Jessica (Bartos) Thomas

Partner - Growth @ Notion Capital | prev @SalesforceVC @RothschildCo Presidential Mgmt Fellow @🇺🇸gov @SAISHopkins @Penn | Londoner Europhile dog mom

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

Read more about why Notion Capital invested here: https://t.co/y8KKBbVl1z

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

We are delighted to announce Notion Capital's investment in @bfl_ml Series B round. Black Forest Labs is at the forefront of visual AI models - providing visual intelligence that empowers millions of creators, developers & enterprises to bring their imagination to life 🌲

[Black Forest Labs @bfl_ai]

We've raised $300M in Series B funding from Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP)

FLUX is used by millions every month and powers production workflows across the world's leading platforms.

This funding will allow us to invest deeply in research and build the foundations for visual intelligence.

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

Great talent will build generational companies from anywhere in the world. Entrepreneurs can chart their own path reflecting their unique culture, style and perspective. 🌲🇩🇪

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

More of this attitude please. Let's go UK tech 🇬🇧🚀

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing.

Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

A great @notboringco this week bringing together three of my favourite things: Iain McGilchrist, the Italian Renaissance, and Bologna 🇮🇹. Here's to a turning towards right-brain thinking ! https://t.co/x9EFl02eL4

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

It is time for a Renaissance.

This weekend, Ilya Sutskever gave a commencement speech in which he said that AI will do everything humans can do, because we all have brains, and the brain is a biological computer.

This is the left-brain thinking McGilchrist warned about. We're living through "Late Stage Left-Brainism": a world obsessed with metrics over meaning, efficiency over beauty.

Many believe that AI will replace us. That is deeply uninspiring, uncreative, and most likely wrong.

Our world mirrors pre-Renaissance conditions: failing institutions, concentrated wealth, people starved for meaning and beauty.

Back then, merchant families like the Medici filled the void through "Magnificenza" - grand public works that aligned private wealth with collective good.

I think we're headed towards a world in which modern Medici fund Magnificenza: big, beautiful projects for the public good.

Billionaires will support Guys who use AI + their human energy, brains, and agency to build monuments and libraries, to fund novel research, to create new cities, and to express the world they want to see through their work.

It's happening already, and it's growing.

The choice is ours:

AI world or human flourishing.

Left-brain or right-brain.

Machine or magnificent.

Choose magnificent.

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

Incredible stat - Poland is on track to match Japan in GDP per capita next year. Why? Because growth compounds. If you don't grow, you miss all that compounding and fall behind. It's a lesson for the rest of Europe about how you must grow to keep pace. Go #Poland 🇵🇱 !

[Deedy @deedydas]

🚨 This was the BEST Google I/O that I can remember.

Google launched over 12 different insane things.

Here is every single one of the launches and the best tweets about them:

1/12

[Salesforce Ventures @SalesforceVC]

🎉 We're proud to back @chainguard_dev in their $356M Series D.

They’re redefining software security with secure-by-default artifacts — starting with zero-vulnerability container images.

Application security is changing. Chainguard is leading the way.
https://t.co/bgEaOXfnta

[Salesforce Ventures @SalesforceVC]

"Starting a company isn’t nearly as risky as everyone makes it out to be."

In our latest blog, @ProtexAI CEO Dan Hobbs shares his 🔥 takes on business building, raising capital, moving fast, & more with @nkkall & @jess_invests.

👉 Read on our blog: https://t.co/mqjUSIMznw

[Salesforce Ventures @SalesforceVC]

We've invested in Protex AI 🎉

Protex is revolutionizing workplace safety by transforming existing camera infrastructure into an smart, AI-powered monitoring system that can prevent workplace incidents.

Congrats Dan, Ciaran, & the entire Protex team 👷
https://t.co/6osSABRQw7

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

9/ We can’t wait for what’s ahead! 🚀
🔗 Read—or better yet, listen 👂—to our blog on why we invested here 👉 https://t.co/G19LCdXOyu

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

1/ 🚀 The future of human-machine interaction is voice. At @SalesforceVC , we believe generative AI-powered audio and voice technology will reshape industries.

[Jessica (Bartos) Thomas @jess_invests]

8/ We’re proud to continue supporting Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski, and the ElevenLabs team as they make all content accessible in any language and any voice.