Jessica Verrilli

✨Announcing Adverb Ventures!✨ A decade in the making, @aunder and I are teaming up to build an early stage venture firm. We’ve closed a $75M fund and are open for business! If you’re building something new, we’d love to be your first call. adverb.vc

I don’t even have the words. What a goal. What a moment. What a celebration.

Cape Verde game was the best soccer I’ve ever seen in my life. Unbelievable heart on the field.

We’re hosting an event with @Google on July 14 that I’m really excited about: In Good Company. Founders and engineering/product leaders will demo the internal AI tools and products their teams rely on every day. Stuff that’s usually unseen publicly. If you’re a founder, eng/product leader, or engineer, come join us @ Google SF to learn, mingle and snack! luma.com/ao9tgos2

We are excited to partner with @ExaAILabs to deliver Particle's Podcast Intelligence via Exa Connect! Access the power of the Podcast Intelligence API, including coverage of 100,000+ podcasts that are actively monitored, fully transcribed and speaker-identified, in real-time — now conveniently from Exa's research agent. The agent economy is just beginning!

Sensational scenes in Seattle.

The ambition (and execution) of this era of startups is insane. An age of medical miracles is underway.

I attended my cousin’s Stanford commencement today, my first time in the audience and 16 years after graduating myself. I thought the entire program was exceptionally well done. The ceremony was short, focused, and refreshingly free of self-congratulation. The President (and all the deans) clearly know how special Stanford is, but there wasn’t an ounce of arrogance on display. If anything, there was a healthy dose of humor. It reminded me of something I’ve always appreciated about the university: Stanford takes its work very seriously, but doesn’t take itself too seriously (see: the President swapping his graduation cap for a tree hat a parent gave him!) Sundar Pichai was an excellent commencement speaker. And while a small group of students walked out, there was remarkably little disruption. The ceremony continued uninterrupted, the protesters left after a few minutes, and everyone else carried on. The Wacky Walk was alive and well. As usual, the GSB crowd seemed to be having the most fun. And sitting in the June sun was every bit as challenging as I remember from my own graduation. Sixteen years later, it was a joy to be back. Days like this remind me how fortunate I was to spend years there, and how proud I am to be a Stanford alum.

Flowers 💐 for @kirstenagreen and all the founders who presented at Humans in the Loop!

Next up: @getcasa on the stage at Humans in the Loop! If you’re a homeowner in the Bay Area or west side of LA and not using Casa yet, you’re doing it the hard way. 🔨

Hello, world to Indexed Labs! @LizaGurtin unveiling Otto today 😍 and absolutely crushing her demo at Humans in the Loop!

@km Awesome!

so grateful to get to live in this incredible time, and do this interesting work. thank you all for the friendship and support.

The team behind @workclaw (👋 @willruben) comes from FB and Instagram and knows how much more fun and effective it is to work when you’ve got the best tools helping you. For today’s world, that obviously means AI agents. Welcome WorkClaws—collaborative AI coworkers that work in Slack like every other colleague. Launching today!

BTS prep for Humans In The Loop with @LizaGurtin and @getcasa 🎉💚

Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world

Today @MeetArc announces our $10.76M Seed led by @a16z, with participation from @Adverbvc , Broadway Restaurant Group, and @unitedtalent. 200K US drive-thrus run on 1950s tech. Arc lets operators run them like modern digital channels: design the experience, A/B test upsell, see live AI insights. Higher tickets. Better accuracy. Happier crews. This is just the beginning, as we work to empower all kinds of local businesses with AI. Grateful to be backed by investors who deeply understand local commerce, AI, and the restaurant industry. Thanks also to an amazing group of angels including @thefriley, @saumil, @henrydelouv, @Mikegagent, and @jschwarz9.

Undeniably @ericvishria is an insanely successful investor. GOAT level. He happens to also be one of the most generous, no bravado, grounded and collaborative investors I’ve ever known. Bravo and congrats, Eric!

@stalmico @aunder M&A

@jess @aunder what corp dev work specifically?

The game on the field has so completely changed with AI the best way for us olds to keep up is to jump back in and humbly relearn the work. So, inspired by @aunder, count me in! Need a Corp Dev person on text / short notice to help? This is probably more of an in-the-moment need, but I’m game. Save this and DM me when you need me! 🙏

The former chief product officer at Slack is looking for a PM internship. The people who will get ahead today are the ones willing to roll up their sleeves and get deep into the work again. Work at an early-stage tech company today looks completely different than what I did in corporate three years ago. No better way to learn than to actually do it. Kudos to @aunder!

By the way, if anyone else in my cohort of operators wants to do the same, maybe we could have a Summer 2026 (Olds) Intern cohort and trade notes on what we learn…