Announcing PWV Fund I: Built by Founders. Backing What’s Next.
PWV is raising a venture fund targeting $100M to lead pre-seed and seed rounds in today's most exciting software- and AI-driven companies.
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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.
Queue the Job
Investing in Inngest was my first opportunity at PWV, and it highlighted how far developer experience for jobs and queues has come—from brittle Sidekiq runners and missing JAMstack features to elegant, one-line functions. Just as Inngest orchestrates async tasks, venture capital orchestrates deal flow: success depends on queuing the right work, trusting the system, and watching it complete.
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A letter from Ralf and Jan
I grew up in a family of lawyers, surrounded by the realities of law and regulation. From early on, I saw how much time and energy went into legal and regulatory compliance work. How manual and antiquated the work was, and how it constrained innovation. I understood both the magnitude of the challenge and the size of the opportunity. But I also knew why automation wasn’t yet possible. The technology simply wasn’t ready.
Iteration is the new product moat
We raised a $21M Series A to help companies ship and iterate faster. Inngest's step-function architecture and built-in observability let any engineer quickly productionize workflows and agents—without touching infrastructure.
Brilliant Labs Partners With Liquid AI to Bring Vision
By Liquid AI
The next generation of Brilliant Labs AI glasses, Halo (available today for pre-order), will be powered by Liquid AI’s lightweight vision-language Liquid foundation models to bring fast, reliable, and fully private intelligence to wearers’ eyes.
Sourcetable launches AI Superagents
By Sourcetable
Today, we launch another world's first: Sourcetable can now connect to any database, API, MCP server, or 3rd party application on the Internet, all using natural language and AI. We call this feature Superagents, because they are AI systems that think, plan and orchestrate other AI tools and agents to.
An adventure in writing compatible systems
Rewriting existing software is hard. Compatibility can take unexpected turns!
Discussing 10 years of orchestration challenges with Erik Munson, founding engineer at Day AI, ex
By Charly Poly
A technical deep dive interview into 10 years of solving orchestration challenges at Hubspot, Netflix and now Day AI.
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The Startup Multiverse: Why Five Years Reveals the Winning Branch
GitHub Co-Founder Tom Preston-Werner on the 5-year rule, pivots, and finding the winning branch in the startup multiverse.
Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding — Zed's Blog
By Nathan Sobo
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
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Everywhere, Somewhere, Here: Intelligence in the Place
From foundation models to agents to embodied intelligence, AI is unfolding from everywhere to here.
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Seeing the Big Picture
From tldraw experiments to FAL’s $125M Series C, how sketches turned into billion-dollar infrastructure for generative media.
Fundraising doesn't always go to plan
Raising funds is a wild game of ups and downs and sometimes it doesn't truly go to plan.
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