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JC Bahr-de Stefano
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Doing things such as Investing in fintech @btv_vc 💸 Running 🏃 and playing footy ⚽ Writing ✍️+ thinking out loud 🤔
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People in the comments acting like this is impossible to find. @pitdesi was 37 and generally met all of the other criteria when I met him. I’m able to say that because there is no minimum height listed. If there was…
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I wonder if these guys get any sleep 😅
Shareable files in Instinct Starting today, your Instinct can create shareable Files: private or public interactive pages that you can share with others. Whenever it’s appropriate, Instinct will create a File to help you compare options, work through a plan, or share what you’ve put together. For example: - Apartment hunting: compare places you’ve saved or toured, with photos, floor plans, rent, commute times, and your notes in one place. - Art gallery crawl: a route through exhibitions that match your interests, with opening hours, background on the artists, and a few cafes to stop by along the way. - Dinner with friends: a guest list, recipes scaled for eight, and an ingredient list you can check off as you go. - A weekend away: an itinerary built around your arrival time, with places to visit and details you can open along the way. - Group trip expenses: enter shared costs, choose who participated, and see who owes what. You can keep a File private or share it with anyone who has the link, including people who don’t use Instinct. Files are rolling to all Instinct users today. To get started, you can ask your Instinct to do the research for your next trip.
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.@Kantrowitz and @pitdesi break down why OpenAI and Anthropic's $100B ARR still hasn't shown up as a productivity boost:
One of these is the best sports drink I’ve ever had The other is the second best Brilliant lads 👏 @RossMackay111 @herrcuules @use_cadence
Was on a call with a founder recently He had “don’t mistake motion for progress” framed on the wall behind him Goes pretty hard tbh
@rubie_hq helps companies rip and replace their competitors with automated data migration before @usemonk, they were manually figuring out who owed them what, and sending invoices by email then setting reminders to go check on those invoices they automated AR end to end with Monk and saw: - 30% reduction in total open AR - 20+ hours saved per month - @jdmcd's time back as CEO Rubie's whole business proves that complex manual work can be automated without sacrificing quality. with Monk, their AR holds at the same bar as they grow full conversation with Jimmy below
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Monk is our favorite vendor - top tier software and service
Looks like @SierraPlatform is latest AIUC-1 certified company @aiunderwriting Along w/: - @cursor_ai - @ElevenLabs - @harvey - @KPMG - @Lovable - @UiPath - @fin
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More fintech x ai funding! @aiunderwriting raised a $40M Series A led by @ribbitcap AIUC certifies & insures AI agents so enterprises can actually deploy them. Their AIUC-1 standard works like SOC 2 for agents: each agent gets run through ~5,000 tests across jailbreaks, hallucinations & data leaks, gets a ~100-page audit report, is recertified quarterly, & certified agents are backed w/ insurance. AI agents run the tests, humans verify the final audit. The standard was shaped by the AIUC Consortium, ~250 Fortune 1000 security & risk leaders Their plan is to extend audits, standards & insurance from agents to frontier models Didn't see great biz metrics in the press but customers certified against AIUC-1 include @cursor_ai, @ElevenLabs, @harvey, @KPMG, @Lovable, @UiPath & @fin Founded by @RuneKvist (Anthropic's first product hire) & @RajivDattani (ex McKinsey insurance partner)
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Insane revenue ramp to match tbf @ElevenLabs went from $0 to $600M+ ARR in ~3.5 yrs since launch 20 months to $100M 10 months to $200M 5 months to $350M then added another $250M in the 7 mos since
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Wow per @business, @ElevenLabs is in talks to raise $500M+ Another crazy val ramp in a very short period ~$830M total raised ($2M pre-seed, $19M A, $80M B, $180M C, $550M+ D)
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Wow per @business, @ElevenLabs is in talks to raise $500M+ Another crazy val ramp in a very short period ~$830M total raised ($2M pre-seed, $19M A, $80M B, $180M C, $550M+ D)
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Omg an agent did the meme
We're sharing our new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment at OpenAI. The framework sets criteria and timelines for public disclosure, including when we haven’t yet fully explained or mitigated the behavior. More complex cases may require longer investigation or coordination with third parties. We’ll prioritize examples that reveal new misalignment mechanisms, meaningful changes in known behavior, or findings that challenge assumptions about safety or mitigation. Alongside the framework, we’re publishing six reports on instances of misaligned behavior we’ve observed during the training or evaluation of our models in the last six months. This is a starting point. We’ll refine the process through experience and public feedback, and share more reports on an ongoing basis.
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I do NOT appreciate how many liberties @WisprFlow has been taking recently in paraphrasing my words It used to apply great + needed polish but now it's like an editor I don't want...
More fintech funding! (@btv_vc edition, again) @NotesRoyalties announced it has raised a $5M seed round Notes offers a royalty collection platform for independent musicians. You give it an artist name + list of songs & it scans streaming services, collection societies & registries like the MLC & SoundExchange to find missing royalties, fix the registration issues, & claim what's owed They also just launched Releases, which folds distribution + publishing admin + money mgmt into one release flow (w/ a Stripe partnership behind it) Some stats on the biz: - $10M+ in previously unclaimed royalties identified since the Oct '25 public launch - Catalogs include James Blake, Zach Bryan, Mt. Joy & Girl In Red - Credits . fm, their free open credits database, has indexed 150M+ song codes Round was made up almost entirely of artists, managers & industry execs (Zach Bryan, Benny Blanco, Tainy, Ari Emanuel, Julie Greenwald, Sam Hendel & others) and us @btv_vc
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Insane week! @LuzernRisk raised a $45M Series B led by @insightpartners Luzern designs + forms captive insurance cos for businesses, then manages them once funded, coordinating the whole stack: captive mgmt, actuarial, legal/tax, regulatory, reinsurance, claims, accounting & investments No real stats on the biz from press beyond "revenue has grown rapidly YoY," but clients span industries + include mid-market & large public cos $12M Series A from @caffeinatedcap in April '25, who also led the seed
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This is getting insane lol Kastle raised a $24M Series A led by @insightpartners Kastle deploys "AI FTEs" for consumer lending: agents that work across banks' existing core systems + execute high-volume workflows end to end (customer service, loan origination, fulfillment, servicing, collections) w/out ripping out legacy infra Only real stat in the press is $1.8B+ in txns processed by its agents, but customers include Newrez, Valley Bank, Carrington Mortgage Services, New American Funding, Planet Home & Selene Finance
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Wow huge week for fintech funding! @AdaptiveBuilds raised a $30M Series B led by @tidemarkcap Adaptive offers accounting agents for construction cos that pull job status from the field & use it to handle invoice coding, change orders, billing, WIP & lien waivers 800+ construction cos on the platform (from $5M to $1B in annual revenue) & 40+ accounting firm partners, incl. top 10 CPA firms Launched 3 yrs ago serving SMBs, now moving upmarket into GCs + specialty trades $57M total raised now ($19M Series A from @emergencecap in July '24, $6.5M seed from @a16z in July '22)
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