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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Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
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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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Earthmover’s $7.2M Seed Round led by Lowercarbon Capital
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aalo Closes $100M Series B
By Aalo
We are excited to announce that Aalo has closed a $100M Series B financing round, led by Valor Equity Partners.
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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