Leading pre-seed VC firm helping founders meet customers and strategic investors through curated events.

Miami, FL
Joined April 2020
Everyone's watching the GPU race. Almost nobody's watching the network race. At scale, the network is what decides whether all those GPUs actually stay busy. That's the layer we've been backing while the market stared at the chips.
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Every enterprise now has AI agents running in its environment that nobody onboarded, nobody approved, and nobody can see. The best security leaders aren't fighting it. They're treating agents like employees: give each one an owner, a role, and visibility. #AI #AgenticAI
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Best thing I saw all week wasn’t on my feed. It was in a room. Miami Innovation Academy, Week 5 @NortheasternMIA @pablo_casilimas from @161ventures breaking down w/ @Rania___305 how to raise when all you have is a story. Founders locked in! Demo Day is going to be 🔥
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I rarely talk about my story here. At the age of 14, I ran away from home. I dropped out of high school. I floated through life in my late teens and early 20's with no real purpose. And then I learned of the wonderful world of start-ups. An ecosystem where you are rewarded for your drive and not just your background and accolades. This changed the entire trajectory of my life. Since then, I have been committed to giving opportunities to driven people who may not have the connections, prestige, or capital to make their dreams come true. I am honored to speak to founders at Harvard University this month alongside my brother Shivang Raisurana. This will not be a talk about "what your pitch deck should look like" or "founder market fit". This will be a real peek behind the curtain as to how investors (and other founders) truly evaluate YOU as a founder before even thinking about your company. If you are a founder who wants advice, guidance, intros, or whatever, never hesitate to reach out.
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Excited to be moderating the one and only @mattmcilwain during his keynote speech tomorrow at our @161ventures event tomorrow As always, shoutout to our sponsors @SiliconVlyBank , @innodata
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Genius is equally distributed. Opportunity isn’t.” 🌍 🔎Founder takeaway: most founders don’t lack talent — they lack access. If your city doesn’t have operators or investors, build the room yourself. #entrepreneurship #ecosystem
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⏩The AI startups winning right now aren’t flashy. They quietly turn 15 minutes into 15 seconds. 🔎Founder takeaway: if you can show clear before vs after, distribution solves itself. Demos > decks. Always. #AIstartups #SaaS
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If your AI pitch starts with “we use AI,” stop. 🤖 Founder takeaway: customers buy outcomes, not models. Lead with cost ↓, time ↓, accuracy ↑. AI is the engine — business impact is the product. #AI #B2B #product
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📈Scaling lesson: you can’t make every decision — but you can define how decisions get made. 🔎Founder takeaway: hire people who solve problems without permission. Process scales after values, never before. #scaling #operators #founders
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Culture isn’t a values slide. Culture is decisions made when no one’s watching. 👀 🔎Founder takeaway: the moment “that’s not my job” becomes normal, speed dies. Early teams win with default ownership. #leadership #startupculture
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The agent future isn’t one execution model. It’s bursts and marathons. Stateless and stateful. That’s why a new agent-native platform had to be built from first principles Congrats @jhaynie @rblalock @agentuity!
Agentuity v1 is live! 🚀 A cloud purpose-built for AI agents. Full-stack development, built-in services, sandboxes, production evals, and more (🧵)
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Every pitch deck says “this is a unicorn.” 🦄 Investors don’t fund projections — they fund momentum. Founder takeaway: show a metric moving (churn ↓, time ↓, revenue ↑). Hype expires. Proof compounds. #startuplife #VC #traction
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Most early startups fail because they build to fundraise instead of to sell. 😬 🔎Founder takeaway: fundraising is a tool, not the job. Customers create leverage. Revenue creates options. The best rounds happen when you don’t need the money. #fundraising #founders
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Founders don’t need more networking events. They need warm customer intros, early hires, and investors who answer texts. 📲 Founder takeaway: community isn’t vibes, it’s infrastructure. If your ecosystem doesn’t create outcomes, build the room yourself. 🏗️ #startupcommunity
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AI will kill jobs—and create new ones 🤖⚖️ Every tech revolution does. WEF: AI creates 97M new roles by 2027, even as others disappear. The edge isn’t AI itself. It’s judgment 🧠, context 🧭, and critical thinking. Use the tool. Don’t outsource your brain. #FutureOfWork #AI
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If you want a company that lasts 10+ years ⏳ build belief—not just software. Great products feel inevitable. Bain: companies with strong loyalty grow 2.5× faster If leaving your product feels painful 😣 you’re doing it right. #Brand #CustomerLove
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Education is the real AI opportunity 🎓 Most companies don’t know how to use AI safely—not whether to use it. Gartner: 80% of enterprises fail to scale AI due to data & governance issues Winners won’t build flashiest AI ✨ They’ll make AI usable 🛠️ #AIAdoption #B2B
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AI adoption isn’t blocked by technology 🤖 It’s blocked by fear 😨 Fear of job loss Fear of change Fear of breaking things Deloitte: 60%+ of enterprises delay AI due to org resistance, not capability Founders who remove fear unlock demand 🔓 #AI #Enterprise
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Ask for money early 💰 Not validation 👍 Not feedback 📝 Money. Stripe data: startups that charge within 6 months reach PMF faster If even friends won’t pay… strangers definitely won’t 😬 Revenue is truth 🧾 #Bootstrapping #SaaS
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