Last week, we returned to Ramp’s dazzling HQ for our second NYC edition of Chat8VC, focused on the future of frontend. Attendees were treated to an incredible lineup for the fireside chat, moderated by the inimitable Bhaskar Ghosh: - Guillermo Rauch, CEO, Vercel - Lee Robinson, VP of Product, Vercel - Nik Koblov, Head of Engineering, Ramp - Nicolás Bevacqua, Head of UI/UX Engineering, Ramp We also enjoyed demos of v0, Vercel’s generative user interface system, and the Ramp Tour Guide, which walks users through the entire range of Ramp functionality, step by step. Both Ramp and Vercel are hiring top-tier frontend engineers, and we are helping to connect them with exceptional candidates from the broader 8VC community. If you're interested, please email Bela Becerra at [email protected]. And as always, if you are excited about the foundation model ecosystem and want to engage in highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations, let Vivek Gopalan know at [email protected]. CC: Asanka Jayasuriya Jack Moshkovich Kevin Niechen Darlina Serrano Hefler Audrey Abbott
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Arun Gupta
Big Health Chairman. Founder Quartet. Board, Investor, Advisor to high impact companies.
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Joe Lonsdale
General Partner at 8VC
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Michael McLary
Executive Board Member CEO | MBA, Strategy
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Three years ago, Rocketlane set out to bring modern, elegant software to the stagnant realm of PSA (professional services automation). Since their Series A, they have climbed to the top of the customer onboarding category, expanded their offerings across PSA and client project delivery, grown 3x/year, and built an exceptional technical and innovation culture along the way. Today, Rocketlane announced their $24 million Series B, and we are privileged to renew our support along with co-leads Matrix Partners India and Nexus Venture Partners. Congratulations to Srikrishnan Ganesan, Deepak Bala, and Vignesh Girishankar, one of the truly remarkable founding teams we've encountered. Do not miss their announcement below, featuring rhymes delivered at Rocketlane's signature pace of iteration! CC: Bhaskar Ghosh Jack Moshkovich Vivek Gopalan Kevin Niechen
We're thrilled to announce our $24M Series B funding! Rocketlane is revolutionizing client project delivery and PSA with our innovative all-in-one platform. We're addressing critical market challenges through innovative solutions in client delivery experience, project governance, budgeting, resourcing, insights, delivery operations, and beyond while achieving rapid growth. Oh and what good is a big announcement from us if we aren’t rapping about it? Thank you to our incredible customers, partners, and investors for your support. This one's for you! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gxB72KGd Srikrishnan Ganesan Vignesh Girishankar Deepak Bala Rahul Sridhar Karthig Saravanan #Rocketlane #SeriesB #FundingAnnouncement #Startup #TechNews #ClientDelivery #PSASoftware #Innovation #RapSong
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In this episode of Shift Happens (hosted by Alana Bernal and presented by our friends at Nile), Cisco legend Wendy Bahr shares practical wisdom honed over three decades of constant and rapid change. Enjoy!
1️⃣ Disruption 2️⃣ Speed 3️⃣ Agility 4️⃣ Adaptability These are the keys to success in the tech world according to industry veteran Wendy Bahr. 🔑 Wendy joins us on this episode of Shift Happens to share her tips on embracing change and driving your own success 👉 https://okt.to/HFYDfL #OhShift #OhShiftMoment #ShiftHappens #Tech #Leadership
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Chat8VC, our monthly GAI series, returns to NYC on Tuesday, June 25, this time focused largely on frontend engineering. We’ve assembled an an all-star lineup to expand on this theme in our fireside chat, featuring: Guillermo Rauch, CEO, Vercel Lee Robinson, VP of Product, Vercel Nik Koblov, Head of Engineering, Ramp Nicolás Bevacqua, Head of UI/UX Engineering, Ramp In addition, we’ll have lightning demos, cocktails and refreshments, and plenty of time for conversations with fellow builders and operators. Special thanks to our friends at Ramp for once again hosting us at their spectacular HQ. As a reminder, Chat8VC is a monthly series bringing together founders and early-phase operators in the foundation model ecosystem. We focus on highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations, and give founders and builders the opportunity to showcase what they’re working on. This can be a fun side project, related to a company they’re starting, or a high-leverage use case within a company operating at scale. A few spots remain, and we’d love for you to join us! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gPkjrksc CC: Eric Glyman Bhaskar Ghosh Alex Kolicich Bela Becerra Vivek Gopalan Kevin Niechen Jack Moshkovich Audrey Abbott Darlina Serrano Hefler
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Calling the best and brightest creatives attending #config conference next week. We're hosting our quarterly design gathering 'PixelEight' the first night of the conference. Space is limited so join the waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/g22N7gWX
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From inception, Anduin Transactions has been committed to modernizing the private markets experience, enabling elegant and connected workflows that reflect the full scope of relationships and key stages in the investment, fundraise, and fund lifecycles. If you know Anduin, you know that "supercharge" is no exaggeration. Their newest product, Investor Data Management, represents a significant new piece of the puzzle and we looking forward to IDM taking its place alongside Anduin's other staple solutions.
It's 2024. Why should fund managers have to spend their time chasing investors for the same info and docs again and again? Introducing Investor Data Management! ✨ Anduin's new solution supercharges LP workflows by helping GPs access all their investor data in one centralized place for: ➡️ faster fund subscriptions ➡️ automated compliance checks ➡️ better post-close interactions By bridging the gap between CRM and fund lifecycle workflows, Anduin is here to empower lasting LP-GP relationships from first contact to onboarding and beyond. Ready to see IDM in action? 👀 Learn more and book your demo here: https://bit.ly/4b74Piy #privatemarkets #privateequity #vc #alts #productlaunch #datamanagement #LPs
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Carbon fiber holds great promise for next-generation vehicle design, both civilian and defense, thanks to unmatched strength-to-weight characteristics. This is especially true in aviation, where weight is always of the essence. However, carbon fiber has historically faced many barriers to adoption: it’s expensive, production is overwhelmingly manual and slow, and attempting to bend fibers to fit curved shapes invariably causes defects. Until now. For the past five years, iCOMAT has been working furiously to unlock carbon fiber’s potential, and their patented Rapid Tow Shearing process enables defect-free shaping - opening the door for many more carbon fiber composite components at unprecedented scale and cost/production efficiencies. iCOMAT has achieved remarkable milestones over a short time, and their team comprises some of the greatest minds in composites production and manufacturing. We could not be more excited to lead their $22.5 million Series A, along with the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF). Additional investors include Syensqo Ventures and earlier investor Velocity.Partners Venture Capital. Congratulations Evangelos Zympeloudis, Keith Fairbrass, Ben Olivier, Olivia Stodieck, Rony Seamons, and friends! In today’s blog, 8VC’s Alex Moore and Justin Rose share their perspectives on iCOMAT’s breakthroughs, and why this is such a compelling company from an investment perspective: https://lnkd.in/gG2ZbFbJ And don’t miss Bloomberg’s coverage (https://lnkd.in/gD49th5u), as well as iCOMAT’s press release (https://lnkd.in/dPPqEHae)
Announcing Our Investment in iCOMAT | Posts | 8VC
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Congratulations Evangelos Zympeloudis and the entire iCOMAT team on this milestone. We could not be more excited to support their mission of bringing the most advanced composites to land, air, and space vehicles at unprecedented scale. The future is fiber!
iCOMAT closed a $22.5 million Series A round, led by 8VC and the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), along with participation from Syensqo Ventures and existing investors Velocity.Partners Venture Capital. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey: our phenomenal team, our customers, our existing investors Velocity and our partners. We are just getting started here! Full press release here: https://lnkd.in/dbGUArsc
iCOMAT raises $22.5M financing led by 8VC and NATO Innovation Fund to automate composites manufacturing
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On Thursday, over 100 builders convened at 8VC’s San Francisco offices for the May edition of Chat8VC, focused on the intersection of healthcare and AI. This is one of the most exciting areas for AI-enhanced productivity, and our presenters helped to make that excitement tangible. - Our fireside chat featured Alex Cohen, in conversation with 8VC’s Sebastian Caliri, followed by a compelling first look at Alex’s new stealth healthtech company. - Next, a few brave souls volunteered to act out a live doctor’s visit. Chaos and hilarity ensued… setting the stage for co-founder Nikhil Buduma to show us how effective Ambience Healthcare’s AI operating system is in real-world clinical scenarios. - Finally, Justin White, Rémi Olive, and Kevin Chih-Yao Huang shared two of Notable’s AI-powered products: Care Gap Outreach, which identifies gaps in structured and unstructured EHR data and texts patients to schedule needed care, and Assistant, which handles patient authentication, rescheduling, collections, and more. As Sebastian put it in his followup post, “Unlocking productivity from AI in healthcare services will require a ton of creativity to redesign operations in step with the technology, and orient the technology towards bona fide value creation. These 3 companies are at the forefront of solving these tough problems.” If you're excited about the foundation model ecosystem and want to engage in highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations, reach out to Vivek Gopalan at [email protected] - and watch this space for details on upcoming events! CC: Alex Kolicich Bhaskar Ghosh Bela Becerra Jack Moshkovich Kevin Niechen Audrey Abbott Madison Hagman Samantha Chidester Kristin Onorato Darlina Serrano Hefler
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Chat8VC returns to our San Francisco offices this Thursday, May 23, at 6:00 PM. For this edition, we’ll be exploring the intersection of Healthcare and AI. While we are still in the early innings of AI’s transformation of healthcare, numerous meaningful applications are already well underway. Our program will spotlight some of the most exciting developments in the field, headlined by a fireside chat/demo with Alex Cohen, former product leader at Carbon Health and co-founder of a stealth healthtech startup (proudly backed by 8VC!). 8VC Partner Sebastian Caliri will moderate. We’ll follow with demos from: - Ambience Healthcare - Candid Health - Notable As a reminder, Chat8VC is a monthly series hosted at our SF office where we bring together founders and early-phase operators excited about the foundation model ecosystem. We focus on having highly technical, implementation-oriented conversations and give founders and builders the opportunity to showcase what they’re working on through lightning demos and fireside chats. This can be a fun side project, related to a company they’re starting, or a high-leverage use case within a company operating at scale. A few spots remain, and we’d love for one of them to be yours! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gDstUwQu And to get in the spirit, be sure to check out Sebastian’s recent 8VC blog post, “A Survey Of Large Language Models Accelerating Healthcare Businesses Today”: https://lnkd.in/gPCs_A_v CC: Alex Kolicich Bhaskar Ghosh Francisco Gimenez Bela Becerra Jack Moshkovich Vivek Gopalan Kevin Niechen
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