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Vedant Suri

@vedantsuri

Investor @GeneralCatalyst. Prev @CapitalG, @BCG. Ever curious. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦

San Francisco Katılım Ocak 2013
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Renato Villanueva
Renato Villanueva@_renatov·
Announcements are always a strange thing. Mostly because... I wonder if anyone actually paying attention. (or cares) But TL;DR, I recently stepped down from building Parallel. 3 years in, just under $1M in ARR, but it was time to make an adjustment. I've recently stepped into the world of roofing. (didn't realize i'd be saying the word 'square' 1000x a day) And eager to talk to anyone you know that works in Roofing. Please make any and all intros! :)
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Connor Sweeney
Connor Sweeney@_ConnorSweeney·
I’m thrilled to announce Baba, The American Healthcare Company. Baba connects older adults and their families with dedicated advocates who can coordinate their care. Our advocates are nurses and social workers who have worked at the front lines of the healthcare system for decades, and who can get folks the resources they need. This company was born of a family tragedy and has grown to support thousands of families across every corner of the country.
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james hawkins
james hawkins@james406·
Hello everyone! We’ve got some exciting news to share. We raised a Series E – $75M at $1.4Bn, led by @peakxvpartners with significant participation from existing investors. We can now proudly upgrade our status from unicorn adjacent to unicorn. Most will talk about how they feel humbled at this stage and, let’s face it, even the biggest fans of LinkedIn will glaze over. So, I’m going to tell you a story along these lines instead. I was in San Francisco last week. One evening I’d been at a dinner with a group of other startup founders. Afterwards, I was walking back to my hotel when suddenly, out of the gloomy darkness, probably 100 yards behind me, I heard “JAAAAMES”. If you’ve ever walked along Mission late at night, this meant I was either about to get assaulted, or a high five. I turned around and saw a guy leaning out of his car window. “OH MY GOD NO WAY! IT’S THE POSTHOG GUY. I LOVE POSTHOG!!”. I probably wouldn’t have recognized my mom in those conditions. It really struck me that we’ve always felt supported by our users and fans – we’ve been able to do so much of our work with a smile on our faces. We are very lucky. Either that or our billboards with my face on worked. So, why’d we raise? We are starting Act 2 of PostHog. We are going deeper into being a devtool, not "just" analytics. We will keep improving our existing tools, and adding more of them to generate better insights into how your products are performing, but we're also going to start working on generating pull requests for you. Today, we know that engineers like you start work, and immediately wade through escalated support tickets, Slack, email, whatever customers said in the latest call – often only by the afternoon to start working on new features. We want you to be able to start work, and then immediately see a list of PRs, already made for you automatically based on all the things that popped up since you last logged in. This means for smaller issues, your workflow gets you straight into merging, closing, unblocking, or editing. It doesn’t stop there, though. Once a feature is released, we add things like event tracking, feature flags, experiments and even messages to be sent for feedback, automatically. This is likely to overload my inbox, but if you’re interested in hearing more then email me back. We’ll gradually be releasing the very earliest versions of this to keen early adopters for feedback. On Peak XV Tim and I first came across Peak XV when we saw our friends at Supabase raise from them, then Arnav (someone who has been working with us closely for years) introduced us to Shailendra. We just clicked. Choosing Peak XV was about the people. In every meeting with Shailendra, he has come across as genuine, excitable, and hard working. Peak quickly proved themselves a delight to work with, and when we received an offer from them, we felt they were the best way for us to keep building. And that’s all that really matters to our users. So, on that note, please go back to building your companies! - James, Tim and our spiky little team at PostHog
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Sonith
Sonith@_sonith·
Cold email to @chamath in 2014:
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Henry Shi
Henry Shi@henrythe9ths·
There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)
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Varun Mohan
Varun Mohan@_mohansolo·
Thanks Jensen! We too believe our efforts at Codeium with Windsurf will transform software development
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Ankur Nagpal
Ankur Nagpal@ankurnagpal·
Who is the best SEO and content person you know? We're looking to bring on someone to 10x the organic traffic to carry.com in 2025 Can be located anywhere, can be full-time or remote, DM's are open
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General Catalyst
General Catalyst@generalcatalyst·
Traditional customer relationship management (CRM) and revenue systems, in our view, are not designed for the demands of an AI-driven world, where usage-based pricing and AI-powered revenue models are key. @rox__ai is transforming enterprise revenue organizations by harnessing the power of AI, helping teams acquire, retain, and expand relationships with their most valuable customers—while boosting the effectiveness of their sales teams. We’re proud to lead Rox’s Series A raise and welcome @ishanmkh, Chris, Avanika, Diogo, Shriram, and the entire team to the GC Famiglia. “After having met dozens of companies in the space, @vedantsuri and I were impressed by Rox’s vision to become the revenue operating system for the AI-native era and by how quickly leaders at large enterprises have integrated Rox into their daily workflows. We invest in ambitious entrepreneurs like Ishan, whose deep understanding of the problem from his previous roles and focus on delivering measurable ROI make Rox’s approach stand out.” -GC’s @marcbhargava More from Marc & Vedant → generalcatalyst.com/stories/our-in…
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shaad khan
shaad khan@ekaurghar·
who wants one
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Matt Ting | entrepreneurship, music
Peak Frameworks almost did ~100k in monthly website visits in September, my most ever SEO definitely not dead, it's a huge engine for me
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Vedant Suri
Vedant Suri@vedantsuri·
Founders have every right to ask VCs who request their time to have an opinion on their venture. Respect in these interactions means being prepared and that’s a two-way street.
Thenuka Karunaratne@thenuka_k

A line at the top of my LinkedIn biography says, "If you are a VC, please do not cold email me or cold LinkedIn message me." I added this because VCs that reach out cold are almost always not worth speaking to. The types of VCs that will reach out to you cold will usually fall into one of two categories: 1. More junior VCs -- Analysts, associates, or principals -- that do not have the authority to write checks. Their messages are often generic, don't show any understanding of what you actually do, and feel copy-pasted. They say something like, "I'm an investor at X fund that has $Y in AUM, and we've backed Z companies." When you see this, you should assume that this person is not worth talking to because they've done little or minimal research into what you're doing. 2. Senior VCs -- Partner and General Partner level -- that do have the authority to write checks. I've received inbound messages from senior VCs who send similarly generic messages, but in the past, I assumed that because they were senior, they'd be worth talking to. In almost all cases, I've been surprised to arrive at these calls and find that the VC has done almost zero research on us. This was initially very puzzling to me -- they should be busy too, so why are they wasting their own time showing up to a call unprepared? After speaking to a few VC friends, I realized that this behavior is relatively common for reasons I still can't explain. One of them, @vedantsuri , had a standard response for handling these situations. You ask them early on in the call, "So, what do you know about [your company]?" If they haven't done their homework, politely point it out and avoid spending more time on the call. The best VCs (regardless of seniority) will find a way to get a warm introduction to you, arrive well-informed about exactly what you do, and come prepared with specific talking points that convey some thoughtfulness. This has been the case with every investor we've allowed to invest in daydream. Another school of thought says that you should never take meetings with VCs unless you're in fundraising mode (whether through warm or cold intros), but I think this perspective also lacks some nuance. It may be worth the call if the person is exceptionally thoughtful in their outreach, is educated on your space, and has compelling talking points and questions about what you're doing. Whether they invest or not, it's rare to find people with genuine interest, passion, and enthusiasm for the very specific problem you've chosen to spend the next 5-10 years of your life on. However, this is very rare -- maybe 1/20 messages I receive meet this bar.

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Armin
Armin@arminkhaya·
Almost done my first month’s supply and working on a full write-up; I’ll leave you with this teaser of what’s to come
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Vedant Suri
Vedant Suri@vedantsuri·
@anaganath Wow I have to try this. When are they usually there on weekends?
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Aditya Naganath
Aditya Naganath@anaganath·
Just when I thought Hayes Valley couldn't get better. There's a pop up chaat stand open each weekend for the next few months!
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mayv
mayv@mayv_music·
last friday afternoon. let me know if u wanna pull up next time ◡̈
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