Basis Set
@BasisSet
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Built by founders and operators. Investing in early-stage companies scaling human potential with artificial intelligence.
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2017
The best part of @NeurIPSConf isn’t the papers—it’s the people building what’s next. On December 3 in San Diego, just steps from NeurIPS, we are hosting an evening with our portfolio founders who are turning cutting-edge research into real products.
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We’re excited to announce our $27M Series B led by @RadicalVCFund with continued support from @IndexVentures, @Unusual_VC, @BasisSet + our incredible angel investors. At Vizcom, we believe in amplifying the human spark behind every object in the world. Thank you to the
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Basis Set: Perspectives Everyone knows AI is killing per-seat pricing. But without seats, how do you actually come up with your price? The best founders start by finding a proxy for value — a measurable, objective stand-in for the value they help their customers create. Then
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Basis Set: Jobs @TigrisData is hiring for engineering roles! Tigris Data is building the modern data platform that simplifies real-time applications at scale. If you love helping developers, whether by meeting them in person to solve architecture challenges or by creating
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Basis Set: Perspectives In supply chain, pain does not equal opportunity. For supply chain startups, it comes down to who you build for. If your value lives only in the cost center that is supply chain, your upside is capped. If it reaches the CEO, your ceiling is infinite.
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Basis Set: Jobs @PathRobotics is hiring for engineering, customer success, and sales roles! Path is redefining manufacturing with autonomous robotic welding systems that help factories navigate the skilled labor shortage. Their mission: to enable manufacturers to build better,
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Fast learning is critical for founding highly successful startups. Across companies and contexts, some founder attributes are universally important. Speed of learning is one of them. Through both data collection and our work modeling company outcomes with LLMs, it’s clear that
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We published our first research report outlining the founder traits most associated with company success a few years ago. In the last few months, we have experimented with using LLMs to try to...
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Congrats to @ac_edwards_1 , @wellingmax, and the entire @cusp_ai team on the announcement of their latest $100M+ Series A! This ambitious team is delivering groundbreaking AI materials discovery work and unlocking billions in value for some of the largest enterprises in the
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It does not matter how old you are; founders of all ages can be successful. With limited time to interact with founders before making decisions, investors often over-index on potential signals like age, school, technical credentials and experience. Unfortunately, this heuristic
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Quince is hiring new roles across finance, procurement and AI workflows — a very unique opportunity to work on AI agents at scale in the real world! @onequince is reinventing everyday luxury — offering high-quality fashion, home and lifestyle goods at radically affordable
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Running open source models is a great way to save costs while maintaining high performance. But deploying open source models in production and swapping them in and out is often prohibitively cumbersome. In this article, @Rachel_S_Wong talks about how we overcame GPU memory
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Basis Set - Jobs Valur is hiring a Head of Estate Planning and a Founding AE! @ManiMahadevan Valur is revolutionizing tax planning by making sophisticated strategies accessible to everyone. Their platform empowers individuals to take control of their wealth through smart,
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Basis Set - Jobs @UnitaryAI is hiring a Senior Enterprise Account Executive! Unitary is redefining how companies run their operations. Their virtual agents combine AI and expert humans to deliver entire workloads with human-level precision — Faster, at radically more scalable
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Basis Set: Perspectives Advisors were a key unlock that helped @SebBoyer7 secure his first 12 customers in the challenging and often slower moving agriculture industry. But what makes a high value advisor for an early stage startup? What’s the right equity incentive structure,
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Basis Set - Jobs @spice_ai is hiring for engineering and developer relations roles! Spice is building the future of intelligent apps by making it easy to integrate AI and time-series data into software. Join the team shaping real-time, AI-powered applications across industries.
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Basis Set - Jobs @SnapprAI is hiring for new product and marketing roles! Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, trusted by 53% of the Fortune 500. From on-demand photoshoots and editing to automating massive visual AI workflows. Whether you need a single
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Basis Set: Perspectives The most important AI products haven’t been built yet. Founders who learn to ship through this moment will define what comes next. In the article below, @JohnMannes writes about how in AI, first-mover advantage is overrated. We’re still in the prototype
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