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Join 100+ of NYC's brightest minds in software infrastructure for our next infra.nyc "fright night" next Tue 10/29 - this time with 5min lightning talks ⚡️🚀👻 https://lu.ma/54v8qdp3 We have 3 infra MVPs sharing unsolved technical challenges they're working on in real-time, to get Qs and ideas from the group: ⚡️ Andrew Werner / Co-Founder, Data Ex Machina - "safely reading memory in dynamic probes" ⚡️ Dan Manges / CEO & Co-Founder, RWX - "severless cold start acceleration" ⚡️ Richard Hart / Product Owner, Antithesis - "optimizing scatter-gather DB queries" This is a close community of infra founders and senior engineers from companies like PlanetScale, Gitpod, Vantage, Datadog 🚀 come for drinks, pizza and technical discussions 🍻🍕🌟 see you there!

With much of the Vertex US team on the road this week, it's a good time to recap some of our recent news, announcements, and content you may have missed. As a programming note: The Vertex Angles newsletter will be off next week as we attend an event with our colleagues in the global Vertex network of independent funds. #startup #startupadvice #ai #venturecapital #investor

Great insights shared at #LATechWeek 2024! It was a privilege to join Spencer Rascoff and Elissa Grossman on the M&A/Exits panel, where we discussed how founders can navigate strategic acquisitions and create successful outcomes. Big thanks to Benjamin King for expertly moderating the conversation. Exciting times ahead for LA's thriving tech scene! #LATech #M&A #Founders #Exits

Thank you, Nasdaq, for featuring HUMAN on the screen in Times Square for our recent $50+ million in growth funding to protect the digital customer journey and defend against bots, fraud and risk. We’re so grateful to our investors at WestCap, Goldman Sachs, ClearSky, NightDragon and Vertex Ventures US for believing in our vision and doubling down on their commitment to our cause. Read more about the future of HUMAN from CEO Stu Solomon in our blog: https://bit.ly/48eWglX #KnowWhosReal Kevin Marcus, Dave DeWalt, Anthony Arnold, Gabby Secretov, Natassia Nettleman, Sarah Kuranda Vallone, Madison Bench, Matt Weinberger, Jay Leek, May Mitchell, Isaac Itenberg, Kirsten Canton, Sarah Acker

The history of tech is littered with examples of innovative companies that failed to capture the value they created in the market. Simon Tiu breaks down his Warren Buffett-inspired philosophy on how AI startups can learn from the lessons of the past to create durable value and long-lasting companies in the present. To compete with Big Tech, it's important not only to have the best technology, but also a sales and go-to-market that enables you to enjoy the benefits of having pricing power. Read more in this week's Vertex Angles newsletter: #ai #startup #startupadvice #aistartup #venturecapital

When your friends become friends. 🤝 Vertex Ventures US family photo with HUMAN, Testlio, and VGS at Payments Leaders' Summit! 🤗 Ft. L2R ➡️ Austin Clark Richard Fridge Arthur Bedel 💳 ♻️ Summer Weisberg Kristel Kruustuk Tom Chmielewski Daniel Bond Jennifer Marshall🔥

It's such an exciting time to be a founder right now! If you're interested in learning more about AI agents, definitely check out the MLOps Community to meet other visionary builders.

HUMAN CEO Stu Solomon sat down with Michael Novinson of Information Security Media Group (ISMG) to talk about HUMAN's most recent growth funding and what it means for the company. "This is all about adding additional resources to our capabilities and using it in two ways," said Solomon. "Number one...to be able to create better and higher-fidelity detection capability and speed to value for our clients to be able to have ease of use to harness this data. And then the other piece is to start to apply to other problem sets that we haven’t applied it to before." Learn more about how we’re accelerating our mission to protect the entire customer journey in the new article from ISMG: https://bit.ly/4f070GY Thank you, Michael Novinson, for covering the story! #KnowWhosReal

Congratulations to HUMAN on raising over $50 million in growth capital. We’re proud investors, and huge supporters of its mission to help customers defend themselves from bots, fraud, and account abuse.

Excited to share that Workday has completed its acquisition of Evisort! We’re excited to continue building the industry-leading AI solution for business documents, now proudly as Workmates!