Eshan Shetty

@blakeir @alex193a BeReal clone? Wouldn’t this be better served as an imbedded feature within their existing ecosystem?

new app from Meta called: Instants it appears to be a Locket(?) inspired clone? // @alex193a

I've left OpenAI and the Codex team to build Blackstar: A new hardware company building the future of human-computer interaction. We believe that software is solved. Building apps is now easy, but the next meaningful improvement in human-AI communication requires changing the OS & hardware. That's why we're building a new device entirely. I'm also excited to announce our $12m seed round led by @AbstractVC, with participation from @naval, @SVAngel, @chapterone, and Timeless, among other amazing angels who've supported us from the old Alex days.

@kunksed @DeepakVisva embodies this!

While Goa chases some crap glass wall Airbnb architecture, Kerala architects are the bosses when it comes to tribal architecture. If I ever get a house built out, will likely call in an architect from Kerala.

@_brylee10 did a great job summarizing hard-earned learnings from our work with customers. One key takeaway: it’s important to have an Applied Research Engineering function alongside traditional Forward Deployed Engineering to tackle customer-driven research problems. Together, these roles cover the full spectrum of customer work – from building environments and verifiers to optimizing frontier agents on real business problems. And the tools we’ve built in-house continue to lever up both functions.

Today we’re announcing $80M in new financing for @appliedcompute, to help enterprises go from general to specific intelligence. Our view is that the winners of this era will be the companies that turn their information, and expertise into intelligent systems that compound over time. They’ll have agents that get sharper every week by learning from real decisions, outcomes, and feedback.

Today @YuzuHealthInc announces our Series A! Our mission is to bring trust and agency back to health insurance. Thank you to our customers, partners, and team who made this possible! Blog and hiring link in the comments.

Mecka is excited to power EgoVerse: a growing ecosystem for robot learning from egocentric human data Proven across 4 leading research labs, EgoVerse data consistently boosts robot performance We release the tools for anyone to collect data, inference/train, and contribute! 🧵

@felixstocker14 Congrats!

Today we’re launching the Ciridae Transformation Index: our evaluation of how over 5,000 portfolio companies across 147 leading private equity firms. - Who’s going to benefit - and who’s way offside? - Where are the safe havens? - Which businesses are under the most pressure to transform? - What companies look more attractive through an AI lens? - Which parts of the market are priced correctly, and where could potential opportunity lie? We’re publishing it all at ai-transformation.fyi - check it out!

@PratikshaDake You should meet @DeepakVisva !

I am obsessed with Total Environment houses.

Anjali is a force of nature! Congrats my friend - couldn’t be more excited for you. It’s a shame how few people actually take the time to verify the information they’re fed, choosing instead to accept it as gospel

@fintechjunkie Can’t wait to read it. You are an incredible human being, and I’m excited for the world to see your labor come to life.

What if the best startup advice came wrapped in a story you couldn't put down? It’s finally here! After a year of hard work and many sleepless nights, I can finally say that my book has been published. Amazon and Ingram links are in the comments if you want to pick up a copy for yourself or your company. ArrowProof is my attempt to package insights about the Startup journey into something more engaging than “yet another business book”. Rather than lecture with a framework laid out in a highly sanitized format, I wanted to show an Advisor’s “wise advice” in action through the eyes of two first-time Founders navigating their own impossible journey. And because I can’t help but break from convention, my characters aren’t what one would expect. I chose Achilles and Tortoise as my protagonists as an homage to a remarkable literary heritage that’s near and dear to my heart. These characters first appeared in Zeno's famous paradox, were brilliantly reimagined by Lewis Carroll in his mathematical dialogues, and found new life in modern literature in Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and "I Am A Strange Loop." What drew me to them was how these great writers used them as a convention to make complex ideas accessible through conversation. They represent the art of distillation that I've spent my career perfecting. My superpower has always been the ability to take nuanced, sophisticated concepts and make them digestible without losing their power. And this is why using Achilles and Tortoise was my obvious choice. This book is for Founders who want to see the Startup journey mapped out honestly, without sugar-coating the inevitable challenges or overselling the victories. It's for Investors who want to better understand what Founders actually experience during the critical moments that determine success or failure. It's for anyone curious about how real companies emerge from the chaos of Entrepreneurial ambition. Most importantly, it's for anyone who appreciates that the best business wisdom often comes not from textbooks or case studies, but from the messy, complicated, deeply human process of building something from nothing. AI might eventually replace me with better advice that’s wrapped in a better-written book, but until then, I hope ArrowProof serves as a useful guide for anyone brave enough to build something new. Please enjoy. Please share. And please reach out if you're looking for advice. Onwards and upwards. Fintechjunkie

"Everyone's talking about continual learning. That's entirely where this space is going to go." The Applied Compute platform is architected around that premise: build memory and intuition from fragmented data across your entire org, train reasoning models directly on top of it, and close the loop. A model is just one piece. An agent is where it runs, what tools it has, how permissions and auth are handled, how humans guide and instruct it, and the observability around it all. Every interaction should be treated as a training signal so the system can compound over time. Thanks for having us @tbpn

We partnered with @DoorDash to train a proprietary RL-powered agent that encodes internal QA standards into an automated grader, turning expert judgment into a scalable training signal. The result: a 30% relative reduction in critical menu errors and a production system now live across all US menu traffic. appliedcompute.com/case-studies/d…

@jhnling Congrats John!

Meet Meridian: Turn Hours in Excel into Minutes If you work in Excel, Meridian is built for you. Meridian works with companies like Decagon, OffDeal, a top investment bank, and other financial institutions. We’re an AI-powered workspace that automates Excel modeling work with full traceability back to source data. We raised $17 million in seed funding, co-led by @a16z and @TheGP to bring @MeridianAgent to more finance teams.

@namanambavi @oximyhq So very excited for you!

Presenting @oximyhq to the world! 🌍

@DeepakVisva Congrats sir!

With all your good wishes, on this very special day, we mark the beginning of our new vertical :)

Silna has 3 big announcements today: 1. We 7x'd revenue in 2025, validating the pain we're solving for patients & providers 2. Zero human in the loop complex clinical authorizations with AI agents running 24/7 3. Realtime medical necessity determinations More below

@MoneroMahesh Congrats my friend

1/ We’re thrilled to announce EV3 Venture Fund II, an oversubscribed $61.74M early-stage venture fund dedicated to backing entrepreneurs with generational drive and ambition. We’re tripling down on crypto with bigger checks and deeper involvement. Watch the EV3 Vision Below: