Divya Gupta
@divyahansg
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@BeaconSoftwareX past: partner @Sequoia, @Databricks, @Airbnb, @Stanford
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Joined June 2013
Founding Beacon with @nilamg has been the most intense but also fulfilling time of my life. In just a year, we’ve grown to a team of 30+ and acquired dozens of mission-critical software businesses that quietly power everyday life, helping them bring AI to real-world industries.
Introducing Beacon: the AI holding company for Main Street. Today, we're announcing a $250M Series B led by @generalcatalyst, @lightspeedvp & D1 Capital to give mission-critical software & services businesses a permanent home that preserves their legacy & scales their ambition.
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Since I've known him, Divya has always been intentional and systematic about how he can create the most amount of value over a (very) long period of time. And he does it with quiet humility. Looking forward to Beacon continuing to set the pace for this category of ai-powered
Founding Beacon with @nilamg has been the most intense but also fulfilling time of my life. In just a year, we’ve grown to a team of 30+ and acquired dozens of mission-critical software businesses that quietly power everyday life, helping them bring AI to real-world industries.
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This team continues to surpass expectations. Congrats @ScottWu46 and everyone at @cognition!
We’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents. The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new
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Proud to announce @ChaiDiscovery has raised a $70M Series A from @MenloVentures & Anthology Fund (@AnthropicAI), @ThriveCapital, @OpenAI + others. 🧬 Chai is an applied AI lab building frontier tools for molecular design. This funding will power our new models, coming soon👇
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It only took a year to convince him but excited for this collab! @premqnair @cognition_labs
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the
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Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring
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Drug discovery will be one of the most impactful uses of AI. Kudos to @joshim5 and the @chaidiscovery team for breaking new ground with this release!
We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design. Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x. Thread👇
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Congrats @stevenl on the launch of @SevenStars_VC! I can’t think of anyone in venture that works harder than Steven.
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my $40M pre-seed and seed-stage fund, @SevenStars_VC, where I’ll be focused on partnering with visionary founders building enduring AI application companies across consumer and enterprise technology. Seven Stars is deeply personal. It’s
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I have learned an incredible amount from Liu over the past decade and she’s opened many doors for me. Anyone would be lucky to have her on their cap table.
We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.
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👇 In case you you needed another reason to try @DevinAI from @cognition_labs. The wiki feature helped us onboard new engineers 10x faster. Easily worth the money.
Introducing Devin 2.0: a new agent-native IDE experience. Generally available today starting at $20. 🧵👇
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Mike is an incredible investor, operator, and human being. I feel very lucky to have worked with him. Highly recommend founders check out what he and @saranormous are building at @conviction!
I’m joining @saranormous, @prnvrdy and the team at @conviction! The past two years have been the best. I’ve enjoyed the freedom to travel with my family and (assistant) coach my son’s Little League teams, all while continuing to try to help some of the founders and companies
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Devin is GA! Incredible execution from the @cognition_labs team.
Devin is generally available today! Just tag Devin to fix frontend bugs, create first-draft PRs for backlog tasks, make refactors, and more. Start building with Devin below:
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Let the ritual begin...
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Worth a read.
The nature of AI compute demand is changing. Demand is consolidating with hyperscalers. Custom chips are becoming more competitive. Scaling increases returns to vertical integration. Distributed training will be the new norm. The Future of Compute: NVIDIA's Crown is Slipping
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We’re excited to introduce @ChaiDiscovery and release Chai-1, a foundation model for molecular structure prediction that performs at the state-of-the-art across a variety of drug discovery tasks We're releasing inference code, weights & a web interface: https://t.co/QmpbVO9Fhd
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Fireworks is raising $52M, led by @sequoia! "We’re using the funding to make a shift towards compound AI systems that can orchestrate across multiple models with different modalities and tools” Learn more from our live Bloomberg interview: https://t.co/ogTURN2NvB
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Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss the company's outlook after its latest Series B funding round of $52 million. She speaks on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source:...
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My favorite thing about @absoluttig is that he’s always asking the hard questions, was fun jamming with him on this!
despite recent progress and endless cheerleading, open-source AI is a worsening investment for model builders, an inferior option for developers and consumers, and a national security risk. I wrote about the closed-source future of foundation models here https://t.co/QOenpSI9RY
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