An archive from Collaborative Fund’s AI Residency (Summer '25 – Winter '26). Continuing to back human-centered AI teams at @collabfund

New York, New York
Joined March 2025
Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own. Matic comes with a lot of features: 1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you 2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind 3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages. Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum. Also keeps improving with software updates. 13,000 families use and love Matic. WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade) Buy yours at maticrobots.com and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund. To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City. Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.
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the future of personal computing is being brought to life in an art gallery (as it should be) the @eraworlds team is growing! 🤍
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I left @A24 to start Osmo, a storytelling studio with a software factory. Today, we’re launching @osmo_studio to the public: an end-to-end editable video platform that turns Figma, code and reference videos into fully editable motion. We also raised a $5M seed to build it.
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chatted to @downloadlos and this q&a is either evidence we don't know how to shut up or "the most in-depth interview of Los yet" - @marcgmbh on software as a new medium for self-expression: airesidency.substack.com/p/t… @AIResidency
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Queercoded 2026 hosted by @nicole_ripka @trudypainter @wwwtinazone & Jared Newman. Thanks for the support from our fave vcs @collabfund Daybreak @loriberenberg @BloombergBeta & @rhobusiness
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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design. There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer: - We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments. - We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs. We want a future where AI feels right. If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
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We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below
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fill a room with thoughtful, creative builders to feel energized. superb demos from: @leeyujin512: Ko! @MaximeHeckel: rendering the sky & more! Pedro: Spells! & bonus demo by Kara: The RealReal! v fun hosting Study Hall x @AIResidency w/ @cjfreiberg & @zakhap, would recommend
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AIR retweeted
there should be more apps on top of google docs
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We're building new human-computer interfaces @Sandbar, growing in NYC! We're hiring for: ⚬ Machine Learning - voice, agents, & personalization ⚬ Infrastructure - low-latency distributed processing ⚬ Product Eng - cross-platform user experiences ⚬ Product Design - (see thread) + many more—DMs open!
are you a cracked agentic product eng, who wants to work on human computer interaction in **new york**? with in-house hardware? @minafahmi and @sandbar are hiring 🔥
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If you know me you know I love hardware and we love backing hardware founders at AIR. Hosting an intimate dinner tomr for hardware builders in SF and one spot just opened. Want to meet people I don’t know who should come!! Group is epic. @miakrishh @CRV @pdaly24 @Accel @AIResidency
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seeking AI Engineers. not just any AI engineer, one who: - turns model output from slop to *chef's kiss * - obsesses over evals and data quality - hates purple gradients - loves creativity - geeks out on harnesses and test scaffolding - believes memory is the great lock-up in AI - enjoys context & search problems we're hiring for multiple roles. some will work on search, indexing, and embeddings, crawling, scraping, extracting. others on judges, verifiers, and classifiers. others on data pipelines. others on research. all will touch the hard problems of design and creativity. all need to believe in the mission of ending AI slop. based in SF! DM to apply.
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a future where anyone can create the intelligent objects they choose… blooming next week 🌱🤫
Love to see people building hardware! Was at the Era event last night. Congrats @lizwandersworld Photos captured by Caira, ofc, @camera_int
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In the asylum with for interface.click cohosting w/ my partners in crime @lizwandersworld @lolawajs @martinastks @AIResidency
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we filled an 14-person table in NYC with design-engineers. times are changing, roles are changing, cc: @designerfund, @collabfund
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From labs to classrooms to hackathons to literal arenas, I’ve seen the future - and met the students who are building it. Their creativity and compassion genuinely blown me away. I’ve tried dozens of their tools, apps and prototypes and even proudly put my body on the line to test their robots! See video below for proof. @joseph_bagheri and his team built a hands free wheelchair for paraplegic athletes to play ball sports. It moves when you lean forward! I’ve always felt at home on campus and really reflected on this while leaving Columbia last night so energized. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve visited MIT, Harvard & Waterloo. Next week, I'll be at NYU. Special shout out to @marcelocoelho @bmptrsn @sheffeii @dingdongtinz @KevinDunnell (whose hard mode project was beautiful, video below) in particular for welcoming me so warmly into their communities!! Excited to back more student builders with @AIResidency coming soon to a campus near you.
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