Adam Shi

@kseniam0s @FoothillVC @chapterone @dreamit @e1_ventures @cleocapital @LudlowVentures @tactilevc for all the consumer founders out there!

You can’t raise pre-seed from funds that don’t do pre-seed. These VCs write $250K+ first checks: - @foothillvc (Los Altos, CA) - @chapterone (Los Angeles, CA) - @dreamit (New York, NY) - @e1_ventures (Miami, FL) - @cleocapital (San Francisco, CA) - @LudlowVentures (Detroit, MI) - @ZettaVentures (San Francisco, CA) -@longjumpfund $100K (Chicago, IL) - @ResoluteVC (CA, NY, MA) - @HustleFundVC (San Francisco, CA) - @Denver_Ventures (Denver, CO) - @CowboyVC (Palo Alto, CA) P.S. P.S. Building your first data room? Don’t start from a blank page. Drop your docs and @ThePageform builds it for you in under 10 minutes.

@thestevenzli It’s so over

@adamshi0 Might be peak

>Go to middle of nowhere NY for brothers cornell grad > Eat at Dennys traveling back > table behind me of two guys talking nonstop about how they are going to load up on $MU and $SPCX > realize that we’re nearing the top in next few months > eat country fried steak

@mon__lim I tell these people I’m a cruise line performer just for reactions

mfw ppl at SFO use “so what do you do?” as icebreakers lol. going straight in for the kill

Spending in America has shifted. Quietly. There’s a growing divide. The biggest opportunities go to the founders who can bridge it. Part 1 of 4.

We dug into the six forces reshaping the American consumer. One takeaway -- the biggest opportunities go to the founders who can bridge the growing divide. Our founder @omal shares the first of four parts: x.com/omal/status/20…

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@eoghan @TactileVentures

Question: Who’s actually writing seed checks for consumer in 2026? Please drop names

There’s only two types of people: 1) those who drink the kool aid 2) those who mix it

Nobu is the local maxima of Palo Alto

@JackSoslow @weissenberger_j Congrats Jack!!

We're excited to announce Ciridae's $20M Seed, led by Accel, with participation from a16z, General Catalyst, Sunflower, Backcountry, and our friends and family. Jack (@weissenberger_j) and I met years ago through our then-girlfriends, now wives, and have been hacking on projects together ever since. He was building AI for enterprises at Apple and Tenyx. I was at a16z, watching the same businesses try to adopt it and fail. We compared notes and realized the options for enterprises were not only bad for the business but bad for the operators! We looked at each other and said, “I think we can do this better…” Since then, working with startups, governments, and PE-backed businesses, we have made every mistake worth making, and only now feel like we're beginning to solve the real problem of enterprise-wide AI Transformation. This “real economy”, the businesses that keep this country running, have been under-appreciated by Silicon Valley and under-transformed by New York. Yet these are the businesses with the most to gain from AI and the least equipped to capture it. The world does not move itself. Ciridae is the AI Transformation Firm for the real economy. We embed with businesses that move the physical world. The distributors, construction, logistics, home services, staffing, and more, and rebuild their core operations as AI-native operating systems. End to end. One accountable partner. In weeks through our platform. As the models become intelligent enough to accomplish most knowledge work, the economy’s bottleneck is now Transformation, the work of integrating intelligent software into a business and rewiring the business so AI runs the operation and people run the AI. We believe AI Transformation is a new problem that requires a new business. New team, new technologies, and new business model. Not a Frankenstein's monster of transformation in parts. In 2025, we hit high-seven figures in revenue, grew profitably, worked with governments with Trillions in GDP and PE Funds totalling Trillions in AUM. @Accel and @ChristineEsser backed us to scale the team, deepen the platform, and bring AI Transformation to more of the businesses that need it most. If you lead or back a business that wants AI to be the reason you win, reach out. If you want exposure to real problems, with real ownership, and work alongside the highest-merit team you can find, reach out. One business at a time. More to do. Onwards.

“Yeah 5.5 party is lame, I already have plans”

if you squint at technology. we've gotten very good at information and communication, decent at biology, and stuck on energy and consciousness.

Today, Fora was named to @TIME’s sixth-annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026 list, highlighting companies making an extraordinary impact around the world. The recognition underscores a fundamental shift in the travel industry, one driven not by legacy infrastructure, but by a new generation of entrepreneurs. #TIME100Companies time.com/collection/tim…

Launching the Alive Prize. $100K to build what makes you come alive. I've been fixated on a quote from Howard Thurman lately: "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." We want to help more people find that feeling. aliveprize.com

@jstwng Bloomberg could never

The AI Ecosystem Transaction site is live. On it, you can comb through 265 deals totaling $2.6+ trillion in disclosed volume – spanning across hyperscalers, neoclouds, frontier labs, chip designers, server OEMs, and more. Demo is below. Try it now at compute.jstwng.com.

@kirbyman01 @a16z congrats BK! can't wait for the new fund

PERSONAL UPDATE: After 5+ years, I am leaving @a16z to start a fund! This was the toughest career decision of my life. I learned from the best partners and was privileged to work with incredible founders. So why leave? It is simply time to build. More to come on this.

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