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We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. We partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies.
Today, I’m excited to formally announce @mirendil with my amazing co-founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei! We’re fortunate to work with @a16z and @kleinerperkins, who led our seed round of $200M, followed by a major investment from NVIDIA, among others. Mirendil exists to accelerate science and technology, and through them, to help solve humanity's most pressing problems. Self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to delivering on AI's broader promise, which is why we believe the most important application of AI is AI itself. Get this loop right, and it compounds. It fundamentally changes the rate of progress itself across all domains. We believe this capability should be democratized. It should be used to power all scientific efforts trying to innovate at the frontier. There are far more important problems—and broader ones—than any single lab can take on, so more groups should be able to pursue them. This pulls concentration of power away from a few labs: businesses and science labs can own their AI and infrastructure, keep their margins, and control their own destiny instead of ceding it all to a single AI lab. We’re a small team with a singular focus. Our founding team consists of 20 researchers and engineers from frontier institutions including Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, united by a passion for science and a drive to build the technologies that move it faster. If you want to build the system that builds systems, join us! @HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, @tararezaeikh
We’re announcing a $38M Series A led by @a16z. 1 million hours of automated work behind us. Millions more ahead. The future belongs to the 100x operator.
The most important AI companies haven't been founded yet. Some will start at Listen. Join as an engineer. Ship real products. Get masterclasses on ideas, fundraising, and scaling from Sequoia. 30% of us are former founders. This is the program we wish we'd had.
Today we introduce Speridlabs. The world is not flat. That is why we are building Spatial AI — foundation models that understand and generate the 3D world. Out of stealth. Backed by @Base10Partners and @pearvc. speridlabs.com/blog/01-post → The shape of intelligence.
Today we’re introducing Forus and announcing $160M to build the foundation for modern medicine. Science should be the only limit to medicine. Today it isn’t. Drug discovery is moving faster, but the system that turns it into real-world treatment isn’t. forus.com/blog/forus-ann…
Our mission at @GustoHQ is to grow the small business economy with technology and heart. We are deeply grateful to all the work small businesses do every day in communities everywhere, and we are committed to being their partner, taking hats off their head, delivering them peace of mind, and giving them superpowers, so they can progress their business. @agarfinks from @FortuneMagazine has been following Gusto for a long time, and we recently shared with her some milestones in our journey of building Gusto (including passing $1b of revenue). These are still the early days of what’s possible. We are building Gusto for the long term, and when small businesses succeed, we succeed.
$300M ARR. Just 9 months after hitting $200M, and growing faster every quarter.🚀 We founded Vanta to help businesses earn and prove trust. Businesses face more pressure than ever because trust leads to growth in the age of AI. 70% of companies now have Shadow AI operating in their environments, and AI tools are 52% more likely to carry a high risk designation than traditional SaaS. The compliance programs designed for annual audits weren't built for this, and neither was the old way of doing GRC. So we rebuilt it. The Vanta Agent runs as a 24/7 GRC engineer, eliminating the manual work that used to slow security teams down and orchestrating compliance, vendor risk, audits, and more, continuously. The Trust Graph maps your entire security posture in real time, so nothing slips through the cracks between reviews. 16,000 companies now run their security programs on Vanta, including 60% of the Forbes AI 50 and enterprises like Cursor, Samsara, Atlassian, and Snowflake—because the era of proving trust once a year and hoping nothing changes in between is over. To every customer who helped shape what Vanta is today: thank you. 💜 Read more from our CEO Christina: vanta.com/resources/vant…
Today is a Gusto Showcase! It’s one of my favorite moments, when we share a summary of how we’re making Gusto better for our 500,000+ small business customers. At @GustoHQ, we obsess over helping small businesses, and every challenge they face is an opportunity for us to help. Gusto has never been just a tool or technology. We strive to be a partner for small businesses, taking hats off their head, doing work on their behalf, so they can progress in building their business. With 500,000+ customers, we know we’re still early in the journey. There are millions of small businesses we are eager to serve. The future of business is small. And that’s big. #GustoShowcase
The future of computer vision is agentic. 1/ We built Nomadic around a gap we kept seeing in video understanding: VLMs generate chain-of-thought that's fluent and often correct in structure, but weakly grounded in what's actually in the video. This limitation shows up in cases like "rolling stops". Is the stop sign actually associated with the vehicle’s lane? Does the ego vehicle ever come to a full stop, or only decelerate?
BREAKING: Moda by @trymoda is #1 on Slides Arena with an Elo of 1270! Moda is in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.6 Powerpoint by @AnthropicAI Huge congrats to the team on the launch!
