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How do you achieve supersonic flight without a boom? Boom Founder & CEO Blake Scholl 🛫 breaks down Boomless Cruise and why a sonic boom doesn’t always hit the ground with Brad Gerstner Founder Brad Gerstner.

I'm in my event-throwing-era: LA - Bi-weekly founder dinners NYC (April 19th) - Robotics Hackathon Boston/Philly (April 28-30th) - LMK if you're a student ;) Comment for an invite! Excited to take Upfront Ventures on the road this month!

Congrats to Jacques Sisteron Kesar Varma Peter Zakin on much deserved promotions to Partner. You’ve all hit the ground running coming from startups in hardtech, healthcare, AI, and embody what we Upfront Ventures commit to: service to founders, deep domain expertise and teamwork. LFG!

We promoted these 3 amazing young investors to Partner this week. Kesar Varma in Healthcare & Bio Jacques Sisteron in aerospace & hard tech Peter Zakin in dev tools & infra Ready to deploy 💵 💵 💵 💪🏼 💪🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 🔥 🔥

At this weekend’s hackathon: Robots - played chess like a grandmaster - taught guitar lessons - made cocktails - played poker Thrilled to have Upfront Ventures co-host with Nicole Ripka from Betaworks, Krish Shah, Krish Mehta and Brannon Jones from AlleyCorp Some highlights below!

🏝️ Sandbar is growing We're building a new way to express your innermost thoughts—including personal software, consumer hardware, and new interfaces. We’re supported by True Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Betaworks, & others who believe in our mission. And we’re hiring in NYC! 👇

Coming to Boston & Philly (4/29-5/1) with Nick Kim and Upfront Ventures for our Student Founder Series! Excited to meet students thinking about: 🧪 AI for robotics & material science 💾 Data centers & computing 💻 Vibe coding Comment or DM me for invites!

Introducing Daytona Cloud: the first agent-native cloud infrastructure. Fast. Stateful. Built for agents, not humans. Available today.

Big news! Congrats team!

Has been awesome immersing myself in the London/Oxford ecosystem this week. Put together a pretty terrific group of folks to close out this trip!

Daytona.io just hit 20,000 stars. Grateful for the support from the community and more convinced than ever that the future of infra is agent-native.

Co-hosted a dinner with Aditi Maliwal, Miranda Nover & Citizens for CMU alums last week! The CMU ecosystem is so tightly knit and high caliber, truly a special community.

Sweet recap video of the hackathon last month!

We're hiring a Research Associate to join our team! 📣 If you like digging into data, building stories from numbers and want to help shape how we engage with the VC community, apply today! bit.ly/4k2V4qP

Super excited for Upfront Ventures to participate in CX2’ Series A! Thrilled to play a small role in the journey.

The Future of Dev Tools is Autonomous, Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals This was the central theme of a panel conversation titled “Investing in Dev Tools in the Age of AI” that featured Jesse Robbins (Heavybit), Peter Zakin (Upfront Ventures), Kenneth Auchenberg (AlleyCorp),

Had a blast hosting a dinner with UCLA engineering students last night! So many talented individuals leverage AI to code, design, or build new products on campus. College continues to be a hotspot for innovation! Comment/DM for an invite next term

If your agent needs a run-time @Daytonaio is the tool! 👇

Some notes on Negotiations 1/ When you finish any complex deal you will feel fatigued and worn out. It sometimes feels hard to celebrate. The best deals feel this way. Complex negotiations require compromises. When both (or all) parties make concessions nobody feels great.