The power law in venture capital applies to VC firms themselves, not just startups they invest in. >95% of VCs are absolutely useless or clueless. But the top 1-2% of VC investors are the sharpest people you’ll ever meet

I built an AI-Based Chrome Extension for Day Trading over the weekend using Pixeltable for image processing that leverages Anthropic (Claude Sonnet) to analyze stock charts in real-time and hosted on Render on their FREE tier for the FastAPI backend. When it detects a

Huge congrats to Chun Jiang, Ben Kramer and Monterey AI! An exceptional team, so dedicated to unlocking the very best solutioning to capture customer feedback. No doubt the incredible work will continue as they join forces with Reforge! 🐳 🚀 Exceptional Capital #exceptionalfounders

Congratulations to one of our portfolio companies! Chun Jiang, Ben Kramer and Monterey AI! An exceptional team, so dedicated to unlocking the very best solutioning to capture customer feedback. No doubt the incredible work will continue as they join forces with Reforge! 🐳 🚀

Chun and the Monterey AI team are incredible builders. We were lucky enough to be one of their first investors, but more importantly, they gave us an opportunity to be on their cap-table when Exceptional Capital first started. Congratulations on the acquisition Reforge

New Article: 🔥🔥 Read why the success of emerging managers is essential, how mentorship is imperative, and more…in The $100B+ Responsibility of #EmergingManagers

I built a simple LLM selector that lets you pick an LLM depending on cost, speed and intelligence preferences. It is based on Model Context Protocol's model preferences spec, and uses data from Artificial Analysis benchmarks 🧵

#vibecode to this open.spotify.com/playlist/13Xey… Brought to you by Exceptional Capital 🚀 💻

We call it "curious revenue." Eventually, startups will need to generate enduring revenue.

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We are excited to back Manny & Manoj in enabling AI builders to maximize the value their agents create! techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/out…

Amazing news and exciting launch of Paid ! An incredible team has been assembled to tackle this emergent need. 🚀🚀🚀🚀

Our last three investments were international and we don’t plan on slowing down 🚀🚀🚀

Cursor's exponential rise from $100m to $300m ARR within a few months is a clear validation of a few of the hypotheses I have had for the AI ecosystem: 1. AI wave is different than the cloud wave 2. AI is being bought, while SaaS was being sold. What it really means is that

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on building a complete stateful OpenAI agent. (If you know Python, this is all you need to learn to build a working agent in an hour, including complete explanations of every component.) This agent: • It's conversational • Has persistent

What a session! Crazy overflow line sxswlondon to hear the panels on AI and the one on Human Agency vs AI was so good!! Featuring Exceptional Capital Marell Evans alongside an absolutely stellar line up 🚀

The goal is to handle all multimodal data and orchestration needs, from experimentation to deployment, so engineers can focus on algorithms (i.e. business logics) rather than data plumbing. It's not just a database or an orchestration system. It's a new paradigm that will shift

Congrats to the Payload team!!

I'm excited to see this new hands-on course that showcases Pixeltable to build production-ready multimodal agents. Miguel from The Neural Maze and Alex from Neural Bits just launched Kubrick: a course on building multimodal video agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Mira Murati Excited to see what we're not the only one to care about building the foundations for multimodal AI! We are the only Python open source framework that provides incremental storage, transformation, indexing, and orchestration of your multimodal data. Check it out :)