physics-based synthetic data generation and an innovative, controllable, architecture that leverages equivariant neural networks and an improved ability to leverage 3D templates as structural priors for in-context learning.

Pearl is already deployed on live programs. Grateful to our incredible team and @NVIDIA for this collaboration. Read more: https://t.co/bu5SEkUPY9

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@ayushswrites @joinwarp And it's only day one of ship week 🤧

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

@aquariusacquah @joinkaizen @8vc lfg congrats!! 🚀 kaizen is killing it

[ken @aquariusacquah]

Humans invented software to free ourselves from manual work.

Somehow, we still waste billions of hours clicking across websites.

Today, @joinkaizen launches to fulfill that original promise.

Announcing our $4M raise from @8VC and the public launch of the Kaizen platform.

[Nikhil Murthy @NikhilKMurthy]

our models speak kannada now, my parents can finally be proud of me