Apurva Shrivastava

Congrats @paraga!

Congrats to @getavoca on their $125M raise at a $1B valuation! They're building AI agents for home services businesses—answering inbound calls, booking jobs, following up on estimates, and driving new leads based on technician capacity. On track to book $1B in jobs this year. fortune.com/2026/04/27/avo…

If this resonates, come build with us. We're hiring across all roles. I’m deeply grateful to our customers for betting on us, and to our investors and partners for backing the vision from day one. Thank you to our investors for your support: @LM_Braswell from @kleinerperkins @vedantsuri and @htaneja from @generalcatalyst @afc from @MeritechCapital @daltonc and Diana Hu from @ycombinator @dauber and @badgalgge from @Amplify @jaltma from Alt Capital @grosen from @BoxGroup And many other investors/friends including: Krishna (REMUS Capital), Ansaf (Latitude Capital), Nakul (Audacious Ventures), Ian and Andy (TCP), Cem and Burak (Formus Capital), Todd Breeden (Jefferies), Manraj and Sunny (Vicus Ventures)

This is the first chapter of a generational company. The reason we are winning is because we have the best product and a world-class team which includes multiple former YC founders and engineers from MIT, Stanford, Google, Meta, and many other top institutions.

I'm excited to share that @getavoca has raised over $125M across Seed to Series B at a $1B valuation, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, General Catalyst, Amplify, and more to build AI agents for the services economy. Thank you to @FortuneMagazine for the exclusive cover. fortune.com/2026/04/27/avo…

Thank you to our investors for your support: @LM_Braswell from @kleinerperkins @vedantsuri and @htaneja from @generalcatalyst @afc from @MeritechCapital

If this resonates, come build with us. We're hiring across all roles. I’m deeply grateful to our customers for betting on us, and to our investors and partners for backing the vision from day one.

My goal when I became a full time investor was to be the type of partner I would have most wanted during my time building a company: someone who had done the work I was doing before, who had the network to help me reach my goals faster, and who had my back no matter what. I’m really happy to share that we’ve raised Alt Cap II, a $275M early stage fund. We backed ~20 companies at Seed and Series A in Alt Cap I. The new fund will be the same structure with a bit larger checks. But mostly we just want to be in business with people who inspire us. There’s no way to say it without sounding cheesy but it’s true; I feel unbelievably lucky to do this job in the way I get to do it. A special thanks to the founders that let us back them in Alt Cap I, you all are what it’s all about for me!

What once seemed crazy is now obvious. When we launched Kalshi, people thought we were nuts. Today, prediction markets are one of the most powerful tools for understanding the world. We’ve always admired those who defy the odds - and no one embodies that more than Elon and xAI. In just two years, xAI went from an idea to running the largest training center on the planet. The pace of innovation is hard to believe. And AI will be critical to the evolution of prediction markets. Together, we’re building at xAI’s pace to shape the future of this ecosystem.

Varun Mohan and the team at Windsurf built something great. What I heard is every founding engineer (over 40 of them) cleared 7 figures. The remaining org of 200 was only 15 engineers who had worked there less than a year, the rest were sales and ops, and even then they left more cash in the business that could have made everyone more than whole if the remaining team was willing to dividend it and shut down. Varun preserved $2.3B in value for the investors and vested cap table and did his best under time pressure with the options he had. He and his team don’t deserve to be dragged and I think in the long term their decision to sell will be vindicated. It can be irresistible to fan the flames on Internet beef but in this case everyone should stand down given what really happened.

@mansourtarek_ Congrats @Tarek!

I’m excited to announce our $185M Series C valuing Kalshi at $2B. The round was led by Paradigm with participation from Sequoia, Multicoin, Peng Zhao, Neo, and Bond Capital. People choose to work at Kalshi not because of the money we've raised, but because of our ambition: build the most important financial market on the planet. Today, we celebrate our team and community who have taken prediction markets mainstream and made Kalshi one of the fastest growing companies in America. What once felt impossible now looks inevitable.