Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
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.
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.
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.
PWV is raising a venture fund to invest in today's most exciting early-stage software- and AI-driven companies.
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.
LM Studio now ships for Linux on ARM and launches with NVIDIA DGX Spark — a tiny but mighty Linux ARM box.
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 looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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.
Earthmover, a cloud-native data platform specializing in tensor-based solutions for scientific and climate data, has secured a $7.2M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital, with participation from Costanoa Ventures and Preston-Werner Ventures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
