Source: Stauch’s Series B LinkedIn
Source: linkedin.com/posts/jakestauch_…activity-7404924730329272320 — Dec 11, 2025
What It Covers
Stauch’s first-person Series B announcement. The dispositive primary source confirming Tenacity Capital and Frank Slootman participation — neither name appears in the company blog post, Reuters, or other secondary press.
Key Claims
- 1B valuation, 20 months after founding.
- Anonymous customer quote: “would give up a kidney to keep Serval in our org.”
Investor list (as written in the post)
Lead: Sequoia Capital.
New investors:
- Sequoia Capital
- Meritech Capital
- Evantic Capital
- Tenacity Capital ^[net new vs Reuters / company blog]
- Sound Ventures
- Radical VC
- Frank Slootman (individual) ^[ex-CEO ServiceNow + ex-CEO Snowflake — most strategically loaded angel given Sequoia’s “next ServiceNow” framing]
Returning investors:
Personal thanks
- Alex McLeod (co-founder)
- Tatiana Birgisson (named as “COO and wife”)
- Customers
- All listed investors
- “All the IT teams that enable our most meaningful work.”
Limitations
- Elad Gil (named in McLeod’s parallel post) is NOT in Stauch’s post — see McLeod’s Series B LinkedIn for that.
- No board attribution.