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@amspector100, Ben and the @flappyairplanes team are going to take your breath away! After spending some time in their office and seeing under the hood, I couldnt be more pumped up for them! @GVteam is stoked to support them in any and every way!
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Congrats on yet another great milestone, @SnorkelAI!
7.5 years ago and long before the recent AI wave, we @GVteam were honored to co-lead Snorkel's very first round of funding alongside @GreylockVC (@saammotamedi + @saranormous), backing a stellar team of founders coming out of Stanford's AI lab.
It has been incredible to see what @ajratner and the entire team have accomplished in that time, including today’s $350M round at a $3.5B valuation, while surpassing $375M in ARR.
I'm excited to announce @SnorkelAI's $350M Series E at $3.5B, led by @insightpartners and @S32_VC.
We've grown 18x+ in the last 12 months since launching our Data-as-a-Service offering, passing $375M ARRR this week.
As AI advances to superhuman capabilities, AI data & environment development must advance with it - and basic staffing and crowdsourcing approaches are not enough.
AI progress now requires deep research and technology work that combines human expertise with specialized AI in compounding ways. @SnorkelAI is building the RSI data engine and frontier data lab for this next phase.
We're honored to have the support of existing investors Addition, @lightspeedvp, @GreylockVC, @GVteam, P7, Factory, @WellsFargo, Walden Catalyst Ventures, and new investors @ThirdPointLLC, @MarchCPs, @BlumbergCapital, @AllegisCapital, @Frontlinevc, and @standard_vc.
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@SnorkelAI started as a research project a decade ago at @StanfordAILab.
Our thesis was simple: AI progress would become increasingly data-centric – and therefore data development should be studied as a true research and technology problem, not just a staffing and crowdsourcing one.
Today, as AI capabilities verge on superhuman, building the data and environments to safely measure and train AI is becoming too hard for even the smartest human experts to do alone.
Only humans and AI agents, collaborating together in compounding ways, can meet the accelerating needs of the frontier, and keep humans in the driver’s seat of AI progress for decades to come.
At @SnorkelAI, we are building the data lab to define the shape of this new “Data 2.0” frontier, and the new paradigms of human-computer interaction needed to advance it.
Our key focus is building the RSI engine for data, where specialized AI models accelerate and improve human expert output, and in turn, scaled human supervision is used to continuously evaluate and improve these models – creating a powerful compounding loop to keep pace with an accelerating RSI frontier.
With this round of funding, we are also doubling down on our commitments to support data development for open benchmarking and evaluation (more news here soon!); an increasingly diverse ecosystem of general and specialized intelligence; and a path to safe, well-aligned AI built on robust training and evaluation data.
Data development will guide and drive the next stages of AI – and must do so in a human-centric, AI accelerated, open, diverse, and safe way. We are excited to support this mission in the next decade of research ahead at @SnorkelAI.
More thoughts here: snorkel.ai/blog/data-2-0-and…
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Introducing Express-3, our most advanced Avatar model yet 💥
- Sentiment-aware performances
- Better lip sync and more natural body motion
- 2x faster video generation
Express-3 also powers Style Avatars - stylized characters you can create from a prompt or preset via Avatar Builder.
Available on all plans.
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We closed a $275 million financing co-led by GV and another healthcare fund, with support from new and existing investors. Funding will advance ETX101 for Dravet syndrome and support broader pipeline advancement. Learn more encoded.com/encoded-therapeu…
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It was fun to join @EdLudlow to chat about @gvteam’s outlook on AI, @modular’s recent acquisition by Qualcomm, and partnering with @clattner_llvm @iamtimdavis over the years. Thanks to @BloombergTV for having me!
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Coming out of Connected Stack 2025, the founders who took our stage went on to raise $2.9B+ in new capital, sign major enterprise contracts, and exit at $4.5B+.
On September 10th in SF, #ConnectedStack returns.
20+ leading venture firms co-host, and each one nominates a founder hitting escape velocity for the stage. These are the names that will dominate the enterprise AI conversation. Every firm curates their attendee list, so the room is as high-signal as it gets.
For one morning, 1,000+ builders, backers, and buyers of enterprise AI come together to share what is actually moving the needle. Less noise, more results.
Last year: @realpaulsmith of @AnthropicAI, @levie of @Box, @rauchg of @vercel, and founders from @baseten, @chronosphereio, @cresta, @vezainc, @joinHandshake, @DecagonAI, @ExaAILabs, and many more.
On September 10, you'll want to be in the room to meet the next wave.
Secure your spot today: connectedstack.ai
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Great to bring together some of SF's best young builders and researchers for a dinner and panel with @GVteam and @velocityeleven. Inspiring to see what's getting built from Day 0. Thanks to all who came.
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Last year was a great success... so we're back! @GVteam is co-hosting Humans in the Loop- featuring many of the most ambitious, creative early-stage companies in consumer AI. Join us on June 10th in SF! humansintheloop2026.com/
We need more positive, human stories about this technology shift—full stop. Humans in the Loop is exactly that: a novel event spotlighting the impact of builders putting AI in the hands of people, to enrich everyday life.
Space fills up fast. Join us!
humansintheloop2026.com/
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Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/ma…
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Introducing Contract Intelligence.
Contract agents take first pass on inbound contracts, apply your playbooks, and generate redlines.
See how clauses and negotiated positions are trending across your business.
Escalate what needs legal judgment, while agents handle the rest.
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Series E - raising $950 million from new and existing investors, led by @Tiger_Global and @GVteam, at a valuation of over $15 billion. Sierra now has more than $1 billion to invest in becoming the global standard for companies transforming their customer experiences with AI.
sierra.ai/blog/better-custom…
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I’ve spent 20 years watching brilliant founders hire for IQ and fire for EQ. We’ve mastered the art of technical screens, but we’re still rookies at assessing the human. In an AI-first world, your "human stack" is the only moat you have left. 🧵
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Today, we're opening Guild to everyone.
AI agents are already in production. Reviewing code. Triaging tickets. Orchestrating workflows.
The hard part isn't building agents anymore. It's controlling them once they're loose in your system.
That's not a problem better models can solve. We need better infrastructure.
Guild is the control plane for AI agents — a new management layer that lets you manage any agent, across any model.
→ Deploy production-ready agents in minutes
→ Control access to context and data at scale
→ See every action, by every agent, in real time
→ Share governed agents across your team and beyond
Works wherever you do — GitHub, Jira, Slack, Notion, and more.
If you're building agents for production, our open beta is live.
guild.ai
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🕸️ Connectivity is Alpha: In venture, luck is a function of your network's surface area. If you’re looking at the same "proprietary" deals as everyone else, you’re just reading a different version of the same menu. Luck favors the connected; returns favor the contrarian.
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Agent skills help agents use your products, build in your codebase and enforce your policies. They’re not just words - they are what the unit of software for agentic devs, and need powerful dev tools to match. That is what @tessl_io offers.
Tessl is the package manager and development platform for skills. It offers a full dev lifecycle, helping you generate, evaluate, distribute and observe skills & context, developing them to the professional grade they warrant.
Today, I’m excited to announce the general availability of our task evals, which help you understand how good your skills are. Such insight is critical to making your skills great, avoiding regression, and applying learnings from their real world usage.
For example: @Cisco's software-security skill shows a 1.8X improvement in securing coding in its benchmark, and @ElevenLabs's agents skill boosts success by almost 3X!
However, not to name names, we often see skills that provide minimal uplift while consuming context window space, or even degrade functionality.
As Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, put it when we shared early versions of this: evaluation is what makes agentic coding outcomes converge instead of drifting.
Task evals are joining a long list of powerful context development tools, such as:
* Review skills against quality best practices
* Generate and maintain skills and docs for using your libraries & platform
* Distribute versioned skills to your dev team and ecosystem
* Consume skills easily and safely, and keep them up-to-date
Skills are a central part of software development. If you’re serious about making agentic dev successful in your org, or helping your customers’s agents use your products, you need to invest in them. We hope Tessl can help.
Check out links in the thread to get started!
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Making life insurance instant and easy— @get_Ethos is now #NasdaqListed! 🎉 Relive the day.
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Congrats to the brilliant Q.ai Ltd team: they’ve been acquired by @Apple, marking Apple’s 2nd largest acquisition ever 🚀
It’s been a pleasure to work with Aviad, Yonatan and Avi since we co-led their Seed in 2022 with our friends at Aleph (coinvestors with us in Lemonade and Simply).
What they’ve built, entirely in stealth, at the intersection of AI and physics has the potential to transform communication. At Apple, their innovation will have the opportunity to reach global audiences.
We are going to deeply miss working with them, they are extraordinarily smart, high integrity and tenacious. After the horrendous Oct 7th attack in 2023 approximately 30% of the company were drafted into military service, and for months afterwards our meetings were interrupted as the team had to scramble into bomb shelters, this slowed them down less than I could have imagined and not once did they complain, instead their energy was focused on supporting their community and making technical breakthroughs.
Congrats from all of us @GVteam !
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Carl Pei, Co-founder and CEO of Nothing, joined Tom Hulme, Managing Partner and Head of Europe at Google Ventures, to explore what it takes to build hardware that stands out in a software-driven world.
They discussed how thoughtful design, physical experiences, and AI interfaces are coming together to shape the next wave of consumer technology, and why creating something that connects on a human level is what truly sets teams apart.
So here’s a reminder you may not have known you needed: great technology doesn’t just work. It resonates.
Tune in for the Founder Stage livestream 👉 slush.org/livestream
Photos by Vertti Luoma
