Tom Hulme

My TED talk has now had over 1.5 million views (the power of Ted rather than the power of Tom) thul.me/28WL2sR

The pace and success of startups in Europe and Israel continue to build. We’re spotlighting 9 GV portfolio company leaders across consumer tech, insurance, CRM, video, and more. Stay tuned to hear their stories.

Phone (4a) Pro reviews are in. Our first all-metal unibody. Our thinnest phone ever. “The two best looking Nothing phones of all time” – @MKBHD “Compare the Phone (4a) Pro to its immediate rivals, the Pixel 10a and iPhone 17e, and it looks impressive” – @verge “Nothing has successfully refined its hardware into a more premium, all-metal unibody” – @engadget “Nothing continues to break the mould, standing apart from its core competition” – @T3dotcom “Honestly, Apple and Samsung: take note” – @techradar 💪

Nothing Phone 4A Pro review: That flagship feeling theverge.com/tech/896626/no…

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“The speed of innovation is accelerating, and the market is moving faster than ever.” Big things are coming out of Europe and Israel. Read GV Managing Partner and Head of Europe, @thulme’s, thoughts on what’s changed since opening GV’s Europe office in 2014 and what’s next.

GV Managing Partner & Head of Europe @thulme shared with @ft’s @tim how he’s thinking about AI today: 💡 What feels sci-fi now will soon be standard 📈 Adoption is already reshaping legal, healthcare, audio, and CRM 🏆 Europe’s position in the global AI race

pleased to share some of the work all @GVteam have been doing in Europe & Israel 🌍 -->

Phone (4a), Phone (4a) Pro, and Headphone (a) just launched today! More capable, more expressive, and more colorful than anything we’ve built before. Nothing is designed for a generation bored with conformity. We exist to provide the canvas. The real stories are written by the creatives, designers, and techies who make these devices their own.

Agent skills help agents use your products, build in your codebase and enforce your policies. They’re not just words - they are what the unit of software for agentic devs, and need powerful dev tools to match. That is what @tessl_io offers. Tessl is the package manager and development platform for skills. It offers a full dev lifecycle, helping you generate, evaluate, distribute and observe skills & context, developing them to the professional grade they warrant. Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of our task evals, which help you understand how good your skills are. Such insight is critical to making your skills great, avoiding regression, and applying learnings from their real world usage. For example: @Cisco's software-security skill shows a 1.8X improvement in securing coding in its benchmark, and @ElevenLabs's agents skill boosts success by almost 3X! However, not to name names, we often see skills that provide minimal uplift while consuming context window space, or even degrade functionality. As Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, put it when we shared early versions of this: evaluation is what makes agentic coding outcomes converge instead of drifting. Task evals are joining a long list of powerful context development tools, such as: * Review skills against quality best practices * Generate and maintain skills and docs for using your libraries & platform * Distribute versioned skills to your dev team and ecosystem * Consume skills easily and safely, and keep them up-to-date Skills are a central part of software development. If you’re serious about making agentic dev successful in your org, or helping your customers’s agents use your products, you need to invest in them. We hope Tessl can help. Check out links in the thread to get started!

@kraneland @GVteam @Waymo Can't wait to hail them in London!!

The incredibly wild, epic, fun and now AUTONOMOUS ride continues! Couldn't be more proud and excited that @gvteam is an investor in @Waymo!! 🎉🚀🚓

more here gv.com/news/q-ai-join…

Congrats to the brilliant Q.ai Ltd team: they’ve been acquired by @Apple, marking Apple’s 2nd largest acquisition ever 🚀 It’s been a pleasure to work with Aviad, Yonatan and Avi since we co-led their Seed in 2022 with our friends at Aleph (coinvestors with us in Lemonade and Simply). What they’ve built, entirely in stealth, at the intersection of AI and physics has the potential to transform communication. At Apple, their innovation will have the opportunity to reach global audiences. We are going to deeply miss working with them, they are extraordinarily smart, high integrity and tenacious. After the horrendous Oct 7th attack in 2023 approximately 30% of the company were drafted into military service, and for months afterwards our meetings were interrupted as the team had to scramble into bomb shelters, this slowed them down less than I could have imagined and not once did they complain, instead their energy was focused on supporting their community and making technical breakthroughs. Congrats from all of us @GVteam !

Excited to lead the @synthesiaIO Series E, the 4th round we have invested in, congrats @vriparbelli, @Stjerrild and team

@alexisohanian My Dad has always said to me "remember to stop to smell the flowers" - easy to forget 🌻

I have an unhealthy relationship with business success where when something goes right, or we have some big win, I feel it for about a second and that brief blip of a high is gone. I should enjoy these things a little more.

Today marks a new era for @thecosmos. We're excited to announce our $15M Series A, co-led by @ShineCapital and @matrix, with participation from @GVteam, @Accel, PNP, and @acasalena. We're also releasing a few big updates that point to the future we're building toward: — New profiles that reflect your taste — A more social following feed — And so much more to come Cosmos is where inspiration lives. Come dream with us.

Excellent read on US defense and implications for Russia and China -->

MBE🎖️

UK is lucky to have you @demishassabis - excited to see this

Congratulations to the @VezaInc team on their announced intent to be acquired by ServiceNow! Veza built an authorization platform that helps organizations control access across their systems. This acquisition underscores the importance of identity security in the age of AI.