Unlocking 10-100x gains in chip performance comes down to pairing higher power density with materials that can actually handle the heat. Yet taking new thermal materials to production has always been far too slow & far too expensive.
Precisely why I love @discoveredmat - novel material discovery for semis without the time or cost burden of a traditional lab to fab cycle. If we want better chips, we need better materials. Simple as that.
Huge launch today for @advaith_sridhar, @Akash__Ramdas, and the crew. Honored to be along for the ride!
Today, we're introducing @discoveredmat . We build AI scientists that discover new materials for semiconductor chips.
We’re starting by releasing our work - hundreds of new materials discovered using frontier AI models, along with our benchmark for tracking progress in this domain, Material Discovery Bench.
To pursue our mission, we have raised $9 million from @LightspeedIndia (lead investor) , @ycombinator , @peakxvpartners , @paulg , @gokulr , @trq212 and many others.
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Scoop: Ashton Kutcher exits from Sound Ventures to set up a new firm with Morgan Beller, former GP at venture firm NFX. wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/… via @WSJ
If you know this team, you know they're absolute killers. Big things ahead for @ali_debow and @joinswsh, can't wait to see what they build next for the future of events!
We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others.
A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern.
After every event, people asked the same questions:
Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met?
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AI can now read your customers' minds.
We raised a $20M Series A lead by 8VC & Lingotto to build this.
Introducing Minerva, built in collaboration with OpenAI:
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Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.
We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.
While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.
So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.
When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.
In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.
Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
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Excited to share that we’ve started Recursive Superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery, starting with AI that experiments on how to improve itself. We raised $ 650m+ led by GV and Greycroft.
My proof you can (literally) do it all & still make every day the best day yet. Proud today and always to have been raised with such kindness, joy, and strength.
Happy Mother’s Day to my wonderful mama and to all the badass moms in my life 💛
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30 mins into the claude code keynote and every speaker so far has been a woman. just saying 🫶🏻
@asvora @angjiang @katelyn_lesse @_catwu Dianne Penn @claudeai
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There are moments where you stop and look back at the journey — and realize just how rare it is.
Today is one of those moments.
I’m incredibly proud to share that @forethought_ai has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by @Zendesk .
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I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞
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@markitecht has done it again & it's high time for the world to experience it.
We’ve treated CRMs like glorified databases for decades: useful, but passive. In an era where data is exploding and shared context is compounding, the way we work and make decisions has to level up... and fast.
Christopher is reinventing the category he himself helped build by launching Day AI: the first CRM that is truly architected for LLMs. Built on a rich context graph with long running agents, @Day_ai_app can turn organizational relationships into decisions and decisions into action - across GTM, product, partnerships, hiring… wherever context is the unlock.
Try it and you'll feel the difference. It's the first time I’ve seen the single pane of glass promise actually delivered.
Congrats to the team on the Series A and public launch. Speaking for myself and @sound_ventures_, we're honored to be part of the journey.
Great piece from @alexrkonrad @UpstartsMediaCo on the company, the path to get here, and what's on the horizon: xitter.cf/alexrkonrad/status/201…
Exclusive: startup Day AI raised $20M from Sequoia to build the ‘Cursor for CRM’
CEO @markitecht tells @UpstartsMediaCo:
“Salesforce as we think of it today is not going to exist in 2 or 3 years. I don’t know if it’ll be us, but I really hope it’s us.”
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& of course, don't just take our word for it. Try it out for yourself at day.ai/
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Exclusive: startup Day AI raised $20M from Sequoia to build the ‘Cursor for CRM’
CEO @markitecht tells @UpstartsMediaCo:
“Salesforce as we think of it today is not going to exist in 2 or 3 years. I don’t know if it’ll be us, but I really hope it’s us.”
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beautifully captured, as always. few people have the focus and creativity to completely reinvent a category, but @markitecht is one... and CRM is his bread & butter
Exclusive: startup Day AI raised $20M from Sequoia to build the ‘Cursor for CRM’
CEO @markitecht tells @UpstartsMediaCo:
“Salesforce as we think of it today is not going to exist in 2 or 3 years. I don’t know if it’ll be us, but I really hope it’s us.”
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Big day for Sound & a few of our incredible founders🚀
An amazing 24 hours here at Sound Ventures… @EquipmentShare and @BitGo hit the public markets, and @brexHQ joined forces with @CapitalOne.
We obsess over backing and supporting companies that truly change how we live and work - and meaningful change takes time. We invested in BitGo 12 years ago, EquipmentShare 11 years ago, and Brex 7 years ago. Huge respect to the founders and teams who built these companies from the ground up and may your work continue to shine.
Great deep dive from @TechCrunch on the criticality of security in enterprise AI adoption and the differentiated approach Witness is taking in the market
We’re proud to lead Witness’ latest round and help power the next phase of hyper growth alongside Rick and the team
How WitnessAI raised $58M to solve enterprise AI’s biggest risk techcrunch.com/video/how-wit…
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Sound is proud to have led a $58M strategic funding round in WitnessAI.
As enterprises move AI into core workflows, security, governance, and runtime control become foundational infrastructure. Witness is building the confidence layer for AI adoption across employees, models, and agents.
Excited to partner with Rick Caccia and the entire team as they scale globally.
































