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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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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The Startup Multiverse: Why Five Years Reveals the Winning Branch
GitHub Co-Founder Tom Preston-Werner on the 5-year rule, pivots, and finding the winning branch in the startup multiverse.
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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.
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
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