Pace Capital

@jordancooper @cpaik @AryanNNaik @fkpxls

[Tina He @fkpxls]

AI has two timelines

[Tina He @fkpxls]

From internal memo

[FoundHer House @foundherhouse]

we’re hosting “The Female Funding Floor” at #NYTechWeek! join us for a conversation spotlighting the women shaping the future of startup funding - featuring @PaceCap, @Soma_Capital, @lightspeedvp, and @PrecursorVC.

register via partiful here: https://t.co/scYT02CUv6

[Aryan Naik @AryanNNaik]

Links 5/31/26

[Chris Paik @cpaik]

Paying to Win: The Rise of Veblen Services

https://t.co/OFSNBsfySQ

[Yoland Yan @yoland_yan]

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, after never spending a dollar on marketing.

4 million people decided @ComfyUI was the platform they wanted to build on, and they shaped it into something we never could have shipped alone.

This funding will accelerate our mission to build an open infrastructure, the kind that lasts, the kind that empowers rather than locks in. 

The core stays open, local stays first, and every part of this round goes toward building for the people who create things for a living.

The next chapter of creative AI is going to be built by them, not handed to them.

Round led by @craft_ventures, with @PaceCap, @chemistry and Tru Arrow joining. Total funding now $47M.

[Tina He @fkpxls]

Screenshot for an internal memo

[Tina He @fkpxls]

Comfy is now (1) the default protocol for gen AI workflows (2) a massive, organic, global creator community, and (3) the largest 3p dev ecosystem

All that is to say: a true n-of-1 company.

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M.

Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others.

But before anything else: this belongs to the community.

ComfyUI started as one developer and one open-source repo. No roadmap. No company. Just creators who wanted real control over how they built with AI.

That community is now:

→ 4 million users
→ 60,000+ community-built nodes
→ 150,000+ daily downloads

Every number traces back to people who built in the open, for anyone to use.

Here's where the funding goes:

→ Comfy Cloud: for teams and studios that need security and scale
→ Collaborative workflows: versioning and iteration built for how studios actually work
→ A better local experience: more seamless, more stable
→ Ecosystem reliability: making 60,000+ community nodes more dependable
→ Day-one model support: every major release, compatible at launch

We are not building a walled garden.

We are building open infrastructure, built to last.

Thank you genuinely,
The ComfyUI Team

[Chris Paik @cpaik]

Wrote about why we can’t automate the auteur, which turned into a piece about @ComfyUI

https://t.co/s9XgOXVtfV

[Jackson Dahl @jacksondahl]

Jared Weinstein is deeply trusted and quietly effective. He is a friend to many. This is his first interview.

From President Bush, to Thrive's team and founders, to new leaders building in his hometown of Birmingham and globally, @JaredBWeinstein is an amplifier of people.

We discuss:

- Cold-calling the Bush campaign in college, joining them in the run up to 2000, and not dropping out

- Becoming the President's personal aide (or "body man") in his mid-20s, what the President does, and how little Jared slept

- an unlikely partnership with @JoshuaKushner that led to over a decade building the now-legendary @ThriveCapital

- what it was like helping @PalantirTech in the very early days

- Bringing seriousness and humanity to work, whether the West Wing or investing

- the three-body problem of ego, ambition, and impact

- why people trust Jared and how he helps them become their best selves

- east vs. west coast ambition, across DC, SF, and NY

- how he's investing in Birmingham, why cities change and thrive, and helping people raise their ambition

- championing those who champion you

Timestamps:
0:00 - Opening Highlights
1:40 - Intro to Jared
3:32 - Thanks to Notion
4:39 - Start: Being a "Friend" and Bringing Humanity to Serious Work
10:55 - From Duke to the West Wing
31:45 - Riding Shotgun with President Bush
59:27 - Starting Over Out West: Post-WH, Stanford, and Palantir
1:16:05 - Meeting Josh Kushner and Building Thrive Capital
1:44:37 - Founders, Humility, and the Three-Body Problem of Ego, Ambition, and Impact
2:06:41 - Leaving Thrive, Coming Home to Birmingham, and Overton
2:32:40 - Busier Than Ever: Mentors, Life in Acts, and What You Hope to Be Known For

@DialecticPod 44: Jared Weinstein - Within Earshot, Out of Camera Shot - is available below and on all platforms.

[Tina He @fkpxls]

sentry marked safe from agi

enjoyed the convo w/ @zeeg!

[Pace Capital @PaceCap]

Summer Fellowship

July 6 – August 1, 2026 NYC (in person)

Deadline: May 16 (rolling)

Application form: https://t.co/qOQYQ6LjXQ
More details on this website: https://t.co/J3aJtyI0vB

[Tina He @fkpxls]

Introducing Pace Summer Fellowship.

For compulsive truth seekers who care about doing great work in a contained period of time.

4 weeks. $10k. Two fellows. One publishable research artifact.

[Tina He @fkpxls]

Introducing Pace Summer Fellowship.

For compulsive truth seekers who care about doing great work in a contained period of time.

4 weeks. $10k. Two fellows. One publishable research artifact.

[Daytona @daytonaio]

New technology rarely replaces what came before. It builds on top of it. At the @daytonaio Compute Conference, @zeeg, co-founder of @sentry, joined @fkpxls, VC at @PaceCap, to discuss why AI is a layer not a revolution and what that means for how you build and evolve software products today.

[Cline @cline]

Introducing Cline Kanban: A standalone app for CLI-agnostic multi-agent orchestration. Claude and Codex compatible.

npm i -g cline

Tasks run in worktrees, click to review diffs, & link cards together to create dependency chains that complete large amounts of work autonomously.

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

Two massive updates for the ComfyUI ecosystem today:

1️⃣ App Mode: The power of the node graph, now behind an easy-to-use interface. Turn complex workflows into custom apps.
2️⃣ ComfyHub: A brand new home to discover, run, and share community workflows and apps instantly via URL. Try ComfyHub preview via https://t.co/kQxsxBs2bB

Create in App Mode. Share on ComfyHub.

Learn more here: https://t.co/s4oKA4Ab8f

[Tobie Morgan Hitchcock @tobiemh]

Great listening to @beyang and @fkpxls at the @daytonaio compute conference - humans matter more alongside AI agents, not less. This is the exact world @SurrealDB was built for - a database flexible enough to power both. Good time to be alive. Good time to be building. ⚡

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

So happy to have @fkpxls on as an investor and a speaker 🤩