Mission Control

The longest-running SF hacker house. 10+ years of founders. $2B funding. $200B in market cap created. 200+ alums & friends for life. Change the world, together.

[mary @howdymary]

summoning consumer founders in sf

come hang out at mission control to celebrate tax day next wednesday

https://t.co/QbaPgmearv

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

Congrats on the launch!!

[Nishkarsh @contextkingceo]

We've raised $6.5M to kill vector databases.

Every system today retrieves context the same way: vector search that stores everything as flat embeddings and returns whatever "feels" closest.

Similar, sure. Relevant? Almost never.

Embeddings can’t tell a Q3 renewal clause from a Q1 termination notice if the language is close enough.

A friend of mine asked his AI about a contract last week, and it returned a detailed, perfectly crafted answer pulled from a completely different client’s file.

Once you’re dealing with 10M+ documents, these mix-ups happen all the time.

VectorDB accuracy goes to shit.

We built @hydra_db for exactly this.

HydraDB builds an ontology-first context graph over your data, maps relationships between entities, understands the 'why' behind documents, and tracks how information evolves over time.

So when you ask about 'Apple,' it knows you mean the company you're serving as a customer. Not the fruit.

Even when a vector DB's similarity score says 0.94.

More below ⬇️

[Josh @joshsum_]

// there are moments when breakthroughs shape entire markets and the way we work with technology

we've seen similar inflection points from the birth of the Internet to the conception of LLMs and then autonomous agents

> and I believe we're witnessing a pivotal one here

I've had the privilege of knowing @contextkingceo living together at the @mission__ctrl hacker house.

very few founders think this deeply about where AI systems actually break once they leave the demo phase

vector search helped bootstrap the first wave of RAG that extended the use of agents into every domain/industry

but at real scale, with millions of documents, evolving workflows, production agents, similarity ≠ truth

any autonomous system depends on context to work. but retrieval needs to be grounded in the semantic meaning to be contextually accurate.

that's how we as humans work. and that's how AI would need to work alongside humans

this means that ontology-first context graphs will be a new core primitive for the AI stack.

and as context graphs took over mindshare in the past months, @hydra_db takes a foundational approach to infrastructure supporting this.

I host the annual @aiplus_hq AI+ Renaissance conference and spending time with hundreds of frontier teams building agents, multimodal systems, and enterprise AI, this is one of the companies I am most excited about

the addressable market here is massive and still largely untapped

as AI becomes embedded everywhere we work and live - from b2b systems like CRMs and internal knowledge tools to consumer memory layers in devices and everyday apps - this category will only grow in importance

huge congrats to Nishkarsh and team, and proud to be an angel investor

one of the highest-leverage infra bets I’ve seen in recent times

still very early to the market and already dominating.
hail hydra.

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

from living in a closet at @mission__ctrl to sponsoring our first conference with @hyperspell

@aiplus_hq is about to start

game time

[Alex Aridgides @AlexAridgides]

🏆Solo win of most hardcore infra at the @browser_use hackathon!!!

Quantized their model & made some GPU + library optimizations to make it 3-6X FASTER

While increasing performance with @dedaluslabs + @supermemory

Below is it interacting in realtime, faster than a human

[Avi Konduru @avikonduru]

https://t.co/SAdFKkMfeY

[vik @vikhyatk]

housemates put balloons on my door while i was sleeping through the day

feeling very blessed to be living at @mission__ctrl

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

MC graduation 💙💛

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

Spots open at Mission Control hacker house in San Francisco!

Room E: Dec 13 – Dec 31
Room K: Dec 13 – Dec 29

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

@avikonduru @ycombinator 🎉

[Avi Konduru @avikonduru]

@mission__ctrl to @ycombinator pipeline is real haha

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

@conor_ai @ycombinator @avikonduru @peterzhu01 Congrats!! 🚀

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

MC crew in 3 consecutive YC batches! 🎉

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

3 generations of @mission__ctrl -> @ycombinator founders reunited at f25 alumni demo day

@avikonduru (s25) and
@peterzhu01 (x25)

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

Updated Mission Control hackerhouse sublets in SF for Dec! DM with your room pref and dates!

Room A: Dec 17 – Dec 31

Room E: Dec 10 – Dec 31

Room K: Dec 13 – Dec 29

Room J: Dec 15 - Dec 31

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

@smgarg_ DMs are open now!

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

Mission Control hackerhouse sublets in SF for Dec! DM with your room pref and dates!

🛏️ Room A
Nov 18 – Dec 3
Dec 17 – Dec 31

🛏️ Room E
Dec 10 – Dec 31

🛏️ Room J
Dec 1 – Dec 14

🛏️ Room K
Dec 2 – Dec 7
Dec 13 – Dec 29

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

Incredible to see original footage of Hightouch's launch pad at Mission Control -- with 3 mattresses and 3 desks in a single hacker house bedroom.

Congrats to Tejas Manohar, Kashish Gupta, Josh Curl and the team on the launch of Hightouch AI Agents!

[Tejas Manohar @tejasmanohar]

The last few months have been the most intense period of my career. While scaling Hightouch 100%+ YoY, my cofounders and I decided to go back into early stage startup mode with a much bigger vision

“What would the marketing process look like today if it was re-written with AI at every step”

Introducing Hightouch Agents 🚀
https://t.co/5UYglNDYWW

[Mission Control @mission__ctrl]

@tejasmanohar Congratulations on the launch! 🎉

[Alex Aridgides @AlexAridgides]

OMG I JUST WON THE AGENTMAIL YC HACKATHON!!
Literally can’t think right now
Very special thanks to the sponsors for letting me try and hack your websites (most of them were a-ok)

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

congrats @AlexAridgides on winning the hackathon!

incredible product put together by a solo team

alex is a 19 yo college dropout who also lived in the @mission__ctrl closet

he’s insanely cracked and has great things ahead, this is just the start

enjoy this moment 🚀🚀