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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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.
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.
tldraw raised another $2M • tldraw Blog
By Steve Ruiz
Today we announce the close of an insiders' extension round led by Amplify, Lux, and Tom Preston-Werner.
make real, the story so far • tldraw Blog
By Steve Ruiz
Our tldraw + GPT-4V experiment broke the internet a little.
Elicit raises $9 million and becomes a public benefit corporation
By Andreas Stuhlmueller, Jungwon Byun
We're excited to share that Elicit has raised $9 million in seed funding. Elicit was born at Ought, a non-profit research organization, and is now an independent public benefit corporation. Like Ought, our mission is to scale up good reasoning using machine learning, starting with researchers.
Inngest raises $3M from GGV to build the reliable workflow platform for every developer
By Dan Farrelly, Tony Holdstock-Brown
New round led by Glenn Solomon of GGV Capital, including Guillermo Rauch and Tom Preston-Werner
Startups as a Band / Startups as a Service
Exploring how startups mirror band dynamics and proposing a 'Startup as a Service' model to provide essential resources for growth.
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