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.
By Steve Krouse
Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists."
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.
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.
By Pedro Piñera
Our lessons building a dev tools business: community focus, human-centered marketing, technological pragmatism, and creating sustainable innovation.
Discover new insights on the future of construction tech on Million Dollar Days. Discover what’s planned for Builders and the construction industry.
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.
By Steve Ruiz
Announcing new funding from Lux Capital, Definition, and more
By Scott Chacon
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
In my prior post, I failed to consider the quartet as a startup as a band model.
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.
