We're watching the future of work unfold in real time, and last night in San Francisco, we gathered the people building it. @ashugarg opened the evening with Animesh, Founder of @playerzero_ai and Arjun, Cofounder of Docket, exploring how AI agents are evolving from tools that

Every software company needs to be refounded for our AI era. Even early-stage startups are rethinking how they build culture, design orgs, and make decisions. How should leaders navigate this moment? General Partner @ashugarg spent time with founders across the Foundation

Seek to maximize your trading strategy with the T-REX 2X Long GLXY Daily Target ETF.

Do yourself a favor and just build on @solana.

Cal founders, we want to be your first believers. We’re now recruiting for the 7th cohort of Cal Build, our early-stage, free accelerator for Berkeley founders. So far, we’ve supported 50+ Cal founders at the earliest stage of their journey. Now we’re looking for 8 more

New capital

Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah This Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah, let's rejoice in the power of our stories. 🌟 For 25 years, the love and passion I feel for Lydia has only deepened, reminding me that our connections transcend time. How have your stories shaped your journey?

Less than 1 week left to apply for IIT Build Cohort 8! IIT Build is Foundation Capital’s early-stage accelerator for IIT alumni. We’ve already supported 60+ IIT founders in starting and scaling companies and are looking for our next 8 to join. With an acceptance rate of ~3%,

Two weeks later, and we're still buzzing from our launch party at @FoundationCap. When you put leading AI researchers, CTOs, and investors in the same room to discuss the future of software development, magic happens. The caliber of conversations—from our fireside chat to

This past Wednesday at Foundation Capital's Palo Alto office, we gathered with an incredible community to celebrate PlayerZero officially coming out of stealth. The energy in the room was electric – leading AI researchers and engineering leaders deep in conversation about how

Applications are now open for our 8th cohort of IIT Build. IIT Build is Foundation Capital’s early-stage accelerator for IIT alumni — and one of the most coveted founder communities in the Bay Area. We’ve backed 60+ IIT founders to date, and we’re looking for our next 8 to

Every year, companies spend a staggering $140B on traditional ways of understanding their users like surveys and focus groups. This manual, episodic approach is quickly becoming outdated. AI agents are taking over tasks that used to eat up weeks, handling everything from

Foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic have evolved from simple API providers into full-stack product companies. They see which apps take off and which features keep people coming back, then fold those capabilities into their own tools. So how do you survive when

Foundation model providers like @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI have abandoned the pure infrastructure play. They're vertically integrating at unprecedented speed: OpenAI's Agent Mode, Claude Code, Deep Research. Your startup's success becomes their product roadmap. Build something

Most financial institutions still run on people pretending to be software. Behind the polished apps and established systems is a hidden workforce doing what looks like automation, but isn’t. It’s a single human from compliance, manually pulling data from System A,

Companies are beginning to realize that AI code generation introduces an entirely new set of challenges. Instead of coding, enterprise teams now spend up to 70% of their time investigating and fixing AI-generated bugs. The same AI tools that promised to speed up development are

Introducing Kombai, the first AI agent built for frontend development. Kombai vastly outperforms SOTA models + generic agents in real-world benchmarks. Watch it add a complex new feature to an OSS codebase with 500K+ lines of code. More use cases and links in comments

PlayerZero has emerged from stealth with $20M in funding 🎉 Founder @akoratana and team have built the first predictive software quality platform to solve code quality issues with applied AI. “PlayerZero's unique ability to automate debugging and predict problems before they

Making the most of ICML in Vancouver? Come grab a drink with us TONIGHT! We’re co-hosting the Turing Happy Hour for AI & LLM Leaders with the teams from @turingcom and @anyscalecompute. @ashugarg and @robertnishihara will share thoughts on how frontier labs are using RL Gyms to

In Vancouver for ICML? @JayaGup10, @joannezchen and I will be at the @turingcom Happy Hour TONIGHT with our friends @jonsidd and @krishnanvijay (co-founders of Turing) and @robertnishihara (co-founder of @anyscalecompute). Starts at 5:30pm. No promises on how late it goes.. 🔗

Congratulations to @AirMDR_Company on their $15.5M seed round! We incubated the company alongside CEO Kumar Saurabh in summer 2023 and led their initial $5M round. We're proud to continue backing this exceptional team as they leverage AI agents to bring a Fortune 500 quality SOC