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Early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City.
New York, NY
Joined November 2009
It's been a huge year. The 2025 MAD (ML, AI & Data) Landscape has seen the most dramatic transformation we've seen since we started mapping out the industry 12 years ago. Map (PDF, interactive) + summary of the 25 key trends of 2025 in the reply to this tweet.
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Google’s shipping tear has been one of the biggest stories in AI in 2025 Here @GoogleDeepMind dev rel lead @DynamicWebPaige demos here a lot of fun stuff with Gemini, Veo3, Nano Banana (recorded like 3 days before Gemini 3 came out but still completely current) #DataDrivenNYC
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Congratulations to our very own @DavidWaltcher on being named to the Forbes 30 under 30 for venture capital!
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Shadow Killer weaves terror, art heists, and existential dread. A charismatic killer distorts reality, forcing Alexander and Alexia to face the arcane.
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Just received the signature @FirstMarkCap giant chocolate tablet, thank you @mattturck & team!
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We’re excited to share that Crisp has closed a $26 million Series B1 round to accelerate the growth of its vertical AI platform for retail. Congratulations @aretraasdahl and the entire Crisp team!
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Excited to share that @Parametrixinsur has closed a $27M Series B, led by @mundiventures, FirstMark, and Hannover Digital Investments! As cloud, AI, and distributed infrastructure become mission-critical, so do the risks of downtime, and Parametrix is tackling that massive
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Parametrix is building the financial infrastructure for the cloud era, offering the first scalable insurance platform that protects businesses from digital downtime.
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The MAD podcast has started coming together this year (here on Spotify, but same on YouTube) - thanks all Some top recent episodes below Who should I have on next (and in 2026?)
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What does it actually take to start you own company, your own fintech business in today's environment? What does it mean to truly have convicition? I had a chance to chat with my friend @Ben_Markowitz of Clerq about all of these topics and more on the latest episode of The
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A major new entrant in voice AI: @GradiumAI If we were designing computers from scratch today, the default interface probably wouldn’t be a keyboard. It would be voice. Voice is the most natural interface we have, and probably the most underserved modality in AI today.
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Small space, big comfort. Wayfair has stylish tables and seating that make every corner count.
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Thrilled to be co-leading @GradiumAI's $70M round alongside @eurazeo, as they build the next generation of foundational voice AI!
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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Voice is the future 😤 Incredibly excited to partner with @neilzegh, @olivierteboul, @lmazare, @honualx and the @GradiumAI team as they push the frontier towards truly real-time & natural voice AI 🚀🚀🚀 cc @mattturck @FirstMarkCap
Gradium is out of stealth to solve voice. We raised $70M and after only 3 months we’re releasing our transcription and synthesis products to power the next generation of voice AI.
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We are thrilled to be accompanied by FirstMark Capital (@FirstMarkCap) and Eurazeo (@eurazeo), who led this round, along with DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt), Xavier Niel (@Xavier75), Rodolphe Saadé (@RodolpheSaade), Korelya Capital (@korelyacapital), Amplify
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Looking for your next challenge? We are growing the team, offering unique opportunities in Paris across product, sales, research, and engineering positions.
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CNEQ seeks out companies undergoing Positive Dynamic Change—market leaders with pricing power, deep moats, and multi-year growth potential.
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Sales teams spending more time on admin than customers? SoftBank Corp. flipped the script, using AI agents in Dataiku to turn every sales call into structured data. The result? 250K+ hours saved a year. More on their Frontrunner-winning approach: https://t.co/D8RZ9bWi9S
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Lukasz on how jagged frontier model performance really is: “You can say the model is amazing at mathematical Olympiad. And at the same time, I have a first grader… she's five years old. I took one exercise from this math book and none of the frontier models is able to solve
Thanksgiving-week treat: an epic conversation on Frontier AI with @lukaszkaiser -co-author of “Attention Is All You Need” (Transformers) and leading research scientist at @OpenAI working on GPT-5.1-era reasoning models. 00:00 – Cold open and intro 01:29 – “AI slowdown” vs a
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Thanksgiving-week treat: an epic conversation on Frontier AI with @lukaszkaiser -co-author of “Attention Is All You Need” (Transformers) and leading research scientist at @OpenAI working on GPT-5.1-era reasoning models. 00:00 – Cold open and intro 01:29 – “AI slowdown” vs a
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Part 1 is live. @Rick (of @FirstMarkCap) breaks down how he became one of the world's most most legendary venture capital investors. Founders and investors – this episode is a MUST watch. Comment "RICK" and I'll DM you the episode directly.
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We’re growing our early-stage Data Infra, ML & AI investing team @FirstMarkCap! As proud early investors in @dataiku, @synthesiaIO, @ClickHouseDB, Pigment, @CockroachDB, @ada_cx, @hcompany_ai and many others, we're looking for an exceptional early-career Investor to help us find
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*Major* open source AI drop today. Can America win the Open AI race? My conversation with @natolambert and @soldni of @allen_ai about the launch of Olmo 3 00:00 – Cold Open 00:39 – Welcome & today’s big announcement 01:18 – Introducing the Olmo 3 model family 02:07 – What
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