@jamesjoaquin

Co-founder @obviousvc | Former CEO Xoom, Xmarks, Ofoto | https://xitter.cf/t.co/25zW1bZrd1 | https://xitter.cf/t.co/UePrEegeu4

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined July 2008
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Iman Abuzeid MD
@ImanAbuzeidMar 25
76% of healthcare leaders say they're not prepared to implement AI at the speed their organizations require. The intent is here. The execution is lagging. @JoinIncredible just launched our 2026 Healthcare Executive Report on AI & the healthcare workforce 👇
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Obvious Ventures
@obviousvcJan 26
some head-turning news! techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/ob…

Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view of planetary, human, economic health |...

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

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Ken Goldberg
@Ken_Goldberg10 Dec 2025
Excellemt summary Lukas. Like @DynaRobotics and @SundayRobotics, @AmbiRobotics is led by a brilliant team of roboticists and engineers laser-focused on building systems that work efficiently in the real world to capture avalanches of real robot data for learning.
Lukas Ziegler
@lukas_m_ziegler10 Dec 2025
In 2018, Amazon tried to acquire Ambi Robotics. The founders said no. Instead of joining Bezos company, they built a robotics company from scratch. One that now powers parcel sortation for millions of packages with general‑purpose AI. 🧵 Here's how they did it:
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Signals@TEDAISF15 Oct 2025
📣@jamesjoaquin — Co-Founder & Managing Director of @obviousvc — joins Day 1 #TEDAISF25 James backs breakthrough tech driving humanity forward, investing in AI for good across industries from Beyond Meat to Diamond Foundry. Apply: tedai-sanfrancisco.ted.com/
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Manos Koukoumidis
@Koukoumidis29 Jan 2025
If AI isn’t truly open, it will fail us. We can’t close in a black box our greatest invention yet just so that a few can freely monetize. AI needs its Linux moment, and so we started working towards it. This can only succeed if we all work together! #oumi #opensource #collaboration @rsalakhu @svlevine @larry_heck @karpathy @atalwalkar @prfsanjeevarora @tsvetshop @hhexiy @sainingxie @larry_heck @AnimaAnandkumar @JunjieHu12 @georgiagkioxari @profjoeyg @pliang279 @danqi_chen @ChrisGPotts @BillMacCartney @vinodv @tur_gokhan @dilekhakkanitur @j_foerst @gingsmith23 @kahinish @jamesjoaquin @gan3sh @ethanjb @kirbywinfield @egonzdp
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Ex-Google, Apple engineers launch unconditionally open source Oumi AI platform that could help to build the next DeepSeek venturebeat.com/ai/ex-google… via @VentureBeat

Oumi's $10M open-source AI toolkit launch | VentureBeat

Existing open-source AI approaches are still not entirely open, which is a challenge that former Google and Apple engineers alongside a coalition of 13 universities are looking to solve.

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NYSE 🏛
@NYSE17 Dec 2024
"Support the world-positive entrepreneurs building disruptive solutions." @obviousvc Co-Founder & Managing Director James Joaquin speaks on reimagining sectors in ways that move the planet forward. #TakingStock with @TrinityChavez
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Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn’t Want You to Be. nytimes.com/2024/12/12/techn…

Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn’t Want You to Be. (Published 2024)

The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.

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Amazing news. Congrats team @Dyno_Tx !
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc.
@Dyno_Tx24 Oct 2024
🎉🧬We’re thrilled to announce a new strategic partnership with @Roche to advance next-generation #AAV gene therapies for neurological diseases. More on this partnership milestone: tinyurl.com/dynoroche24
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The Full Ratchet@TFR_Pod3 Jun 2024
"Generative AI is the most important invention that humanity has made." Don’t miss TODAY's episode of TFR - a fascinating conversation with @jamesjoaquin of @obviousvc on investing in solutions to the world's toughest problems, "world positive" investing, AI, climatetech, and more. fullratchet.net/james-joaqui…
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so excited about this book launch!
Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson6 May 2024
People of NY/Bay Area/Seattle: I am headed your way to celebrate next week’s launch of my new book The Infernal Machine! May 14 6pm at Book Passage Corte Madera CA May 15 7pm at Books Inc Palo Alto CA May 16 7pm at Third Place Books Seattle May 22 7pm at POWERHOUSE Arena Brooklyn
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Read about our contrarian view of AI at @obviousvc Generative Science - the next AI era. #GenSci obvious.com/ideas/generative…
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Startup Grind
@StartupGrind18 Apr 2024
Dive into the trends and opportunities that are shaping the AI investment landscape in 2024 with @brettdg (@Initialized), @veelarco (@NEA), @jamesjoaquin (@obviousvc) and @kobiefuller (@upfrontvc). Happening live on April 23rd on the Global 2024 Mainstage! lnkd.in/ezxU9MKa
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Hello @Halcyon! cc @NatBullard @boo halcyon.eco/blog/hello-world

Hello World

Hello world - Halcyon is an information platform for professionals seeking faster, better-informed decarbonization business decisions.

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The digital version of the 2024 World Positive Report is live on our site: obvious.com/wpr/ Inside are a series of puzzles and ciphers - can you solve them all?

World Positive Report

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Obvious Ventures
@obviousvc18 Jan 2024
You may have noticed something puzzling about this year's World Positive Report. We worked with the puzzle master, Scott Kim, to bring you six puzzles of ever-increasing difficulty hidden throughout the report. Learn all about our process here: obvious.com/ideas/the-missin…

The Missing Piece

Nearly a decade ago, we founded Obvious Ventures to invest in companies solving the biggest, most complex problems of our time. These problems include the climate crisis, financial insecurity, and...

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Obvious Ventures
@obviousvc17 Jan 2024
We founded Obvious Ventures to invest in companies solving humanity's biggest challenges. In this year’s World Positive Report, we’re sharing with you 25 companies that are solving these problems, one piece of the puzzle at a time. obvious.com/wpr/ #worldpositive
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Iman Abuzeid MD
@ImanAbuzeid7 Dec 2023
🚀 Exciting news! @JoinIncredible is the first healthcare career marketplace using Generative AI, resulting in a 20% increase in nurses accepting interviews. Discover how we use AI to increase access to job opportunities and transform healthcare hiring bit.ly/47KzMs2

Incredible Health Implements Generative AI to Transform Nurse Hiring

Learn how Incredible Health's new capabilities powered by generative AI have expanded opportunities for nurses and sped up nurse the hiring process.

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Best #OpenAI headline I've seen today: CTRL, ALTMAN, DELETE.
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Iman Abuzeid MD
@ImanAbuzeid27 Sep 2023
Today, @JoinIncredible announced that 25% of our hospital partners operate in low-to-middle income communities, a crucial step in closing the gap between healthcare access & quality for underserved communities. Read more: bit.ly/3tbXZI8

25% of Incredible Health’s hospital partners operate in low-to-moderate income communities, and 27%...

By connecting “safety net” hospitals with much-needed permanent nursing talent, Incredible Health is taking an active role in solving the gap. Our mission is to help healthcare workers live better...

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Obvious Ventures
@obviousvc7 Sep 2023
Biological software is a synthetic molecule that executes functions, specified from a program, in a biological system. We're proud to support @InceptiveCom in its mission to use bio software to create broadly accessible medicines previously out of reach. ft.com/content/dd557790-a39b…

Former Google AI expert raises $100mn for biotech start-up

Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’

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