Max Gazor

Striker Venture Partners (@strikervp) launches today with $165M. Targeting just 10 companies per fund. We back companies pre-revenue, mostly at inception. @airtable. @cribl_io. @reflection_ai. @dynarobotics. Technical Focus: AI. Cybersecurity. Infrastructure Software.

No guts, no glory

@ericvishria Congrats Eric and team CBRS! 👑

I’m so fucking proud of this team. They took an extraordinarily difficult technical swing with wafer-scale and connected on the first try. Then they spent years grinding through packaging, cooling, compilers, frameworks, early customers, and everything else required to turn a technical breakthrough into a real company — swinging and missing and learning and trying again. Most importantly, they stayed clear-eyed about what they had (a technical marvel) and what they didn’t (enough advantage in training), saw the opportunity emerging in inference, and adapted. That kind of persistence — not to be confused with stubbornness — is incredibly hard to describe, but absolutely essential in the unstable substrate of AI. The requirements of AI today will not be the requirements of AI tomorrow. But this team will keep figuring it out. And I’m here for it.

Striker Venture Partners (@strikervp) is committed to funding the frontier of AI. We’ve partnered with AWS to give our frontier robotics founders an absolute edge in compute and scaling. Read more in our joint essay below. @AWSstartups @awscloud @nikhil_suresh2

“Everything is a skill issue.” -Jerry Tworek (@MillionInt )

Appreciate the take "it’s not that much" but I’d say you can do a lot with 8k GB300s. A lot Everything is a skill issue

Today, the @DeptofWar entered into agreements with SEVEN of the world's leading frontier AI model and infrastructure companies to deploy frontier capabilities on the Department's classified networks: • SpaceX • OpenAI • Google • NVIDIA • Reflection • Microsoft • Amazon Web Services This is just the latest initiative in our mandate to create an AI-FIRST WAR DEPARTMENT 🇺🇸

Striker and Amazon Web Services @awscloud on the multi-modal AI stack powering frontier robotics, and the world models that come next. Featuring work with @ElorianAI and our embodied AI portfolio in stealth. Link in comments below...

@jaltma happy birthday jack!

I'm 37 today and I have reached the point in life where all I want for my birthday is some extra time with my kids and a great night of sleep 😂

150 of the top AI research minds in the world. Building open superintelligence, in the US, for the world. @MishaLaskin from @reflection_ai on @SquawkCNBC today. Cannot be more excited for this company. cnbc.com/video/2026/04/…

ICLR friends heading to Rio, save Saturday evening!!🇧🇷 Dinner + drinks to celebrate the research community, hosted by @ElorianAI , @strikervp , @GeneralCatalyst, and @DeltaInstitutes. If you're interested in the frontier of multimodal and meeting other amazing researchers, this is a must come

5 of the Forbes 2026 AI 50. One common thread: our team was there from inception. Congrats to all Forbes AI 50 companies and founders!

This is called leadership. Something in short supply these days. @AndrewDai is a giant in the field of AI. There is a reason why. 👑

Excited to announce our seed round in @ElorianAI, with incredible founders @AndrewDai and @yinfeiy, alongside our friends @strikervp @MenloVentures Elorian is a research and product lab building visual AGI I sat down with Andrew to discuss his vision youtube.com/watch?v=fxgUQf…

@AndrewDai @yinfeiy @ElorianAI Congrats Andrew! Excited for you!

After almost 12 years in Brain/DeepMind, I’ve finally decided to take the leap. My cofounders: @yinfeiy, Seth and I have kicked-off @ElorianAI. The first multimodal reasoning lab founded and led by former LLM pretraining, data and multimodal leads. youtu.be/YlvfNpOMeOY?si… (1/n)

@jaminball @AndrewDai @yinfeiy @ElorianAI The dream team all around! Excited to be working with you.

Very excited to be working with @AndrewDai @yinfeiy and the rest of the amazing @ElorianAI team on their quest to build visual AGI with multimodal reasoning models

@strikervp @MenloVentures @AltimeterCap @nvidia @JeffDean bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Opportunity $55M seed co-led by @strikervp , @MenloVentures & @AltimeterCap, with @nvidia, 49Palms and @JeffDean participating. The TAM? Every industry where humans use trained perception to make decisions: healthcare, robotics, eng, satellites. Visual reasoning is everywhere.

Core Thesis Today’s AI models are text models with vision bolted on. They translate images into language, then reason over the translation, losing critical information along the way. Elorian is training models to reason over visual data directly. That’s the unlock.

Founders Andrew Dai published the work that established the pretraining + fine-tuning recipe behind every major LLM today, then co-led data for Gemini. Yinfei Yang led Apple’s first public multimodal model MM1. They’ve already shaped the frontier once

A legendary company in the making. Announcing our $55m seed in @ElorianAI behind AI legends @AndrewDai, @YangYinfei and their remarkable founding team.