Very happy to share that Parker McKee, Tony Kulesa and Thomas have all become Partners at Pillar VC. Feel very lucky to collaborate and learn from them every day. They are each among the most curious, tenacious, kind humans around. Congrats, team 🎉

It has been an enormous pleasure to witness the growth of our new partners -- Parker McKee,
Tony Kulesa, and Thomas. Intensely curious, fearless, and kind -- we couldn't be more proud to have them on the team at Pillar VC

Congrats to CEO Surge Biswas & the Nabla Bio team on their $26M Series A!

Nabla Bio's Autoverse platform is a proprietary biologically-informed ML model that learns the characteristics of functional proteins by studying the language of billions of natural amino acid sequences.

Welcoming Zapata AI to the Nasdaq Exchange Opening Bell. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Cache DNA has closed their seed round! 🎉

Congrats to CEO Michael Becich and the Cache team - this funding will advance personalized medicine by making digital data storage and access to biomolecules widely accessible. 🧬

Read more here: businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

Honored to be included in The Boston Globe's Tech Power Players 50 alongside my fierce friend, Lily Lyman, my better half, Dave Balter 🌲, and so many Pillar VC founders and friends. Feel very lucky to be part of this supportive Boston community. bostonglobe.com/business/tech-…

Congrats to Pillar VC Partner Sarah Hodges on being named to The Boston Globe Tech Power Players 50! 🎉

Tech Power Players 50 recognizes leaders in software, cybersecurity, AI & robotics, climate tech, health tech, crypto, and more. Read more about Sarah here: shorturl.at/evU48

We’re headed to Tech Week NYC 2024!

Join us for a DeepTech Happy Hour on June 5th. Hosted by Parker McKee, Alex Reinhart, and Katie Mulligan

Sign-up below! 👇
#techweek
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Kicked off our Wednesday morning having breakfast with folks at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo - the world’s leading robotics development event. 🦾

We talked robotics, AI, starting companies, and more - thanks to everyone who attended!

The national Robotics Summit & Expo is next week in Boston MA. I'm thrilled to pick the brains of the people who are putting robotics into the real world- may that real world be a warehouse, a factory, your front lawn, or DisneyWorld.

We're hosting a Robotics Breakfast on

🌟 Founder Spotlight 🌟

Bill Brady, co-Founder and CEO of KulaBio, champions sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture.

Learn more in this interview by Agri Business Review

agribusinessreview.com/kula-bio

Resilience. Self-awareness. Passion.

3 qualities that we look for in Founders. Sarah Hodges dives into each in this video from our Founder Playlist!

pillar.vc/playlist/video…

Insane. Not a gamer but it doesn't take much imagination to connect the dots between this and every other facet of design and architecture.

The main difference is that games are a uniquely digital dataset on which to train generative models and use the things you create. Most

Are you interested in taking an inside look at the startup fundraising process?

Join the Pillar VC team for another session of our two-part workshop series, Navigating VC.

In-person & virtual sessions available, running April 23rd & May 6th. RSVP here!

pillar.vc/navigating-vc/

12 hours left to apply for Build @ Pillar VC!

Join us this summer for free workspace, expert workshops, and more - apply now at: pillar.vc/build/

3 days left to apply for Build @ Pillar VC!

Spend your summer alongside a community that inspires ambition - applications due April 15th:
pillar.vc/build/

Congrats to Abridge on being named to the Forbes AI 50 for their game changing generative AI healthcare technology 🌟 #ForbesAI50

Our latest essay:

Kat Baney writes about DNA synthesis, a technology that can be used to do good or bad. Such dual-use tools require a new type of archetype, Kat writes; not 'wizards' or 'prophets,' but something in-between.

Read it online:
ideasmatter.co/2024/04/04/the…

Are you looking for a summer workspace?

Apply now for Build @ Pillar VC to create alongside Founders in biotech, AI, and more.

Deadline is April 15th: pillar.vc/build/

🌟Founder Spotlight🌟

Congrats to Chris Wang | ADHD Founder ✨ on being named to Inc. Magazine's 2024 Female Founders 250!

Her company Shimmer: ADHD Coaching offers online 1:1 ADHD coaching, providing affordable access to quality care for 13M adults in the US living with ADHD.
inc.com/profile/christ…