Mike Ghaffary
@newmike
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Investor at Burst Capital. Alum @Yelp @CanvasVC @Eat24 @Stitcher @SocialCapital @SummitPartners @BCG
San Francisco
Joined July 2007
Baseten has acquired Parsed, now allowing us to deploy the world's best RL talent to help our customers own the intelligence layer. The talent density of the small Parsed team is insane: RL experts and alignment researchers from Oxford and Cambridge, multiple Rhodes Scholars,
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I'm excited that I can finally talk about this: the talented Parsed team is joining Baseten. They’re a team of 10 RL experts with a mix of research (Oxford and Cambridge PhDs) and industry backgrounds, with a track record of shipping state of the art models. And they share our
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Smarter fashion starts here. At SHEIN’s CIGM, advanced tools and tech are changing how clothes are made, reducing waste and boosting production quality. It’s more than innovation—it’s empowering the supply chain from the inside out for better fashion.
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Big day for Standard Fleet: we’ve raised our $13M Series A! From day one, our mission has been simple: make connecting to vehicles effortless. Today we’re powering fleets across 30+ automakers and scaling faster than ever. I am grateful to our team, customers, and investors for
Big news: @StandardFleet has closed a $13M Series A led by Nova Threshold with support from top investors. We are also expanding Digital Key, giving secure vehicle access in <60 seconds, no hardware needed. Over 75k trips completed, and it is now live across EV, hybrid & ICE
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Well done @amiruci and @basetenco team!
We closed our series D at $2.1b. It happened 8 months after our series C, which seems too fast until you consider the facts: 2-years worth of growth in 8 months, virtually 0 customer churn, healthy margins, and QoQ NDR numbers that are considered top-tier YoY. The market demand
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We closed our series D at $2.1b. It happened 8 months after our series C, which seems too fast until you consider the facts: 2-years worth of growth in 8 months, virtually 0 customer churn, healthy margins, and QoQ NDR numbers that are considered top-tier YoY. The market demand
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It’s been a few weeks since I shared our partnership with Tint, and things are off to a great start. I have some other "Key" Standard Fleet updates to share. But first, here's a picture of me in a frunk. /1
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Meet Producer, your personal AI music agent. It turns your imagination into music. Powered by FUZZ-2.0, the new state-of-the-art model from the Riffusion team. Welcome to the studio.
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Great startup opportunity
Hi Friends - my company Standard Fleet is hiring. Seven roles open currently. To call out a few: 1. Director or Engineering 2. Full Stack Engineer 3. Backend Engineer You will have my eternal gratitude if you send a great candidate. If we hire them, I will personally wash your
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Miss our group chat with @newmike the other week? This was a great chat where we got to learn how Mike evaluates marketplaces when investing, we discussed the fundraising environment, how AI is impacting marketplaces, & more. The recording is now live! https://t.co/o3daNY5JjX
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Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #192 (6/7) with Mike Ghaffary, Partner at Burst Capital.
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The total value of all public companies in the tiny Bay Area (population 8M) is greater than India, Japan and Germany (population: ~1680M) combined. There’s a reason why it’s called the global hub of innovation.
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We asked @shishirmehrotra about the strategic vision behind @Grammarly's acquisition of Coda and @Superhuman. "We call this layer the AI superhighway, bringing AI right to where people work. Up till now, we've only been running one car on that highway: the car with your high
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Superhuman is being acquired by @Grammarly! 💜💚 Together, we will build the AI-native productivity suite of choice 🥇 We will invest even more deeply in AI and email, reimagine chat and collaboration, and build AI agents that unlock a whole new way of working. More below 👇
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Is anyone building an email and text message interface for LLMs? This seems like an easy opportunity for a consumer app startup. Message me if you or someone you know has built this. It seems so obvious to cc your AI assistant on an email and get thoughtful answers.
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Excited to announce our investment in Hostie, joined by @thethomaslayton (Former Opentable CEO) and ex Yelp leaders (@newmike). They're the leading restaurant AI solution used by Flour + Water, Chotto Matte, Nisei, Harborview, and Fiorella.
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AI music generation - excited to see this!
Every instrument is doubted at first. Unrefined. Incomplete. Unwelcome. It takes great artists to harness these tools—to push creativity forward. Today, we’re launching our instrument: FUZZ-1.0 . We’re inviting you to be the first to play it.
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Every instrument is doubted at first. Unrefined. Incomplete. Unwelcome. It takes great artists to harness these tools—to push creativity forward. Today, we’re launching our instrument: FUZZ-1.0 . We’re inviting you to be the first to play it.
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New Episode of Ignite VC just dropped — and it’s a masterclass in timing, traction, and AI transformation. What do Yelp, Stitcher, and a $750M food delivery business have in common? - @newmike helped build them. Now a General Partner at @BurstCapital, Mike joins us to break
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The AI coding revolution has a measurement problem. We just fixed it. Now that engineers and their AI coding agents are melding together, one burning question remains: Is this making teams more productive? Our data revealed something striking: a small group of engineers are
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Great to see the Marketplace Checklist being put to use!
The Marketplace Checklist is live. If you're building or backing network-driven platforms, this is the tactical framework you need. Originally authored by @newmike (ep. 154 of the #IgnitePodcast), we break down what great looks like across: – Supply vs. demand dynamics –
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