Elvira D

co-founder @fastshot_ai (YC F25), ex @google

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

Finally someone is killing inefficient sales

[Ludo @ludogranger]

Announcing @LeadbayAI $4.3M to kill everything you're doing with sales.

Corgi, Deel, L'Oréal recently told us: "We found in 10 min on Leadbay what we couldn't in 6 months with Clay and a GTM agency."

Leadbay qualifies the millions of data-signal-scarce companies nobody could find before.

This is how it works:

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@MaxMinsker Great read! Thanks Max

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

That's the agi of film making

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

Today we're launching FilmArena [dot] ai.

Biggest release we've ever shipped.

The problem: a new SOTA AI image & video model drops every week. @OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2 literally yesterday. 1000 endpoints, no honest answer to "which one is best right now?"

Arena AI and Artificial Analysis cracked LLM benchmarking. But for creative AI, they're solving the wrong problem.

There is no "best image-to-video model."

Best at what? World building? Action Sequences? Expressions? Every category has a different winner, and it flips weekly.

So we benchmarked 40+ SOTA models with 2M+ votes across 190 countries. By subcategory. Re-ranked every week as new models ship. With thousands of real humans.

But that's just half of it.

Then there's the SANDBOX.

Higgsfield and other aggregators put models in one place. But creators still juggle twelve subscriptions to do one job.

FilmArena collapses it into one tab. Every frontier model. One interface. Same price. Call the best, or call 3 at once and compare.

The AI film stack has been fragmented since day one. Today it isn't.

Go try it free: filmarena [dot] ai

Already wild results from this week:
1. @OpenAI GPT Image 2 (released yesterday) dominates image editing, but @GoogleDeepMind Nano Banana 2 still wins animated

2. @PixVerse_ C-1 beats @dreamina_ai Seedance 2 on animated

3. Veo 3.1 Fast outperforms Veo 3.1 on realistic video

And a lot more. Go check it out.

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

As always, some scheming tactics... to generate more revenue from the masses 🌶️

[Viktor Seraleev @seraleev]

Apple has commented on the reasons behind Cal AI removal for TechCrunch and it wasn’t about external payments.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

There were multiple violations:

First, the app removed Apple IAP as a payment option, replacing it with an embedded Stripe flow, a violation of Guideline 3.1.1, which requires IAP to be offered alongside any external link.

Second, the paywall was designed to mislead users: the weekly price was displayed more prominently than the actual amount billed, a violation of Guideline 3.1.2c.

Third, users who declined the first paywall were shown a second offer with different terms. This triggered a wave of negative reviews accusing the app of being a scam.

After the developers made the necessary changes, Apple reinstated the app.

A telling story: remove the app and explain why. A clear message to developers about what is not allowed. Shortly after Cal AI returned, Apple also removed many copycat apps.

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

Guess what Forbes 30 under 30 🍋🍋🍋

[Adam Lyttle @adamlyttleapps]

This was Cal AI's policy breaking "second offer"

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@contextconor 100% agree !

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@abberhismael email to [email protected]

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

New era of mobile creation!

[Fastshot @fastshot_ai]

We got into Y Combinator to kill AI slop for mobile apps.

15,000+ users. 16,000+ projects. 96 million lines of code later, we’re finally ready to introduce Fastshot.

The team:
→ @DmitryFatkhi was building agents for @GoogleDeepMind teams at @Google
→ @elvirafortune was part of the team that created @kubeflow and built AI developer tools at @Google
→ @alexndrsukhanov scaled streaming for security cameras at @meraki

We're the only AI mobile app builder that aligns with you at the design stage — before anything gets built.

Describe → Design → Build → Ship.

No more vibe-coded looking apps.

No more wasting credits fixing ugly visuals.

All in one platform.

Welcome to how the future of apps should be built.

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@adisingh That's an interesting perspective!

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@Jiezi76371912 @fastshot_ai seriously impressive builds in 3 hours !

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@abberhismael Please dm me your project id, I will take a look

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@anvisha Congrats!

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

🚨 you don't want to miss this

[Fastshot @fastshot_ai]

If you had 3 hours to build something that could raise $5M…

This is your shot.

Stanford x DeepMind x Fastshot Hackathon — April 12

We’re bringing together top builders, cutting-edge AI tools, and VCs who are actively writing checks.
⚡ Build a web or mobile prototype in just 3 hours  
🧠 Use @GoogleAIStudio + @fastshot_ai 
💰 Pitch directly to investors writing $500K–$5M checks  
🏆 What you win:
• 30-min pitch meetings with top-tier VCs  
• $70K+ in prizes ($60K IRL + $10K online)  
• Serious exposure to funds that matter  

👀 Judges & investors from:
Investors & Angels:
@AnithaVadavatha (AB Plus Ventures)
@CCgong (Menlo Ventures)
@DanielDarling (Focal VC)
@denwezoh (Susa VC)
@gstuto (Offscript VC)
@omri_drory (NFX Bio)
@ShahramSN (Civilization Ventures)
@vigsachi (Gradient Ventures)
@francescagnuva (Audacious Ventures)
@i_arp1t (Threshold VC)
@NancyZWang (Felicis)
@prateekj (Moxxie Ventures)
@brianzhan1 (Striker Venture Partners)
and many more.

Google / DeepMind:
@jocarrasqueira (Product Lead, DeepMind)
@ivanleomk (DevEx, DeepMind)
Amit Vadi (Head of Community, DeepMind)

Stanford:
Prof. Nikesh Kotecha (Head of Data, Stanford Health)
@tagrtagr (VP Startup Development, Stanford Bases)

Co-organizers:
@elvirafortune, @dmitryfatkhi, Jesse Z., Arpiné Arakelyan, Kate Polet

Approval required. Spots are limited.

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@fastshot_ai Such an awesome opportunity for founders and builders looking for fundraising

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@ShubhamInTech np, I will let you know when we are done!

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

Cool idea!
- AI did not recognize some words correctly for example, it interpreted “VCs” as “Visis” and therefore did not find any related emails.
- The Stop button was not intuitive; it wasn’t clear that I could continue in the same session without pressing it.
- It does not know which emails to prioritize, would be cool if it could identify the really important ones

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@ShubhamInTech yes, we are still in maintenance :)

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@ycombinator @aroraharshita33 Congratulations @aroraharshita33

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

@dr_chrisjones You should absolutely try to come!

[Elvira D @elvirafortune]

🚨 BREAKING: Elite hackathon with a chance to secure up to $5M in seed funding*!

Top teams will be judged by representatives from Stanford, Google, and large venture capital funds.

Win direct 30-minute pitch meetings with top VCs looking to write $500K–$5M seed checks, plus a share of a massive prize purse ($60K for the In-Person track + $10K for the Online track).

RSVP link below 👇