Caitlin Bolnick Rellas My reductive list of 'must haves' for B2B marketplaces:

1. High frag of supply or demand (ideally both)

2. Core discovery challenge (or other info arb) solved with 1st party data.

3. ~$100B+ GMV TAM or ~$10B+ rev TAM

4. Compelling wedge solution to break status quo behavior.

Mixtral 8x22B es ahora el mejor model de base de código abierto para español (y francés, alemán, italiano)

Today Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x22B, 39B active parameter model under Apache 2.0 allowing anyone to use the model anywhere without restrictions.

Fluent in 5 languages, excels in math & coding, with a 64K token context for precision. More efficient than any 70B model.

Estás en Madrid y te interesa la IA?

Ven a este evento donde hablaré con mi cofundador sobre todo lo relacionado con la inteligencia artificial: inversión, modelos fundamentales, IA generativa y más.

startupgrind.com/events/details…

he conocido a muchos fundadores increíbles en Madrid/España durante los últimos meses, pero muy pocas fundadoras.. quiénes son algunas de las fundadoras más inspiradoras en España?

.Forbes’ 2024 AI 50 List is out, and we’re excited to see 6 Lightspeed portfolio companies recognized as top AI startups. Congratulations to Abridge, Anduril Industries, Glean, Mistral AI, Pika, Tome on showcasing your ability to drive innovation and adopt

quiero seguir más perfiles en español. a quién debo agregar?

Already a beautiful city with more and more of their streets & plazas becoming pedestrianised... even more roads were closed today for the Madrid half marathon.

Our cities are so incredible without cars.

READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.” Via Carlton Reid forbes.com/sites/carltonr…

“Trump says extremely dangerous things that have gotten people killed… I truly believe that if he gets reelected, there is a high likelihood this is the last election under our Constitution.”
Trump’s WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson

#TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident

I have Michael Romano, the master of Lightspeed’s fundraising machine on 20VC in 20 mins.

Michael has raised $15BN for different funds across his career.

What are the must asks?

X, work your magic…

Congrats on our Lightspeed portfolio company Mistral AI's latest AWS partnership.

All Mistral models now available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU-West-3 (Paris) regions.

For clarity, I see the return of hostages as a critical step towards any potential ceasefire. My heart goes out to all those who have suffered losses & I advocate for actions that prioritise their welfare & dignity.

My views are personal & not reflective of any organisation.

Ceasefire Now

AI is set to be the biggest technological shift of our lifetime, but the adoption of AI is bottlenecked by the availability of compute. At Foundry , the incredible Jared Quincy Davis and team are building a new breed of public cloud, backed by an orchestration platform that makes

Are you in LA on April 3rd? Join us for an evening of networking and a discussion with leaders in the frontier tech spaces, including Brian Schimpf, CEO of Anduril Industries, Dino Mavrookas, CEO of Saronic, and John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis Space Technologies. Find event details and register here:

About last week!🔥

Thrilled to have hosted a breakfast with Paul Murphy , Partner at Lightspeed Ventures leading European investments🌟, where we were got into sector trends, investment opportunities in the European ecosystem, and challenges/best practices in scaling operations. 🌏

Ramadan Mubarak 🤍

Introducing the Green Link Walk—a new 15-mile walking route.

The Green Link Walk spans several London boroughs, linking almost 40 areas of green space and other Walk London routes.

Walking is a great way to see the capital, it’s good for your mental health and completely free.

This week our portco Mistral AI released Mistral Large, Small & le Chat, a demo of what you can build & deploy in your business.. & their first hyperscaler partnership w/ Azure

We led the biggest seed round in Lightspeed history on simple belief that they could build the best