Woohoo! After five years (for me) excited to announce Boldstart Fund VII this morning. It’s been amazing to work with founders.
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From the early days with @mxstbr and @timsuchanek at Stellate (acquired by Shopify) and @stevenfabre and Guillaume at liveblocks, who launched Liveblocks 3.0 and AI Copilots last week:
liveblocks.io/blog/meet-live…
To working with the Generalist team @peteflorence , Andy, @andyzeng_, and @E0M to push the capabilities of Dexterous manipulation:
Today we're excited to share a glimpse of what we're building at Generalist. As a first step towards our mission of making general-purpose robots a reality, we're pushing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI models can achieve in the real world.
Here's a preview of our early results in autonomous general-purpose dexterous capabilities – fast, reactive, smooth, precise, bi-manual coordinated sensorimotor control.
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And many more, including teams I was so excited to back that I was writing checks two weeks after having a new baby. (Many are still 🤫) but excited to keep adding to this chart:
If that might be you - please reach out if:
1) It’s inception. There’s no too early but there’s definitely a too late.
2) You’ve solving a clear pain point.
3) You want to work with some other people who are fired up and ready to take on big problems.
There’s an exclusive this morning in @NewcomerMedia : newcomer.co/p/exclusive-bold…
Or on our blog: boldstart.vc/news/announcing…