First Harmonic

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First Harmonic

@firstharmonic

We are early stage investors who run a go-to-market program for founders.

Katılım Şubat 2012

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Ali Rowghani@ROWGHANI·50m

I could not be more excited to announce that @amirmova has joined the team @firstharmonic. Amir and I have known each other for 15 years. He was one of the best hires I made in my five years at Twitter. Amir made a huge impact, including helping to lead the company’s IPO efforts in 2014. A few years later, he became the CFO at Mixpanel and then the COO, leading the GTM organization and owning the sales number. I knew Amir to be an extraordinary operating executive, but did not expect him to become a CEO as quickly as he did. But that’s exactly what happened when Mixpanel's founder stepped down in 2017 and asked Amir to take over. Mixpanel was once the market leader in product analytics, but had lost its lead. As CEO, Amir led an amazing turnaround in the company’s performance. He remained CEO for eight years before recruiting his replacement and stepping down earlier this year, with Mixpanel growing, thriving, and profitable. Amir is a builder. He is a winner. He cares deeply about his work and the people he works with. His breadth of experience at both private and public companies is remarkable, and I believe he will become a tremendous resource to First Harmonic’s founders through all stages of their journey. Welcome to the team, Amir. I’m delighted to work with you again.

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Coframe@coframe·7 Tem

We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months. "Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it." ⧉ x ⠕

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@JdotJdotF @zakariaornot @miamabanta @DecagonAI @Rippling @fal @getserval @_hex_tech @stripe @coderabbitai @figma @ROWGHANI @TheManMikeTan @simonlu @amirmova come visit, @zakariaornot!

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J.J. Fliegelman@JdotJdotF·3 Tem

@zakariaornot @miamabanta @firstharmonic @DecagonAI @Rippling @fal @getserval @_hex_tech @stripe @coderabbitai @figma @ROWGHANI @TheManMikeTan @simonlu @amirmova It’s our office!

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Mia Mabanta@miamabanta·2 Tem

This week, @firstharmonic hosted its first sales-focused Builders Table (Sellers Table?) with top AEs from @DecagonAI, @Rippling, @fal, @getserval, @_hex_tech, @stripe, @coderabbitai, @figma, and other great companies. Some interesting takeaways from the room: 1/ Most sellers are using AI for meeting prep and follow-up, not as much for building decks or writing emails (!). 2/ The thing sellers most WISH AI could do for them is automate CRM input (hard relate). 3/ Most sellers think that there will be fewer SDRs in five years, and that they'll have different skills than they do today. 4/ Most sellers think Salesforce will eventually get displaced, but not for 10+ years. 5/ The "AI tool" that sellers value most isn't an AI-native tool at all; it's @Gong_io. Personally, I learned that the most cracked sellers are the ones who show up at a dinner on the last day of the quarter, the week before 4th of July! Thanks to all who joined us. We want to do more of these dinners: for engineers, salespeople, marketers, you name it. DM or email me if you want to get on the list.

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Ali Rowghani@ROWGHANI·11 Haz

We @firstharmonic are proud to co-lead @PoeticHQ's Series A round. Founders come in all shapes and sizes, but few come with as much light, passion, and energy as @markiewagner. She has built one of the most talent dense teams I’ve seen, and together they have built a breakthrough product that is already loved across the Fortune 500. @PoeticHQ has built the first product that combines the intelligence of agents with the reliability of code. This architecture will revolutionize how companies run by turning process into software at every large company in the world

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Ali Rowghani@ROWGHANI·11 Haz

@firstharmonic is proud to co-lead @PoeticHQ's Series A round. Founders come in all shapes and sizes, but few come with as much light, passion, and energy as @markiewagner. She has built one of the most talent dense teams I’ve seen, and together they have built a breakthrough product that is already loved across the Fortune 500. @PoeticHQ has built the first product that combines the intelligence of agents with the reliability of code. This architecture will revolutionize how companies run by turning process into software at every large company in the world.

Markie Wagner@markiewagner

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

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Michael Tan@TheManMikeTan·19 May

One of my favorite evenings in recent memory. We hosted 40 of SF’s best engineers at our Builders Table dinner with @bcherny, @mikeyk, and members of the Claude Code team. We took a quick poll in the middle of dinner on some topics, and we had some interesting results: 1) It turns out that out of all the agentic coding tools out there, most folks in the room (to no surprise) trusted Claude the most 🤖 2) The next application layer unlock will come from persistent memory and better context ingestion. 3) The room was pretty split on whether there would be more or fewer software engineers in the world in 5 years. Thanks so much to the @AnthropicAI team (@kandouss, @alistaiir, @OmidMogasemi, @jwbaskerv, and especially @RazRazcle), and to everyone who spent their evening with us. If you're an engineer or researcher interested in a future @firstharmonic dinner, DM me.

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Ali Rowghani@ROWGHANI·19 May

We hosted a Builders Table event with leaders from @AnthropicAI last week. It was amazing to hear about their experiences using Mythos internally, managing the unprecedented growth they are seeing, and learning about new products they are hoping to build. Thanks so much to the @AnthropicAI team (@bcherny, @mikeyk, @alistaiir, @OmidMogasemi, @jwbaskerv, and especially @RazRazcle), and to the great engineers who spent their evening with us.

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Mia Mabanta@miamabanta·19 May

This was maybe my favorite Builders Table yet. We hosted @bcherny, @mikeyk, and members of the Claude Code team to talk about how coding will evolve and what it means for the day-to-day experience of engineers. 40 of SF’s top engineers came. Some results from our mid-dinner poll: 1/ The biggest coding bottleneck is verification, not model capability. 2/ The next application layer unlock will come from persistent memory and better context ingestion. 3/ The jury is out on whether there will be more or fewer engineering jobs in five years, but for now the coding "tool" people trust most after Claude is... themselves. Keep thinking indeed. Thanks so much to the @AnthropicAI team (@kandouss, @alistaiir, @OmidMogasemi, @jwbaskerv, and especially @RazRazcle), and to everyone who spent their evening with us. We're hosting another one of these next month, on the topic of AI safety. If you're an engineer or researcher and want to come, DM me!

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Ali Rowghani@ROWGHANI·28 Nis

Actively AI (@useactively) is leading an inevitable transformation in the modern sales stack. Within five years, no one will believe that sales teams used to work without per-account agents working alongside them to guide their actions with intelligence. I heard about Actively two years when a CRO told me it was the most transformative sales tool he’d ever seen. We then worked closely with @mgarimella and @agupta_108 in the @firstharmonic program and were blown away by their tenacity and commitment. We see enormous potential in their business. Today, we're very excited to co-lead Actively's Series B and help realize their vision of intelligence-led revenue.

Mihir Garimella@mgarimella

📣 We just raised our $45M Series B from @TCVTech and @firstharmonic, with participation from @BainCapVC, @firstround, and @AlkeonCapital. Sales is the most expensive function in most companies — and one of the hardest. Hundreds of accounts, different context, different stakeholders, different dynamics, and a different path to close. No one can do that perfectly. Critical things get missed. So we gave every account its own AI agent — working 24/7, maintaining full context, progressing it through the funnel, and guiding reps and leaders on what to do next. The greatest privilege has been building alongside companies like @Samsara @tryramp @ironclad_inc and @attentiveHQ — enterprises with thousands of sellers who are already living in the future. There are only two unbounded upside problems out there: building and selling. Every company sells. and @useactively is building the system they'll all run on. We’re excited to pull every revenue team into the future we know is inevitable.

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First Harmonic@firstharmonic·15 Nis

Congrats to early First Harmonic alums @handotdev, @hahnbeelee, and the team at @mintlify! We loved working with you.

Han Wang@handotdev

We just raised a $45M Series B at a $500M valuation led by @a16z and @SalesforceVC to build the knowledge infrastructure for AI

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Mia Mabanta@miamabanta·25 Mar

The way we align and shape model behavior is evolving quickly. Last week, we had the pleasure of gathering SF's post-training experts from companies like @appliedcompute, @OpenAI, @cursor_ai, @thinkymachines, @mercor_ai, @cognition, @xai, @flappyairplanes, and others. Post-training is a nascent field, and I learned a ton: 1/ Reward modeling is becoming the bottleneck. The gap between what we can train models to do and what we can reliably evaluate is widening fast. 2/ The line between post-training and product is blurring. Teams that treat RLHF and fine-tuning as an afterthought are falling behind those that treat it as a core part of the product loop. 3/ Evaluation is still surprisingly artisanal. The tooling isn't where it needs to be, and there's a real opening for better infrastructure. This event was part of @firstharmonic's Builders Table series: intimated, curated dinners where you almost certainly won't be the smartest person in the room. DM me if you're interested in coming to the next one.

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Mia Mabanta@miamabanta·12 Şub

We hosted 30 of SF’s best engineers at our Builders Table event with @cursor_ai last week. The way we code is changing fast, and Cursor is one of the companies at the forefront. The team shared their perspectives on questions like: - Will engineers even look at their code in a year? - Will the future of coding be in the IDE, the CLI, or in something else entirely? - What will the role of an engineer look like in the future? There are many forums for founders to learn from each other, but fewer for engineers. We loved creating one and hope to do more. If you’re an engineer and interested in attending a future @firstharmonic event, DM me!

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cat@catheryn_li·10 Şub

Excited to announce that @simpleailab has raised a $14M seed round led by @firstharmonic. For the past year, we’ve been building AI voice agents to transform direct-to-consumer sales. We fundamentally believe that voice AI is the future of all B2C calls.