Arnav Bimbhet
@abimbhet
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Partner @FirstMarkCap. Ex @ICONIQGrowth - fly on the wall @snowflakeDB @datadoghq @mirohq @fivetran @hashicorp @collibra @hightouchdata @dataiku @getreprise
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2012
Excited to share that I've joined FirstMark as a Partner to lead the firm’s growth investing efforts! FirstMark exemplifies high-conviction investing and a deep commitment to founders, partnering early and doubling down at key inflection points. They’ve backed entrepreneurs
Thrilled to welcome @abimbhet to the FirstMark team! 👏 Arnav has joined us as a Partner to lead our growth investing efforts, working with exceptional founders at all stages of scale. He’s spent the last decade investing in companies like Miro, Datadog, Snowflake, Fivetran,
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Onchain rails have proven their value. Rain is making them usable by everyone, and keeping them invisible in the process. Today, we’re announcing our $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation to keep building. 🧵
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2025 was a huge year for Rain, and our goals for 2026 are just as lofty. This round helps us get there. Expect to see better capabilities, more licenses, and products the world has never seen before. The future of money is here, and we're building the rails to make it possible.
Onchain rails have proven their value. Rain is making them usable by everyone, and keeping them invisible in the process. Today, we’re announcing our $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation to keep building. 🧵
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Stablecoins are moving from crypto-native rails to real-world financial infrastructure: programmable, instant, and borderless ways to move dollars globally. At FirstMark, we believe the next era of global payments will be built by networks designed for the programmable economy.
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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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Bubble & Build: The 2025 MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape is *out* 🔥🔥🔥 A market map of 1000+ AI companies + 25 crisp ideas for an over‑heated, heads‑down year in AI & data
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Last week, Jamie Dimon and FirstMark co-hosted a private dinner with our founders and members of Jamie’s JPMC leadership team. We're incredibly grateful to Jamie and and his team for sharing their time and perspectives with our founders at such a pivotal, exciting moment in
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Coming up in Guilds by FirstMark, we're honored to be joined by @vercel CFO @MartenTheViking and VP Data @abhi_sivasailam! Guild members will get an inside look at how Vercel — most recently valued at $9.3B — drives alignment and action across Finance and Data.
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Another record-breaking stretch at @synthesiaIO: - Crossed $100m ARR in early April 2025 - Doubled revenue YoY (Growth accelerated to 100% from 80% at Series D) - Hit 142% NRR (up from 119% a year ago) - Quadrupled our $100K+ customer base in 12 months - Trusted by +80% of
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How to build a beloved AI product, with @meetgranola CEO @cjpedregal Granola is the rare AI startup that slipped into a very crowded niche — meeting notes — and still managed to become the product founders (and VCs!) rave about. Plenty of product lessons in this episode.
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Claude Code is a major (and accidental!) hit for @AnthropicAI that surprised even its creator, @bcherny. Claude Code, an Agentic AI coding product that lives in the terminal. Most of the new code at Anthropic is created through it today. And in the last 5 months since it was
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"The IPO window is open and we're advising companies to go public." @rick joined @ScottWapnerCNBC on Closing Bell recently to share his views on the state of IPO market and why we're in for an incredibly exciting second half to the year. ⬇️
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What will agentic commerce mean for the world? Emily covers this, Stripe's new foundation model, and more.
Had fun talking about all things AI at @stripe with @mattturck - agentic commerce, our new foundation model, and how we're boosting users’ revenue. https://t.co/T1cUy9xV5w
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AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next 🔥 Special deep dive episode - my @firstmarkcap colleague @DavidWaltcher and I unpack the explosive impact of generative AI on engineering — hands-down the biggest shift the field has seen in decades. 00:00 Intro & episode
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AI code gen is driving massive productivity gains, and creating massive challenges simultaneously. Those challenges represent incredible opportunities just waiting to be solved. In his keynote from the 2025 FirstMark CTO Summit, @DavidWaltcher breaks down how AI is reshaping
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Sharing our views @FirstMarkCap on the future of healthcare - huge opportunity for startups, and it's only the beginning.
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LM Studio now supports MCP! Connect your favorite MCP servers to local LLMs, right on your computer.
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Bringing together 150 CTOs during one the most consequential platform shifts in history makes for a truly incredible day. Huge thank you to everyone who joined us at NYCTO last week, to @googlecloud for partnering with us on this event year after year, and of course to our
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