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@neynar and @usv are hosting a pre-farcon event on April 30th We’ll have speakers from crypto companies discussing their biggest problems with an audience of engineers, designers, founders, and investors that can help! Sign up to join here: lu.ma/bxomr102 Sign up to speak here: app.deform.cc/form/3f5...
Farcon builder pizza hang! 🍕 (Neynar x USV) · Luma
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Farcon builder pizza hang! 🍕 (Neynar x USV) · Luma
We're hosting a Farcon pizza hang with our friends at @usv the night before Farcon officially starts! We'll discuss top problems builders and founders are facing when building new products in crypto. Speakers will have the opportunity to showcase what they are working on and discuss what their biggest barriers are. Au
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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:
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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.
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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.
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been a bit absent but the @usv account is back with some financing announcements this week!
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This Meeting Could Have Been A Podcast - and now it is. This week we transformed our Oct 21 AI team meeting into an algorithmically distilled episode of USV Radio. We cover multi-agent systems, decentralized training, and how we're thinking about investing in the space:
OH @ USV: How to Invest in AI, Multi Agent Learning, Decentralized Training, Video Games
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OH @ USV: How to Invest in AI, Multi Agent Learning, Decentralized Training, Video Games
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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)
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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:
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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…
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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....
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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. 🧵
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@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:
Consumer Crypto Demo Night (v2) · Luma
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Consumer Crypto Demo Night (v2) · Luma
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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... 🧵
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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 …🧵
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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:
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