Bluewatch Ventures

[Chaitanya @chaaai]

A decade later, I’m starting up again.

I sold my first company ten years ago and have spent the years since working as an engineer. Now I’m building @workersio as a solo-founder.

We’re living in a new era where an agent can write software faster than a team of 100 engineers. As software becomes more autonomous, I want us to raise our expectations and take more responsibility for what we build along the way.

Software can have a long half-life, and over time it becomes critical in ways we never planned for. Businesses, and sometimes lives, end up depending on decisions (or our agents) we make.

For the longest time, building reliable & verifiably correct software systems required resources that only a few teams could afford. I want to make those capabilities widely accessible, especially as more teams take on ambitious problems and build more of their own software in-house.

Our ambition is to make five nines of availability and verifiably correct the default for software in the agent era, so the software running our world becomes more dependable as it becomes more capable.

I’m excited to share that we’ve raised from @ycombinator, @solofounders, and an incredible group of angels - @Joshuabrowder, @tylerwillis, @ericbluewatch, @gshewakr, @jaentwistle and some friends and customers.

This is the mission I’m committing to for my next moonshot; I’m grateful to everyone helping me bring it to life.

If this mission excites you, I’d love to hear from you. Whether you want to work with us, help us along the way, or exchange ideas about where software is headed, please reach out.

[John Andrew Entwistle @jaentwistle]

The AI moment for travel is here.

We're seeing agent-referred traffic skyrocket across @wander

This was a bet we made 18 months ago, with the build of our direct booking engines for operators. The product has been experiencing 30%+ M/M GMV growth.

[Ali Debow @ali_debow]

We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others.

A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern.

After every event, people asked the same questions:

Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met?

https://t.co/hxhuPkNM3O

[John Andrew Entwistle @jaentwistle]

The marketplace has hit a meaningfully positive net take rate per booking after all costs.

It also has a very high NPS (tho more work to do UX wise) at thousands of units.

Our customers and our economics have given us permission to hyper-scale - and now we shall.

[Adapt @Adapt]

Today we’re announcing our $10M seed round co-led by @ActivantCapital and @HeadlineVC.

We're building the AI computer that can reason, act, and operate inside real business workflows, so that companies can become truly AI-native by default.

[John Andrew Entwistle @jaentwistle]

Really proud of the team, epic month.

100k locations by eoy 2028

[Aaron Bai @aaronbaii]

Sahil and I found our first company in our UC Berkeley dorm. It didn’t work. We quickly learned that building “cool” products didn’t mean building a great business with a great impact. So we spent years working on the complete opposite of what we first teamed up to create.

[Wander @wander]

Today we’re excited to share Wander Atlas – the first and only vacation rental REIT (as far as we know).

Atlas simplifies vacation rental investing, transforming our customers into owners by enabling them to own a piece of our magical network of homes → https://t.co/5fZuYJX4tM

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@jaentwistle That’s awesome. Love it.

[Joshua Browder @Joshuabrowder]

Today, DoNotPay is hiring one analytical and driven person to join the growth team.

We are profitable, have never laid anyone off since the company started 7 years ago and are growing organically and fast.

We take our commitments to employee stability seriously. (1/n)

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

Bookings are now open!

[John Andrew Entwistle @jaentwistle]

Thank you to all who believe in this future. And thank you to our users, founding members, and guests.

We’re going places, and I hope you join us.

https://t.co/0k0mxsXWuo

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

MicroAcquire needs to exist for founders.

Getting @microacquire'd can be an archaic process that's fragmented from start to finish and we're excited to change that.

Humbled to be building the worlds most founder-friendly startup acquisition marketplace.

https://t.co/PWaYeZpVsm

[Turing @turingcom]

Turing reaches unicorn status following $87M in Series D financing 🦄

Thank you to the software developers & businesses who have joined #Turing 🤝

Together we will create a #boundaryless remote-first world 🌐

Read @ingridlunden's feature in @TechCrunch https://t.co/XwP0plEKod

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@KianSadeghi5 @zebulgar @foundersfund @adrianaoun @APompliano @ShrugCap @ankurnagpal @pdhsu @brentlsaunders @m_franceschetti @joshuabrowder @ParetoHoldings @Reedjd @cory @adamguild @SALTConference @jaentwistle congrats @KianSadeghi5 well deserved. Excited to be part of your journey to bring genetic testing to everyone. 🚀

[Kian Sadeghi @KianSadeghi5]

Excited to announce our $3.5m Seed round led by @zebulgar at @foundersfund. Particip. from @adrianaoun @APompliano @ShrugCap @ankurnagpal @pdhsu @brentlsaunders @m_franceschetti @joshuabrowder @paretoholdings @Reedjd @BluewatchV @cory @adamguild @SALTConference @jaentwistle & others

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@jaentwistle @wander Incredibly excited about what @jaentwistle and team @wander are building. 🚀

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@SamCorcos takes “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” to a whole new level. Great read. @Levels

[First Round @firstround]

New on the Review:

@SamCorcos is maniacal about tracking his time as a startup founder & CEO. He shares how he *actually* spent the first 2 years building @levels for a rare in-depth (and un-glamorized) analysis of a founder in the trenches.

📰: https://t.co/4lTAlHDYHZ

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@AreDangerousMen 👀

[Bluewatch Ventures @BluewatchV]

@joshuabrowder Congrats to Josh and the team @DoNotPayLaw. Josh is an incredible founder and friend. We are excited to continue to support his vision to democratize the legal system for everyone.