Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC)

Founder. Coder. Dad. Investing in founders putting dents in the universe.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

When I started Raiz Capital, I chose the name because I appreciate a good pun. But over the last six months, it became clear that a better name was waiting in the wings. https://t.co/Lldg0pXy07 @Founders_Edge

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

We’re hosting our demo event - Ditch The Deck as part of #techweek #techweekboston. 5 live AI demos from Boston founders. No slides… hope folks can join. https://t.co/5XheEilpCk

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

Coming back from LA and was super impressed with the Waymo experience. Boston needs this. It fills the gap for a poor train infrastructure.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

Hosting two events for TechWeek in Boston
For founders - https://t.co/5XheEilpCk
For investors - https://t.co/EbQLB81lIT?

#techweek #bostontechweek #bostechweek

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@Moofaces @Founders_Edge Research on founders and why succeed and fail. Meet founders early and watch for early ripples and consistent drips.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

When I started Raiz Capital, I chose the name because I appreciate a good pun. But over the last six months, it became clear that a better name was waiting in the wings. https://t.co/Lldg0pXy07 @Founders_Edge

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

Anthropic went $1B → $30B ARR in 16 months.

For context, 1,000+ customers now each spend $1M+/year on Claude - that number doubled in 2 months. Claude Code went from $0 to $2.5B ARR in 9 months.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@steipete I heard you're giving refunds. I wanted to let you know I used your PSPDFKit binary and the PDF it opened claimed to be from a wealthy prince. I have lost my life savings, I'd like a refund. I'm including a receipt...

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

Everyone's worried about AI slop. But let's be honest: most software has been slop for decades. We just called it "shipping."

The typical software product for decades has been mediocre. Details get skipped. UX is an afterthought. Known best practices get ignored.

Why? Because doing it right was too expensive, too slow, too hard to justify in a sprint. The dirty secret is that it has never been a knowledge problem. We knew autocomplete would be better. We knew inline validation helps. We knew smart defaults and thoughtful integrations made products stickier. We just couldn't afford the engineering time to build them.

AI changes the cost curve of craftsmanship. The niceties that got cut from every roadmap, the "wouldn't it be nice if" features, are now buildable. AI doesn't get lazy. It doesn't cut corners because the sprint is ending.

We're not replacing human quality with AI slop. We're replacing human shortcuts with AI thoroughness. This is exactly what we focus on FoundersEdge. We invest in experienced founders building at the intersection of AI and user experience, because the biggest opportunity isn't replacing humans. It's replacing the compromises humans were forced to make.

So before you call something AI slop, hold up a mirror. Look at what we've been shipping for years. Look at the corners we cut and the experiences we settled for. AI isn't lowering the bar. We had the bar on the floor.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@ZeMariaMacedo Doing a final close soon. Can’t dm you, but happy to chat my alias @ https://t.co/9bFIsPRuzR

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

I don't see too many people being critical of OpenClaw. It's cool in terms of what it can do... mostly emergent behavior of an LLM with full permissions and few security checks. The actual UX, web-interface, CLI interface, integration w/ WhatsApp or iMessage is all pretty poor. I've been using my own CLI "Personal Chief of Staff" built on the Claude code foundation. OpenClaw was first but more are coming.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

I've never written a line of rust code but perhaps teams should be prompting for Rust rather than defaulting to python? Switching languages is just a prompt away, maybe I can get better perf and be rid of pip python3 venv hell.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@MartinGTobias @mahaniok As an LP and GP, I approve this message.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

According to Claude, I'm absolutly right.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

The data says exactly the opposite. According to Entrepreneurs in High Technology study from MIT, there's a positive relationship between # of co-founders and positive trajectory. Not even including the 18 co-founders of Alibaba.

[jonathan liu @jonathanzliu]

if your startup has 4 cofounders, you’re ngmi

everyone collectively puts in less work and 1-2 of them end up carrying the entire team

it’s like group projects all over again

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@ericbahn Last three months of actuals are more helpful. I’ll usually take strong growth over larger numbers with slow growth. ARR is often a wild guess because churn and renewals aren’t proven.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@NWischoff In the comments in case LPs are looking for the new generation of GPs. 👀

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@drewwilson Internet rando here, I've been finding TikTok to have a lot of the founder/commity I was missing from X. I have been unable to get good engagment/connection from Bsky.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

This.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

If I organized the Vibe Coding Olympics Games. What would the categories be? How would you judge the winner?

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

@rrhoover It's likely whisper transcription locally and a few LLM API calls per meeting. I suspect they are getting enough org subscriptions that they don't feel the need to squeeze individuals. Same GTM as gmail or dropbox.

[Greg Raiz (Pre-Seed VC) @graiz]

Apple products this year, two innovations. A thinner iPhone, and air Pods can do real-time translation. Ok but it's a trillion-dollar company. Most of the stuff they announced is incremental and derivative.
- AI and Siri still meh.
- Vision Pro still meh.
- Apple TV stuck in the past.
- iPhone has looked the same for 5 years
Apple needs founder-mode again and Tim can't do it.