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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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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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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Everywhere, Somewhere, Here: Intelligence in the Place
From foundation models to agents to embodied intelligence, AI is unfolding from everywhere to here.
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Seeing the Big Picture
From tldraw experiments to FAL’s $125M Series C, how sketches turned into billion-dollar infrastructure for generative media.
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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.
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Synthetic Soundscapes: Navigating AI's Role in Music's Next Era
Can AI Honor Music's Legacy?
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Are Dreams Just Next-Token Prediction?
Rethinking Inspiration and Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
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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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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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