what a great recap of #SeattleTechWeek from Madrona - big shouts to my partner Jen Haller - love seeing the #PitchAndRun footage! also check the turntablism b roll from yours truly spinning ai2incubator 😂

~40% of startups that raised their seed in Q3 2020 graduated to Series A in two years. The comparable percentage for the Q1 2022 cohort is 15.4%.

a note to founders from Ascend

Internet transit vs. GPT-4 level model cost reduction comparison. By no means a one-one-one comparison, but a pretty interesting overlay in price reduction overtime with compute innovation and economies of scale. It took ISPs 17 years to go from $1,200 MBPS to $0.63. It took

we move fast. Nate took this from idea to launch in 24hrs. basically YC Cofounder Matching but for Seattle only. debuts Founders Bash thurs - if you're looking for a co-founder, sign up (below in replies) and get a special sticker to help you find your match at the bash!

good times last night hosting Ascend lps and friends (shoutout J.P. Morgan for sponsoring) at the Seattle Mariners last night - people are in from austin, la, nyc, sf and beyond for Founders Bash - amped for tonight!

#FoundersBash 2024, in photos

We're incredibly excited to join our friends at Felicis and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund (GitHub Fund) in Moondream.AI's seed round.

The FIRST co-founder speed matching event is live AI Tinkerers - Seattle with a 100% unicorn company founder panel for moderated discussion kick off on this very important topic! can't wait :) thanks Adam Burgh for leading the charge on this and Ascend J.P. Morgan for support!

oumi trending #1 on github ☔🔥☔ Oumi

"Few people realize that 40 million people die on our roads every single year. That is like a 737 falling from the sky every week. If that was commercial airlines, we wouldn't stand for it. But for some reason, when it's cars and trucks, we look at it as simply the human

Mike Krieger On Claude's vision capabilities lagging its general intelligence: "We're not nearly as good at images as we need to be," Mike Krieger says. "If you've seen Computer Use... the model is smart enough to do almost every task asked of it. [But] we're currently just putting on funny

“Stable diffusion was the first thing that gave me hope that there would even be an open source large AI thing at all.” — Vik from @MoondreamAI 🔥 In this One-Shot moment, Vik shares how open-source vision models pulled him back into ML—and how YouTube (hi Karpathy & Jonathan

Indeed: ☔🔥☔ Ascend is someone you want on your pre-seed cap table!

Speaking in Las Vegas, Sequoia Capital's Alfred Lin says the desert is "not designed for humans." Just like highways and space. He was responding to Kate Rooney's question about humanoids being the best form-factor for robotics. Most people say the world is designed for humans, which is

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Seattle is almost always outside the top five in terms of gross venture dollars invested in the market. but venture dollars invested is not the only useful metric to judge start up ecosystem’s health. As one of my LPs likes to remind me, any idiot can write a check. what