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Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>In November 2025, Yahoo entered into an agreement to acquire Vetted, bringing the company’s team and AI shopping technology into Yahoo to deliver more personalized product discovery and comparisons.</li><li>Vetted previously raised a $14 million Series A in August 2022 led by Insight Partners with participation from Index Ventures, Bling Capital, and Golden Ventures, after an earlier seed round in 2020, for total funding of approximately $15 million.</li><li>Vetted operates a B2C model that's free for consumers, generating revenue through affiliate commissions when users purchase products through its recommendations.</li></ul>

In November 2025, Yahoo entered into an agreement to acquire Vetted, bringing the company’s team and AI shopping technology into Yahoo to deliver more personalized product discovery and comparisons.Vetted previously raised a $14 million Series A in August 2022 led by Insight Partners with participation from Index Ventures, Bling Capital, and Golden Ventures, after an earlier seed round in 2020, for total funding of approximately $15 million.Vetted operates a B2C model that's free for consumers, generating revenue through affiliate commissions when users purchase products through its recommendations.

<ul><li>Browser automation enables AI agents to programmatically and robustly interact with legacy systems by using websites like a human to use apps and enter data, with MCP enabling AI voice agents &amp; chatbots to chain browser automation together into end-to-end workflows that can replace humans.</li><li>First as developer infrastructure for browser use from companies like Browserbase ($67.5M raised, CRV &amp; Kleiner Perkins), browser automation has expanded to non-technical operations teams via products like Asteroid (YC W25), with the opportunity to eat $2B+ of yearly spend on incumbent automation companies like UiPath (NYSE: PATH, $9B market cap) in enterprise.</li><li>Asteroid is a platform where teams can build and run AI browser agents. These AI browser agents can automate complex browser workflows people still do by hand in web portals such as form filling, data entry, and scheduling.</li></ul>

Browser automation enables AI agents to programmatically and robustly interact with legacy systems by using websites like a human to use apps and enter data, with MCP enabling AI voice agents &amp; chatbots to chain browser automation together into end-to-end workflows that can replace humans.First as developer infrastructure for browser use from companies like Browserbase ($67.5M raised, CRV &amp; Kleiner Perkins), browser automation has expanded to non-technical operations teams via products like Asteroid (YC W25), with the opportunity to eat $2B+ of yearly spend on incumbent automation companies like UiPath (NYSE: PATH, $9B market cap) in enterprise.Asteroid is a platform where teams can build and run AI browser agents. These AI browser agents can automate complex browser workflows people still do by hand in web portals such as form filling, data entry, and scheduling.

David Mlcoch, co-founder & CEO Of Asteroid, On Browser Automation And The Last Mile Problem Of AI

<ul><li>Sacra estimates Manus hit $90M in annualized revenue by August 2025, just five months post-launch, with Japan, the Middle East, and the U.S. as its biggest markets.</li><li>After growing their waitlist to 2 million people a week after their demo video went viral with 1M+ views, Sacra estimates that Manus hit $90M in annualized revenue in August 2025, just five months after launch, with Japan, the Middle East, and the U.S. as its biggest geographic segments by revenue.</li><li>As foundation model labs like Anthropic and OpenAI fold agentic capabilities into unified systems, Manus risks seeing commoditized its core experience of long-running agents that can read + write + execute code across different systems.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates Manus hit $90M in annualized revenue by August 2025, just five months post-launch, with Japan, the Middle East, and the U.S. as its biggest markets.After growing their waitlist to 2 million people a week after their demo video went viral with 1M+ views, Sacra estimates that Manus hit $90M in annualized revenue in August 2025, just five months after launch, with Japan, the Middle East, and the U.S. as its biggest geographic segments by revenue.As foundation model labs like Anthropic and OpenAI fold agentic capabilities into unified systems, Manus risks seeing commoditized its core experience of long-running agents that can read + write + execute code across different systems.

<ul><li>Profound closed a $35 million Series B in August 2025 led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $58.5 million.</li><li>Profound operates as a B2B SaaS platform targeting enterprise marketing teams with a consumption-based pricing model structured within subscription tiers.</li><li>Profound is expanding from monitoring into execution by introducing AI agents that generate and distribute optimized content.</li></ul>

Profound closed a $35 million Series B in August 2025 led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $58.5 million.Profound operates as a B2B SaaS platform targeting enterprise marketing teams with a consumption-based pricing model structured within subscription tiers.Profound is expanding from monitoring into execution by introducing AI agents that generate and distribute optimized content.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates Perplexity reached $148M in annualized revenue in June 2025, up from $63M at the end of 2024.</li><li>Now that web search with citations feature natively across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, Perplexity's original wedge has been commoditized.</li><li>The battleground has now shifted to the browser, with Perplexity launching its agentic browser Comet in beta in July 2025.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates Perplexity reached $148M in annualized revenue in June 2025, up from $63M at the end of 2024.Now that web search with citations feature natively across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, Perplexity's original wedge has been commoditized.The battleground has now shifted to the browser, with Perplexity launching its agentic browser Comet in beta in July 2025.

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AI-powered search tool for answering complex, multi-sentence queries with cited summaries

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Primer: Vetted - 14 Nov 2025

AI-driven app for personalized shopping research, recommendations, and purchases

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David Mlcoch, co-founder & CEO Of Asteroid, On Browser Automation And The Last Mile Problem Of AI

Can you tell us what Asteroid is and what inspired you to start the company...

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Manus At $90M/year

TL;DR: Founded in 2022, Manus launched in March 2025 as the first consumer-facing agent that combined agentic browser control, deep research, and...

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Primer: Profound - 01 Sep 2025

Platform for enterprise brands to monitor, analyze, and enhance their visibility across AI-powered search engines

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Perplexity At $148M/year

TL;DR: Perplexity’s original wedge—LLM search with citations—has now been commoditized by every model lab. Now at a Sacra-estimated $148M in...

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