🎉 Congratulations to @tankots @SahajGarg6 and the @WisprFlow team--$280M Series B raised for AI voice dictation and human-AI interaction platform. We're proud to have supported the Wispr team since their seed round in 2021, and are in awe of the team's progress and dedication to seamless human-AI interaction. Fun fact: 60 billion words have been written with Wispr flow! 🤯 More here:

This is INSANE. Google just dropped a free AI voice dictation app for iOS and Mac. Every premium feature works without any subscription. 100% free, runs fully local, powered by Gemma 4.

Nativ v0.3.8 is out🔥🚀 → Multiple windows: separate workspaces, each with its own chats, drafts and navigation. → External model storage: keep models on an external APFS drive, with connection status and free space shown. → Voice dictation: set your own Return command These and many more quality-of-life improvements that add up to a Nativ that feels faster, and more polished. Shoutout to @VladSushchenko, @Alaxarr, @lllucas and JanYork for the awesome contributions! 🔥 Try @Nativ_AI 👇🏽

Big day for the Menlo portfolio. — Wispr Flow raises $280M led by us at $2B. ~40x YoY rev growth and a total of 60B+ words dictated. — Higgsfield raises $400M led by DST at $5.4B. $20M to $700M annual run rate in 12 months. Winning on the app layer is difficult: software is easier to replicate than ever before ("what's the moat? Can’t I just vibecode this?") so you have to maniacally focus on product quality, growth, retention and monetization while scaling your infrastructure, spinning up enterprise sales and growing a world class team. It is much easier said than done. Products that seem simple on the surface like voice dictation or video creation hide a ton of this complexity under the hood. And it’s impossible to do without exceptional entrepreneurs like Tanay / Sahaj and Alex at the helm.