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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Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
Featured Posts
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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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.
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No Cookies, No Consent Banners? Not Quite.
By Chris Burns
Reflections on navigating GDPR, ePrivacy, and the death of third-party cookies - lessons learned from building Consent.io and why privacy-first isn't just compliance, it's a competitive edge for developers, builders and product teams.
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Commutator Studios GmbH Secures Funding for Innovative Quantum Technology
Düsseldorf-based Commutator Studios GmbH has secured €1.5 million in funding from prominent investors including Backtrace Capital and Preston-Werner Ventures to develop their innovative Quantum Error Management Platform. The startup, founded by quantum computing experts Dr. César A. Rodríguez Rosario and Dr. Jan M. Knaup, aims to tackle one of quantum computing's biggest challenges by creating hardware-agnostic technology that effectively manages and mitigates quantum errors.
Series C and Scale
We've raised $900m to push the frontier of AI coding research.
Building a business around Tuist
By Pedro Piñera
Our lessons building a dev tools business: community focus, human-centered marketing, technological pragmatism, and creating sustainable innovation.
Matt Perrott on Million Dollar Days Podcast
Discover new insights on the future of construction tech on Million Dollar Days. Discover what’s planned for Builders and the construction industry.
StackOne raises $20m Series A Led by GV (Google Ventures) to reinvent SaaS and AI agent integrations
StackOne – the next-gen, AI-powered platform fuelling the future of enterprise AI agents and SaaS integrations – has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by GV (Google Ventures). Workday Ventures, XTX Ventures, existing investors Episode 1 and Playfair, and angels from OpenAI, Deepmind, Microsoft and Mulesoft also participated. The funding, which takes the total raised by StackOne to $24 million, will be used to continue building StackOne’s state-of-the-art tool-calling LLM, invest in R&D, and further expand the number of integrations and depth of actions available in the StackOne platform.
tldraw raises $10M to build the infinite canvas for developers • tldraw Blog
By Steve Ruiz
Announcing new funding from Lux Capital, Definition, and more
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
By Scott Chacon
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
Weights & Biases
Today we announced that we are being acquired by CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler.
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Update: Startups as a Band / Startups as a Service
In my prior post, I failed to consider the quartet as a startup as a band model.
Elicit Raises $22M to Build the Most Trusted AI Platform for Evidence
By Andreas Stuhlmueller, Jungwon Byun
Elicit has raised $22M in Series A funding at a $100M valuation led by Spark Capital and Footwork. Existing investors Fifty Years, Basis Set, and Mythos also participated, reinforcing their conviction in our mission to deploy AI to radically increase good reasoning in the world.
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Synthetic Soundscapes: Navigating AI's Role in Music's Next Era
Can AI Honor Music's Legacy?
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