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Dec 2024
We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. Were also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.
Seed Investor
Oct 2024
Introducing Dreamer: a place where anyone can discover, build, and enjoy agentic apps. Build from scratch or remix what the community has made. Connect powerful tools and data so your agents can take meaningful action. Everything works together, with clear permissions you control. It’s your home for personal intelligence, now in beta.
Board Observer
Nov 2022
Lavender is your AI Email Coach
It combines everything you need to easily write sales emails that get replies.
Get real time AI-driven coaching on your email, research your prospect without leaving your inbox, confirm their email is valid, check if your email will land in SPAM, see how it looks on mobile, plus much more.
SDRs and AEs from the worlds largest companies use Lavender to boost opens and double replies.
If you get a reply, youre more likely to book a meeting and close a deal.
#TryLavender
Investor
Mar 2022
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the worlds fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads.
With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, were uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and its still wide open. Now lets go build it!
Board Member
Sep 2019
Brits in Tech in the Bay Area: innovating, collaborating & inspiring others.
GBx is a curated network for British entrepreneurs and senior British tech executives. This is a place to share the experience and knowledge you have gained with like-minded peers and to mentor new entrepreneurs entering the market.
GBx aims:
- To create a community of British entrepreneurs and others involved in the tech scene in the Bay area for mutual help and support
- To provide a network that new British tech entrepreneurs wishing to establish themselves in the Bay area can plug in to for insights and advice
- To provide a forum for discussion of emerging issues in the tech space to inform British Government policy thinking
Board Observer & Investor
Dec 2018
Sendoso is the gifting and direct mail platform that helps revenue teams 6x second call rates, double win rates and close deals 29% faster.
Investor
Jul 2018
Founded by Paul Tran in 2016, San Diego, California-based MANSCAPED® is the global men’s lifestyle consumer brand and male grooming category creator trusted by over 10 million men worldwide. The product range includes a diversified line of premium tools, formulations, and accessories designed to introduce and elevate a whole new self-care routine for men. MANSCAPED’s collection is available internationally in 39 countries at MANSCAPED.com, Amazon in more than 100 countries worldwide and in major retailers including Walmart, Target®, Best Buy, Macy’s, Walgreens, Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Military Exchanges, Tesco, Boots, Hairhouse, Woolworths and many more internationally.
Founding Investor
Sep 2017
SKALE is the worlds fastest blockchain, designed for fast, secure, user-centric Ethereum scaling. SKALE chains offer zero gas fees to end-users and have advanced features such as ML/AI smart contracts, on-chain file storage, interchain messaging, zero-cost minting, and enhanced security features.
The SKALE network enables developers to deploy their own EVM blockchain in minutes without sacrificing speed, security, or decentralization. Welcome to the SKALEverse.
SKALE supporters include Arrington Capital, Blockchange, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed, HashKey, Floodgate, Multicoin Capital, Recruit Holdings, Signia VP, and Winklevoss Capital.
Investor / Board Observer
Jul 2014
We make games because we love them, and because games have the power to bring people together.
We established Phoenix Labs in 2014 to create a place where diverse teams of people could come together to build deep multiplayer games. Weve assembled an experienced, passionate team of developers across our locations in Vancouver, BC, Montréal, QC, and San Mateo, CA.
In May 2019, we launched our first game, Dauntless. It was the first game ever to launch with true crossplay and cross-progression. Since then, we’ve watched our community grow to more than 25 million players across four platforms.
Our next game, Fae Farm, will launch in late 2023. Fae Farm is a magic-infused farm sim where players create their own cozy home in the enchanted world of Azoria, available on the Nintendo Switch.
Investor
May 2014
Bringing Family-Sized Value Right to Your Doorstep. Bigger sizes mean bigger savings, with or without membership fees. Get the essentials your family needs delivered in bulk by Boxed. Don't run out. Trust in Boxed to be there for you.
Culture:
NBC Nightly News called our CEO, Chieh Huang, “America’s Dream Boss” for the benefits he extends to employees. Our generous company benefits have been featured on GMA, Today, CNN, The Huffington Post, and more.
As digital natives, Boxed brings the best of technology to you via the web or mobile app; and uses advanced machine learning to continually improve the end-to-end customer experience
Boxed was named one of the best places to work by Crain’s New York Business in 2016. Boxed is headquartered in SoHo and has three fulfillment centers around the country: in New Jersey, Nevada, and Texas, which allow orders to be delivered within two days. We also have a small office in San Mateo, California.
Tech:
Our state-of-the-art fulfillment centers make headlines, just like our Autonomously Driving Vehicles (named after members of the Wu-Tang Clan) and robotics. The bigger news? We automated our main fulfillment center without cutting human jobs because we believe that technology should improve the human experience – and that includes the experience of the amazing team we’re building at Boxed.
Press:
Boxed has been featured on Business Insider, CNN, Huffington Post, Fortune, CNBC, Fox Business, Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, CNet, Quartz, New York Post, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur and Nightly Business Report.
Investor
Apr 2014
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles.
Since our 2013 founding in San Francisco, we have hired over 1,600 talented individuals and opened additional offices in greater Seattle, Pasadena, Phoenix and Munich. We have raised $10B from General Motors, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, T. Rowe Price, Walmart and others. Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings.
If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving vehicles, join us. getcruise.com/careers.
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Investor
Dec 2024
We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. Were also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.
Seed Investor
Oct 2024
Introducing Dreamer: a place where anyone can discover, build, and enjoy agentic apps. Build from scratch or remix what the community has made. Connect powerful tools and data so your agents can take meaningful action. Everything works together, with clear permissions you control. It’s your home for personal intelligence, now in beta.
2023
Partner
Jan 2023
Kyber Knight brings a unique approach to venture capital with its mission to provide innovative early stage companies and founders access to a network of highly successful and influential executives that can help them establish a framework of scalable success.
Founded by seasoned investors and founders Sunny Dhillon and Linus Liang, Kyber Knight offers a hands-on collaborative approach and is hyper-focused on pre-seed and seed investing between $250,000 and $3,000,000 in companies that are building across commerce, AI, and labor.
Kyber Knight, established in 2023, has raised from 50+ CEO, founders, executives of top tech startups, and Fortune 500 companies. These highly influential and successful people are known as our “Luminary Leaders” and include Alphabet, Inc. Chairman John Hennessy, former CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard, Board Member P&G and GM Meg Whitman, former President of Dreamworks Animation Chris DeFaria, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company Michael Eisner, and AirBnB Founder Joe Gebbia, among others.
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