Flex Capital
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@flexcapital
VC fund for CEOs by CEOs.
If you had told me when I first started @dubdotco that we would reach $10M in partner payouts in 6 months, I wouldn't have believed you. Immensely grateful to our customers and partners for all the feedback, trust, and support. Next stop: $50M payouts 😎
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🔥Big news! Nilo raised a $4M seed round! We started Nilo with a simple idea: making a game should be as fun as playing one. With this funding, we’re moving faster toward giving the next generation of builders the tools to create and share instantly. I’m incredibly proud of the team, and enormously grateful to our partners @supercell, @speedrun, @Kfundvc, @flexcapital, @NextTier_vc, @EssenceVenture, @CoreNestVC, @ShillingCapital, @EarthlingVC, @PrototypeCap, @scriptcapital and our angels – @Blake_Hall , @MattBilbey75, @OfficialLoganK, @SafiBahcall, Marc Petit, Denes Ban
I asked a few founders & investors: "What are 1-2 interesting startups for software engineers & researchers to join, beyond the big labs?" 1. MatX - chips for LLM training and inference - Founders: Reiner Pope, Mike Gunter (both ex-Google) 2. Prosper - domestic-work robots for households and businesses - Founder: Shariq Hashme (ex-OpenAI) 3. Manifest - core ml research lab - Founders: Jacob Buckman, Carles Gelada, Sean Zhang 4. Physical Intelligence - foundation models for robots - Founders: Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, Quan Vuong, Adnan Esmail, Lachy Groom 5. Mechanize - rl environments with an initial focus on sw engineering - Founders: Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew J Barnett, Ege Erdil 6. Lindy - AI agents for workflow automation - Founder: Flo Crivello 7. Forge - workflow automation for large enterprises - Founder: Markie Wagner 8. Reflection - agentic models with an initial focus on code - Founders: Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou 9. Fractal Software - venture studio building vertical SaaS companies - Founders: Nate Baker, Mike Furlong 10. Thinking Machines Lab - product-focused AI lab - Founders: Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, John Schulman, Lilian Weng, Andrew Tulloch, Luke Metz 11. Meter - managed internet and secure networking for offices hardware and software - Founders: Anil & Sunil Varanasi (brothers :)) 12. Allen Institute for AI (AI2) - nonprofit AI research - Founder: Paul Allen (1953-2018) 13. Abridge - AI medical scribe - Founders: Shivdev Rao, Sandeep Konam, Zachary Lipton, Florian Metze 14. Higgsfield - video gen models and apps (mobile focused) - Founder: Alex Mashrabov 15. Black Forest Labs - FLUX image models - Founders: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blattmann 16. LMArena - LLM evals for big labs - Founders: Anastasios N Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ion Stoica 17. Marathon Fusion - fuel for future fusion plants (and creating gold?) - Founders: Kyle Schiller, Adam Rutkowski 18. Luma AI - Dream Machine video model - Founders: Amit Jain, Alex Yu 19. Aravolta - software for data center monitoring and control - Founders: Margarita Groisman, Jack Sutton 20. Harmonic - AI math and reasoning lab - Founders: Vlad Tenev (Robinhood co-founder), Tudor Achim 21. Socket - prevent vulnerabilities from dependencies in your code - Founder: Feross Aboukhadijeh 22. Expo - framework and cloud platform for making cross platform apps - Founders: Charlie Cheever, James Ide 23. Koah Labs - native ads network for AI chatbots - Founders: Nic Baird, Herrick Fang, Mike Choi 24. Brisk Teaching - AI tool for teachers feedback, lesson plans and assessments - Founder: Arman Jaffer 25. Anysphere (Cursor) - AI code editor - Founders: Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark 26. Letta - memory for ai agents - Founders: Charles Packer, Sarah Wooders 27. Baseten - serverless GPU hosting - Founders: Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Philip Howes, Pankaj Gupta 28. Mithril (prev ML Foundry) - GPU compute for training and inference - Founder: Jared Quincy Davis 29. Quill Meetings - AI notetaker for meetings - Founder: Michael Daugherty, add Nick Adams 30. Pluralis Research - multi-participant training of models, for cryptocurrency protocols I think - Founder: Alexander Long 31. Linear - issue and roadmap tracking - Founders: Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo, Tuomas Artman 32. Qualia - real estate closing platform for title escrow and lenders - Founders: Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen, Lucas Hansen 33. CodeRabbit - AI code review for pull requests - Founders: Harjot Singh Gill, Guritfaq Singh 34. Sygaldry Technologies - quantum computing for AI inference and training - Founders: Chad Rigetti, Idalia Friedson 35. HealthMC - AI powered medical coding - Founders: Ian Blumenfeld, Brian Johnson, Judah Rabinowitz 36. Lorikeet AI - AI that does customer support ticket resolution - Founders: Steve Hind, Jamie Hall 37. RL Core - RL for optimizing water and wastewater plants - Founders: Martha White, Adam White, Alden Christianson 38. Protege AI - a marketplace for AI datasets - Founders: Bobby Samuels, Travis May, Engy Ziedan, Richard Ho 39. Periodic Labs - AI driven materials discovery for energy and electronics - Founders: Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Liam Fedus (Ekin is ex GDM and Liam is ex OAI) Thanks to the nominators: @calvinfo, @tamaybes, @Altimor, @lachygroom, @finbarrtimbers, @aranibatta, @MorganSchwanke, @AnjneyMidha, @jacobmbuckman, @ROWGHANI, @NWischoff, @ccheever, @herkhere, Nate Baker, @ianblu1, @dolaoseb, Anon, @FlintCasey, @cjc, @LilyPetherick & @auren
Founders: there’s a clause in your term sheet that could silently strip you of your voting rights. Even if you own a majority of your company. Even if you’re the one who built it. And most founders have no idea it’s there. Let’s break it down 🧵
