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Basis Set
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Built by founders and operators. Investing in early-stage companies scaling human potential with artificial intelligence.
- News: Announcing @alien's $5M Seed Some products exist because a founder got tired of building the same thing five times. @alongubkin spent years building BYOC infrastructure (the plumbing that lets a vendor run its software inside a customer's own cloud). He hit the problem at
00:00 - News: Neion Bio announces their $23M Series A led by @caffeinatedcap! Neion engineers chickens to lay eggs that produce complex biologic proteins, in days, at a fraction of what a traditional facility costs to build. The why goes beyond cost. Resilient, domestic supply of
GIF - News: Announcing @levpgdog's $5.5M Seed @reductoai, @tryramp, @modal, @HuntressLabs, and @tripstack all run their Postgres through the same open-source project, built by a team of three. Today we are proud to share that we led PgDog's $5.5M seed round. Postgres is the mostProudly announcing PgDog's $5.5M seed round from @BasisSet, @ycombinator, @pioneer_fund, and others. Running Postgres in prod is hard. PgDog is a modern connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. It can be deployed anywhere and works with all Postgres hosts, incl.
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i was almost entirely on claude code, then almost completely switched to codex, especially after the hermes + codex integration. the hermes + x/grok integration was also a big contributing factor and i now use grok primarily with a few agents. ai operating environments - News: Takeoff41, Inc. launches out of stealth! Takeoff is reimagining early healthcare for newborns. The team was recognized by @Nature for its work using AI to improve health outcomes for premature babies by optimizing their nutrition. The company is building an entirely new
- News: Announcing Basata's $21M Series A There is perhaps no space more in need of the benefits of AI agents than healthcare. In such a consequential space, the decisions of "what" and "how" to automate are paramount. Basata is building differently, by showing up, sitting with
GIF - Jobs: Amazing opportunity to help push the frontier in AI memory as an early-career builder! Apply here 👉
- Perspectives: Investing in the Open Source Agent Stack (part 2 of 2) The agent era structurally favors open source and it's creating opportunities for founders and investors alike, both in the the infrastructure beneath AI, and in the products built on top of it. Below AI,
- Jobs: Very special opportunity to work alongside some of the fastest growing and most culturally impactful commerce companies of our generation! Apply here 👉@BasisSet opened the 2026 AI Fellowship — Commerce Track. 12 weeks in SF this summer. Mentorship from an AI-native VC. Hand's on building opportunity. bsv.notion.site/Basis-Set-AI-F…
- Introducing the inaugural Prosumer AI 40 List, recognizing the 40 tools reshaping how individuals build, create, and operate, nominated by 25 leading venture firms. The full list, and the thesis from @hanstung, @chelcietay & @Camiiikatz on why this category is surging:
00:00 - Perspectives: The Future of Agents is Open Source (part 1 of 2) The agent era rewards systems over single models, and those systems reward the control that open models bring. The more agentic software becomes, the more valuable openness becomes, not because open source is
GIF - News: @parasail_io announces their latest $32M Series A Parasail is building the world’s fastest, most cost-efficient AI inference network. We knew they were onto something based on the sheer number of companies that came to us and told us about why they were switching workloads
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