grateful to guru sunny madra for coming in to talk about the future of AI with Eniac Ventures

how does it affect VC? invest in:

🤖 1000x productivity outputs
🤖 lean (1-3ppl) native AI teams with 75%+ AI generated code
🤖 vertical AI solutions that immediately affect the bottom line

Learning to articulate your vision clearly is a precursor to building a startup; otherwise, you'll struggle to get investors and employees on board for the ride.

When I co-founded Eniac Ventures with my friends and partners Hadley nihal Tim Young in 2009, we recognized a unique opportunity to build a new venture capital firm to serve founders at the earliest stage of their journey - seed - which did not exist back then as an

Five of our portfolio companies received term sheets for Series A-C rounds in just five days. It's a small sample, but it suggests the later-stage market might be rebounding!

hadley is smart. listen to hadley. partner with hadley (and us Virtue) if you're developing generative AI for healthcare 🤗

Almost half of our new investments last year were sourced by non-partners, so connecting with them first is definitely not a waste of time

game changing commercial deal and investment by Walmart for Eniac Ventures portco Fox Robotics

so proud of this team building the leading platform for autonomous forklifts

fast paced team fun SPIN 🏓

happy birthday Sofia Badalamenti 🎂

#grateful for Sofia Badalamenti 🙏🏾🤩

At Eniac, we specialize in investing in companies before they achieve product/market fit. If you've already nailed PMF, we're not the right fit for you.

#AboutLastNight

Eniac Ventures's inaugural #humanunicorn dinner at Torrisi in NYC with USV and Fidelity Investments featuring a historic gathering of NYC 🦄 founders: Care.com Casper Yext Zocdoc Venmo AppNexus Bond Vet Clinic Bread JioSaavn and more ($50B+ in market cap invited!)...

If you aspire to be a great founder, join a startup pre-product/market fit. The pay isn't great, you'll work ridiculously hard, and might not get much equity, but you'll learn a shit ton and have a blast.

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👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 Laura Spiekerman Alloy

today, a new evolution begins for our AI marketing platform

our newest AI solutions will revolutionize the shopping experience

we're delivering hyper-personalized messages that drive maximum performance by optimizing the audience, content, timing & destination of each message

When I receive a pitch deck, I first flip to the team page. Few tips:

Don't bury it—place it upfront

Include all vital info with LinkedIn links

Focus on the founders/senior team. I don’t really care about advisors

An Nvidia GPU chip is about 25,000,000,000 times faster than the Eniac, which took up 12,000 cubic feet

happy birthday Kristin Elise McDonald! 🎂

i first met sunny madra in 2008 to collaborate on buzzd. since then we've had countless projects together across multiple exits, but i am most grateful for our friendship + family time together.

congrats to the hardest working man in show biz on his next chapter, selling