Ashish Kakran
@ashishkakran
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early-stage investor @Sierra_Ventures | investing in cloud, dev tools, data/ml infrastructure
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
Great turnout yesterday at the SF Tech Week event on “Fundraising in the Valley for US-India Founders”. Thanks so much Alex (@Mvpventures), @ashishkakran (@Sierra_Ventures) and @kpowerinfinity (@ElevCap) for rocking the seed panel. And much gratitude to Deepak Prasad
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Fundraise Announcement! We are proud to announce that we at @smallest_AI have raised 8M USD in an oversubscribed seed round led by @Sierra_Ventures with participation from @3one4Capital, @better_capital, @UpsparksCapital, @SchemaVentures, @DeVC_Global, @tinyvc, @peercheque,
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Everything just shook. Big earthquake in Berkeley, CA. #earthquake
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Listen to my conversation with @ashishkakran Partner of Sierra Ventures on Spotify: https://t.co/t9FWlwef6i Apple: https://t.co/4lj7N9a9wC Youtube: https://t.co/QELSo2QoMO
#vc #ai #startup
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🚀 Venture with Grace: This Week’s Recap (Week 80) This week on Venture with Grace, we explored startup sprints, AI-powered customer support, vertical SaaS growth, and the latest in infrastructure and AI: 🔹 @jazer , GP at Character Capital — on Startup Sprints & Design DNA 🔹
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SIERRA Partner, @ashishkakran, joined an insightful panel at the Confidential Computing Summit, hosted by @opaquesys & the Confidential Computing Consortium. The conversation spanned some of the most urgent challenges & opportunities in enterprise AI and security.
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As AI continues to shape our world, its responsible development remains essential. Prime Ministers Carney and Starmer met with @Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez to discuss a new partnership to advance AI systems that boost safety, national security, and innovation in both countries.
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Big news from the Sierra Ventures team: @ashishkakran joined us as a Partner! Ashish has backed category-defining startups like Cohere, Harness, and Isovalent—and brings deep expertise across AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. More on his journey → https://t.co/Yjp0QThTEl
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Market Map: 130+ companies transforming the AI Software Development market! This map contains emerging #startups solving engineering pain points, including codegen. If you would like your startup to be added to the map, please DM me. #engineering #ai #vc
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Our MIT class “6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models” is now available on YouTube! We teach state-of-the-art generative AI algorithms for images, videos, proteins, etc. together with the mathematical tools to understand them. https://t.co/wDJcM1YTxJ (1/4)
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Introducing Command R7B: the smallest, fastest, and final model in our R series of enterprise-focused LLMs! It delivers a powerful combination of state-of-the-art performance in its class and efficiency to lower the cost of building AI applications. https://t.co/e2ah5c5x5J
cohere.com
The smallest model in our R series delivers top-tier speed, efficiency, and quality to build powerful AI applications on commodity GPUs and edge devices.
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Most llms still struggle with languages beyond English. Today cohere is changing that! @CohereForAI just release a new open weight model called Aya Expanse with sota performance 23 languages! This is a breakthrough for global coverage. Excited to see how you use it! :)
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Wow! What a day for science.
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Very grateful for @geoffreyhinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.
Congrats to @geoffreyhinton :) I could not think of a more deserving scientist His passion for discovery and invention will always be an inspiration. But his kindness, playfulness, and mentorship have benefited me most. Thanks for everything Geoff! Congrats!
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Congratulations to the @harnessio team for launching our biggest platform update to date! 👏🎊 Today at {unscripted} we unveiled a suite of new products that embed AI into the very core of our platform. We’re excited to see how these tools help engineers transcend routine tasks,
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Transforming Transformers - this architecture powers the most popular public and private AI models today. We wonder then — what’s next? Is this the architecture that will lead to better reasoning? Sharing some thoughts here: https://t.co/PusO0nFwWf
#ai #founders @thomvest
blog.thomvest.com
A version of this blog appeared in VentureBeat
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So happy to see @sarahookr and @PSH_Lewis on the AI 100 :) they have both contributed so much to @cohere and the field in general. Working with such impactful and ingenious people is one of the best perks of being at cohere :)
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Command R and R+ just got: - a lot better at coding, tool use and multilingual RAG - better in general across the board - faster - cheaper Happy building :)
docs.cohere.com
We're excited to announce updates to our Command R and R+ models, offering improved performance, new features, and more.
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Vinesh Phogat disqualified. This is too much as a fan of Indian sports. Time for me to stop watching the Paris Olympics now. Heartbreaking #vineshphogat #wrestling #Olympics
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