Tom Hulme
@thulme
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Managing Partner @GVTeam (Google Ventures) https://t.co/HO3pTc6UVa // MBE // Reservist // https://t.co/aFGhfyemAm Previously founded @OpenIDEO @IDEO
London
Joined July 2007
My TED talk has now had over 1.5 million views (the power of Ted rather than the power of Tom) https://t.co/FeVi6fm7Ts
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How do you build a product people really want? Allow consumers to be a part of the process. "Empathy for what your customers want is probably the biggest leading indicator of business success," says...
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It's an honor for @GVteam to lead the Series A for @RylanHamilton and his team at @BlueWaterShips. I've been fortunate to know Rylan for nearly two decades and feel honored to back him. The team he has assembled is now tackling a mission as urgent as it is consequential:
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Another record-breaking stretch at @synthesiaIO: - Crossed $100m ARR in early April 2025 - Doubled revenue YoY (Growth accelerated to 100% from 80% at Series D) - Hit 142% NRR (up from 119% a year ago) - Quadrupled our $100K+ customer base in 12 months - Trusted by +80% of
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ElevenLabs with @matistanis Synthesia with @Stjerrild @vriparbelli Fyxer with @ArchieHollings4 Now @attio with Nick! Another example of UK companies taking on US competitors and winning. LFG and bravo Nick and Team Attio! 🔥
Really excited to share that @attio has raised $52m in Series B funding, led by GV with participation from @Redpoint, @Balderton, @PointNineCap, and @01Advisors. Over the past two years, we’ve seen rapid growth. 5,000 customers now run their GTM on Attio, including @lovable_dev,
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Revealed: Phoebe, an AI ‘immune system’ for software founded by former Stripe executives Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, will this week announce that it has raised $17m in seed funding, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cherry Ventures.
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Founded by a pair of former Stripe executives, Phoebe aims to slash the remediation time for software glitches and has landed $17m in seed funding led by GV and Cherry Ventures, Sky News learns.
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What’s next in AI? @zachlloydtweets (@warpdotdev), @ZacharyGleicher (@GoogleDeepMind), @ejn, and @thulme shared their thoughts on what’s promising and what still needs building at our AI Builders event in NY. Read Erik’s takeaways from the evening: https://t.co/RIrjV68gAi
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I feel incredibly grateful to partner with @davemuni to run all things digital for GV, so it was hugely fun to do an interview together. Thanks @geneteare for capturing our outlook on AI investing and how we operate as a team -->
“The AI age rewards those who move fast, trust founders, and don’t flinch.” GV's @davemuni and @thulme spoke with @crunchbasenews about AI's future and lessons from a decade backing founders across the AI stack, from @harvey__ai to @thinkymachines
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Hallucination, agentic systems, and the cost of building frontier AI. @ZacharyGleicher of @GoogleDeepMind and I covered that and more at @GVTeam’s AI Builder Event last week. See what else we discussed: https://t.co/oK02UaeOFI
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Congratulations @skathire and the Verve team. It's been incredible to be part of the journey from incubation to acquisition by @EliLillyandCo. On to the next milestone!
Today, we take the next step in Verve’s journey: the acquisition by @EliLillyandCo is now complete. From the founding of Verve in 2018 to this milestone in 2025, we have worked with urgency and conviction to advance a bold idea — that a single-course gene editing medicine could
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Three primary drivers for why businesses are growing faster than ever via @thulme: Distribution: “The whole world is effectively addressable” Scalability: “The tech can scale to billions of users” Low Friction: “Generative AI is often a conversational interface”
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Looking forward to our first AI Builders NYC event in a few weeks. We’ll hear from @EricSimons of @boltdotnew, @zachlloydtweets of @warpdotdev and Zach Gleicher from @deepmind. If you’re building something in NYC, there’s still some room to join us https://t.co/m2ZyUVaOGJ
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love this 😍🤖 ->
Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at @huggingface 🤝@pollenrobotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge
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The all-new Glyph Matrix redefines how a smartphone communicates—bringing a dynamic, independent interface that makes technology feel fresh, intuitive, and uniquely yours. This is the future of interaction. Phone (3). Come to Play.
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“This is clearly going to be an era of voice,” GV Managing Partner and Head of Europe @thulme said at @cerebral_valley London. Every day, more people are sending voice notes or vocalizing their questions to an AI. This is the future of communication and GV portfolio companies
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I've been using the Phone(3) for a few weeks and think it is incredible - it's brought fun with the new glyph matrix display and ID but is incredibly high performance across the board, including the camera Video of unboxing here - https://t.co/EUljtaqQ0N Congratulations
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