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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Our Series D: Scaling fal
By fal
Generative Media is growing faster than imagined. New use cases, from design to the future of commerce, are emerging every day. To meet this accelerating demand, fal is continuing to scale. Today, we're excited to share that fal has raised a $140M Series D, welcoming new investors Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins
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.
Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless
By Sarah Perez
Limitless said it shares Meta's vision of bringing personal superintelligence to everyone.
Powering compliance for High-Stake AI agents
By Alinia
At Alinia AI we have raised a $7.5 million seed round led by Mouro Capital, with participation from Raise Seed For Good, Speedinvest, and Precursor Ventures. Our technology makes scalable AI control and compliance a reality for regulated organizations seeking to deploy generative AI, by embedding real-time auditing, policy enforcement, and risk control directly into their AI systems.
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.
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