Patrick Long

Angel investor backing deeply technical founders from idea to seed. AI, fintech, blockchain, accessibility & emerging tech.

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

Coding agents can now take a well-described change and turn it into a pull request. Put them behind a pipeline with sandboxes, tests, previews and review, and you have a software factory.

That's real progress. But it answers a narrower question than most product teams are asking. A software factory answers "can we build this?" The question PMs, designers and ops start their day with is "what should we build, and did it work?"

We think the software factory has to grow into a product factory. And the people who run a product factory aren't only engineers. They're the product people who sit closest to customers.

https://t.co/bgEc7UXufu

[Serena Pei @spei04]

Introducing Palette Flow:
Create → Post → Learn → Improve ↻

Your brand. A marketing workflow that gets smarter.
Watch it work ↓

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

@645ventures @ycombinator @January_Capital @RebelFund_VC @sterlingroadvc @transposevc @nejatian @iEchoic @sternhenri @ooshma LightSprint helps CTOs empower PMs, designers and ops to ship on their real codebase, with engineering in control of every merge.

Since launch, non-engineers have shipped thousands of pull requests with LightSprint. Full story on our blog:
https://t.co/f1DzKX3oK3

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

Day 1 Supporter, LFG!!! 🚀

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

We're excited to announce that we have raised a $6.1M seed led by @645ventures, with @ycombinator, @January_Capital , @RebelFund_VC , @sterlingroadvc , @transposevc and prominent angel investors including @nejatian @iEchoic @sternhenri @ooshma 🚀

AI prototypes were act one. Act two is PMs, designers and ops shipping high quality PRs on the real codebase, even across multiple repos, with engineering in control of every merge.

Story in @BusinessInsider 👇
https://t.co/ew9qCRj4zn

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

We're excited to announce that we have raised a $6.1M seed led by @645ventures, with @ycombinator, @January_Capital , @RebelFund_VC , @sterlingroadvc , @transposevc and prominent angel investors including @nejatian @iEchoic @sternhenri @ooshma 🚀

AI prototypes were act one. Act two is PMs, designers and ops shipping high quality PRs on the real codebase, even across multiple repos, with engineering in control of every merge.

Story in @BusinessInsider 👇
https://t.co/ew9qCRj4zn

[Pejman Nozad @pejmannozad]

About pro rata:

We often write the first check. Before friends and family.

We’re there when there’s no product, no traction, and sometimes no company.

We roll up our sleeves when things get hard. We bridge companies when nobody else will.

So when things finally start working, why should we step aside and give up our ownership to bigger funds?

We took the risk when nobody else would. Why should we give up the upside when everyone else wants in?

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@zamdoteth @trypalette_ai

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@kevinrose Check out @trypalette_ai 2X cheaper and 4X faster than Higgsfield

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

Strategic planning + ruthless execution.

You must have both to succeed.

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Don't confuse motion with progress. Many startups are very busy, but they aren't actually moving the needle. Velocity is speed with a specific direction.

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Don't confuse motion with progress. Many startups are very busy, but they aren't actually moving the needle. Velocity is speed with a specific direction.

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@rpasquinjr Slick looking accountants

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

Teams are shipping faster, and some now have PMs and designers shipping too. PR review is the new bottleneck.

Lightsprint already consolidates feedback from all your code review agents (@GeminiApp Code Assist, @cursor_ai Bugbot, @greptile , @coderabbitai , or whichever you use) into one place and sends it back to your agent to fix.

Now every PR also gets a flow diagram that maps the change: which components were added, removed, or modified, with line counts on each so reviewers can see where the real changes are.

Tech leads tell us it’s the fastest way to figure out where to start, instead of reading the entire diff top to bottom.

[Lightsprint(YC P26) @lightsprintai]

https://t.co/to1tVsw4Gd

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@MadisonMills22 Interested to connect, family office investing in AI native startups rethinking how traditional biz is done

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@shengkunye In sf

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@rpasquinjr @regenfinancial @generaltensor We should catch up some time, I am 100% back into investing. Coming across some companies that might be beneficial for you guys

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@PaulKlayVC Family office investing in exactly this thesis - AI native Media Platform, AI native Restaurant back office, AI native software Factory

DM if interested to collab

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

America leads the future of Super Intelligence. 🇺🇸

[Patrick Long @patricktlong]

@hthieblot @andreygizdov @vishalurlam @OpenVectorLabs

World’s Fastest Vision Language Action Model