Lucas Sheiner

GP at @Fellows_Fund | Formerly @Sound_Ventures_, Declaration, JPM

[Chloe Samaha @bondwithchloe]

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[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

.@PLAUDAI is the largest AI notetaker by an order of magnitude. Incredibly underrated success story (& absent from this map). @Nathan_Xu_Gao is a machine

[a16z @a16z]

Most work conversations are now being recorded by default. You should probably assume that everything you say at work is getting recorded from here on out.

What’s emerging is a new category of enterprise software, organized around voice instead of text.

The system of record today is structured data: CRM entries, tickets, docs. But the highest-value context lives in conversation: the nuance on a customer call, the real argument in a product review, the offhand comment in a leadership meeting that quietly changes the roadmap.

LLMs are uniquely good at taking that unstructured voice data and making it structured, searchable, and queryable. That’s a large enterprise opportunity, and we’re still early in understanding what the software layer looks like and who owns it.

a16z GP David Haber on what AI recording means for the future of work: https://t.co/02zEZZWMMr

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@JasonrShuman GEN-1 is quietly SOTA for dexterity. Amazing model and team

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

The technical velocity at @GeneralistAI is unlike anything I have seen. @peteflorence and @andyzengineer are building a special platform that will unlock robotics use cases across the economy.

We're thrilled to invest in Generalist, and just as eager to spend time with the companies that will build on top of them. Big things ahead :)

[Fellows Fund @Fellows_Fund]

https://t.co/hvuXmKg9zC

[Fellows Fund @Fellows_Fund]

Thrilled to have been an early investor in @nico_laqua, @emily_yuan_, and the @UseCorgi team.

*Unbelievably* impressive execution in a uniquely complex category. They are the defining AI-native services business and one of the fastest growing cos we’ve ever seen. Couldn’t be more bullish on what’s ahead.

[Fellows Fund @Fellows_Fund]

Very proud to invest in @SriViswan and Sycamore.

Remarkable team building the future of agent deployment in the enterprise. Big things coming!

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@jamesfly 100p. @jackandjill_AI @gcai @AccordanceAI doing this well IMO. Trusted colleague with a perspective vs. work horse analyst/intern. Hard for anything mass mkt to take the risk in a real way. Voice will be great here as well.

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@tobi Use @zocomputer openclaw in the cloud, easy for non technical

[TBPN @tbpn]

IN NEWS: @KnitOfficial_ has raised a $16.1M Series A led by GFT Ventures and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures.

"What we're hanging our hat on is researcher-driven AI. We always have the researcher at the center. Understanding how this data shows up in your business is vital to how you actually sell it into the organization." - @aneeshdaone

"We've invested heavily in an internal research team so all of our customers are paired with an expert. That gets the AI to where our research customers can take a good first draft, clean it up, and share it with stakeholders quickly."

[Ayush S @ayushswrites]

Ashton and team consistently came across as super thoughtful, sharp, and conviction-led through our fundraise, and we couldn't be more excited to be working with them.

[ashton kutcher @aplusk]

We just announced our latest investment at Sound Ventures: @joinwarp, an AI-native HR & payroll platform seeing incredible traction.They join recent investments like @ConduitPay, @gcai, @LandbaseGTM & @Antimetal.
We’re getting a lot of inbound. Here’s what we’re looking for:🧵

[Arfur Rock @ArfurRock]

$18M Series A, led by @sound_ventures_

Couple million in ARR, ~20% MoM

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

Busy few months at Sound! Couldn’t be more excited about our recent investments.

@gcai, @LandbaseGTM, @ConduitPay, and @antimetal are redefining their respective categories. Big things ahead.

[Sound Ventures @sound_ventures_]

We’ve been busy… excited to announce our partnership with FOUR incredible companies:

Hot off the press - Sound is leading @antimetal’s $20M Series A, backing the company’s mission to make managing infrastructure as easy as writing code

We’ve joined forces with @picuscapital to co-lead a $30M Series A in @landbasegtm to power GTM for SMBs

We’re proudly leading @gcai’s Series A to bring transformational AI to in-house legal teams globally

Sound is joining the cap table of @conduitpay as a new investor in the company’s $36M Series A supporting the modernization of international payments with stablecoin infrastructure

More on these category-defining companies below 🧵:

[ashton kutcher @aplusk]

Well done fellas #i

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@harryxchiang @ReadwiseReader Long-time fan of @matter

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@SportsTVRatings How does toronto stack up?

[Lucas Sheiner @LucasSheiner]

@RileyFinch13 It’s coming