@sekaiapp by @lucky_z2 announced $20M Series A led by @khoslaventures + @ConnectVentures Day 1 of @Techweek_#NYC 🙌
The one number that truly matters: creator-to-consumer ratio. Session length measures consumption. Not creation.
Full DILA run → https://t.co/4xYL8Spl8b
Signal Index merges founders inside FounderOS proving their
work + external evals — public rounds,
deals in the news.
Verdicts:
Track = proof is stacking.
Watch = constraint is named but unresolved.
Pass = assumption doing the most work isn't supported yet.
AI is really good at making perfect music. Problem is we don’t remember any of it.
Memorability is human. Love, pain, struggles, messiness… mistakes. We remember what registers. All of which AI registers as mistakes.
Yorbis · Fintech · Watch
SMBs wait days for cash to settle across borders. Yorbis fixes that — same-day settlement, synced payments.
Testing food distribution wedge. 40K LA businesses in the addressable base.
What must be true next → Signal Index
https://t.co/6JHkzvFNXI
Mary Bemis didn't change her mission. She changed who she was talking to — and how. That one shift changed everything. Story. Audience. Sales.
@repriseactive · Signal NY keynote · powerlifter · boxer · builder. #signalny@runtechclub
Most founders build on belief.
FounderOS forces you to build on proof.
Name the constraint. Run the experiment. Log what the data said.
That record feeds DILA — a verdict investors use before you pitch.
Signal NY · April 18.
https://t.co/IqqT7ltv8L
FounderOS/ DILA diligence/ Signal Index.
118 builders tracked.
First $1M: the infrastructure.
Next: the fund that invests where conviction is already proven.
We're already there.
@samshank@KatiaAmeri Great chat! @samshank 2 failed ventures in the hotel industry, what anchored you to double down & build @hotelstonight ? What fueled your belief?
Many founders are pivot-happy.
Collective momentum.
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2025 Signal Run x Wildwood Ventures:
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@Techweek_ tradition.
Since Y1 — when we hosted 2 of 30 events.
Now in Y4, it’s grown into a full momentum engine for founders and builders — from LA, NY, SF, and SEA.
The mission hasn’t changed:
to elevate the humans behind the ideas—stacking conviction before consensus.