It’s crazy how much AI Agents are going to change the core premise of software. Since the beginning of the industry, software has been something that enables people to do their work. We’ve spent decades building features that make people incrementally more productive when using

Last week we announced our latest $28M pre-seed fund to back founders across the country building the future of enterprise AI. Thank you Mary Ann Azevedo for the @Crunchbase coverage. news.crunchbase.com/venture/active…

Victor wembanyama (21) Stephon Castle (20) Dylan Harper (19) Carter Bryant (19) Jermey Sochan (22) Insane amount of young talent THE REBUILD IS OVER

People love gambling. Who knew.

Companies are starting to fully understand that design and craft is the differentiator. Designer talent war is just the start.

solo gps are reshaping early stage investing this is the third post in our series mapping the people and firms driving the next wave of venture we broke down 16 standout solo GPs and what they’re backing some iconic, some on the rise, all worth watching breakdown below 👇

Happy week of the 4th! We just wired money to our latest portfolio company. Vertical AI in the legal tech space. Growing super fast and lots of great investors around the table. Look forward to announcing soon! 🇺🇸🎆📈

The future of software is going to be about managing the work that AI Agents are doing. The UX will be about task management, reviewing work, and orchestrating execution. A significant amount of the value will be packed into how the agent operates behind the scenes.

ICYMI - Interesting perspective from pre-seed investor Pat Matthews: "I believe in small funds. You can’t really be a pre-seed focused investor if you raise bigger and bigger funds. I’ve also had a successful career as an entrepreneur so I don’t need to get rich off fees."

The importance of software actually goes up in a world of AI Agents, precisely because of how powerful agents are. When we imagine the future state of software where there are 100X more agents than users, they are going to be performing vastly more actions on data and be

When I first watched this I wondered how it would be received. I’m glad it’s been reviewed well.

The Figma case study is a great one. A team 100% focused on building great product, product led growth, fair pricing, building strong network effects, and expanding into logical adjacencies without getting too overextended. Many lessons for the next crop of startups.

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It’s official: $4.9M raised to build the OS for finance and money in emerging markets. Led by Flourish Ventures, joined by Visa, LAVA , TLcom, Antler, Musha Ventures, 4DX Ventures and more. Grateful. Humbled. Excited. 4 years ago, I built HoneyCoin (honeycoin.eth) from my

Just funded our latest investment: – Pre-seed – Three technical founders – SF-based – AI-native jobs network Reminder: we’re backing at least one new team every month with $100k to $1M checks. DMs always open.

I've received more than 100 pitches in the last 24 hours from one tweet. And a lot of high quality stuff. Wow.

Pre-seed and seed are the craziest I’ve ever seen. Most founders can’t raise, it’s nothing like 2021 when just announcing a startup got you a check. Meanwhile, a few teams are getting investors to pile on. Rounds are tripling from the original ask. Valuations jump 5x in 2

I keep hearing VCs sleep through August. We just funded our second deal this month: – Pre-seed, first capital in – Solo technical founder – Vertical voice AI + integrations – v1 of product built, huge sales pipeline – Austin-based (met in SF… non–Bay Area founders, you gotta

Feels like high school all over again. #332 out of 350 with a solid 75 average. My mom would be proud. Buttttt… cool to see Active Capital on a list with some amazing firms. Even low on the list is still on the list.

In a fun full-circle moment, I’m excited to welcome my former co-founder Kevin Minnick to Active Capital. Kevin was the first “technical” person I ever met. We’ve been friends and collaborators for 30 years. We built an amazing company together that changed our lives forever.