Super excited to finally announce Angular Ventures III at $125M. We closed the fund in late 2023 (2x oversubscribed) and began deploying in 2024. As always, we remain dedicated to backing determined technical founders across Europe and Israel solving today’s most complex

RT @balajis: An important kind of social network will be one where no bots whatsoever are allowed.

Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain

A new generation of Israeli repeat founders is dominating the exit landscape. This is not surprising - it's happened (in Israel and elsewhere) before. We'll back repreat founders whenever we can - but we are also committed to backing first-timers (and in non-cyber domains!).

The AI revolution has shaken the cyber world at every level. Attackers have learned to harness AI, launching assaults with so-called toxic prompts designed to manipulate models in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, employees across organizations, increasingly reliant on ChatGPT and.

Like many other software firms founded before ChatGPT, Figma faces a major threat from AI. Keeping its technology relevant while also maintaining profitability will be tough.

On the one hand, this is insanely impressive. Wow. A true glimpse of the future (present?) and what's going to be possible very very soon. On the other hand, with models moving so fast, it's still hard for me to see how this kind of innovation - as impressive as it is - can.

This, by Amir MIzroch, is brilliant. And it's not just Israel that is dealing with this.

RT @robgo: Seed VC is facing an existential crisis. This isn't hyperbole. And it's not just a regular business cycle. It's a real crucible….

RT @credistick: Good summary of the struggle at seed, from @robgo. I would frame all this with one simple observation: . Seed VC needs to….

RT @jobergum: Finally some vector database news!. From first sight, it looks similar to turbopuffer.

Shots fired!.But he's not wrong.

RT @edavidpeterson: a cruel irony of the AI era: just as the ability to think deeply and ask good questions becomes the only durable human….

Not only is this a huge drama - but it threatens to rewrite the unwritten rules of silicon valley which have undergirded the innovation ecosystem for decades. If employees lose confidence in the value of equity, everyone will suffer over the long run - including founders and VCs.

Last Thursday, more than 40 researchers and engineers at Windsurf, a startup that has developed an artificial intelligence–powered coding tool, began gathering at a hotel in Mountain View, Calif., after receiving an invitation to a mysterious meeting from the startup’s.

Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes: Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

A common failure mode for early-stage (founder-led sales) founders is to try to optimize what they are doing instead of doing what is optimal. The former can result in a local maximum, which can become entrenched and distracting. For example, optimizing pricing on the wrong.

OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts of up to $200 million each, aimed at scaling up adoption of advanced AI capabilities in the U.S. Department of Defense, the government agency said on Monday.

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center | TechCrunch.

RT @ajassy: Introducing Kiro, an all-new agentic IDE that has a chance to transform how developers build software. Let me highlight three….

"In today’s age of AI where everything is moving at an incredibly fast pace, the idea of acquiring a company and going through a prolonged review process is completely unrealistic and unfathomable for both acquirers and startups.". The Blitzhire Acquisition.