Sep 24, 2025 4 min read Daily Rundown

⛵ Vibe Coding Fever India

Plus: AppZen Powers Airbus, Oura’s Billion Bet

Good Morning, Early Adopters!

From India’s coding wave to Airbus’s AI finance play and Oura’s billion-dollar bet, the frontier of technology is shifting faster than ever.

FEVER

India Joins the Vibe-Coding Gold Rush

👀 What’s the move: Rocket.new, one of India’s first vibe-coding startups, just snagged $15M from Salesforce Ventures, Accel, and Together Fund. The Surat-based team is betting on slower but stronger output, generating apps in 25 minutes with code review, complete modules, and production readiness instead of quick prototypes.

💡 Why it’s not boring: The AI-coding fever that began in Silicon Valley has officially jumped borders. Rocket.new shows India isn’t just a consumer of tools like Cursor and Lovable, but a contender shaping the next generation of agentic systems, with traction from Meta to PwC. If Silicon Valley is chasing dopamine, Surat is chasing durability.

⛵ Key takeaway: Vibe coding isn’t a Valley-only party anymore, the next Cursor might be born in Gujarat.

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FINANCE

Airbus Trusts AI With Books

👀 What’s the move: Airbus cut the grunt work out of its finance department by deploying AppZen’s agentic AI. The system takes over travel and expense reviews, card management, and compliance checks, leaving human analysts to focus on strategy instead of receipts. AppZen just raised $180M to scale this Airbus-style transformation across global enterprises.

💡 Why it’s not boring: Airbus isn’t a startup playground, it’s one of the world’s most regulated and complex manufacturers. If AppZen can automate financial ops there, it can crack anywhere. The bigger story is finance becoming a software layer: compliance, multi-currency ops, and audit trails run as code, not clerks. Outsourcing giants and ERP suites now face an existential competitor.

⛵ Key takeaway: If Airbus trusts AI with its books, CFOs everywhere may have to admit the back office just became optional.

HARDWARE

Oura Makes Apple Watch Look Like Hospital Gear

👀 What’s the move: Oura just raised $875M at a $10.9B valuation, offloading 5.5M rings and lining up $1B in 2025 revenue. The ring is no longer just a sleep tracker, it now folds in glucose monitoring via Dexcom, hormonal health insights, and biomechanics from recent acquisitions. It is taking functions that used to sit in clinics and slipping them quietly onto a finger.

💡 Why it’s not boring: Apple Watch brought diagnostics to the wrist, but Oura went further, turning regulated-adjacent medical features into a lifestyle accessory people actually wear 24/7. That’s a different playbook: normalize medical-grade tracking as fashion, then monetize with subscriptions and retail distribution across 4,000 stores. The real moat isn’t sensors, it’s consumer trust in living with a medical device disguised as jewelry.

⛵ Key takeaway: Oura isn’t chasing Apple. It’s productizing medicine itself, and doing it with more intimacy than a watch ever could.

STARTUP SPOT

🛡️ Cloudburst
“Off-chain crypto threat radar.”
Tracks Telegram, forums, news & filings to flag scams, fraud, manipulation for exchanges & regulators.
→ Founded ~2022; $7M Series A Sept 2025 (Borderless Capital), ~$11M raised total; customers include exchanges, FIs, regulators.

🧠 Rocket.new
“One prompt → whole app.”
Vibe-coding platform that turns natural language prompts into full-stack, deploy-ready apps.
→ Founded in India by Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala & Deepak Dhanak; $15M seed Sept 2025 (Accel, Salesforce Ventures); 400K+ users, 10K paid, ~$4.5M ARR.

🔊 Prosper AI
“Voice agents for healthcare admin.”
Automates calls for scheduling, eligibility, claims, and authorizations via EHR-integrated AI voice agents.
→ Founded 2023 by Xavier de Gracia & Josep Mingot (MIT/Harvard, YC S23); $5M seed Sept 2025 (Emergence, CRV, YC); tackling $450B admin crisis.

BAY AREA MEMOS

Sila has opened the first large-scale silicon anode factory in the US, boosting higher-density EV batteries and domestic supply chain independence.
Cloudburst raised $7M Series A to expand its off-chain crypto intelligence platform that uses AI to detect fraud, scams, and risks beyond the blockchain.
Prosper AI raised $5M to automate healthcare’s $450B administrative workload with voice AI that streamlines calls, scheduling, and insurance processes.
Ciena is acquiring optical interconnect firm Nubis for $270 million to boost data center connectivity for surging AI workloads.
Fnality raised $136 million to expand its blockchain settlement network into USD and euro markets, bridging traditional finance with tokenized assets.

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