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Packed house @cognition's rooftop last night in SF - awesome to hear from @ScottWu46 @breeves08 & Cognition team on state of AI code market, how to compensate exceptional people & Cognition's unique culture ๐
Grace Isford
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Grace Isford
@graceisford
Partner @Lux_Capital investing in the future ๐ | board @ecorner (STVP) @stanford previously @canvasvc @joinhandshake
- 1/ Big News! Today Iโm thrilled to announce that Iโve joined @Lux_Capital in their NYC office to invest in technology companies shaping the future ๐
- nyc marathon โ no race quite like nyc - running through all 5 boroughs w/ electric crowd energy made me very grateful to call this city home!! huge shoutout to the crowds, music, friends & family who kept me going ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ
- 1/ THE WEB3 WORLD ๐พ Today Iโm excited to publicly share my WEB3 WORLD deck - read it and see it here ๐
- Thrilled to announce the launch of Lux Capital 8 - our single largest $1.15B vehicle to back the most AMBITIOUS founders solving the world's most pressing problems from first $100K to last $100M ๐ซ luxcapital.com/lux8
- Today Iโm thrilled to announce @Lux_Capital's NYC AI Directory & NYC AI Map - 2 resources for the burgeoning AI talent ecosystem READ MORE๐ luxcapital.com/news/the-greatโฆ NYC AI Directory: airtable.com/appK49oThZBOTSโฆ NYC AI Map: felt.com/map/LUX-NYC-tkโฆ
- Thrilled & so grateful for this exciting milestone - especially thankful for the founders we work with & learnings from the rockstar @Lux_Capital team Excited to partner with the next generation of technologists inventing the future in the computational sciences & beyond!๐ก๐Replying to @Lux_Capital8/ @graceisford promoted to Partner. Grace first graced our presence earlier this year and got off to a fast start adding a jolt of positive tenacious energy and an immediate investment impact
- A very exciting day for @runwayml - announcing a $141M funding round bringing a ton of firepower onboard @google @nvidia @salesforce & continuing to build the future of the *multimodal* AI creative economy
- headed back from a week spending time in the Parisian tech & VC ecosystem - hereโs what I learned.. hint: paris is buzzing ๐ซ๐ท
- 1/ APIs are nothing new..but it seems like they may be having their heyday in 2020. I wrote about my framework for evaluating standout API-first companies and why the very best companies give their users โsuperpowersโ read it here ๐
- Iโve been diving deep into the Web3 rabbit hole - and thanks to friends, readings & investing myself Iโve learned quickly ๐ Hoping to pass along SOME of my learnings below to help others understand 1) what Web3 is โจ & 2) how to think about segments of the landscape THREAD ๐
- Iโve chatted with 50+ researchers, entrepreneurs & industry experts from companies like @huggingface @runwayml @MosaicML @Stanford @StanfordCRFM on the AI infrastructure & application landscape - hereโs what Iโve learned.. THREAD ๐
- 1 year ago.. @Lux_Capital gathered the definitive map & airtable of AI opportunities in NYC Yet I still get asked..what are the compelling up-and-coming NYC AI startups to join? UPDATED MAP + THREAD ๐
