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John Mannes

@JohnMannes

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Partner @BasisSet. Fmr words @TechCrunch, BoE @mocoboe [email protected]

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Joined December 2011
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
25 days
Models get all the attention, but so much of our AI experience and its impact on everyday life will come from things other than raw horsepower. Memory might be the most important. Huge congrats to @taranjeetio + team on willing @mem0ai into existence w/ 💪 & sheer force of will!
@taranjeetio
Taranjeet
25 days
Memory is what makes us human. It's also what makes AI truly intelligent. @mem0ai has raised $24M to build the universal memory layer for AI. Thousands of teams in production. 14M downloads. 41K GitHub stars. Intelligence needs memory & we're building it for everyone. More👇
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Taranjeet
7 months
Today, I’m excited to share our latest research on “Building production ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory”. We’ve achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance—26% more accurate than OpenAI Memory. We evaluated Mem0 on the LOCOMO benchmark and found that it
@mem0ai
mem0
7 months
We're excited to announce our latest advancement in building production-ready AI Agents with scalable long-term memory. Mem0 outperformed six leading baselines across diverse tasks on the LOCOMO benchmark - from single-hop and multi-hop reasoning, to temporal and open-domain
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@xuezhao
Lan Xuezhao
10 months
Congrats to @onequince on the $120M Series C! 🚀 I've lost count of how many people have asked me why an AI/infrastructure investor like Basis Set invested in a consumer company - is it a coincidence? We were the first check in and have doubled down in every single round since
basisset.com
A new category of consumer companies is emerging—those driven by scalable infrastructure. Let’s call it “consumer infra.”
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@xuezhao
Lan Xuezhao
10 months
Inference is the Future of AI! In the race to build smarter AI, much attention has been paid to training massive models like GPT-o1 Pro or DeepSeek-R1. But the real game-changer lies in inference—the moment these models step out of the lab and into the real world. Here’s why
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@cocokechun
Coco
1 year
3 non-obvious lessons I learned about team building by growing from $800K to $8M ARR with a team of 8 in 10 months. I hope these hard-earned lessons could inspire and help other founders:
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@xujennyc
Jenny Xu | Talofa 🔜 GamesBeat Next
2 years
1/ I must be dreaming: I never thought I'd see @PlayRunLegends on the front page of the @AppStore and @AppStoreGames! Thank you so much to the Apple App Store for featuring us TWICE today - a developer spotlight on @TalofaGames and an #AAPIHeritageMonth collection 🥹. Honored.
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
What a crew! @dynamo_fl @LangChainAI @Rasa_HQ @FairlyAI driving the conversation w/ F500 @EY_US on best practices for deploying AI in production
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John Mannes
2 years
This is wild (and like healthcare costs) has huge ramifications. Have seen too few founders problem solving this, door is wide open to anyone with ambitious and out of the box thinking here...
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
2 years
The last time Americans spent this much of their money on food, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” was in theaters and C+C Music Factory was rocking the Billboard charts https://t.co/sWtBnWTe2X
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John Mannes
2 years
What a blast!🏭🚚🌉 Why do I love supply chain? With sufficient ambition, it's one of the few b2b spaces that can meaningfully improve the average persons experience. Only 13% of Americans think the next generation will have a better life. Supply chain is how we fight back.
@kevinzhuang10
Kevin Huang
2 years
Another great supply chain logistics meetup last night! Special thanks to our sponsors ❤️ - @trevor80adey (McVestCo) - Wesley Friedman (8VC) - @JohnMannes (BasisSet) -Paul Konasewich (Paccar) Shoutout to @anthonysutardja and Shaosu Liu for being great cohosts. Till next time✌️
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John Mannes
2 years
Come join us and our friends at @8vc , PACCAR, McVestco, Loop, @paradeai, @drivingforcehq and more at the center of supply chain in the Bay! https://t.co/RPvPz7ovEQ @BasisSet
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luma.com
Come nerd out on supply chain & logistics with fellow builders, operators, and investors! Space is limited and approval is required for registrations. So…
@kevinzhuang10
Kevin Huang
2 years
Back at it with another supply chain & logistics meetup, and it has a name this time: "🔗Link Up" The meetup will be in 🌉San Francisco on 📆Tuesday, Feb 20th. Space is limited. Sign up here 👇 https://t.co/3rOoSiJotX #supplychain #logistics #startup #meetup
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
It's early and this fund will fuel many new founders who share this vision and who are ready to work and grow alongside us through good times and bad! So beyond thankful for all our amazing founders, LPs and everyone in the community who gives their all with us for this vision!
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John Mannes
2 years
Still get goose bumps regularly that we get to wake up every day and work together @xuezhao @Rachel_S_Wong @_changxu @WilsonKyi @_Lisa_Chen_ & Ingrid to do our part to help support amazing people bringing AI to every corner of the economy!
@EricNewcomer
Eric Newcomer
2 years
Exclusive from @maddierenbarger Basis Set Raises $185 Million Third Fund, Doubling Down on AI & Automation https://t.co/hVGjekfcyb
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
Brittle guardrails won't work in the real world. @johnjnay & team are putting in the hard & necessary work to enable us to constrain and regulate best-in-class AI with best-in-class AI. Such ambitious goals are going to take all the talent we have -->
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@normativeai
Norm Ai
2 years
Emerging from stealth and announcing our $11.1 million raise today, led by @coatuemgmt, with participation from @expa, @haystackvc, @M13Company, @BasisSet, @atypicalvc, @OfficialLoganK, @etzioni, and others Our platform converts regulations into AI agents for compliance teams
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
And no shortage of world changing ideas, it’s a privilege!
@xuezhao
Lan Xuezhao
2 years
Yesterday, simply to match founders’ timeline & schedule, we did 5+ references, gave 2 verbal offers and @JohnMannes flew to NYC to spend 3 hours with two founders Sat morning. Builders don’t stop building in chaos, and real values are hard to destroy, even if one gets fired
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John Mannes
2 years
VCs commonly say that founders are the biggest determiners of startup success, but what's often forgotten is that analyzing founders is much harder than analyzing markets -- so most end up anchoring on markets anyway or founder demographic variables. We've been investing in
@xuezhao
Lan Xuezhao
2 years
Can LLMs predict the future for startups? Sounds impossible, but is it? We've experimented with using LLMs to try to predict company outcomes, based on founder psychological attributes alone. Wow, it worked much better than anticipated! Read more and see your own results. 👇
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
And 🙌 to @RohdeAli for bringing everyone together!
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
Watching ⁦⁦⁦@kanjun⁩ ⁦⁦@joshalbrecht⁩ grow over the years into ⁦@imbue_ai⁩ is inspirational for all AI builders Agents are 🔑 to real enterprise value from AI (100X beyond GPT to date). Hard problem but not too much for them or the 150+ here to listen!
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
B2B sales are stuck in the 90s - everything we take for granted in B2C (payments, product recs, search etc) is BROKEN for B2B. @lawLM, @alicevdeng & team are hitting this head on with @slopepay - excited to see them for our third major @basisset headline of the week🔥
@LawLM
Lawrence Lin Murata (e/acc)
2 years
At @slopepay, we’re excited to announce our $30M round led by @USV with major participation from @sama - bringing our total equity/debt funding to $187M. Since launching in Aug ‘21, we are over 8 figures in ARR and are a lean team of 18. In the midst of this excitement, I wanted
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
HUGE week of launches for @BasisSet portfolio companies. Keeping the week moving along with @seriesfinancial in @TechCrunch Super team + strong resources + inspiring swing for the fences 🍿👀📈 https://t.co/FCgM265dCg
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techcrunch.com
Series, a startup developing a modular replacement for ERP systems, has raised $25 million in a funding round.
@brexton
brexton
2 years
1/ Today, @seriesfinancial is announcing our modern, flexible ERP-alternative called an Enterprise Operating System (EOS) to automate finance & operations stacks for businesses to save them time and money, as well as our 25m in funding. https://t.co/Pgt448rCoq
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@JohnMannes
John Mannes
2 years
We can't keep up ⏳ Millions of academic papers published yearly Access isn't enough, we need synthesis This is @elicitorg Pumped about their @TechCrunch launch this AM Go try it! @xuezhao @WilsonKyi @_changxu @BasisSet @jungofthewon @stuhlmueller https://t.co/NeD8Sfwgsi
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techcrunch.com
Elicit aims to develop a tool to automate the more tedious parts of the scientific literature review process.
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