Launch day! Pool now works with personal agents. 🎉
Big banks are going to great lengths to restrict access to personal agents, which is understandable! Those accounts weren't built for this.
But what if there were an account that was? That’s what we’ve been building at Pool (@ourpools). Starting today, you can connect a compatible agent and put it to work.
I asked @bot to explain why Pool was useful, and here's what I got back.
We know this is all incredibly early. There's a lot to learn about how people will use agents to manage money, and we're committed to building the trust, permissions and controls that make it possible.
We'll be sharing more along the way :)
Read the post: https://t.co/BMwf3RXjgz
1/ It's such a rare experience that I feel so compelled by a founding team & mission. I hope you'll watch this very short video explaining the threat & innovation to respond to it. Maritime will be the new Space. Hats off to @mateocernosek@_Andrenam_
I competed once for this deal and lost to @firstround so I stayed close and led the next round. Gladly swallowed that pill.
Nothing more glamorous than being kind.
8 years ago I visited Gatlinburg, Tenn. and saw how Dolly Parton’s no-strings-attached universal cash transfers changed the lives of the victims of a devastating wildfire. A short doc I made below:
https://t.co/SOAsfbr9hy
A growing backlog, real hardware shipped, and a long list of evangelist customers
My guy @sambshapiro is a grinder!
Excited for @CapitalAlso to double down on @groundedevs as they build the enablement layer for the connected fleets of the future
@TechCrunch
Proud to join @_Andrenam_'s board. Why: in a sea of commoditized autonomous vessels, this team chose the brutally hard problem — sensing the ocean. And they ship: 3 generations of Pearl buoys, 10x gains each cycle, 4,500+ hours at sea, with contracts on the way. Congrats @mateocernosek & @alex__chu__ on the Series A!
Today we’re announcing our $18M Series A to continue scaling our distributed undersea sensing network.
Led by @UpfrontVC with participation from Valor Equity Partners, @CapitalAlso, @FirstRound, and @LongJourneyVC.
The undersea domain is becoming more contested, more autonomous, and harder to monitor. Legacy systems remain expensive, slow to field, and dependent on a small pool of specialists. The problem is no longer just access to the domain, but persistent awareness of what is happening there.
We exist to close that gap. We build PEARL, a network of passive acoustic buoys that listen continuously, powered by OBSIDIAN, our AI-native software platform that turns underwater sound into real-time maritime awareness.
This funding puts more systems in the water and grows the team to meet rising demand.