Michael King retweeted
1/ Exciting news to share! 🚀 We're thrilled to double down on our partnership with @burkaygur, @gorkem and the @fal team, together with friends @KindredVentures and @firstround. xitter.cf/FAL/status/18364808791…
We've raised $23M from Kindred Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas, Vercel’s @rauchg , @balajis and Huggingface CTO @julien_c.
Michael King retweeted
Thrilled to share that a16z is leading the Series A of @usepylon - the customer support platform purposefully built for B2B companies. This problem space is near and dear to my heart given my personal experience, see blog & a 🧵 a16z.com/announcement/invest…
cc @zeyalater @jeffreysilv
Michael King retweeted
AI is insecure by default.
The open secret is that most AI apps launch with serious flaws. It takes MORE time to secure these apps than it does to build them.
I learned this firsthand from shipping LLM agents to 200M users at Discord and supporting LLM evals for hundreds of companies.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Today, we’re launching @Promptfoo, an open-source company that helps find and fix vulnerabilities in AI powered apps before they ship, and announcing a $5M seed round led by @a16z.
Michael King retweeted
1/ 🤓🚀🇺🇸 Builders can make great investors. We know this well @a16z — we were founded by technical founders (@pmarca and @bhorowitz) and we're a firm run by founders and technologists. And we want more technologists on the team...
Michael King retweeted
Proud to announce that @CapeWireless has raised $61M led by @A_StarVC and @a16z to build the privacy-focused mobile service.
This is a big step for Cape — here’s how we got here, why privacy matters, and how the cellular network is key to regaining control of our personal data:
Michael King retweeted
We've raised a $1.25B infrastructure fund! We love all infra, compute, network, storage, databases, data science, gen AI, dev tools ... from silicon to UIs.
Infra is the true root of value in tech. And we're deepening our commitment to it.
a16z.com/new-funds-new-era/
Michael King retweeted
We’ve raised $7.2b to continue investing in the future. You can read more here:
a16z.com/new-funds-new-era/
@a16z
Michael King retweeted
Insurance is a $7 trillion global data and risk business. Yet large parts of the insurance industry struggle to take advantage of modern data infrastructure. @joeschmidtiv & I are excited to announce our investment in hx! 🧵👇a16z.com/announcement/invest…
Michael King retweeted
1/ Software easily crosses borders-often just requiring language translation. Money also crosses borders- but w/ opaque FX rates & costly delays. We dive into who is solving these problems & opps for future. See #a16z global payment hub for a map & more! a16z.com/global-payments/
Michael King retweeted
1/7 As businesses moving data to cloud, new warehouse/lake technologies and turnkey ELT pipelines led to a wave of reimagination of existing data applications. Today, we see the rise of composable Customer Data Platforms (CDP) transforming marketing stack and practices. A 🧵
The customer data platform is evolving, becoming much more composable.
@JenniferHLi, @martin_casado and @tasso on why, and what this architecture looks like: a16z.com/2023/05/22/the-rise…
Michael King retweeted
We've hit the 1 year mark!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
A year ago, we raised GAMES FUND ONE, our first $660M fund focused on games. 25 investments and 10 new hires later, we’ve learned so much.
To celebrate, I'm going to share some slides we used to raise the fund. Yes, even VCs have to pitch :)
Michael King retweeted
📢 we are hosting a prompting and drinking event on 6/1. Come to enjoy some Pina Pinecone Colada, AlpacaTini, and BloodyGPT! 🍸🍹 – at San Bruno, CA
Attention AI builders 🤖 - our team @a16z is hosting an SF Tech Week event on June 1!
We can promise good cocktails + vibes, cool AI art, and a few surprises...
There are a couple spots left, fill out this short form if you're interested in attending: bit.ly/45jxgYV
Michael King retweeted
we're entering a new era in AI-first game creation ☀️
up to now AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2 cost $500M and took over 3,000 people 8 years to make
with generative AI, small teams can ship at near AAA quality but at a fraction of the cost & time
a few thoughts 👇
Michael King retweeted
Where my games infrastructure startups at? Here at a16z GAMES FUND ONE, studio startups outnumber infrastructure startups more than 5:1. Why is that? As co-founder of PlayFab, it's an area of passion for me, and I have theories. What are yours? And what can we do about it? 👇
Michael King retweeted
At @material_sec we discovered that Google Groups deliver some unauthenticated emails to user inboxes which puts group members at a higher risk of receiving spoofing and malicious emails and presents additional risk to the organization
material.security/blog/ident…
Michael King retweeted
1/ Thrilled to be partnering with Matt, Henry and Francisco in leading @AdaptiveBuilds Seed Round of financing. They're an amazing team working to streamline spend management for the construction industry. 🏗️🏡techcrunch.com/2022/07/07/an…
Michael King retweeted
1/ stoked to share that @a16z is investing in @startplaying - the largest online marketplace matching tabletop gamers with professional game masters to play D&D 🧙🤝
more 👇
venturebeat.com/2022/05/13/s…