Christine Esserman

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The AI convo is shifting from models to deployment. But while attention goes to large enterprises, the operationally messy middle market remains massively underserved. Enter @TheCiridae. Thrilled for @Accel to lead their seed. Big things from a small house in the Presidio!

Incredible new launch from team @merge_api !!

@shensi @merge_api LFG!!!!

Ended the week with closing one of the largest tech companies in the world!!!!!! Never gets old. Congrats Will Hofmann and team @merge_api !!!!!!!

This is the most important dataset in private equity right now: - Largest privates dataset of its kind - Outside-in analysis on every business's AI potential - A new variable with R² of .33 on public markets performance

@caseyaylward @charliermarsh @astral_sh @OpenAI So cool to know you @caseyaylward

Core memory: telling the Accel partnership why I was so excited about a linter Congrats @charliermarsh and the @astral_sh team on everything you've done already for the Python community and excited for your next chapter at @OpenAI

The best in the business! @Mkclements

@shensi @cflynchy @merge_api Needed this

.@cflynchy on our sales team has mixed feelings about Olivia Dean, so I made a Spotify connector so I can send him Olivia Dean playlists and start playing it on our office speakers with a prompt. You too can start trolling your coworkers with @merge_api Agent Handler.

@gregfoster996 🤣

Do you think all the fashion designers in Soho are confused? Backpacks are starting to overtake bottega bags here

@mayanjb @MerrillLutsky @graphite @cursor_ai 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

a wild sprint but the news is out: Graphite is joining Cursor! thank you to @MerrillLutsky and the @graphite team for trusting me with our storytelling. and to my friends @cursor_ai — here’s to an exciting next chapter ahead 🎬

@TomasReimers @MerrillLutsky @gregmfoster @cursor_ai The sippy cup was cropped out!

@ChristineEsser @MerrillLutsky @gregmfoster @cursor_ai For those wondering, that's literally our handwritten series B term sheet in the middle 😂😅

Graphite’s story has just begun. Congratulations to @MerrillLutsky @TomasReimers @gregmfoster and the entire Graphite team. Look forward to continuing our partnership for many years to come @cursor_ai

Graphite is joining Cursor. cursor.com/blog/graphite

The new PR page for the new era of software development. Now you can review code with a Notion-like text editor, floating comments, clear action cards, and beautiful code diffs - all integrated seamlessly with Graphite Agent.

@caseyaylward @evanyou incredible!!!!

I think one of the coolest parts of programming languages and tooling is seeing how ideas from one ecosystem can inspire another. When I met @evanyou in 2023, we talked about the future of JS tooling. Vite.js had grown a lot because it was fast and framework-agnorstic. Evan was thinking a lot about how to make tools that were super fast and easy to to use. It reminded me of a chat a year earlier with @charliermarsh, who’d been inspired by Rust’s Cargo while exploring how to speed up Python development. ruff and uv showed what was possible with a more integrated toolchain. Evan and Charlie were thinking about similar things in different languages, and it all made sense. We led the seed for VoidZero. Since then, the @voidzerodev team has been on a tear w/ Vite, building Rolldown, oxc, and vitest, and launching their first product, Vite+. Insane speed. We’re thrilled to lead their Series A!

@alanaagoyal 🔥👏

mean tweets for sf billboards

We launched our first billboards in SF. You had some interesting reactions. We read them all.

NEWS: @Meet_campfire raises $65M Series B, co-led by @Accel & Ribbit Capital.

Congrats to team campfire!!