Imran Ghory
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Partner @blossomcap. Series A investor. Interested in infra, security & open-source. Wrote a paper on reinforcement learning before it was cool.
Joined October 2008
The ambition and performance of European startups has never been higher. It's no longer about unicorns - it's about building decacorns that will shape and transform their industries. Thrilled to announce Blossom III - $432m to back them at the Series A https://t.co/V20f9ibIG6
techcrunch.com
European startups collectively raised a record $100 billion+ in funding in 2021, a sign of their swelling ranks, ambitions and stature. Now, a VC in
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Docusign is a luxury good - people use it for signalling: because using AcmeSign weakens your credibility in seeming like a serious business even if it’s perfectly functional
DocuSign renewal just came due. What are the alternatives that won't cost me a billion dollars per year? Need unlimited envelopes and team members. No ghetto shit please.
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Our first-ever technical report is here! We’re providing an unprecedented look into the architecture and methodology behind our AI system; Aristotle, and shining light on the “how” behind our IMO gold-level performance. Read the full report below⬇️
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It increasingly feels that public VC fundraising advice (like much online discourse) has become primarily driven by self-interest Advice around pre-emption, valuations, etc seem focused on what’s in the interest of the investor in question rather than of founders.
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Want to use AI to automate VC? - we’re hiring a Data Scientist at Blossom to help us find Europe’s next unicorns 🦄🦄🦄 If you're interested (or know someone who'd be great for the role) - reach out!
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The sound of the Discord security team rapidly rewriting their threat models
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Hard for American VCs to comment without it seeming like sour grapes, but Time’s ‘top US VC firms’ list is truly incoherent (e.g. missing @sequoia entirely). Feels like it was put together by someone with zero understanding of the startup ecosystem. https://t.co/xadswJCUix
time.com
TIME and Statista have named 350 VC firms leading their industry
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IATA RP 1706d This annoyed me enough I went and looked it up once. IATA never included terminal in their recommendation because their key principles were: (1) info should be universal (not all airports have terminals) (2) info should be under airline control (not true)
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ChatGPT trip planning hack: Don’t just say where you’re going - say who you are. Give it lots of details on the kind of things you love to do (and those you hate) and you generally end up with something much more tailored rather than a generic itinerary.
two couples sitting in this airport lounge have both clearly planned their European summers via ChatGPT both keep referring to “hidden secrets” and “off the beaten path” spots and are slowly becoming aware of the other. most people are way more captured than you could imagine
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It’s hard to envisage a scenario where lab-grown meat doesn’t replace farm-grown in the long term. Once it becomes functionally identical and cheaper, market forces will make it mainstream.
we need to rebrand lab grown meat to cruelty-free meat lab grown sounds like covid the reality is: cruelty free meat will enable cheaper, higher quality consumption of meats most people drive electric for the comfort, not the environment
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How hard is consumer hardware? In three decades of consumer hardware startups, only a single one is still public with a $1B+ marketcap. That's not to say you shouldn't do it, but it's definitely the harder path.
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Everyone’s talking about an AI slowdown after GPT-5. But even if model progress stopped dead, we’ve still got decades of AI driven growth ahead—just by turning today’s AI into products that reshape how we live and work.
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Weird to single out Perplexity—every major AI company is playing this game. Cloaked crawlers are the rule, not the exception.
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.
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We're building superintelligence of the mathematical kind. Announcing @HarmonicMath's $100M Series B led by @kleinerperkins, with participation from @paradigm and many other great investors Welcome @ilyaf ... excited to partner (again) https://t.co/YNfPCjambI
businesswire.com
Harmonic, the artificial intelligence lab leading the development of Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), announces a $100 million Series B funding round at...
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Or when you searched for a food and sorted by delivery time it used to rank closed restaurants first - and they fixed it by removing the sort functionality. Feels like Doordash could probably meaningfully increase conversion & revenue by fixing the low hanging fruit
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It baffles me how bad Deliveroo’s discovery is - e.g. picking top-rated doesn’t filter non-restaurants so you end up with random stores that no-one wants to order from
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It’ll be interesting to see it coming to dating apps. Avoid some of the issues associated with photos while preserving the core of what users look like.
What is the longevity of the new Studio Ghibli trend—or more broadly, the trend of adding generative "artistic filters" to our photos? It certainly feels like a fleeting moment, but I'll take the other side of that bet: The closest analogue to what's happening was in 2022:
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23andme’s problem was fundamentally the same as Instant Pot, it’s a one time purchase for the majority of its users. Compare to Ancestry (a $1B ARR business) where the DNA testing product was essentially leadgen for their much more lucrative consumer subscription business.
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A lot of SaaS security teams will be running statistical analysis on their Slack logs today
Rippling sued @Deel today. Our lawsuit alleges Deel cultivated a spy at Rippling & orchestrated a long-running trade-secret theft. The spy searched “deel” in our systems 23 times per day on avg, letting him spy on Deel’s own customers who were considering a switch to Rippling.
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The irony of consumer rights magazine @WhichUK using dark patterns to stop subscribers from cancelling
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