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stokaace

@stokaace

Investor at Swift Ventures, Entrepreneur, Engineer, Dad, Cyclist, Runner, Woodworker

 Lafayette, CA
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Joined October 2008
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The top five best-performing AI stocks of 2024 with perfect scores for AI hiring and employment per our analysis might surprise you 😲 (only two are in the Magnificent Seven)! 🧵
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We are proud to introduce the 📈AI Index 📈, a first-of-its-kind list of AI companies in the public market! We built a system that leverages an LLM fine-tuned on financial data to analyze earnings as well as data on hiring and research/OSS contributions: blog.swift.vc/introducing-ai…
Introducing AI Index: Identifying True AI Companies

Introducing AI Index: Identifying True AI Companies

Will the real AI companies please stand up?

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Proud to debut the AI Index, a first-of-its-kind index of true AI companies in the public market. More on what we’re debuting; would love your thoughts! venturebeat.com/ai/swift-ven…
Swift Ventures unveils AI company index | VentureBeat

Swift Ventures unveils AI company index | VentureBeat

Swift Ventures launches an index of public companies truly investing in AI, showing 37% annual growth and outperforming the Nasdaq and S&P.

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Don’t count out Apple in the race for AI link.medium.com/DJoCm6coOJb

Don’t count out Apple in the race for AI

(how Apple can win by thinking small)

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Huge congrats to @LanceDB team Chang She and Lei Xu on closing an $8M funding round from @CRV to build The Database for Multi-modal AI techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/la…

LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI | TechCrunch

Chang She, previously the VP of engineering at Tubi and a Cloudera veteran, has years of experience building data tooling and infrastructure. But when She

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Introducing LazyNotes Wearable AI for Meeting Notes lazynotes.app/
Flava Flav with Phone Necklace

ALT Flava Flav with Phone Necklace

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Why Is It So Hard To Hire Product Managers? link.medium.com/PyEjwsmonEb
Why Is It So Hard To Hire Product Managers?

Why Is It So Hard To Hire Product Managers?

Learnings And Ideas For Founders Hiring Their First PM Role

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Pretty insane that open source models when combined together can reach production grade quality on audio enhancement. Enjoy the YouTube GOAT with high fidelity.
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What we learned building a call summary app using GPT-4 blog.swift.vc/what-we-learne…
What We Learned Building A Call Summary App with GPT-4

What We Learned Building A Call Summary App with GPT-4

Many of you who work with Swift know that we are doers by default. Rather than follow the typical VC schedule of back-to-back meetings all…

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Announcing the Berkeley AI Hackathon on June 17/18. $250K in prizes! 1000+ hackers to attend. Sign up now as space is limited... ai.calhacks.io/ @SkyDeck_Cal @CalHacks
AI Hackathon 2026 | Hackathons @ Berkeley

AI Hackathon 2026 | Hackathons @ Berkeley

Join the AI Hackathon 2026 at UC Berkeley. June 20th-21st, 2026. Innovate. Collaborate. Redefine the future of AI.

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Opportunity In the Wild West of AI Belongs To Those In the Arena

Opportunity In the Wild West of AI Belongs To Those In the Arena

As agentic AI takes off and the chaos and risks around generative AI create new opportunities, it is a great time to enter the fray

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Is AI comedy funny yet? You be the judge... blog.swift.vc/russian-politi…
Russian Politicians Want To Take Back Alaska…and Other AI-Generated Jokes

Russian Politicians Want To Take Back Alaska…and Other AI-Generated Jokes

Why humor may lead to the next breakthrough in AI.

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Investing In Emerging Managers…Paying for Expertise… Getting Alpha, Passion, Focus and Expertise From Others …Swift Ventures and The AI/ML revolution - cc @bjwilson34 fresh on my blog howardlindzon.com/investing-…
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Text-to-image AI is having a moment. Here is our take on where the AI Creative Revolution is headed. blog.swift.vc/the-next-creat…
The Next Creative Revolution

The Next Creative Revolution

Text-to-image AI is having a moment. Machine learning models can now produce dazzling art in seconds for anyone with an internet connection…

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Gosh @stokaace if you ever wanna double down on those product skillz, I have some visionary pals I can introduce you to…🤣
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Top 10 on Product Hunt for a free AI / NLP demo to help founders name their companies. Not bad for a VC! #NamingMagic #GPT3 producthunt.com/posts/naming…
Naming Magic: Use AI to name your company and find a domain | Product Hunt

Naming Magic: Use AI to name your company and find a domain | Product Hunt

With a product description and seed words the site will use AI to generate a handful of names and then go one step further and tell you if the domain is available.

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Introducing NamingMagic.....AI for naming companies. Part demonstration, part gimmick, 100% fun #AI #GPT3 blog.swift.vc/naming-your-co…
Naming Your Company is a Little Less Painful with AI

Naming Your Company is a Little Less Painful with AI

Here at Swift Ventures we recently did a deep dive into the artificial intelligence model called GPT-3. Since many of the startups we see…

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We are Top 10 today on Product Hunt. Name your new company using AI. producthunt.com/posts/naming…
Naming Magic: Use AI to name your company and find a domain | Product Hunt

Naming Magic: Use AI to name your company and find a domain | Product Hunt

With a product description and seed words the site will use AI to generate a handful of names and then go one step further and tell you if the domain is available.

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Dusting off my twitter for the next chapter: blog.swift.vc/
Swift Ventures – Medium

Swift Ventures – Medium

Read writing from Swift Ventures on Medium. Accelerating seed-stage AI and automation companies with B2B business models.

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TubeMogul listed in The Founders 40. Honors "newly-public companies driving innovation" bit.ly/1M9L5Pf
Image from Stephen Hunt (@Hunt_media)
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TubeMogul clients can now plan and buy TV and Facebook ads in the same software. Pretty cool. adweek.com/news/technology/t…
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