Vince Hankes
@vhankes
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@ThriveCapital
New York, NY
Joined November 2010
Thanks for having me @jaltma!
In many ways, Thrive is helping define the current era of venture capital. @vhankes is one of the best in the business; he's behind their investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, Databricks, Stripe, and many more. He's also an excellent board member and friend. Excited for more people to
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All companies run on IT. But almost all IT teams are underwater. The ones that aren't run on Console. Console raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and @ThriveCapital to help leading companies like @scale_ai, @tryramp, and @webflow automate 50%+ of their tickets.
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Thrilled to share that I’ve joined @ThriveCapital as a Venture Partner, where I will be helping to build and invest in companies that can push the boundaries of science and technology. I’ve known many of the Thrive team for years and have always admired their warmth, intellect,
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Today's Uncapped guest is @grosen, a close friend of mine and one of the best seed investors I know (BoxGroup invested in the seed of Ramp, Cursor, Ro, Clay, Plaid, and many more.) He doesn't do podcasts but I badgered him to come on because I learn a huge amount from him and I
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Excited to roll out deep research for finance powered by @OpenAI!
Rogo is collaborating with @OpenAI to deploy Deep Research to the largest financial firms in the world. Rogo now has autonomous agents that execute multi-step research—these agents can run comps, buyer screens, market maps, and more in minutes. Thank you @OpenAIDevs team!
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🌠Today, we’re excited to relaunch Airtable as the AI-native app platform, combining the magic of vibe coding business apps with real production-readiness and scalability, and embedding them with an army of agents that automate thousands of hours of work in seconds. Instead of
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today we are introducing codex. it is a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and does tasks for you, like writing a new feature of fixing a bug. you can run many tasks in parallel.
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So excited to be joining @openai and contributing to its mission. Thank you @sama for the opportunity- it will be such a privilege to work with such a talented team on one of the most important and ambitious endeavors in history. I’ll remain CEO of @Instacart for the next few
so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence.
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Today, I’m thrilled to announce @RogoAI's $50M Series B led by @ThriveCapital, joined by @JPMorganAM, Tiger Global, @patrick_oshag , and continued backing from @khoslaventures, @BoxGroup, @alley_corp, and others.
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We are humbled to announce Thrive Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle dedicated to investing in, acquiring, and operating businesses for the long term. The mission of Thrive Holdings is to transform enterprises through the strategic application of technology to foster enduring
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Today, we announced a $200M round led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with participation from existing investors @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap. Addition founder Lee Fixel will join our board alongside Antonio Gracias of Valor.
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Thrilled to announce @IsomorphicLabs has raised $600M to turbocharge our mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI. I've long felt that improving human health is the most important thing we can do with AI & today marks a big step towards a new era of drug
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Launching a new podcast today! It’s called Uncapped and the only theme is talking to people I admire about things I’m genuinely interested in. Our first guest is @shaunmmaguire. Here’s what we covered: 0:00 - speaking his mind in public 13:38 - trust and the media 24:27 -
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Today I’m incredibly excited to announce Unify’s $12M Series A led by Emergence and Thrive with particpation from OpenAI. We started Unify 631 days ago with the mission to be the best platform for revenue teams to power creative, thoughtful and delightful interactions with their
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here is o1, a series of our most capable and aligned models yet: https://t.co/yzZGNN8HvD o1 is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it.
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I've joined @ThriveCapital as EIR & advisor to support founders in understanding and deploying AI thoughtfully while furthering my interpretability and interfaces work. I remain very excited to cheer on Notion's AI team push the frontier of applied LLMs. https://t.co/JHHQPKkEEM
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We are humbled to announce the close of Thrive IX. Exceeding $5 billion, Thrive IX comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $4 billion designated for growth-stage investments. At Thrive we aim to be concentrated in both people and ideas. The ways in which
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New @NoPriorsPod episode drop w/ @howietl founder @airtable: *cobuilder launch, integrating AI *app layer for AI *can you start a company as a platform vs. a killer app? *airtable's transition to enterprise *no code in the age of AI codegen? like, listen, subscribe! links ⬇️
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I'm thrilled to announce our company, @essential_ai . We believe that breakthroughs in AI will unlock the most profound tools for thought, advancing humanity's collective knowledge and capability. https://t.co/unA2spJDDR
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