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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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?
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.
Are Dreams Just Next-Token Prediction?
Rethinking Inspiration and Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
We raised $250M to scale capable and efficient general
By Liquid AI
We are pleased to announce our Series A round of financing with AMD Ventures as strategic lead.
Flock Expands Into Drones
By Flock Safety
Flock Safety acquires Aerodome to enhance DFR technology, accelerating crime response with NDAA-compliant, American-made drones.
From Atoms to Agents
Why PWV invests in the technology, tools, and infrastructure that makes AI possible
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.
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