
Natalie Arora
@NatalieArora
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Head of Ops @kindredventures Mother 👶👶 Other half @nikhilarora ❤️ Rural roots 🌾
SF
Joined March 2012
Thrilled to be joining @KindredVentures! 🌟
some news: we are so pleased to introduce our new head of operations, @NatalieArora!
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just eating the world’s software - it’s eating its electricity. Training a single SOTA large language model can consume as much energy as 5,000 U.S. homes use in a year. And with hyperscaler data centers, infrastructure funds, and sovereign AI
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Join us for an afternoon of agents in the enterprise on Sept 3rd in SF! 👇
we're hosting a convo at our offices with @agentforce, @microsoft, @parchaHQ, and others about AI agent workflows in action. founders/engineers who are looking to deploy, scale, and learn more about agents, please join us!
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Fal has become the foundational platform for the entire Generative Media space, allowing developers to focus on their creativity and applications versus infra for model inference. One part marketplace, one part inference engine, Fal helps AI model labs like Google Gemini, Black
Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months! fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million
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.@KindredVentures founder @stevejang on the three-horse race between @Uber, @Tesla and @Waymo. "The rollout takes time. You have to get it just right. There's really no margin for error... Safety, local government, public opinion, all of these things are super sensitive when it
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Here's my full conversation with @scottbelsky and @stevejang: YouTube: https://t.co/rvrxOE2dSM Spotify: https://t.co/82gUBPjEOU Apple Podcasts:
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Podcast Episode · Generative Now | AI Builders on Creating the Future · 07/17/2025 · 46m
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Join us on Thursday 👇
If you’re in SF, join us for this and the wonderful team at @FAL if you’re working on or just curious about models or apps in the generative video/image/audio space. 👋🏽
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🎙️ After serving millions of users through our text-to-speech platform, one need kept coming up: fine-grained AI speech editing - the ability to modify existing speech. Today, we’re open-sourcing PlayDiffusion, a diffusion-based inpainting model built for that exact purpose.
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Psyched to share at @KindredVentures that we co-led a $15.5M investment into @Creatify_AI, which is building at the intersection of generative media, AI agents, and the $1.1 trillion global advertising market! Video is the most effective medium in digital advertising, but one
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Highlight of the month: our annual Kindred Founder Summit! We spent three days in community learning from each other, sharing insights, and recharging in the redwoods of Scotts Valley
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We’re excited to launch OpenMemory MCP, a private memory for MCP-compatible clients powered by @mem0ai Today, most AI assistants and dev tools operate without memory. You plan your roadmap in Claude, implement tasks in Cursor, but none of them know what the other did. Each tool
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PSA: @Fal is not only the best inference engine and model marketplace for image/audio/video models, but will help companies and labs *train* their generative media models. 🙇🏻♂️
10B parameter DiT trained on 80M images, all owned by @freepik . Model commercially usable, raw model without distillation, open sourced. Proud to demonstrate first model-training project with our client @freepik: "F-Lite", from @FAL
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Grateful to get to work with @km 🌟
kanyi is a true student and teacher of the startup game of life. one of his great talents in this venture business is to be deeply inspired by and inspire others as an investor. congrats to @km and always honored to be your partner at @KindredVentures! https://t.co/axBYlmDPLs
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I just walked 38 miles around San Francisco (@sfgov) in memory of my grandfather...and for all the trash talk SF gets in the news, my god, it's a beautiful city. A 🧵…
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One more big congratulations to the small but super mighty team at @FAL, on their fresh round of growth capital (details below), and most importantly on quickly building the leading inference engine for generative media! Led by ML engineers and co-founders @burkaygur and
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After a decade of approaches, leather has proven impossible to unseat. Plant-based leathers, alternative leathers, etc. just never held up. When we seeded @faircraft_bio, we were excited about a novel approach to develop actual leather. They have succeeded.
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today in SF/ we’re excited to have my friend, @rauchg, fellow immigrant and founder ceo of @vercel, to chat with me onstage, for our @KindredVentures founders and friends. we’ll cover early startup days, open vs closed source, and AI and generative UI. send me any burning
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We’re excited to announce that Particle is now available to download for free on iPhone and iPad in the US App Store: https://t.co/oWTNUeRk9G. 🎉 You can read more about our launch and how we’re thinking about the future of news here: https://t.co/xNfJ1ecOwB.
particlenews.medium.com
Today, Particle is officially available to download for free on iPhone and iPad in the US App Store.
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Big congrats, team @northflank! psyched at @KindredVentures to continue backing you, and welcome @BainCapVC and @VertexVUS 🔥🔥🔥
Exclusive: Northflank scores $22.3 million to make cloud infrastructure less of a nightmare for developers
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We’re hiring a Community & Events Manager @KindredVentures! Community is core to how we support founders. If you are passionate about building connections, love organizing events and are excited about startups, read more about the role and apply here:
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🚨 we're hiring research analysts at @kindredventures! S-curves are proliferating, and we want to tinker, build, and learn about the near future. looking for tenacious, curious, technical people. if that's you, dive in below! https://t.co/G28k4W6LRf
https://t.co/9YqhAMFei9
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