
Topher Conway
@topherc
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Joined February 2007
Weโre 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. Thread๐
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After it took days to book an HVAC appointment in the sweltering heat, I built @Netic_AI: the AI revenue engine for businesses that keep America running. Silicon Valley ignored essential services for too long, so we raised $20m from @foundersfund, @greylock, @mavolpi to fix it.
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In today's Social Radars' episode, we talk to Ron Conway about the unbelievably turbulent life of Napster, the first on-demand music app. https://t.co/FEmHGVZUGt
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Listen to Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel Part 4 (Bonus) from The Social Radars wherever you get your podcasts!
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we are thrilled to welcome the io team to openai, and to extend our work together with jony and lovefrom our work to-date with these incredible teams has been a daily reminder of how much is yet to be built, and how fun the future will be
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We are constantly impressed by the @reductoai team - they're relentless in listening to customers and building the best product possible. Proud to support them as theyโve built something people love and reached this funding milestone. Incredibly excited for what's next!
We raised a $24.5M Series A led by @benchmark, bringing total funding to $33M!๐ Last year we set out to define the state of the art in document processing. Today, companies like Vanta, Airtable, and ScaleAI trust @reductoai to ingest hundreds of millions of documents. (1/7)
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Excited to have Andrea join the team!!
After two amazing years at @generalcatalyst, Iโm excited to join @svangel as a General Partner to continue backing the most ambitious founders at the earliest stages. I have long admired SVAโs storied history and founder reputation, and Iโm thrilled to work with the amazing team
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๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ก: ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐ฅ;๐๐ซ we've spent the last months building triggers, tools & data sources for wordware - starting today, you can create AI workflows that actually run in your life without writing
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Weโre excited to announce that Base Power has raised $200M in Series B funding, co-led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with support from @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap. Additionโs Lee Fixel joins our board alongside Antonio Gracias of
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We've raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI. We'll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today. Link below
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In a world of deep research, go deeper with ARI. Meet ARI: The world's first professional-grade deep research agent.
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ARC-AGI-1 was designed to challenge deep learning. ARC-AGI-2 is designed to challenge AI reasoning. ARC-AGI-3 will challenge AGI we have not built yet. Each is designed to be easy, fun, and inspiring for humans. Today we're previewing v2 and opening donations to fund v3!
AGI is reached when the capability gap between humans and computers is zero ARC Prize Foundation measures this to inspire progress Today we preview the unbeaten ARC-AGI-2 + open public donations to fund ARC-AGI-3 TY Schmidt Sciences (@ericschmidt) for $50k to kick us off!
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Weโve acquired @episyscience, a leader in AI and multi-domain autonomy software! ๐ With this acquisition, weโre expanding from ground autonomy to aerial, maritime, and space. Read more on our blog: https://t.co/k8x8QpEeOT
#autonomy #acquisition #defense
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We've raised $27M from Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Factory, Conviction, SVA, General Catalyst, A* and our wonderful angels. Cartesia's audio models power the next generation of voice agents, digital media, and assistants across startups and large enterprises. Our mission is to
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SV Angel is thrilled to be partnering with @dps and the incredible team at /dev/agents! The potential for AI to transform our daily lives is enormous, but we need the right foundational infrastructure, tools, and platform in place. /dev/agents is setting out to build that
๐ Excited to announce my new company: /dev/agents. Iโm building the next-gen operating system for AI agents, joining my former colleagues @hbarra, @alcor, and @ficus as co-founders. We're excited to partner with @ninaachadjian (Index Ventures) and @jillchase124 (CapitalG).
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๐ Excited to announce my new company: /dev/agents. Iโm building the next-gen operating system for AI agents, joining my former colleagues @hbarra, @alcor, and @ficus as co-founders. We're excited to partner with @ninaachadjian (Index Ventures) and @jillchase124 (CapitalG).
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Thank youย @GavinNewsom for vetoing the well-intentioned but flawed SB 1047. I look forward to working with the Governor and the Legislature to ensure California continues to lead the world in creating a responsible and safe AI regulatory framework.
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Congratulations to @noamshazeer and team @character_ai on todayโs announcement: https://t.co/27yMKGSWto. It's been amazing to have been a part of the journey since the seed round. Excited for what's next!
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Back in 2022, we founded Character.AI to bring personalized superintelligence to users around the world. Over the last two years, we have made great strides against this goal. We built progressively...
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Itโs time to bring software collaboration into the 21st century. Replit is ready for the workplace.
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Weโre proud to have partnered with so many incredible founders at the earliest stages, and are more excited than ever for whatโs to come!
@thogge @Lady10x @Beezer232 @screendoorvc Here is list of all investors in 10+ unicorns from seed investments (data set is 3.3k unicorns, including private unicorns, exited unicorns and companies which became a unicorn on exit)
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Suno is now on iOS! Download today on the Apple App Store: https://t.co/cvdN0TUM2q Make any song you can imagine, anytime & anywhere, and share with your friends - all from your phone ๐ฑ
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