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Coffee is my passion ☕️, well, Software Engineering & Data too. 👨‍💻 Led Data & AI @NewRelic. Today, Angel investor & Partner @HetzVentures

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Joined December 2011
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Guy Fighel retweeted
Kind of wild … our model called Argentina v Spain on June 11 on TBPN when betting markets were predicting France to be the winner @tbpn @jordihays @johncoogan
Happy Thursday. On today's show: - @arielcoco (Navan) - @mikewior (Allen Control Systems) - @jtatarchuk (TensorWave) - @fraenkelj (Fundamental) - David Reger (NEURA Robotics) - Matthew Joseph (Minerva) - Ade Ajao (Base10) See you on the stream.
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most companies rolling out @claudeai code don't have a policy on it. the managed-settings file is powerful but too broad, so teams freeze. the willow team turned what we've learned into policy ranger. free, no signup. write cc policy in minutes. withwillow.ai/platform/claud…
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Two new partners joined Hetz SPARQL program for AI/data infra founders: @AnthropicAI & @nebiusai. Hetz Ventures is the only 🇮🇱 VC in Databricks, Snowflake, Confluent, & Grafana Labs accelerator programs for early stage. Building? Chat with us (cc @guyfig)
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Hetz Ventures is the only Israeli VC partner in this program. If you're an early founder building data and AI intensive applications for enterprise buyers, we're your gateway with @guyfig at the wheel, and we're actively sourcing. Learn more at data.hetz.vc
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Can LLMs reliably predict program termination? We evaluate frontier LLMs in the International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) 2025, directly competing with state-of-the-art verification systems. @AIatMeta @HebrewU @Bloomberg @imperialcollege @ucl @jordiae @pascalkesseli @jvanegue @HyadataLab @adiyossLC @PeterOHearn12 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18987 Website: orensultan.com/llms_halting_… 🧵👇 1/n
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🚀 10 wks w/ dedicated Confluent senior scientist 🚀 Early access to Confluent's AI infra 🚀 Product credits & support - Databricks, MongoDB, Anthropic 🚀 Exposure to Confluent ecosystem 🚀 Early-stage building agentic AI, realtime genAI, intel. automation on streaming data infra
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Here's the reality: Most Israeli AI startups wait 18+ months and a Series A round before accessing technical partnerships with companies like Confluent, Databricks, and Anthropic. By then, your core architecture is already locked in.
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Why do strong founders insist on having Israeli investors lead their seed cap table? @JudahTaub3 w/ 2 reasons: 🎯 Specialization: a seed investor who truly knows their domain. 🎯 Conviction: when there's a crisis at home, Israeli VCs show up. Full convo: youtube.com/watch?v=VMmZvqKt…
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“To move data from A to B today, you need at least 6-7 tools.” Shachar Meir tells it like it is on בול בדאטה 🎯 w/ @guyfig. Why do even the best data teams still struggle, and how can founders break that cycle? Shachar shares tons of POV in the full ep: geektime.co.il/bool-bdata-ep…
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"There is no line item for this.” @BM_DataDowntime on creating a new category in data observability w/ @guyfig on בול בדאטה 🎯. Barr's advice to other founders: don't start a new category unless you must & if you do - start with the problem. Full convo: youtube.com/watch?v=1WzRqf7S…
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Guy Fighel retweeted
We are super excited to announce a major milestone today: open-source 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝟭.𝟬, early access to 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, and our $𝟳𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱, led by Redpoint Ventures. teapawt.net/TechCrunch/status/1800… Read on 👇
Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform tcrn.ch/3yXZIEd
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Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform tcrn.ch/3yXZIEd
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Our latest “Building AI with #MongoDB” blog post is now live. The 5th in our series, this post features @SuperDuperDB, @Algomocom and Source Digital who are revolutionizing three core areas of human communication with #AI: data, language, and video. trymongodb.com/3tEjou1
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Tesla $TSLA is currently down 9% on earnings. This could be the 3rd straight quarter with a 1-day drop of 9% on earnings. Beginning to sense a pattern. 10/19/23 (today): -9.3% 7/20/23: -9.74% 4/20/23: -9.75% But wait. Since the close on 4/19, $TSLA shares are still up 22%.
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How are enterprises preparing for the shift in how their teams use, store and secure #data? How will startups build for this?  @guyfig shares 3 insights from #MLOps execs and practitioners in the @mlopscommunity :  hetz.vc/news/enterprises-are…
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Very proud to intro the Hetz Data Program, designed for early #data and #AI startups. Founders get direct access to handpicked data executives and advisors for critical guidance, plus hands-on support, research credits, and more: calcalistech.com/ctechnews/a…
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