We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating
more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai
Blockchain transactions should be seamless across any chain.
@reservoir’s @relay protocol makes this possible. With $500M+ in monthly cross-chain volume, we're thrilled to lead their Series A as they tackle blockchain fragmentation head-on.
https://blog.usv.com/reservoir
We are thrilled to announce our investment in Miren alongside @blueyard
Evan Phoenix is revolutionizing cloud deployment, making it simple and cost-effective for both humans and AI agents while unlocking the full potential of modern hardware. What a time to be building.
https://blog.usv.com/miren
Developed these OH's live on the Every AI&I podcast with @danshipper. Dan pushed us to dig deeper beyond just a one shot prompt, so here's a thread with the key insights we landed on from last week. Full podcast going live soon.👇
(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)
Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle@morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here:
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
Last week’s OH @ @usv eavesdropped on the future of Health. With Compound, we hosted founders & academics for a day of Biohacking. Below are just a couple highlights of the talks from researchers at Columbia, NYU, Mount Sinai, and The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives…
This week we got together as a team for 2 hours while @mandel and @disgraceful gave us a comprehensive overview of our climate portfolio to date and where we should be looking for new opportunities. We invited @thelibrarian who shared these 5 OH’s back with us....
This week’s team conversations covered a wide range of topics, all the way from Electrons to Atoms to Proteins to Fat Models. Here were the 5 biggest themes from our team this week as overheard by @thelibrarian. 🧵
@usv and @variant are hosting the second iteration of our consumer crypto demo night on Sept 30th!
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
Inspired by @danielmason@danigrant and the writing of @nascent, we spent time this week discussing topics like web proofs, the unreliability of agents, our flexible load sub thesis, and whether Claude might be the enterprise super app... 🧵
After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 29th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. More and more we're letting the Librarian get a peak at our emails.
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
OH at @usv:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 8th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of June 24th, 2024:
