Founder + author of Newcomer – a startups and VC newsletter & events company. Host summits, including Cerebral Valley AI Summit. Subscribe https://teapawt.net/t.co/ptjq4pjVS9
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
Countdown to The AI 100, presented by @TaliaGold & @bdeeter at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit.
In partnership with @NewcomerMedia, Bessemer reveals the top 100 private companies driving progress & value creation in the AI ecosystem.
✨ Full list & benchmarks drop 11/12. Follow along. ✨
Eric Newcomer retweeted
It’s been a huge and obvious own goal for the AI industry to
1) allow AI to be “republican” and so closely aligned with the admin
2) not even bother to articulate a positive, abundance case for regular Americans
Unfortunately there’s a price to pay.
newcomer.co/p/the-blue-tsuna…
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Five new speakers join us at Cerebral Valley
We’re just under a week out from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on November, and we’ve added five more rockstar speakers to our onstage lineup.
Our newest speakers include:
- Aravind Srinivas, founder & CEO of Perplexity
- Benjamin Spector, founder & CEO of Flapping Airplanes
- Qasar Younis, founder & CEO of Applied Intuition
- Guillermo Rauch, founder & CEO of Vercel
- Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst
The summit is almost sold out, and spots are extremely limited. Apply ASAP for a last-minute chance to secure a seat.
@AravSrinivas @perplexity_ai @spectorb @flappyairplanes @qasar @AppliedInt @rauchg @vercel @htaneja @generalcatalyst
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Have been receiving many messages like this...
I want to say: The majority of the valley stands for humanist, pro-society values. We believe in building technology that supports the many. The loudest voices do not represent the majority, and we cannot let them define us.
Eric Newcomer retweeted
See the full list in Newcomer newcomer.co/p/emergent-2026
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Our nominations came from a stacked list of former and future speakers: an insane group of past and upcoming founder speakers: @mati, @josh_tobin_, @kanjun, @reidhoffman, @ShivdevRao, @c_valenzuelab, @lqiao, @GabeStengel, @NaveenGRao, @BrendanFoody, @jluan, @eoinhinchy, @ryanjdaniels, @krandiash, @ajratner, @rauchg, @jainarvind
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Introducing Emergent: the Founder-Generated Startup List
Alongside our friends at @felicis, we asked current and former founder speakers from Newcomer summits to nominate seed-stage (or earlier) companies on the cusp of greatness.
These 29 seed-stage startups were chosen by one or more of their peers as having the potential to become a generational startup. To quality, each company cannot have raised more than a seed round.
Eric Newcomer retweeted
What a moment - and honor. And a new fire to drive forward.
I started the journey towards @skillbenchinc in 2010 when I began my PhD @MITSloan, asking: "how can we boost productivity and human skill development as we deploy intelligent automation?"
Today, from @reidhoffman:
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1/ We’ve just released our inaugural Emergent list in partnership with @NewcomerMedia. In it, we give the mic to founders: which seed-stage companies are the most exciting to them right now?
You can find the full list here. Congratulations to all of the founders! felicis.link/IlBBJvB
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Excited that @ShivdevRao, Abridge’s CEO, made @withscuba his pick for the first Emergent List from @NewcomerMedia @felicis.
Shiv's been an incredible supporter from day 1 of Scuba's mission to build the shared memory teams and their agents are missing.
newcomer.co/emergent-2026
Eric Newcomer retweeted
The amazing @rauchg nominated @ArmatureInc for the first-ever Emergent List from @NewcomerMedia and @felicis.
The list is special because the greatest founders choose the ambitious startups on it.
We look up to Guillermo as close to the perfect tech founder: an engineer who cares about the smallest product detail. @vercel set the bar for Developer Experience, and today it also sets the bar for Agent Experience.
Armature helps software companies reach that bar, as coding agents become the ones choosing and using their products.
Having Guillermo believe in that vision means a lot to us. Thank you to @EricNewcomer and the @felicis team.
newcomer.co/emergent-2026
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Mirai Labs has been named to the first-ever Emergent List from @EricNewcomer and @felicis , following a nomination from @mati from ElevenLabs.
We’re a frontier on-device AI lab building models, runtime, and infrastructure to make personal intelligence interactive, ambient, and continuous -with a focus on automating everyday work and life.
Thank you to Mati for the nomination, to Newcomer and Felicis for the recognition, and to our team for the work that made it possible.
Meet the companies on the list:
newcomer.co/emergent-2026
Eric Newcomer retweeted
There is an old saying: "If you want to know where to eat, ask a chef."
We decided to apply the same logic to startups. If you want to know which seed-stage startups are poised for success, ask other founders.
So we did. The answers to that question have become the new Emergent list from @NewcomerMedia x @Felicis: felicis.link/WLYilj2
Congratulations to all of these incredible founders !! And thank you @EricNewcomer for the partnership!!
Eric Newcomer retweeted
From @NewcomerMedia and @felicis, meet Emergent: the Founder-Generated startup list! 29 seed-stage startups that are best positioned to be generational companies
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Scoop: Sequoia forced out three US-based partners in its recent overhaul.
Bogomil Balkansky, Jess Lee and Stephanie Zhan, were pushed out in recent weeks.
Regarding Sequoia's Europe exit, my sources were surprised they didn't do it sooner
More in story with @cityofthetown
Eric Newcomer retweeted
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they've exhausted all other options." — Winston Churchill
Eric Newcomer retweeted
Bad policy, bad character make bad politics: erratic tariffs, impulsive Iran war, blanket pardons, apparent corruption, weaponized justice, ICE brutality, mountainous deficits, hiding Epstein, abandoning allies and coddling enemies. Hoping for a course correction, for the country and for my party.
Eric Newcomer retweeted
2008 vibes. That feeling of hope. Of believing in this incredible country and the power of a democracy where people can (and did!) demand change.
So many historic firsts last night. So many reasons to believe in what’s possible again. Fired up and ready to go!
❤️🇺🇸
