Perspectives and announcements from PWV, our founders and community.
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.
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.
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.
By Liquid AI
We’re launching Liquid Nanos — a family of 350M–2.6B parameter foundation models that deliver frontier‑model quality on specialized, agentic tasks while running directly on phones, laptops, and embedded devices. In our evaluations with partners, Nanos perform competitively with models hundreds of times larger. The result: planet‑scale AI agents with cloud‑free economics.
Earthmover, a cloud-native data platform specializing in tensor-based solutions for scientific and climate data, has secured a $7.2M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital, with participation from Costanoa Ventures and Preston-Werner Ventures.
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.
I grew up in a family of lawyers, surrounded by the realities of law and regulation. From early on, I saw how much time and energy went into legal and regulatory compliance work. How manual and antiquated the work was, and how it constrained innovation. I understood both the magnitude of the challenge and the size of the opportunity. But I also knew why automation wasn’t yet possible. The technology simply wasn’t ready.
We raised a $21M Series A to help companies ship and iterate faster. Inngest's step-function architecture and built-in observability let any engineer quickly productionize workflows and agents—without touching infrastructure.
By Liquid AI
The next generation of Brilliant Labs AI glasses, Halo (available today for pre-order), will be powered by Liquid AI’s lightweight vision-language Liquid foundation models to bring fast, reliable, and fully private intelligence to wearers’ eyes.
By Sourcetable
Today, we launch another world's first: Sourcetable can now connect to any database, API, MCP server, or 3rd party application on the Internet, all using natural language and AI. We call this feature Superagents, because they are AI systems that think, plan and orchestrate other AI tools and agents to.
Rewriting existing software is hard. Compatibility can take unexpected turns!
By Charly Poly
A technical deep dive interview into 10 years of solving orchestration challenges at Hubspot, Netflix and now Day AI.
GitHub Co-Founder Tom Preston-Werner on the 5-year rule, pivots, and finding the winning branch in the startup multiverse.
By Nathan Sobo
From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
By Aalo
We are excited to announce that Aalo has closed a $100M Series B financing round, led by Valor Equity Partners.