Overheard USV week 2

'We believe this concept of a dedicated “identity layer” to enable AI user agents is critical infrastructure for the next era of the internet. Just as we couldn’t have a user-controlled web without web browsers in 1990, we can’t have an AI-augmented digital experience without…

We describe USV as a (continuous, wandering, often crazy, always fun) conversation that somehow gets us where we want to go.

So, an experiment: let an AI listen into these conversations throughout the week and spit out what we’re thinking about. Here’s the first.

Could not be more psyched to support @anonplatform as they build the identity layer for the automated internet. At @USV we have long believed in a future where bots and AI agents can make the internet work better for all of us. Anon is a critical component of this vision.

'For me, VC is more about what to ignore than anything else' - Fred Wilson

Today, soona demoed a set of new AI driven tools that brands are using to transform their visual identity and sales. Check out a few great examples of how creativity + technology create a more powerful combo (& better results) than either on their own.

We need volunteers to help us test Sling Money signup and payments in countries all over the world.

Please sign up and help us connect billions of people around the world with instant payments!

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The promise of cool/weird consumer AI and consumer web3 are two sides of the same coin.

A new web3 social stack will mean we can own & control the data created from what we do. We can then use it for awesome AI agents and products to make things super personalized to us, across…

Some perspective on the SEC notice to Uniswap today

Eclipse day USV

I wrote this a few years ago when we were still figuring out 'how we do things here.' We rarely reference it now because, for the most part, it's just baked into how we work. Posting it publicly helps people know if @Stedi is a fit – and to reach out if it resonates. (1/n) 🧵

We kicked off our first Founders and Funders event in NYC. We discussed corporate partnerships and digital health ⚕️🏥📲, joined by players across the health ecosystem.

Thank you to our panelists from Heart Beat Hope, Optum, @Davita, and our co-host Rebecca Kaden of USV. ✨

After a long COVID hiatus, the Airbnb Obama O’s are back in their rightful place in the @USV conference room. There to remind us that sometimes big ideas start off looking small or silly, and to never again make the mistake of forgetting that

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This is great news for anyone building hardware Viam offers a modern cloud native stack for smart machines

Want to see every single AI tools that soona
is building for brands?

Join our free AI demo day on April 18th: eventbrite.com/e/soonas-ai-de…

Announcing our investment in Blixt usv.com/writing/2024/0…

How will AI transform the way we publish, discover, and support content? Is this a “print newspaper” moment for digital publications?

USV is hosting an AI x publishing round table in April to dig into these kinds of qs

Reach out to me if you want to participate - space is…

I'm thrilled to announce soona has acquired mokker to give merchants a new product photo experience.

With Mokker, soona customers can use their 17M+ images in gen AI sets and scenes.

For even more merchants, we now have an elite AI product photography studio.

Go Alife go. Love watching this team leverage data and product to significantly change the success rate for IVF patients. Paxton Maeder-York