Worklife

We’re an early stage venture firm backed by the founders of Twitch, Spotify, Cameo, and YouTube. We invest in tools that make work more creative, flexible, and human. Early investors in @deel, @public, @supabase, @HightouchData, and your favorite tools at work.

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From the summit of Mount Everest, congratulations to @supabase To celebrate their $500M Series F and $10B valuation, we carried the Supabase flag to the highest point on Earth — 29,032 feet (8,849 m) up. 🏔️ Nearly 10 million developers now rely on Supabase, with database launches up 600% in the past year. Proud to celebrate this milestone with one of our incredible customers and cheer them on as they continue to reach new heights.

Hosting a night for builders & creators at the @contralabs_ai NYC office next week for a special discussion with @briannekimmel , Founder of @WorklifeVC and @pirroh, President & Head of AI of @Replit Founders, builders, designers, product leaders, developers, creators, and AI folks, this one’s for you luma.com/hu0eb20k

The vibes in NYC right now

a reminder that branding matters.

As we continue to bring generative AI founders and industry-leading creatives together under one roof, the room was buzzing at our last event in LA. 75 talented creatives from A24, Tim Burton Productions, Lucky Chap, Family Guy, and many of the most iconic TV & film franchises. Next up, we’re heading to NYC for some East Coast summer energy on June 19.

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Architects have adopted AI faster than other creatives thanks to this man… Resistance to AI within the field exists, but it’s becoming less common. Some of the architects who three years ago were commenting on his posts — *this is never going to get anywhere close to practicality* — are the same ones now posting about spatial dimensions and asking why a rendered building window details are slightly off.  The anxiety he encounters most often is about design itself: the part of the job that architects feel is irreducibly theirs. The worry is that using AI for ideation means outsourcing authorship. Amir's response to that is patient, almost therapeutic. "If you understand that there needs to be a correct direction—a very personal direction from you as the designer—so that this AI can execute on this project properly, then you understand: this is not AI that is designing the project. It is you." He pauses, then adds: "I call myself an AI therapist for architects. I'm there to tell them, hey. It's okay. You're not gonna go away."

With Deel, a company in NYC can now fund payroll in dollars and their employee in Berlin can receive it in stablecoins within minutes 🤯 On one platform, no workarounds. Stablecoin salary payouts are available for employees in the EU and US - the UK and LATAM are coming soon. You choose how to fund it. They choose how to get paid

Thousands of investors are using our AI Agents to automate sophisticated investing strategies. Here's a quick breakdown of the skills Agents can utilize on Public right now.

Something's being stitched together. Details tomorrow. 🧵

There’s a lot of hand-wringing right now about what AI will do to creativity. That it’ll flatten taste. Kill originality. Do away with the instinct to make something strange, specific, unforgettable. But the creatives actually breaking through right now tell a different story. The bar hasn’t dropped. It’s leveled up. Because when so much of what’s generated these days has an air of robot, the only thing that cuts through is work that feels impossible to replicate. Work with a point of view that makes you stop mid-scroll, knowing AI could never possibly have created what this human made. @ian___woods @szilvesztermako @ROMAIN_GAVRAS top of list of creative directors defining the era.

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BREAKING: @public Co-CEO Leif Abraham (@leifthunder) Says Their AI Plan is Seriously Working Millions of users, billions in assets, billions in trading volume, + revenue doubling annually Recorded at @NYSE this is one of the more fun chats on finance & how Public is building the next-gen investing platform “for those who take it seriously." Public represents the first modern alternative to Schwab, Fidelity, & Vanguard — platforms built on decades-old infrastructure that haven't kept pace with today's investors or technology. Financial advisors are cooked. Public's difference: - Top 25% of wealth w/ real assets to compound - AI Agents automating investment workflows - "Generated Assets" creating custom indices — defense index up 350% in a month - Multi-asset trading (stocks, crypto, options, bonds - all in one place) 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Leif Abraham, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Public (01:10) Competing with traditional brokers (03:45) AI agents for investing (05:22) Are Public’s videos AI or real? (06:31) Why the co-CEO model works (09:34) The evolution of Public (15:06) Growth, scale, and market cycles (17:59) Breaking down the product ecosystem (20:45) Public's design philosophy (22:59) Building portfolios with AI (26:33) Ideal customers (30:20) The decline of financial advisors (33:00) What AI replaces in wealth management (35:45) Risks and limits of AI agents (37:32) The “financial super app” debate (42:39) Prediction markets vs real investing (45:04) Will everything become tradable? (46:22) Tokenization: the hype vs. the reality (50:37) The future of financial platforms (55:56) VCX, closed-end funds & speculation risk (59:09) Would Public go public? (01:02:22) What’s next for Public (01:04:08) The dark AI prediction (01:06:52) Wealth taxes vs. UBI

Excited to welcome new investors to @TextQL

We (@TextQL) raised $17M led by @blackstone to build agentic analytics for enterprises with messy data. The round was joined by @HOFCapital, @neo, @DCM_VC, @PickensAllison, @UnshackledVC, @Dropbox , @varsharao, & other angels

Congrats to the @HightouchData team!

Congrats to @ankurnagpal and the Carry team. Grateful to be investors and excited to strengthen our relationship with Angellist.