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🎉 We are thrilled to announce the 100 GPs selected to attend the 2024 RAISE Global Summit! Congratulations to all the selected GPs! To view the full list, visit: https://hubs.la/Q02SWB7y0

After a few months of soul searching, music making, traveling, and experimenting, I am really excited to do the LinkedIn thing of announcing my next chapter: starting a company ✨😊 It’s still a bit early to share the exact details on what we are building, but our mission is to leverage the latest advances in AI and computing to bring the best quality cancer care to everyone, everywhere! This is a lofty dream — and requires a village to get to — but one that I am excited to fight for. And regardless of the outcome, I am going to enjoy this journey because I truly believe that it’s aligned with my core values. I am incredibly proud and honored for the trust of our investor, Character, and the group of wonderful friends, mentors, and former colleagues who believed in me and will be joining me on this path (more on this soon). Please wish us luck! 🤞

I’m thrilled to announce that Fathom has raised a $17M Series A, led by Telescope Partners. What makes this milestone even more special? Our incredible users— who invested over $2M, at the same terms as the VCs, in just a few weeks. Funding announcements are nice. But the story I’m most proud of is: → how we got here → why Fathom became the top-rated meeting intelligence platform → how we’re continuing to reshape business meetings for the future Fathom exists because of a pain I experienced firsthand: endless Zoom meetings, furiously taking notes while trying to stay present. Back then I thought: What if AI could handle the note-taking, the key moments, the action items, and get it all to the right people? The result: Fathom. From day 1, we invested heavily in building proprietary infrastructure so we could offer users a high-quality product for free. The results have defied our wildest expectations, and are a testament to the need we tapped into: → 90x revenue growth in the last two years → 20x increase in usage since 2022 → #1 highest-rated product on G2, a perfect 5.0 rating, over 3K reviews Of course, metrics alone can’t illustrate the impact on people’s everyday lives. Each and every day we hear stories from our users, of how Fathom deepens their conversations, saves them hours each week, and allows them to focus on their biggest priorities. So what’s next? We're doubling down on our Team Edition product, giving managers visibility into customer conversations, and helping them coach their teams with the force multiplier of AI. But this is only the next step. We envision a future where just saying something in a meeting can magically will it into existence—without the post-meeting work. And that future is not far away. To our users, investors, and team: Thank you for believing in the future we’re building. If you haven’t yet experienced the magic of Fathom: sign up for free and let us know what you think. Here’s to more meaningful and productive meetings for all! 🥂 PS One of the great joys of building this product is hearing users share the ways Fathom has impacted them. So: if you’re a user, would love to hear your story below!

I'm excited to announce: DesignPro has wrapped up $1.1M in Pre-Seed funding! We're building AI agents to enhance websites and apps for 200M creators by combining expert UX analysis with simulated user interactions. A heartfelt thank you to our investors and supporters, including Hustle Fund, Sequoia Capital Scout Fund, NVIDIA Inception Program, Character Labs, Metropolis Ventures, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Xoogler.co Angels, Austen Allred, Acquired Wisdom Fund, FEBE Ventures, 1337 Ventures and many Angels and others who believe in our vision. We can't wait to show you more of what we're working on. Stay tuned! #ai #product #creators

Thrilled to announce the release of 'Orb,' now open-source! It’s the fastest and most accurate AI for simulating advanced materials, surpassing Google's and Microsoft’s models. It is: - 5x speed improvement on large-scale simulations - Helping accelerate the global energy transition -Open source for startups and non-commercial projects Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eWRP_54t GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eFGVQwwz Huge kudos to the team! We're already synthesising and testing AI-designed materials in our Princeton wet-lab where we're developing new climate technologies (more news to come!). #AI #MaterialsScience #OpenSource #Innovation #Chemistry

So excited to finally get to talk about this publicly -- Reclaim.ai has been acquired by Dropbox 🚀 Patrick and I started Reclaim a little over 5 years ago. Our mission was to help people to get smarter about their time, and to make the only tool we have for managing it -- the calendar -- more intelligent and aware of our priorities. Five years ago, we had just a few dozen early beta users. Today, more than 320,000 people across 43,000 companies rely on Reclaim daily to make time for their most important work. I'm immensely proud of our entire team for the relentless work they've done to get us to this huge milestone. More than anything, though, I'm grateful to our users, our customers, and our supporters across the globe for their trust and feedback they've invested in us. It still amazes me to see how far they've taken us. What's next for Reclaim? Well, it turns out Dropbox cares a lot about creating a more enlightened way of working, and our entire team is going to be partnering with them on that journey. Expect the Reclaim you already know and love to get even better, with a ton of amazing stuff coming soon to make your workweeks smarter, happier, and more efficient. Read more in our letter below, and please join me in congratulating our team on this next adventure! https://lnkd.in/gehevjuD

🎉 Launch Alert! 🎉 It’s been 6 months since we started Decisional AI (YCS24), and I’m excited to finally share what we’ve been up to. We just launched on Y Combinator as part of the S24 batch and are building an AI Financial Analyst for Financial Services firms. Please upvote and share at https://lnkd.in/eEhZtsVK A while back, I was working at a Bank and one of the best product minds I worked with went on to start the unicorn Fintech OneCard. Watching that unfold made me realise I wanted in on the startup world. I ended up learning about YC and working at awesome YC Fintech companies like Razorpay (W15) and Drip Capital (S15). Eventually I moved to London for London Business School then diving into investing as an Analyst with Moonfire & Concentric Now, I’m in SF and co-founded Decisional AI (YCS24) with some cracked founders Sai Neeraj Kanuri and Adit Sanghvi. We’re lucky to be backed by Character, Y Combinator & Moonfire So, what are we building? An AI Agent for Financial Analysts—something that helps you focus on the work that really matters by handling all the background noise. Think of it as your personal assistant that’s read everything and knows exactly what you need. Today, we’re coming out of stealth mode with a public demo. You can try out our AI powered Memos and Magic Tables, which are packed with insights from the investment materials of legendary tech companies like Coinbase, Square, and Dropbox. If you’re looking for an AI analyst that helps you work with your company's scattered information, reach out to me and I'd be glad to chat! #Startups #Fintech #AI #YC #Agents #Analysts

For the past 12 months, we've been in the lab working on Extend and haven't shared too much publicly. That's changing starting today! We’re excited to introduce Extend, an AI platform that helps companies turn their unstructured documents into a competitive advantage. Modern, ambitious companies like Brex, Opendoor, Checkr, Vendr, and more use Extend to turn their messy PDFs, images, and files into new products, happier customers, and faster growth. I’ve long had a personal connection to this problem, experiencing it first hand as an early engineer at Brex in 2018 just as we were launching the initial corporate credit card product. Our goal was to build a magical experience for employees, by parsing receipts and automatically matching them to the correct expense. Sounds straightforward, right? Turns out, since users were uploading these receipts in real time, there were an infinite number of edge cases to consider. Millions of vendor formats aside, the receipts could be upside down, blurry, crumpled up, covered in coffee stains, have handwritten tip amounts, and so much more. Building that was one of our most most complex engineering projects spanning months of implementation, iteration, and maintenance. Not every company can afford to do that, or even should. Ambitious teams want to focus on innovating, not data plumbing and fire-fighting edge cases. And businesses shouldn’t have to choose between speed to market vs. building something in-house that becomes a competitive advantage. Legacy OCR, IDP, and point solutions have existed in the market for a long time. If you can get away with using one of them, you should — we’re probably not the right choice for you. But often times those legacy solutions fall short because: 1. They lack the capability to handle your complex data and requirements 2. They cannot be customized to power the unique experiences that teams envision Our customers are ambitious companies trying to innovate, leverage the latest advancements in AI, and don't want to be tied down by off-the-shelf options. So they decide to build it in-house — and while impressive demos are easy to build with LLMs, there’s a world of difference between that demo and confidently deploying an enterprise-ready, production use case. Extend closes that gap by providing a platform that accelerates in-house builds to production-level confidence in days, not months. Having now deployed robust AI workflows into production on mission-critical use cases at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike, one lesson has become very clear: OCR is dead. The problem is no longer “can we extract text from a PDF?” That’s table-stakes. Rather, the problem becomes: "how can we effectively teach AI models with PhD-level intelligence the intricacies of our documents, business, and workflows in a way where they can drive business impact?". That’s what Extend solves, and we’re the only ones who do it. Full link in comments below!