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[marissamayer @marissamayer]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions.

That’s why we built Dazzle, an AI assistant that turns your camera button into a "get it done" button. No blank prompts, just instant context and action. 🚀

Read the full launch post: https://t.co/WYf8LylCoa 🎉

[Dazzle AI @itsdazzleai]

TechCrunch took Dazzle AI for a spin.

“Dazzle proved it’s taking a different approach.”

Here’s what stood out. 🧵

https://t.co/5l1QEORDZY

[Samuel Spitz @samuel_spitz]

@kirstenagreen Forerunner portfolio is crushing it!

[Max Marchione @maxmarchione]

ANNOUNCING: Sequoia has launched Superpower for its own 800+ employees.

And through our new partnership, Superpower is now available to eligible employers across Sequoia's ecosystem of more than 2,500 companies.

Members get:

- Comprehensive biomarker testing
- A longitudinal view of their health
- Personalized recommendations
- 24/7 Health AI and clinical support

For employers, that means moving healthcare further upstream, before risk becomes a diagnosis or an expensive claim.

As we all know, healthcare has a timing problem. We start paying serious attention to our health only when something goes wrong.

We built Superpower around a different idea:

Give people an extensive understanding of their health earlier – then help them continuously act on it.

Eligible Sequoia clients that want to launch before the end of the year get a special opportunity to get started.

This is another step toward making proactive healthcare available to millions more people.

We're just getting started.

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

I'm speaking @NewcomerMedia Machine Earning next week with @illscience about investing in this era.

It prompted me to revisit a thesis I wrote ~15 yrs ago about investing in a prior platform shift. It felt both cringeworthy and...surprisingly relevant. https://t.co/hHDplkEHYv

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

A well-deserved milestone for @TealHealth: a $22M series A to fuel the future of convenient, accessible women's healthcare, starting with the market's first-ever at-home cervical cancer screen:
https://t.co/KjSTS2HABg

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

Launching CC your Townie today, which lets other people work directly with your Townie over email. It's an incredible time saver and will wow you in so many ways. Try it out.

(I'll be doing a lot more posting about how I use this to save me hours every week and why trusting your AI to work directly with others is one of the biggest shifts in HCI)

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

“My vision is that a decade from now, you walk down downtown Norman, Okla., and every storefront is open because Faire has made it so easy for these retailers to open up shops and to succeed.”

Excellent features on @MaxRhodesOK @faire_wholesale

https://t.co/fLOH9zXPli

[Jacob Fortinsky @j__fort]

Now that we have your attention,

Novig is the prediction market built for sports.

No wars. No death. No politics. Just sports.

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

Town has entered the chat 🔑

Human <> agent, agent <> agent, agent <> human collaboration are all live today.

Add your Townie to the group text and have them collaborate with your coworkers, friends, and family—and their Townies, too 🎉

[Town @TownAI]

Big News: You can now introduce your Townie to your people (and their Townies too)

Add them to your group texts, and they can go get it done in their own browser.

Learn more about your Townies new super powers here: https://t.co/JlxEsCuyqd

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

Perhaps the one thing better than collaborating with my Townie is my Townie working with other Townies—without me getting involved.

Starting today, you can add your Townie to a group text, and they can handle things with your coworkers, friends, and family—and their Townies.💙

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

"A more consumer-friendly, responsible, and high-integrity way of structuring sports markets"

@j__fort from @Novig on CNBC 🏆

https://t.co/mHZY1IrfeU

[Eurie Kim @eurie_kim]

https://t.co/t5x611hTYK

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

We're proud to invest in @WisprFlow and scale a new form factor for information flow—and a new form factor for consumer AI, showing people everywhere that intelligence can be seamless, invisible, and a truly indispensable companion product to users.

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

Areas of high nuance & taste, plus vast operational complexity & details = prime for a human-in-the-loop model.

@hellofora is the leader here, transforming travel with a fundamentally new model. @TheEconomist:
https://t.co/a0Q2h9kxHa

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

AI for normal people is still the biggest opportunity hiding in plain sight.

@jgreze & the @TownAI team get it. Excellent feature in @platformer:

"I'm very AI-optimistic in the long term. I think we're still pretty far from that happening. Most people don't know what AI can or can't do."
https://t.co/gEE1L04Hst

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

"One of @Novig's appeals to customers is it offers a different kind of sports speculation experience, one without a house that takes a 'vig,' the fee that bookies take for arranging a bet.

@j__fort has harsh words for many of the dominant sports gambling players, calling sportsbooks 'inefficient, exploitative, & predatory.' He sees the peer-to-peer model as distinct, since it’s two parties on equal footing going up directly against each other.

But if Novig goes how he’d like it to go, those parties won’t always be two average sports fans squaring off. The company is actively courting financial institutions to take sides of wagers, and Fortinsky says Novig is currently onboarding proprietary trading firms and banks."

https://t.co/Iw3RhTHCub

[Forerunner @ForerunnerVC]

Advocacy and trust are the hallmarks of any great brand, and @kalerewards accelerates this in a truly novel way: essentially digitizing word-of-mouth by rewarding brand super fans.

Incredible feature in @Inc:
https://t.co/rAK5UZi5lo

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

https://t.co/XdfuDcYM2I

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

@joshm People don't adopt technology because of capability. They adopt it because it changes behavior. Instagram became how I share my life. Uber became how I get around. ChatGPT became how I ask questions. Most agents haven't found their "how I..." moment yet.