💪 @joshim5 and @jackdent on a heater bringing the largest and most innovative pharma companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis and argenx into the AI era with @chaidiscovery
When we first invested in Chai’s Series A, we were drawn to the audacity and the ambition of @jackdent and @joshim5 who envisioned a future of AI one-shotting novel drug candidates. Fast forward just a year and a half later and that vision is becoming reality with some of the
Talk about talent density! Last night, Avenir hosted an AI dinner in Paris with some of our favorite founders and friends @ScottWu46 (Cognition), @andrewdfeldman (Cerebras) @oliveur (Datadog), Chris Clark (OpenRouter), @paraga (Parallel), @nikhilbenesch (TurboPuffer), @dylan522p
I remember distinctly my first visit to the Cognition house in Atherton a year and a half ago. @ScottWu46 and @russelljkaplan had amassed the most talent dense team of IOI medalists I had ever met, with some of the best engineers and mathematicians in the world. This cracked team
1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.
Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.
We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since