GitHub Cofounder on Becoming a VC: Five Questions With Tom Preston-Werner
By Hunter Walk
Tom Preston-Werner on now becoming a VC himself, and four other questions I asked him.
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PWV Year in Review: 2025 Highlights
By PWV Team
From founder conversations and private salons to portfolio milestones and community announcements, PWV spent the year doing what we believe matters most early on: staying close to builders, tracking early signals, and creating space for community and connection.
The Real Genius of AI Investing: Why Venture Capital Isn’t a 1980s Frito-Lay Sweepstakes
AI investing isn’t Lazlo’s Real Genius sweepstakes machine. VC isn’t closed, founders choose, and even infinite capital can’t guarantee outcomes. The real genius of AI investing is judgment, timing, and knowing when not to invest.
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Introducing Liquid Labs: Defining the Frontier of Intelligence through Innovation
By Liquid AI
Research has been core to Liquid AI from the start. Today, we’re giving that work a formal name: Liquid Labs, our team driving fundamental breakthroughs in the science of building intelligent, personalized, and adaptive machines.
From Riff to Rooftop: Why I Invest at PWV
Inspired by the Get Back documentary: why investing means being truly invested: giving founders space to create, stepping in at the right moments, and building alongside people who turn ideas into lasting products.
Past, Present, and Future · Cursor
By Cursor Team
We raised our Series D of $2.3B and have passed $1B in annualized revenue.
From a Dublin Classroom to a $10M Milestone: Our Journey Into the Future of AI Engineering
By Liad Elidan
Milestone has raised $10M in seed funding, led by Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and world-class leaders from AT&T, GitHub, Accenture, and Datadog.
Liquid AI Announces Multi‑Year Partnership with Shopify to Bring Sub‑20ms Foundation Models to Core Commerce Experiences
By liquid.ai
In a multi‑million‑dollar agreement, Liquid AI teamed up with Shopify to license Liquid’s LFMs for search and a new co‑developed generative recommender system that has outperformed prior systems in controlled testing.
Announcing PWV Fund I: Built by Founders. Backing What’s Next.
PWV is raising a venture fund to invest in today's most exciting early-stage software- and AI-driven companies.
Reviewing the Turso Beta week
The Age of Agents will impose very different demands on data than what we had before. In addition to data lakes and data warehouses, we will need a collection of databoxes: small, self-contained per-agent storage to support the explosion in the number of agents that is inevitably coming. SQLite has the right shape for this, but it lacks key capabilities that modern agents expect. Turso is a full rewrite of SQLite. It has the goal of bridging those capabilities, while keeping full API and file compatibility. It is now beta.
NVIDIA DGX Spark
LM Studio now ships for Linux on ARM and launches with NVIDIA DGX Spark — a tiny but mighty Linux ARM box.
Thoughtful Capital. Extraordinary Founders.
A PWV gathering featuring candid conversations with founders and investors including Topher Conway, Mary D'Onofrio, David Price, Scott Johnston, Johannes Landgraf, and Tom Preston-Werner. They discussed funding, setbacks, operational realities, and the key lesson: address your metaphorical junk drawer early.
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks that Run — Now Open Source
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
Introducing Liquid Nanos — frontier‑grade performance on everyday devices
By Liquid AI
We’re launching Liquid Nanos — a family of 350M–2.6B parameter foundation models that deliver frontier‑model quality on specialized, agentic tasks while running directly on phones, laptops, and embedded devices. In our evaluations with partners, Nanos perform competitively with models hundreds of times larger. The result: planet‑scale AI agents with cloud‑free economics.
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