Chris Zarou

Backwards Capital

Some are already living in the future

Big fan of @yudDIDit and what he's building with @editframe. Agents need video and Editframe unlocks this! Congrats on the launch.

@tsungxu @packyM @albertwenger 100% and will be commuting to Manhattan via my @vightaero

@packyM @albertwenger and @ChrisZarou might also have the same idea When 21st century version of the Vanderbilt gala?

I was talking to Packy about this. When flying yourself 100 or even 300 miles in an hour becomes fast, safe and easy, it upends which real estate is scarce and what is not. The value of land is largely a function of proximity - how long does it take to get from where I live to where I need to be? And how many other people want to own that same land? That's been dictated by cars and the highway network for 70 years, creating suburban sprawl in the process. New local frontiers will open up.

Was fortunate to back @chrishlad early as an angel and double down with the first check out of my fund. He and the @hanoverpark park team have shipped + executed at an insanely impressive pace. They're just getting started.

@zach_yadegari Congrats my friend!

Cal AI has been acquired by MyFitnessPal 🚨 Henry and I started Cal AI as 17-year old high school students with one mission: make calorie tracking easier with AI. In just 18 months, we’ve helped millions of people lose millions of pounds. And we broke $50m in ARR along the way. We are at an incredible inflection point in history where ANYBODY can build a product that can improve lives and make millions. As founders, we get a lot of praise. The truth is that this would not have been possible without our incredible 30+ person team. We are so proud of what this team has accomplished, and are thankful to everyone that has been instrumental in Cal AI’s development and success. Cal AI will continue as a separate app from MyFitnessPal. The combined team will share resources to continue helping people achieve their fitness goals!

@ti_morse @sachaker Sacha is special. Love this.

My first interview with @sachaker, Founder & CEO of Babylon Biosciences. Babylon is on a quest to cure Alzheimer’s. 1:00 History of Alzheimer’s research 8:09 Why tackle this problem 12:22 Axon degeneration 13:57 Structuring Babylon to survive many failures 15:24 Self-financing Alzheimer’s moonshots 19:01 Viagra 19:59 Swanson linking and Raynaud syndrome 24:16 Most efficacious drugs for Alzheimer’s 27:29 Experience starting Babylon 31:34 Attracting mission aligned people 36:24 Filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries 41:07 Lack of agency causes burnout 46:02 Living without a phone to reduce distraction 49:31 Why the information to cure Alzheimer’s might already be out there 54:19 How AI changes things 55:36 Controversial science 1:03:11 Volunteering at memory clinics 1:04:28 Impact-per-dollar and being scrappy 1:07:55 Internalizing pain when you make a bad decision 1:09:26 Time to last embarrassment 1:10:51 Risk taking 1:12:57 What causes cognitive impairment 1:22:11 What keeps him up at night

The Grammy’s don’t matter. In 2017 we partnered w/ the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on @Logic301’s “1-800-273-8255” It was nominated for Song of The Year at the 2018 Grammy’s. We lost to @BrunoMars. The song saved lives. You don’t need validation from archaic institutions

@jaegpark @sentra_app @speedrun @scaletogether @parable_vc @ekaurghar @PrecursorVC @inovia @BackwardsCapVC @AntigravitySF Excited to partner! LFG

Today, I’m excited to announce that @sentra_app has raised a $5M Seed. This round is led by a16z @speedrun and @scaletogether, with participation from @parable_vc, @ekaurghar, @PrecursorVC, @inovia, @BackwardsCapVC, and @AntigravitySF. We also have some of the best founders and operators backing us - @gokulr, @blader, Prasad Chintamaneni, @cailen, @KaitlynKnopp and more. @ashwingop @AndreyStarenky @alrey_ and I are tackling the unavoidable problem every growing company struggles with: context decay. When you're 3 founders, everyone knows everything. But scale to 50 or 100 people over a few months, and it gets hard to even know everyone's names, let alone stay in sync. People stop knowing why decisions were made. Or worse, people stop knowing what was decided at all. Context all too often stays in people's heads, never written down. At large companies, it gets very expensive. One leader told us their engineering team wasted a month building support for a feature that another team had already deprecated–nobody told them. Today, we try to prevent it with more documentation, more meetings, or more tools. But none of those really work. You drown in bureaucracy while tracking everything about what happened and nothing about why. Sentra does something that wasn't possible until now: it builds a living memory of your company as work happens. Not just what was decided, but why, what alternatives were considered, and how decisions connect across teams and time. What does that actually mean? Leaders get a weekly synthesis of where teams are drifting and what needs attention. New hires ramp in days instead of weeks because "who do I ask about X?" has an answer. Status updates and decision logs are automated–no more chasing people. Today, Sentra’s been deployed in dozens of companies all the way from Seed stage to Global Fortune 500 enterprises. Finally, a massive thank you to our early believers - @anneleeskates, @ekaurghar, Chuck Dietrich, Alex Yang, @tllshankar - to name a few, for their support and guidance from the earliest of days. If you want to see what Sentra can do for your company, book a demo below.

@Hersh_Desai @chrishlad @hanoverpark Big fan

@chrishlad @hanoverpark @ChrisZarou has definitely been a raving fan (at least in my ear a ton)

My #1 @hanoverpark goal for 2026 is to make every customer a “raving fan”. Everything else we want will come when every customer is a raving fan.

@chrishlad @hanoverpark Yes! This is awesome.

INTRODUCING... AI Email Agents for Investments If you use a legacy fund admin, you send emails with investment activity to humans to delegate work. But people miss emails and make mistakes. The 2018 SaaS version was forcing CFOs to login to a UI and waste time clicking through forms. But that's not a better AI-native customer experience. It creates more work for the customer. Our AI email agent now reads emails, classifies Schedule of Investment updates, creates tasks, and pre-populates the entire investment booking and journal entries. Our fund accounting team reviews and approves to instantly book the investment update to flow through to your schedule of investments. The new AI-native paradigm: 1) AI prepares 2) Human reviews

Live shopping is going to slowly, then suddenly, eat traditional e‑commerce. If you sell anything online and don’t have a live strategy in motion already, you’re behind.

@chrishlad @hanoverpark Insane! Just getting started.

2025 was a big year at @hanoverpark! • $1 billion to $10 billion in assets on platform (10x) • Team grew from 4 to 22 (5.5x) • Moved offices 3x in 9 months We’re on a mission to become the default for how investment firms adopt AI for operations/finance. We’re hiring for all roles in NYC including recruiters, engineers, designers and fund accountants. Link here to apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/hanover-park

This is so good. Well done my friend @Casey. Congrats Logan!

@chrishlad @hanoverpark Incredible dude

Hanover Park crossed $10 billion in assets! We're rebuilding the financial infrastructure to orchestrate $100 trillion in global assets. Not an AI wrapper. Not a feature. Not a tool. It's predictive intelligence for the fund CFO grounded in system-of-record accounting data. But we can't do it alone. We're hiring a technical recruiter and more engineers to build AI agents to action on the most complex financial data. If that's you, DM me or email chris@hanoverpark.com.

Live shopping will be the natural evolution of e-commerce in the US. It’s still the very early innings…

Early stage venture is talent identification + talent management.

@chrishlad @hanoverpark Amazing opportunity to join a special company

I’m looking for a former/future founder to become our Founding Product Lead at @hanoverpark. This role is insanely important - as you’ll shape a platform that powers $8 billion of assets. We’re building the AI-native ERP that will define private markets. This isn’t an AI wrapper slapped onto legacy systems - we built a general ledger accounting system designed for the most complex investment firms. Our AI agents already handle hundreds of mission-critical tasks for the world’s largest financial institutions. The reason we've been able to move so fast? A tight feedback loop between customer conversations and code. We will run through walls for our customers. You’re the right fit if you thrive in ambiguity, can earn the respect of world-class engineers, and want founder-level autonomy. If this is you or you know someone awesome, please reach out.

Easy road miles

One man’s slop is another man’s treasure

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