
Partner @lightspeedvp, formerly Ramp and Atrium, views are my own
San Francisco
Joined June 2010
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Underrated @max11free - to this day, still responds to my referral emails/texts <5min!
New @20vcFund episode on 20sales just dropped with @max11free - pumped to give it a listen
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There’s only so much AI can learn from the public internet. Some of the harder problems require data people have to create.
With Luel Labs, @LuelCompany is taking the human-data infrastructure it has built into multimodal research, starting with speech and underrepresented languages where existing datasets fall short.
We’re excited to see where @williamnamgyal, @Lenderking, and the team take Luel Labs.
Today we're launching Luel Labs, our end-to-end multimodal data lab.
Our research is powered by Luel's global network—leveraging 750,000+ contributors across 96+ countries to generate fully consented, quality-assured audio, video, and image data.
First up — Breakthrough TTS for underrepresented languages from the tips of the Himalayas and across the Sahara. We're delivering the first commercial-grade TTS for Tibetan and Dzongkha, and outperforming existing Masri and Darija models.
Alongside this effort, we’re driving foundational research to help the industry handle messy, real-world data—pioneering new approaches to 48kHz speaker separation, conversational overlap, STT modeling, data integrity, speech understanding and more.
RT @ravi_lsvp: @JeffDean has built the foundations that every era of modern computing has stood on, from web-scale infrastructure to scali…
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I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop
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Our first model, Inkling. Trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today.
Today, we are introducing Inkling.
Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/int…
Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵
Exciting times!
Today, we are introducing Inkling.
Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/int…
Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵
Huge milestone for @basepowerco 💪🏼 Proud of @ZachBDell @JLopas and the rest of the team who made this happen. Thrilled to be on this journey to see it finally unfold :)
Born in Austin. Built in Austin. Now serving Austin.
In partnership with Austin Energy, Base is now bringing whole-home backup to our hometown for a fraction of the cost.
See if your home qualifies at BasePowerCompany.com/AustinE…
Congratulations @nifleisher @liamail @cc_jarryd and the rest of the @sandstonehq team! We at @lightspeedvp are honored to be behind a spectacular team redefining how in house legal is performed. DM if you’re interested in joining!
cc @guruchahal
We’re excited to announce that we led @sandstonehq’s $30M Series A.
In-house legal teams stand to benefit significantly from AI support.
We believe Sandstone understands the lack of resources that can be provided to those teams.
The AI platform, founded by @nifleisher, @liamail, and @cc_jarryd, was built to streamline procedures and expand capacity. Sandstone can run intake, triage, execution, fulfillment, and measurement of legal work, using tools already in practice.
This founding team deeply understands the in-house legal problem and has the software background to build a solution. With this unique knowledge, we believe they are positioned to redefine the legal landscape, one case at a time.
CC: @guruchahal, @lisabethhan
Excited to continue to support @MikeyShulman @GeorgKucsko @fut_ure and the @suno team on their ambitious vision to reinvent how we enjoy music 💪🏼 They are hiring (in the Bay Area too!), DM if you’re interested in joining.
cc @lightspeedvp
Suno has raised over $400M, led by @bondcap, to keep bringing creative fulfillment to people everywhere.
We’re excited to welcome new investors including @IVP, @usv, and @ForerunnerVC , and grateful for the continued support of @matrixvc , @lightspeedvp, @MenloVentures, and Schroders Capital
suno.com/blog/series-d-annou…
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Congratulations to @ravi_lsvp, @ravirajjain, and @buckymoore on their recognition in the Seed 100 List!
The Seed 100 List from @businessinsider highlights early-stage investors with a unique ability to scout the tech stars of tomorrow. Amid the AI boom, the competitiveness and speed of investors getting in before the “seed stage” as we know it have been reinforced.
This is the Seed 100’s sixth year, and it is an honor to have 3 Lightspeed team members acknowledged on the list.
Early-stage investing has been wired into our team’s DNA for over 26 years. And we are incredibly proud to have backed many teams from their Seed rounds and beyond.
As Ravi puts it: "The founders Lightspeed backs don't extrapolate from the present; they derive from first principles and arrive at futures others haven't thought to look for.”
We at @lightspeedvp are excited to co-lead @LuelCompany's $31.2M financing with @generalcatalyst.
@williamnamgyal and @Lenderking are force of nature founders who've assembled a world class team of former IOI, IMO medalists and talented researchers to build Luel as the infrastructure to power the next generation of frontier AI with human intelligence. If this excites you, come join the team. Thoughts below ⬇️
cc @ravirajjain
As AI moves into the frontier, the bottleneck for human data now shifts to massive, net-new human generated data to further train these models. Luel is a two-sided marketplace for rights-cleared, multimodal training data. Our investments thoughts here: lsvp.com/stories/our-investm…
If you’re an AI lab, robotics company, or speech research team in need of training data — or a contributor looking to participate — visit luel.ai.
Lisa Han retweeted
What started as two teenagers bonding over their love for digital gigs evolved into two founders turning their passion into a platform.
@luelcompany co-founders @williamnamgyal and @Lenderking built their digital marketplace to strengthen infrastructure for human data.
Luel invites AI labs and enterprises to submit dataset requests, match contributors to the task, and quality check each submission. Contributors are paid for their contributions, and AI companies gain valuable, real-world data that improves their software.
The embodiment of a symbiotic relationship.
That’s why we’re excited to announce that we co-led their recent $31.2M Seed round alongside @generalcatalyst.
There’s only so much data to be scraped online. The next AI models will need high-quality, human-led data based in reality, and Luel is among those leading the charge.
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I'm beyond excited to announce that I’m joining @Lightspeed as a Partner on the early-stage investing team and helping to build everything they're doing in new media.
I've spent the last six years investing in early-stage companies, and the last year building a media platform in parallel. What started as a side quest has reached 350,000+ followers and millions of viewers a month.
For me, investing and storytelling have always been two halves of the same job. This work has put me in rooms with incredible founders, researchers, and operators - many of whom have become close friends, collaborators, and early stage bets. There's so much happening at the frontier right now, and the media platform has given me a way to be in those conversations early (and to bring the people I admire most into a wider audience).
When Lightspeed reached out, we saw the same opportunity. Venture and media are converging, and the next generation of great firms will need to show up differently: reaching founders and builders before they've even started a company, and being the place where people first get excited about what's happening in tech.
With more than $50 billion in AUM, Lightspeed has been building alongside founders at the frontier of technology for decades. It's a firm I've admired for years since I started investing - for its intellectual rigor, its long-term conviction, and the way it approaches company building. I’m excited to join a team that brings real depth and substance to its work, and I hope to bring that same ethos to everything I put out.
Thank you to @ravi_lsvp, @bsomaia , and @Machiz for believing in this vision and trusting me to help build it. I’m so excited to see what we do together.
If you're an early-stage founder, building or thinking about starting something, or just curious about this ecosystem - please reach out. My DMs are open and I’d love to chat!
Alysa Liu - retires for 2.5 years and comes back to win gold and end the 24 year Olympic drought for USA women’s figure skating. As she aptly put it after her free skate, “That’s what I’m f-ing talking about”!!!
A COMEBACK FOR THE AGES. 🥇🇺🇸
Alysa Liu wins Olympic gold, becoming the first U.S. women’s figure skating champion since 2002.
#WinterOlympics
Crazy to think that this was the inverse for the last 30+ years
Today, under the leadership of President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and Secretary Rollins, we announce the most significant shift in federal nutrition guidance in American history. For the first time, we're calling out the dangers of highly-processed foods and rebuilding a broken system from the ground up with gold-standard science and common sense.
National Design Studio is proud to introduce realfood.gov. 🥦
Lisa Han retweeted
The future of music is already here, and anyone can create it.
Today, @Suno announced a $250M Series C round to keep building an ecosystem where creators, listeners, and the broader music communities can make and share music together. Nearly 100 million people have created music on Suno in just two years, and many have found a new passion in the process.
Co-Founders @MikeyShulman, @fut_ure (Martin Camacho), @GeorgKucsko, and Keenan Freyberg are working towards building more advanced tools, richer experiences for casual creators, and new ways for people to connect through music.
Big congrats to the entire Suno team!
Cc: Lightspeed Partners @mignano and @lisabethhan
“Good things happen to good people”. I can’t think of a better adage that applies to @eglyman and @karimatiyeh and the @tryramp team. Grateful to have been on the ground at @tryramp as an early employee and now partner with them in a meaningful way here at @lightspeedvp. Congrats team 💪🏼
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