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.
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Thoughtful Capital. Extraordinary Founders.
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.
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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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?
Series B and Automating Code
We've raised $105M to further our mission of automating code.
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Are Dreams Just Next-Token Prediction?
Rethinking Inspiration and Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
Flock Expands Into Drones
By Flock Safety
Flock Safety acquires Aerodome to enhance DFR technology, accelerating crime response with NDAA-compliant, American-made drones.
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From Atoms to Agents
Why PWV invests in the technology, tools, and infrastructure that makes AI possible
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RoRF – Open Source LLM Router
By Devansh Jain, Tze-Yang Tung, and Tomás Hernando Kofman
RoRF (Routing on Random Forests) is an open-source LLM router that efficiently directs prompts between pairs of large language models using a Random Forest Classifier trained on evaluation data and prompt embeddings. This lightweight yet powerful tool includes six pre-trained routers for various model pairs including GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Llama 3.1 variants, offering a more cost-effective solution compared to using individual models while outperforming other open-source router architectures.
Series A and Magic
We've raised $60M to create a magical tool with the aim of writing the world's software.
StackOne Secures $3.6M in Seed Funding led by Episode 1
StackOne, provider of a next generation embedded integration platform as a service (embedded IPaaS), today announced that the company has raised USD $3.6 million in seed funding. The funding was led by Episode 1, a leading investor in the UK’s tech startup scene, with participation from Playfair Capital, Portfolio Ventures, Revenue Syndicate, Charlie Songhurst, Sequoia’s Scout fund, Blissgrowth, and other leading investors. Angel investors include the co-founder of Github, as well as executives at Google, Microsoft, Salesloft, Tessian, Hackajob, and more.
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