Annie Kadavy

work hard and be nice to people. early stage VC @redpoint.

[alex bard @alexbard]

Congratulations to the entire @tryqualified team on entering a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce. I’ve been fortunate to work with @kswensrud, @seanwhiteley, bing, and gopal for nearly 15 years across multiple companies, including @salesforce, so when they started Qualified, @redpoint and I were thrilled to partner from day one. We signed the first check in April 2019 ... 2441 days ago and today truly feels like coming home. Grateful for the journey, proud of the team, and excited for the impact ahead. To adventure and fellowship 🚀

[Wander @wander]

We’re excited to share that Wander has raised a $50M Series B from @QEDInvestors and @FifthWallVC with @Redpoint @UncorkCap @StarwoodCapGrp @breyercapital @AuthenticVC @ActivantCapital @Soma_Capital @AlumniVentures @ForecastLabs and many other incredible investors.

[Adam Guild @adamguild]

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄

Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations.

We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back.

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This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us:

Alex Kurland from Meritech, who led DoorDash’s Series B, and Shalini Rao from Headline, who led Toast’s Series C.

They were also joined by an inspiring group of new investors: Fidji Simo (CEO Instacart), Jonathan Neman (CEO Sweetgreen), Garrett Langley (CEO Flock Safety).

& still more inspiring new investors...

Dharmesh Shah (CTO HubSpot), Josh Reeves (CEO Gusto), Shaan Puri (MFM), Matteo Franceschetti (CEO Eight Sleep), Anthony Pompliano, Sahil Bloom, Christina Cacioppo (CEO Vanta), Brett Schulman (CEO Cava), Matt Maloney (Founder & CEO GrubHub).

… just to name a few. :)

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Today, technology is being weaponized against small business owners.

Corporations like Domino’s dominate. Why?

Because they spend billions on tech, engineers, and marketers.

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Small business owners are forced to compete with corporations that have massive war chests.

But with Owner, they can do more than compete. They can win.

We’re building the platform that gives them the power.

We serve the people who serve our communities.

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I started Owner 7 years ago, after dropping out of high school halfway through 10th grade.

The first version of Owner wasn’t built for venture capital.

It was built for my mom.

She’s a small business owner who just needed a shot at success in the digital world.

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I remember watching her worry that we’d lose her business and our house. In a moment of desperation, she asked her weird :) nerdy 17-year-old son to help her.

I built a solution for her. That was Owner V1. When it started to work, I saw my mom transform.

She went from being constantly stressed about money to feeling hopeful and excited about her future.

The Owner team has now seen that same transformation happen for thousands of small business owners like her.

That’s what drives us.

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You can think of Owner as Shopify for restaurants—and, eventually, all local business owners. It gives them everything they need to succeed in the online future, in one place.

Owner is their website, online ordering, mobile app, CRM. It all works together as one system.

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Owner is also continuously optimized with what we learn from the thousands of restaurants and the more than 57 million consumers who have used our platform.

It’s the only system designed for one outcome: growing sales profitably.

It gives independent owners enough firepower to take on the big corporations, and win.

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Shoutout to the great team at @Owner —

You deserve the credit for getting us here.

I thank God every morning that I get to build Owner with each of you. We wouldn’t be here without you.

We have a special team. Each of you represents greatness.

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And shoutout to the best cofounder and CTO I could ever ask for, @DeanBloembergen.

His work ethic and genius are as impressive as his character.

I view partnering with Dean as one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

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I’m proud of Owner today.

But I also feel scared that people will see our unicorn valuation and think “we’ve made it.”

So let me be brutally clear. We HAVE NOT made it.

And if we start to believe we have, we never will.

When investors value us at $1B, it’s because they see potential.

Our investors see the POTENTIAL for us to build a company worth tens of billions.

We have to prove them right.

And we must also prove right the thousands of restaurant owners who’ve bet their futures on us.

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We’re still underdogs. We still have a long way to go.

We didn’t come this far just to come this far.

It’s time to move faster, build better, and fight harder!

We have millions of small business owners counting on us.

[dsa @dsa]

Announcing LiveKit Agents 1.0 and a $45M Series B

Back when we launched ChatGPT Voice Mode with OpenAI, voice AI was not a thing. Now it's a whole ecosystem of companies, products, and tools.

LiveKit’s infra for building and running voice AI agents is also at scale: over 100K developers use LiveKit Cloud and collectively doing over 3 billion calls a year in production.

Today we're announcing Agents 1.0:
🧠 Multi-agent orchestration engine
🌍 New turn detection model (13 langs, <25ms CPU inference)
📞 Robust telephony stack (used by 25% of 911 dispatch and more)
🧱 Cloud Agents deployment platform for running agents at the edge

We’ve also raised a $45M Series B led by Altimeter to continue building towards an all-in-one platform for AI agents that can see, hear, and speak.

⌨️🖱️ 👉 📹🎤

[Every Inc. @EveryBanking]

We are honored that Every has been named to @FastCompany’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 for our platform that handles everything back-office for tech founders in one place. Incorporation, Banking, Payroll, Taxes &amp; more.

More on #FCMostInnovative: https://t.co/OKpWudEi5T

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

Motif is redefining 21st-century building design with modern tools for architects, engineers, and construction professionals. We’re thrilled to congratulate them on their $46M Seed + Series A!

“Architects, engineers and construction teams today grapple with challenges and opportunities that were barely imagined in the past… Yet the tools currently available to AEC professionals are woefully outdated and inefficient.”
- @amarhanspal Motif CEO and Former Co-CEO, AutoDesk

Hear directly from Amar, @alexbard and @jordan_segall on what Motif is building and why we’re so excited to invest.

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

Congrats @SurbhiSarnaSF and the Collate team on their $30M funding to automate paperwork for life science companies!

https://t.co/mFFGVH0udk

[Patrick Chase @patrickachase]

Couldn't be more excited to partner with @JonMorehouse and the team at @nuoninc! Congrats on the seed + Series A!

Read more below on their mission to enable Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) for everyone! ⬇️

https://t.co/ktATwYMJA7

[Annie Kadavy @akad]

@benblumenrose I can’t believe it. He has been a friend and joyful, creative, kind inspiration of mine for 20 years since freshman year of college. Ben, we’re all with you in this pain. Enrique, we will miss you, and will keep your smile and that infectious laugh with us.

[Railway @Railway]

Drop the .app, it's cleaner that way

Introducing an all-new Railway (dot com)

https://t.co/C5PSPyo5IO

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

Congrats to @kustomer on their huge relaunch! 🙌 #EndBadService

https://t.co/1zqXMjaxZY via @VentureBeat

[Comun 💳 @comunappusa]

We’re thrilled to be featured in @BusinessInsider ’s list of the 49 most promising fintech startups! 🎉 A huge thank you to our incredible investors, @itsmeeraclark and @akad from @Redpoint , for their continuos support and belief in Comun's mission.

https://t.co/W35uByPW1a

[dsa @dsa]

For the past few months the @livekit team has been working with OpenAI to give developers access to the same technology that powers Advanced Voice in ChatGPT.

With the new Realtime API, you can build voice AI that understands the nuances of human speech and responds in 300ms with humanlike expression.

Under the hood, the Realtime API is built on websocket, which works well for server-to-server communication. But for delivering voice data to client devices, websocket isn’t the best choice. It’s not resilient to network congestion and wasn’t designed for transporting media in real time.

This week, we released the Multimodal Agent API in our Agents framework. It completely wraps OpenAI’s Realtime API, abstracts away the raw wire protocol, and provides an ultra-low latency WebRTC transport between GPT-4o and your users’ devices

We also released:
Hooks, components, and visualizers for building voice AI frontends on web and mobile.
“AI needs UI” — @AndrewYNg

AgentsJS — build voice AI applications in Node environments:
https://t.co/IYj1yr6ckE

A Realtime API playground:
https://t.co/c6hA9XDQpk

We wrote some words too:
Build your first app with the Realtime API: https://t.co/hMRrdsRmos

Blog post with more details: https://t.co/t1jdWkaRPr

We’re going to see a totally new class of voice AI applications get built with this API. I’d love to hear about what y’all use this API for and help in any way. DMs open!

[Jason Warner @jasoncwarner]

Human-level intelligence is going to happen, and we think it’ll happen first in software development. Today, we’re staking @poolsideai's position in the field. AGI’s promise is too significant for me and @eisokant to stay out of the mix

[Annie Kadavy @akad]

RT @Redpoint: Congrats to the Comun team on their $21.5M Series A! We're thrilled to partner with Comun in expanding financial service acce…

[M E E R A @itsmeeraclark]

The one and only @akad, Team @Redpoint, and I are beyond thrilled to be partnering with @comunappusa as they redefine local banking in the digital world for the 64M Latinos living in the US today 💵💴💶

[Attio @attio]

We've just raised $33 million to accelerate our mission: building the definitive CRM for the next generation.
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Since launching last year, Attio has seen significant growth. We now count some of the most forward-thinking, high-growth startups as customers and have built one of the most powerful, flexible products in the market.
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But to drive real change in this category, you have to be firing on all cylinders.
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To capitalize on our momentum and seize the massive opportunity before us, we've strategically raised these additional funds.
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This investment is led by our existing partners Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Point Nine, along with our new parter 01 Advisors. It will allow us to push even harder on our core vision: reinventing CRM for the next era.
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I. Why we decided to raise
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CRM isn't just another market. It's one of the most important B2B software categories – an $89 billion behemoth that touches nearly every business. But it's been stuck in the past for too long.
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Now the category is at a watershed moment. While many believe this moment started with AI, the truth is that CRM has been bursting at the seams, on the cusp of revolution for years. This is precisely why we founded Attio.
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Today's incumbents were built two decades ago, at the dawn of internet era, long before data growth became exponential.
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Now, with AI as the final catalyst, everything is set to change. But simply bolting LLMs onto legacy infrastructure won't work. Nor will trying to build workarounds for outdated data models and inflexible architectures.
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II. What we're building
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CRM needs a ground-up reimagining. This vision drove us to found Attio and it’s why we spent three years building such a strong foundation before our launch last year.
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This funding will vastly accelerate our vision of CRM in the AI era, which is built 3 on pillars:
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A system of record - Our powerful, AI-native data model is designed to be the modern system of record. It can match any business or data model with custom objects, and it stores information with rich, structured metadata. It's incredibly fast, handling massive workloads with millions of records at sub ~50ms latency. We spent many years painstakingly building this foundation.
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A system of context - Attio will automatically ingest and understand your data – both structured and unstructured – capturing the details and aspects of every video call, meeting, email, document, or even data from the web. It’ll present this information in a way that is always relevant and useful to you.
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A system of action - A comprehensive platform where you can architect and drive your entire GTM strategy, leveraging AI to anticipate needs, automate complex tasks, and initiate processes across your whole stack without manual effort.
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We're not here to make incremental improvements. We're going to redefine CRM, and we'll be shipping plenty of powerful, groundbreaking features—AI-driven and otherwise—along the way.
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III. Backed by the best
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We’re fortunate enough to be backed by unique, visionary investors who believe in our dream to revolutionize the most important B2B software category.
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Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Daniel Waterhouse (Balderton Capital), and Ricardo Sequerra (Point Nine) have all invested again in us.
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Dick Costolo (01 Advisors) has also joined this fundraise. His experience as CEO and COO of Twitter, as well as advising world-class companies like Linear, Common Room and Airtable, will be incredibly valuable for us.
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V. Come join us
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If revolutionizing one of the most important software categories and building the engine for businesses everywhere interests you, please reach out to us.
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Read more 👉 https://t.co/TS12MqM251

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

We’re super excited to announce our lead in the $20M Series A for Trunk Tools (https://t.co/dOBNIojlc8). A truly remarkable team that’s already making waves with top players in the construction industry!

https://t.co/7DU7JjkeHX

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

Congratulations to @theroundsco on their $24M Series B! We're thrilled to continue partnering with the team to expand their AI-powered sustainable delivery services.
https://t.co/ADXmXulN9O

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

We're excited to be partnering with Everest in their bold mission to re-invent one of the oldest software categories!