Amy Saper

Partner @Uncorkcap, travel addict, karaoke junkie. Past life: @Accel, @Stripe, @Uber, @Twitter, @Stanford.

[Amy Saper @amy]

Thrilled to share that @uncorkcap led @phinity_ai’s $5.2M seed round!

Phinity is building AI systems to design, verify and eventually tape out chips. In seven years in venture, I’ve never seen a ramp like this: $0 to eight figures in annualized run rate in under three months.

I first met @sonyashijin and @aadi_nash late last year, when Phinity was only a few months old and had no customers or revenue.

Rather than simply layering coding agents onto existing workflows, Phinity is training AI models to design chips themselves.

Since then, they've assembled an incredible team from NVIDIA, Intel, and frontier research labs. Phinity's agents have outperformed experienced hardware engineers on power, performance and area, even when those engineers were using frontier coding agents, and the system produces verified designs an order of magnitude faster.

If you're at a frontier lab or semiconductor company and want to dramatically shorten your chip design process, the Phinity team would love to chat. And if you want to work on one of the hardest technical problems out there, they're hiring!

More on why we invested: https://t.co/NgpcSdpmnK

[Amy Saper @amy]

You know you’re old when you get unreasonably excited about a password management agent integration 🙌🙏🤖

[1Password @1Password]

Today we announce 1Password for Agents platform, building with companies @Muse, SpaceX Super Intelligence Grok @Bot, @AnthropicAI’s @Claudeai, @OpenAI, @TownAI, @Browserbase, @Browser_use, @heydana_ai, Instinct, @usekernel, @Perplexity_ai, @tryramp, @Tomo, and @wajo_ai, with more integrations on the way. 🎉

We've heard from so many of our customers who want to use these new personal AI agents to help them get more done, but want more control over what the agent can access with the same trust and ease of use they get when using 1Password directly.

1Password for Agents gives your agents access without giving up your passwords. When an agent reaches a sign-in form, it requests a credential from your vault. If you approve the request, 1Password directly auto-fills the credential in the destination site so the agent can’t see or take possession of the credentials.

The agent gets the task done, but it doesn’t get your passwords..

You stay in control. 1Password for Agents free and optional for personal and family accounts. Unless you opt-in to an agent connector, agents cannot touch your vault.

➡️Learn more: https://t.co/KxDcCum2iE

[Amy Saper @amy]

@stephzhan Huge congrats Stephanie! So excited for you!

[Amy Saper @amy]

Couldn't be more excited to be a (small) part of this journey with Warp Sciences! @kevinweil has been a dear friend since we first met at Twitter 16 (!) years ago, and he's been passionate about accelerating scientific progress his entire life.

My mom is a pediatric immunologist who has devoted her career to treating children with rare diseases, so the potential for AI to dramatically expand what's possible in scientific and medical discovery is especially meaningful to me. Much like the enormous cost of chip design limits how many designs we can explore, drug discovery is constrained by how many molecules we can physically make and test.

@warpsciences is bringing together AI, robotics, and world-class scientists to break through that bottleneck. Their team is exceptionally well suited to take on such an ambitious challenge, and we're thrilled to be along for the ride!

More from Tripp Jones on why we invested: https://t.co/iSzwyVH4kE

[Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil]

💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.

We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.

I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.

[Amy Saper @amy]

@kevinweil @lightspeedvp Let's go team Warp!! Congrats!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@dens Thank you for building a truly incredible product (and team) that was beloved by so many! Sorry it had to end like this. 🫶

(Oh and thanks also for being an excellent Karaoke collaborator at our Twitter vs Foursquare karaoke battles back in the day!)

[Amy Saper @amy]

@mduboe We love our Tin Can!!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@nbt Nikhil we are too young for midlife crises!! No commentary on that hypothetical purchase, but call it something else please 😅

[Amy Saper @amy]

@crabbylions @colosseum Ah congrats Clay!!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@benspringwater I need to check this out!! Congrats Ben!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@evantana @Merrill @spc @elroyair Amazing! MFP ftw 🙌

[Amy Saper @amy]

@aadi_nash @phinity_ai Let's go!! Congrats on launch!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@sonyashijin @phinity_ai Lucky to be working with this stellar team! Congrats on launch! 🙌

[Amy Saper @amy]

The Gamma team rebuilt their beloved presentation platform from the ground up.

Gamma 5 takes whatever you've got (an old PPT, a rough outline, a photo of a whiteboard, etc) and turns it into a fully editable presentation that actually feels like you. No other AI design platform gives you this much control over how to share your ideas. Congrats to the @GammaApp team on launch! ✨

[Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee]

Everyone is sick of generic AI, including us.

Gamma was the first AI presentation platform to reach real scale. But now that AI tools are everywhere, everything looks the same.

Earlier this summer, we came to an uncomfortable conclusion: without a step change in visual variety, Gamma’s output would look and feel too similar to all the other AI tools. The entire point of a presentation is to help someone "get" your idea, to see it as unique and do something with it.

We started over. Today we're shipping Gamma 5, the biggest product overhaul in our company's history.

We rebuilt Gamma to create presentations that actually look like you and your brand. Your teams can design anything they dream up, following your brand's aesthetic or something entirely new, with every frontier and image model under the hood. And the same goes for your docs, social assets, and graphics.

We revamped our agent, design tools, editing, import, export, connectors, and more.

Get your ideas out there.

[Amy Saper @amy]

@vivianmshen @ycombinator Huge congrats Vivian (and YC)!!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@alexrkonrad “I’m a big fan of the Alexes” 😆 (congrats!)

[Susan @susanwliu]

Big congrats to the @Numeral team on their Series C! Very proud to have backed them since the seed.

@SpamRoss and Matt are some of the most impressive founders I’ve ever met. They’ve gone after a huge, mission-critical market dominated by legacy incumbents and have become the dominant next-gen player in just a few years, with 3,500+ customers across 90+ countries.

Couldn’t be more excited to invest more in this round!

[Amy Saper @amy]

@katiekirsch 👋👋👋

[Amy Saper @amy]

@ChristinaPhili5 Let’s go! Congrats to you and the team!!

[Andy McLoughlin @Bandrew]

San Franciscans! Dreamforce starts tomorrow so here are my top 5 tips for dealing with the madness:

1. Go to NYC for the week