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Chemistry

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Chemistry

@chemistry

Chemistry is a $350M early-stage firm that leads investments in founders who blend technical expertise with commercial instincts.

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Joined October 2024

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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 8
How will we augment our intelligence and will there be a distinction between our biological and computational intelligence? What is the longer-term impact of our relationship with AI, and how will it affect how our brains work? There is a lot of (understandable) trepidation and
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Jun 4
Sharing some photos here of our most recent Elements fireside chat - which we kept in the family - literally. For the first time, I moderated a conversation with my dad, Ray Kurzweil, on everything from how he thinks about making predictions, to Pope Leo’s transhumanist mention
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
Replying to @chemistry
And to get a taste of what the event will be like, check out the previous conversations in our Elements series, on YouTube:
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Chemistry Ventures
Chemistry is a $350M early-stage firm that leads investments in founders who blend technical expertise with commercial instincts. We lead investments from the first check through Series B, with...
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
Replying to @chemistry
Limited spots are available. Apply to join us now:
AGI is here? A conversation with Ray Kurzweil · Luma
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Chemistry
@chemistry
May 22
Join us for an evening with Ray Kurzweil, in conversation with Chemistry founding partner @ethankurz (who also happens to be his son 🙂). Limited spots are available for founders, who want to be in the room to hear more on: • Ray’s reputation as the “godfather of AGI” • His
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Chemistry reposted
Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
May 21
There are very few people who have been thinking seriously about AI since long before it became the center of every single conversation as it today. In this case, 60 years before... My dad, Ray Kurzweil, is one of them. On June 2, as part of @chemistry's Elements series, I’ll
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Kristina Shen
@kshenster
May 6
Fun to part of such a talented a16z ecosystem to form such a legit group of new managers =) Congrats to @sumeet724 for launching @Worldbuild Proud to building alongside great friends @ljin18, @katie_haun, @rexsalisbury, @anneleeskates, @MichelleVolz, @vijaypande,
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Kristina Shen
@kshenster
May 5
We at @chemistry are excited to lead @nova_ai's Series A alongside @ivzhou at @Accel, @saranormous at @conviction, and SAP .io AI is transforming software development — but it hasn’t reached the software that actually runs the world. 92% of the Global 2000 runs on SAP.
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Emma
@EmmaQian_
May 5
I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm SAP.iO.
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Apr 24
If you're building creative assets - video, images, 3D, audio - with AI, there's one platform worth knowing: @ComfyUI ! 4M users. 60K+ community-built nodes. 50K daily downloads. 110K+ GitHub stars — top 10 open source AI repositories on earth. "ComfyUI artist" is now a real job
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Chemistry
@chemistry
Apr 10
At #HumanX this week, @ethankurz joined Ray Kurzweil and @shiringhaffary to talk AGI, intelligence, and how humans and AI may evolve together. In this clip, Ethan shares how Chemistry is putting AI to work across the firm.
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Chemistry reposted
Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Apr 8
Getting to share the stage with my Dad at #HumanX this week was a pretty special experience. We talked about the future of intelligence, AGI, and the ways humans and AI may evolve together, but the most exciting part for me was having my kids there in the audience to see it. Leo
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Ethan Kurzweil
@ethankurz
Apr 7
The drama! Father-son walkout at #HumanX…
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