Jessica Verrilli

✨ Managing Director & Co-Founder @adverbvc. Co-Founder @hashtagangels. Prev Corp Dev @twitter, GP @GVTeam. On a life adventure w/ @tdrobbo and kiddos.

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

✨Announcing Adverb Ventures!✨

A decade in the making, @aunder and I are teaming up to build an early stage venture firm.

We’ve closed a $75M fund and are open for business! If you’re building something new, we’d love to be your first call.

https://t.co/lCs2QcF5fK

[Adverb Ventures @Adverbvc]

Hi there from the team at Adverb Ventures!

Who? https://t.co/gaeHJDSuB7

We are a new early-stage venture capital fund co-founded by @jess and @aunder. 👋👋

And we are live, backing extraordinary founders building enduring, breakout companies out of our $75M debut fund. 🧵

[Josh @joshavata]

Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI

This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world

[Ali Hussain @alihussaincs]

Today @MeetArc announces our $10.76M Seed led by @a16z, with participation from @Adverbvc , Broadway Restaurant Group, and @unitedtalent.

200K US drive-thrus run on 1950s tech. Arc lets operators run them like modern digital channels: design the experience, A/B test upsell, see live AI insights.

Higher tickets. Better accuracy. Happier crews.
This is just the beginning, as we work to empower all kinds of local businesses with AI.

Grateful to be backed by investors who deeply understand local commerce, AI, and the restaurant industry. Thanks also to an amazing group of angels including @thefriley, @saumil, @henrydelouv, @Mikegagent, and @jschwarz9.

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

Undeniably @ericvishria is an insanely successful investor. GOAT level.

He happens to also be one of the most generous, no bravado, grounded and collaborative investors I’ve ever known.

Bravo and congrats, Eric!

[Eric Vishria @ericvishria]

I’m so fucking proud of this team.

They took an extraordinarily difficult technical swing with wafer-scale and connected on the first try.

Then they spent years grinding through packaging, cooling, compilers, frameworks, early customers, and everything else required to turn a technical breakthrough into a real company — swinging and missing and learning and trying again.

Most importantly, they stayed clear-eyed about what they had (a technical marvel) and what they didn’t (enough advantage in training), saw the opportunity emerging in inference, and adapted.

That kind of persistence — not to be confused with stubbornness — is incredibly hard to describe, but absolutely essential in the unstable substrate of AI.

The requirements of AI today will not be the requirements of AI tomorrow. But this team will keep figuring it out.

And I’m here for it.

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

@stalmico @aunder M&A

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

The game on the field has so completely changed with AI the best way for us olds to keep up is to jump back in and humbly relearn the work.

So, inspired by @aunder, count me in!

Need a Corp Dev person on text / short notice to help? This is probably more of an in-the-moment need, but I’m game.

Save this and DM me when you need me! 🙏

[April Underwood @aunder]

👋 I’m seeking a part-time PM internship for the summer. The PM role has changed a lot since I led product teams at Slack and Twitter, and I learn best by doing. Who needs an intern?

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

The former chief product officer at Slack is looking for a PM internship.

The people who will get ahead today are the ones willing to roll up their sleeves and get deep into the work again.

Work at an early-stage tech company today looks completely different than what I did in corporate three years ago.

No better way to learn than to actually do it.

Kudos to @aunder!

[April Underwood @aunder]

By the way, if anyone else in my cohort of operators wants to do the same, maybe we could have a Summer 2026 (Olds) Intern cohort and trade notes on what we learn…

[April Underwood @aunder]

👋 I’m seeking a part-time PM internship for the summer. The PM role has changed a lot since I led product teams at Slack and Twitter, and I learn best by doing. Who needs an intern?

[Tom Verrilli @tdrobbo]

https://t.co/1VFZzDZdJL

[Tom Verrilli @tdrobbo]

"If a PM has forgotten how to do the work, no AI tool is favorable"
- Seneca, probably

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

@WizLikeWizard Casa!

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers

SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY

NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world

Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA

"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

[ABC News @ABC]

This woman just made ultramarathon history in 56-hour, 250-mile run in Arizona.

Rachel Entrekin won the Cocodona 250 outright in a 56-hour, 250+mile effort, beating the entire men’s field, setting a new course record, and marking a landmark moment in ultrarunning history.

[Tom Verrilli @tdrobbo]

You merely adopted the internet. My guy was born in it.

[Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz]

if you're at @temporalio's Replay conference @ Moscone, come watch my talk at 4:15pm PDT. showing an early preview of something exciting we're cooking.

[April Underwood @aunder]

Alright Claude Design hive, anyone else seen this? Even though we have Tweaks toggled OFF, when we print to PDF, it appears on every page of the PDF. It's... unexpected.

[sara beykpour @pandemona]

Podcasts are the largest source of untapped data on the internet. But searching audio is still broken.

Today, we're launching a product to fix that.

Meet the Particle Podcast Intelligence API. Track mentions or topics, get shareable clips, uncover ad intelligence, and get access to rich metadata.

Tell your agent: "Go to https://t.co/tgv7xHSdjA" 🛠️

[Kayvon Beykpour @kayvz]

it's insane that an elegant/modern/agent-friendly API for searching and embedding Podcasts didn't exist. so @particle_news went out and built one. and it's great!

[Casa @getcasa]

Read about Casa on @Inc.

https://t.co/Itk99GJrU0

[Jessica Verrilli @jess]

@KiraMcCroden @getcasa @nytimes @ForerunnerVC 🙏