SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund.

[Ron Conway @RonConway]

Introducing “Comeback City: A Love Letter to San Francisco.” Proud to call this place home.

[SV Angel @svangel]

The future of AI drug discovery is being written right now. Huge congratulations to @jackdent, @joshim5, and the rest of the @chaidiscovery team on your partnership with @pfizer and your breakthrough Chai-3 frontier model. When industry leaders like Pfizer and Eli Lilly align with your vision, you know you’re building something truly transformative. Big things ahead!

[Jack Dent @jackdent]

I’m delighted to announce @chaidiscovery's collaboration with @pfizer. Their scientists will deploy our AI platform to accelerate drug discovery, including early access to our latest frontier model Chai-3.

You can learn more about this partnership and our momentum in @amyfeldman's feature in @Forbes out today

https://t.co/VBoynDgPCz

[steijnpelle @steijnpelle]

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z.

We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices.

Lassie is already trusted by 700+ practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month.

To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves.

Here's how that went.

[Alex Wendland @AlexRWendland]

Excited to share Adaptive Innovation’s (@joinadaptive) $50M Series A led by @felicis and $10M Seed led by @BainCapVC.

Adaptive is an AI-native healthcare provider rebuilding the way care is delivered in America, starting with home health

[Francis Davidson @FDavidsonT]

Meet Odessia.

She plans and books entire trips in one conversation.

Apparently, she's the goddess of travel.

[Inherent @inherent_labs]

We’re excited to introduce Inherent, a lab designed from scratch to build AI agents that discover new knowledge.

The coming era of machine-driven scientific inquiry demands a new kind of research institution and a new kind of AI.

To achieve our mission, we live within the experiment, recursively self-improving the entire research organisation. We investigate questions including:

- What does ‘AI taste’ look like in the sciences, and how can we build an institution that embraces this new aesthetic of discovery?
- What new kinds of human-machine teaming will make the most of AI that can truly innovate?
- How can we build recursive self-improvement at the collective level that continually increases human agency over outcomes?

We have just closed a $50m seed round led by @IndexVentures and @radicalvcfund, with participation from other outstanding investors including NVentures (@nvidia's venture capital arm), @buildexante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic, @MythosVentures, Charlie Songhurst, @chalfs, @jluan, @dwarkesh_sp, @Thom_Wolf, @j_foerst and @maxjaderberg. We are advised by @matthewclifford.

Inherent is a Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in London.

[nico laqua @nico_laqua]

We raised another $106M at a $2.6B valuation since announcing our last round three weeks ago.

Corgi has grown exponentially in the past couple of months, but we're only just getting started transforming one of the largest sectors in the US economy: insurance.

[SV Angel @svangel]

@getsphinx Congrats to the team!

[fai nur @faionur]

Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives.

We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT.

But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM?

So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users.

The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in.

Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started.

On Status, you can be anyone.

[ben hylak @benhylak]

we built the first sane way to debug your agent locally.

you can see your traces. codex/claude code can too. this lets them write evals and test your agents automatically.

best part: it's completely free and open source. install with 1 line.

(github below)

[District @districtdotnet]

Today, we’re introducing District to the world!

District is an AI commerce platform that lets anyone build and manage a world-class commerce business. Create online stores, marketplaces, live selling platforms, and more, designed for how you sell today.

More than a thousand businesses are already powered by District with top performers already generating millions in sales.

We’ve raised $14.7M in funding to date led by @a16z and @KindredVentures , with participation from @GreylockVC , @JarenGlover , @gokulr , @soleio , @dottkhan , @jacobandreou , @petersellis , @jsiegz , @svangel , @20vcFund , Maria Raga, Deborah Liu, and others.

[nico laqua @nico_laqua]

Today, @UseCorgi is announcing a $160M Series B at a $1.3B valuation led by TCV.

This new round of funding will help us scale what we've built and expand into new verticals including trucking, payroll, and small business.

This follows our $108M Series A that we announced 16 weeks ago, bringing total funding to over $268M.

[SV Angel @svangel]

First @AirbyteHQ solved connectors for data analytics - now they're solving context for agents. Same DNA, far bigger opportunity. Exciting launch from @MichelTricot and the team!

[Michel Tricot @MichelTricot]

Today we're launching Airbyte Agents.

We built this product to solve the discovery problem for production-grade agents. Every API assumes you already know what you want to query. Endpoint, object ID, fields, etc.

Agents start one step earlier. They need to discover which entities matter before they can fetch or act.

That discovery gap is where most agent architectures break. The Context Store closes it. Pre-materialized business data.

Up to 80% fewer tokens. 40% fewer tool calls.

Deployable via MCP, Python SDK, or our no-code builder (in research preview). 50+ open source agent connectors for the most popular tools, with more coming each week.

We’re early, and the product is getting better every week. We can’t wait for you to test it!
https://t.co/kuiTPbP1rr

[Liquid @liquidtrading]

Today, we're announcing an $18 million Series Seed, led by @neo and @leftlanecap, with continued support from Paradigm, General Catalyst, and other top VC firms — bringing our total raised to over $25 million.

[Josh Reeves @joshuareeves]

Today is a Gusto Showcase! It’s one of my favorite moments, when we share a summary of how we’re making Gusto better for our 500,000+ small business customers.

At @GustoHQ, we obsess over helping small businesses, and every challenge they face is an opportunity for us to help. Gusto has never been just a tool or technology. We strive to be a partner for small businesses, taking hats off their head, doing work on their behalf, so they can progress in building their business.

With 500,000+ customers, we know we’re still early in the journey. There are millions of small businesses we are eager to serve.

The future of business is small. And that’s big. #GustoShowcase

[daniel @DanielEdrisian]

I've left OpenAI and the Codex team to build Blackstar: A new hardware company building the future of human-computer interaction.

We believe that software is solved. Building apps is now easy, but the next meaningful improvement in human-AI communication requires changing the OS & hardware. That's why we're building a new device entirely.

I'm also excited to announce our $12m seed round led by @AbstractVC, with participation from @naval, @SVAngel, @chapterone, and Timeless, among other amazing angels who've supported us from the old Alex days.

[SV Angel @svangel]

Excited to partner with @extradotemail to finally make personal email delightful!

[Naveen Gavini @ngavini]

Gmail organizes your emails.
@extradotemail organizes your life.
Live today. https://t.co/UQdWphYyTf

[SV Angel @svangel]

As Ron focuses on treatment, we’re supporting him while continuing to work alongside founders. SV Angel is on the ground every day, investing and helping build what’s next.

[Ron Conway @RonConway]

I want to share some difficult news. I was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and I want you to hear it directly from me.

Treatment is starting immediately and will include multiple strategies over the course of about a year. While I will be stepping back from some of my usual activities, I will continue to support SV Angel founders, who I love with a passion.

SV Angel remains unchanged. Topher has made all of our investment decisions for the better part of the last decade, and Ronny joined as Managing Partner in 2024. They bring experience from nearly every major technology cycle in Silicon Valley and are now focused on partnering with founders building the future of AI. SV Angel has a deep, experienced team that remains fully focused on supporting exceptional founders.

With a more focused and balanced schedule, I can prioritize treatments while helping SV Angel founders at inflection points like we always do!

I’ve chosen not to share the specific type of cancer since I don't want speculation about my prognosis. I appreciate your understanding and respect for this.

I am optimistic about my prognosis. I am fortunate to have the best/amazing team of UCSF doctors in San Francisco, and as you know, I never back down from a fight.

Thank you for your support, it means a great deal to me.

[SV Angel @svangel]

Technology should bring us closer together, not keep each of us isolated. That's the mission @paulscherer is driving at @eigenhq by building the world's mutual friend, and it's why we're proud to be backers of Paul and the team. Congrats to Eigen on their $15M raise from @benchmark.

[paul @paulscherer]

I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.