Topher Conway

SV Angel

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

Perpetual futures are finally coming to America.

Trade on future asset prices with leverage in a regulated, institutional-grade environment.

Only on Kalshi.

[Jacob Trefethen @JacobTref]

Alzheimer’s is one of medicine's hardest unsolved problems, and one of the most devastating.

At the OpenAI Foundation, we believe AI is well suited to its complexity. We're directing over $100M to scientists mapping the disease, designing drugs, & more.

I wrote about it here:
https://t.co/wOkiE78KUo

[Reiner Pope @reinerpope]

We’re building an LLM chip that delivers much higher throughput than any other chip while also achieving the lowest latency. We call it the MatX One.

The MatX One chip is based on a splittable systolic array, which has the energy and area efficiency that large systolic arrays are famous for, while also getting high utilization on smaller matrices with flexible shapes. The chip combines the low latency of SRAM-first designs with the long-context support of HBM. These elements, plus a fresh take on numerics, deliver higher throughput on LLMs than any announced system, while simultaneously matching the latency of SRAM-first designs. Higher throughput and lower latency give you smarter and faster models for your subscription dollar.

We’ve raised a $500M Series B to wrap up development and quickly scale manufacturing, with tapeout in under a year. The round was led by Jane Street, one of the most tech-savvy Wall Street firms, and Situational Awareness LP, whose founder @leopoldasch wrote the definitive memo on AGI. Participants include @sparkcapital, @danielgross and @natfriedman’s fund, @patrickc and @collision, @TriatomicCap, @HarpoonVentures, @karpathy, @dwarkesh_sp, and others. We’re also welcoming investors across the supply chain, including Marvell and Alchip.

@MikeGunter_ and I started MatX because we felt that the best chip for LLMs should be designed from first principles with a deep understanding of what LLMs need and how they will evolve. We are willing to give up on small-model performance, low-volume workloads, and even ease of programming to deliver on such a chip.

We’re now a 100-person team with people who think about everything from learning rate schedules, to Swing Modulo Scheduling, to guard/round/sticky bits, to blind-mated connections—all in the same building. If you’d like to help us architect, design, and deploy many generations of chips in large volume, consider joining us.

[humans& @humansand]

We will be co-hosting this in SF with our great friends at SV Angel. We'll keep the event small and cozy and have a few prizes for the teams:🥇$16k🥈$8k🥉$4k. Come by and hang out with the humans& team - it’ll be a lot of fun!

[Topher Conway @topherc]

Come join us at SV Angel and help us build AI products!!

https://t.co/lXBeb7ZCSP

[Andrea Wang @AndreaShuyuWang]

We are hiring an AI Lead at @svangel! It's an amazing opportunity for a builder passionate about AI and startups, and you'll have a front row seat to how we invest and will work to improve our investing process end-to-end with AI. We almost never hire so this is a rare opportunity to join our team.

Apply here: https://t.co/5wEbeO0xpb

[Jesse Zhang @thejessezhang]

Excited to share that @DecagonAI has raised a Series D, tripling our valuation to $4.5B in less than six months!

Our funding is a testament to how a fundamentally different approach to product can win vs the incumbent strategies.

From the beginning, our focus has been to empower every company to deliver concierge customer experiences.

If you’re a customer of something, support should feel personal and proactive. It should feel like the company knows you and can actually help at any time. That’s the standard we’re setting.

https://t.co/KWHbVjPi9w

[Chai Discovery @chaidiscovery]

We raised $130M in Series B funding at a $1.3B valuation to build the computer aided design suite for molecules.

The round was led by @GeneralCatalyst & @OakHCFT along with existing investors @ThriveCapital, @OpenAI, @_DimensionCap, @Neo, @lachygroom, @MenloVentures, @svangel, and Yosemite. We're also joined by new investors including @EmCollective and Glade Brook.

[Chai Discovery @chaidiscovery]

Today, we’re releasing new data showing that Chai-2 can design antibodies against challenging targets with atomic precision.

>86% of our designs possess industry-standard drug-quality properties without any optimization.

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[Applied Intuition @AppliedInt]

We’re collaborating with @Stellantis to bring #CabinIntelligence to their global brands—adaptive infotainment that learns from each drive, updates seamlessly, and scales across every brand.

Watch Designing Vehicle Intelligence→ https://t.co/hY6r4FgS5v

#AI #VehicleIntelligence

[Zach Dell @ZachBDell]

Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead.

Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us.

Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking.

At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America.

Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country.

Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company.

The old system is breaking. Come build the new one.

Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.

[Chai Discovery @chaidiscovery]

We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design.

Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x.

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[Melisa Tokmak @melisatokmak]

After it took days to book an HVAC appointment in the sweltering heat, I built @Netic_AI: the AI revenue engine for businesses that keep America running.

Silicon Valley ignored essential services for too long, so we raised $20m from @foundersfund, @greylock, @mavolpi to fix it.

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

In today's Social Radars' episode, we talk to Ron Conway about the unbelievably turbulent life of Napster, the first on-demand music app.

https://t.co/FEmHGVZUGt

[Brad Lightcap @bradlightcap]

we are thrilled to welcome the io team to openai, and to extend our work together with jony and lovefrom

our work to-date with these incredible teams has been a daily reminder of how much is yet to be built, and how fun the future will be

[SV Angel @svangel]

We are constantly impressed by the @reductoai team - they're relentless in listening to customers and building the best product possible.

Proud to support them as they’ve built something people love and reached this funding milestone. Incredibly excited for what's next!

[Topher Conway @topherc]

Excited to have Andrea join the team!!

[Andrea Wang @AndreaShuyuWang]

After two amazing years at @generalcatalyst, I’m excited to join @svangel as a General Partner to continue backing the most ambitious founders at the earliest stages.

I have long admired SVA’s storied history and founder reputation, and I’m thrilled to work with the amazing team (@RonConway, @conwayronny, @topherc, @ashvinb, @mikesholiu, @souravgupta97).

[Filip Kozera @kozerafilip]

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡: 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 🚀

𝐭𝐥;𝐝𝐫 we've spent the last months building triggers, tools & data sources for wordware - starting today, you can create AI workflows that actually run in your life without writing a single line of code. 2000+ integrations, english as the programming language, it looks like a document but works like magic. see what's possible with AI: https://t.co/Rh77rFmcbV

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐭 🎲 we started by building an infrastructure product for technical teams making AI agents. the high-ceiling, powerful platform got traction - 60 real companies using our API some paying 15k mrr, 10mm+ people used these agents.

then our last launch happened. 400k new users hit the same wall: "love it, but can't use it without coding."

then we realized in today's world everyone is a builder.

so we took the leap: what if our technical foundation became the perfect launchpad to make wordware deployable for everyone?

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞: 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 & 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 ⚡
for the last months, our team has been working nights and weekends to transform wordware from an AI platform that requires engineers to integrate, into something anyone can deploy.

you know those AI workflows already in your life? the ones where you copy-paste between different AI chats, manually trigger actions, and piece together insights?

now you can describe it once and automate forever.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 🛠️
• 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎+ 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 - connect to all your favorite tools
• 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 - if you can write it in english, you can build it
• 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - not just "if this, then that" but "understand this, reason about it, then act"

imagine: your typeform lead comes in → wordware analyzes intent, enriches with research, calculates a lead score, and routes to the right sales rep with a personalized draft email.
or: your email triggers a workflow → wordware determines importance, archives the newsletter, flags the urgent request in slack, and drafts responses that sound like you.

your intent and taste, AI's execution.

𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 💡
• the future of AI is systems working for us behind the scenes.
• we're making AI the reasoning engine, not just another tool in the chain.
• traditional automation moves data. wordware understands what that data means.

𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 🚀
we've raised $30M to build the AI Operating System - where workflows get built, shared, deployed and forked.

no waitlists - we're giving out credits to help build this ecosystem. get started for free: https://t.co/Rh77rFmcbV

p.s. huge thanks to our team who pulled all-nighters, debugged on weekends, and somehow managed to ship 2000+ integrations while having fun next stop: the beach office with the wind/kite surfing rack 🏄‍♀️

[Base Power @basepowerco]

We’re excited to announce that Base Power has raised $200M in Series B funding, co-led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with support from @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap.

Addition’s Lee Fixel joins our board alongside Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity Partners.

[Cartesia @cartesia]

We've raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI.

We'll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today.

Link below to try it free 👇