SaaS is dead, long live AI? The winter edition of our Seed Sentiment Survey resulted in a few interesting takeaways: - AI continues to be 🔥 - Hardtech is the most 'under-hyped' sector 🙄 - SaaS potentially dying a slow death ⁉️ eniacvc.medium.com/dd56e60a596c

We're absolutely thrilled to share that TRES has secured $11M in Series A funding! 🚀 📢 Series A round led by Faction and including New Form & boldstart 💵 Over 100 clients, managing $19bn in assets since our launch! 🌐 Supporting 100+ Web3 networks & growing weekly! 📊 325%

2023 recap published! 🙏🏼 to our founders, LPs, co-investors, + friends for your continued partnership + support! 2023 was unlike any other year - but alas, let's prep for the Year of the Dragon🐲 Ed Sim, Eliot Durbin, Ellen Chisa, Shomik Ghosh medium.com/boldstart-vent…

Hot off the press 🎉 Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! As we step into another exciting year, I am thrilled to bring you the second installment of my Generative AI series. n this piece, we shift our focus to foundational models. Read it Here 📰: open.substack.com/pub/ernestaddi…

Quick Sui starter pack from like, 6 hrs of messing around. wallet: Ethos ✨ Wallet - quick to set up, accepted most places, can add up to 10 ledger wallets at a time Nightly - also good, not quite as widely accepted, but like 95% coverage DEX: Cetus🐳

📢 Important Community Announcement Dear Ethos Community, It has come to our attention that someone has created a fake Discord server using our custom Discord link. The link redirects users to a fraudulent Collab Land server. We want to assure you that we are taking immediate

Hot off the press 🎉 I'm excited to share my latest blog post on fine-tuning foundational models. Join me in uncovering the mechanics and real-world uses for specialized LLMs. Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/the-generati…

Hot off the press 🎉 My latest blog post is in, where we continue to explore the intricacies of Generative AI. Join me as I examine Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and its impact on AI systems. Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/the-generati…

Hot off the press 🎉 We continue our AI journey with my latest post, highlighting the importance of data labeling! Join me as we explore the intricacies of data labeling to create robust LLMs. Read it here 📰: lnkd.in/eepHK-TS

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Hot off the press 🎉Today we explore synthetic data in enhancing AI outputs. Synthetic data broadens the range of diversity by including edge cases—scenarios that are difficult to obtain through traditional data collection methods. Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/the-generati…

Hot off the press 🎉 Vector databases are the hottest thing since sliced bread! Today, I'm excited to bring you my latest post diving into vector databases. Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/the-generati…

I'm back from Texas! This year I attended Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas, and the energy was immense. The event was star-studded with speakers and crypto titans. I’ve put together some of my key takeaways from this year’s event. Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/consensus-20…

Huge congrats Ed Sim for placing on the Midas Seed list for a third year As Iain Martin Forbes wrote for his profile: "As investors jockey to write earlier checks, Sim has long championed an approach he calls “inception investing” working with founders with little more than

I'm🔥 up to finally announce boldstart ventures's investment in @clayrunhq almost 7 years since we partnered @ inception. Huge congrats to Kareem Amin and whole team on their Series B with Meritech Capital - read more about the journey here: medium.com/boldstart-vent…

Generative AI is advancing fast! OpenAI's Sora creates lifelike videos/images from prompts, opening up endless creative opportunities. My new piece on Stable Diffusion explores the cornerstone of this tech and the realm of possibilities! Read it here 📰: ernestaddison.substack.com/p/an-introduct…

We now have a Gartner Magic Quadrant on AI Code Assistants but... Who's securing all that code and how? Snyk's Snyk Code product powered by it's own DeepCode AI just crossed the $100M ARR mark+ growing rapidly The only way to keep up with AI-generated code is with AI

At Protocol VC we've invested in 16 DePIN projects & the Protocol Labs network has incubated several more in addition to launching Filecoin as a DePIN network. We believe DePIN's core potential lies in its ability to decentralize contributions to projects & unlock true scale

Crypto holds the key to quantum resilience, yet this is often overlooked. At PL Capital we've made several bets in the space (denoted by an *) particularly around FHE. We consider FHE a bet on quantum resilience 🧵