Dan Levine

Life has treated me well and I am thankful.

[Jan Senderek @jans]

In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox.

Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents.

Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse…

Until now, none of them could work together.

Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent.

Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context.

Try it here: https://t.co/w9Ag9OrTUO

[Ray Liao @rayruizhiliao]

We raised $5.3M to give AI agents a computer to run on, with their own email, phone, iMessage, and WhatsApp

Led by @peakxvpartners, with @rauchg, @sternhenri, @jefrankle, @cjc, and @daniel_levine

Today we’re launching hosted agents on @inkbox_ai. Your agent runs next to its communication channels, so it never misses a reply. It sleeps when idle, so you don’t pay for downtime.

In the 4 months since our YC launch, we’ve processed millions of messages for AI agents.

[Dom Gordon @domgor]

we're hiring for three new dream jobs at @paper
- marketing
- sales development representative
- community

paper is growing like crazy (30% MoM, 34M series A from accel and ICONIQ), but we're still a super small team at 15 people, so there's massive opportunity to make impact

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@jshchnz @victr22 @chesscom they should come to a bughouse night I throw. I played bughouse with some of the batch a few weeks back... was glorious!

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@jshchnz @victr22 @chesscom hell yeah I would!

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

Some startups make unbelievable financial returns, but most don't. I'm fortunate enough to have a reasonably good track record as an investor, but I never know which will be which deterministically.

I realized that fact a long time ago and resolved to try to work with founders that I love in a deep and intangible way. Folks I wake up wanting to help every day. People I try to help however I can, whether it's a weekday or weekend, a personal matter or a work one, a happy situation or a sad one.

I want to work with founders where I deeply care and enjoy the holistic journey, no matter the outcome. I optimistically believe if I do that, the aggregate returns will take care of themselves. That's the beauty of real venture capital.

@stevekrouse is a real one. I loved every minute of Val Town and I'm excited to continue the journey with him for another few decades if he'll have me

[Steve Krouse @stevekrouse]

Val Town is winding down

Thank you all for building on us with such enthusiasm and creativity! We're sorry we can't continue to serve you

We're now focused on helping customers migrate to other hosting providers. Please reach out if we can be helpful

https://t.co/IA2ELuyXZb

[Steve Krouse @stevekrouse]

Val Town is winding down

Thank you all for building on us with such enthusiasm and creativity! We're sorry we can't continue to serve you

We're now focused on helping customers migrate to other hosting providers. Please reach out if we can be helpful

https://t.co/IA2ELuyXZb

[Stephen Haney @stephenhaney]

We're starting a benchmark to measure design ability and quality across AI models

Which categories do you think are most important to measure? Code to design? Accuracy? Fundamentals?

What's your favorite model for design work and what makes it the strongest?

(I'm not picturing "design for me" tasks, but more about augmenting designers to save time and energy to focus on the most important parts)

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@charlieholtz https://t.co/re7u9QcPqn

it makes a ton of sense. I know they have a ton at Meta, but might be mostly in MPK

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

There’s a long American tradition of industry titans turning their fortunes into public goods. Carnegie built libraries and Rockefeller funded universities and public health. Others built parks, museums, and civic institutions.

Great to see @bchesky carrying that tradition forward in SF.

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

i forgot about this until @ScottWu46 reminded me, but back in january 2017 when we were 19, scott and i had lunch in SF

at lunch, we talked about how our IMO/IOI/math competition gang could be the next paypal mafia. i knew the competition kids were geniuses by any standard, and felt confident in time we could take the tech world by storm

fast forward nearly 10 years later, and many of our friends from that time are some of the most exciting people in AI and technology (@ScottWu46, @akshat_b, @chameleon_jeff, Jerry Ma, @randomjohnnyh, @0xShitTrader, @stevenkplus1, @thejessezhang, @vickie_ye_, @alexwei_, @demi_guo_, @d_m_ziegler, @hughbzhang, @_mohansolo, @MarkSellke, and many others i'm sure i'm forgetting)

i'm now at that age where i reminisce about everyone i grew up with, and i've known most of these people since middle school (via MATHCOUNTS!). even though we were scattered around the country, we would gchat about math problems and hang out on AoPS, then we did math/algo camps together, and then we did internships together.

very crazy to think about the degree of sheer brilliance of this group when we were just teenagers, and so special to see so many go on to leave their mark on the world.

note to parents: if your kid is on gchat all day solving math problems with some anonymous group of cross-country asian kids, (s)he may just turn out alright.

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@bentlegen #dadjoke

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@jgreze @cjc I also enjoy Lazy Bear, JouJou, Dandelion Chocolate, Noe Cafe, Via Aurelia, and soon to open places including Monami, Hadeem, etc

It's a pretty random assortment with no clear ties aside from being AWESOME!!!!

[Big Tech Alert @BigTechAlert]

🚫 @pmarca is no longer following @DoDeportations

Still followed by: @basedmikelee, @palmerluckey

$META

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@zeeg @andrewmason is a real one

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@TimTheSloth :P

[Scale Labs @ScaleAILabs]

Congrats to @thinkymachines on the release of Inkling 2 Small!

On agentic tasks, the model ranks 🥈 on SWE Atlas QnA 1.1 and performs on par with Kimi-K3 on the full SWE-Bench Pro V2 set and GPT-5.6 Terra on the hard subset. Notable results for a smaller model.

[Dan Levine @daniel_levine]

@TimTheSloth Got it. If the goal is hit one home run then I think you’ve got to pull your hips through the zone way, way harder/faster. Your contact rate will fall, but probably worth it