Ishani Thakur
55 posts
'What the hell is water?'- DFW; Partner @HanabiCapital
Joined April 2020
- never learning how to drive.We’re pleased to announce that together with @ToyotaMotorCorp, we're exploring a new autonomous vehicle platform and how to leverage our technology for their personally owned vehicles. More here: waymo.com/blog/2025/04/w…
- grateful to be along <3. hyped for the team. p.s. my biggest takeaway - listen to @devmchhedaWe’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents. The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new
- how does this man not have a gf @dylan522pChief shit poster for @SemiAnalysis_ , @dylan522p looking quite kawaii for his keynote panel at PTC2025
- i got tricked multiple times. this is all i want out of voice models.We've raised $100M from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA. Today we're introducing Sonic-3 - the state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation. What makes Sonic-3 great: - Breakthrough naturalness - laughter and full emotional range - Lightning fast -
00:00 - so uh... i guess TPUs work?
- So happy for @krandiash @bclyang @jundesai @_albertgu ❤️ The product speaks for itself - go try it today!We've raised $27M from Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Factory, Conviction, SVA, General Catalyst, A* and our wonderful angels. Cartesia's audio models power the next generation of voice agents, digital media, and assistants across startups and large enterprises. Our mission is to
- scouts is the first step into a more agentic future. let agents do the grunt work, just enjoy. i love using it for specific news topics!! congrats @abhshkdz @deviparikh @DhruvBatraDB and team <3!We're excited to launch Scouts — always-on AI agents that monitor the web for anything you care about.
00:00 - making ai actually work for complex long horizon tasks + a kickass team. what are you waiting for - apply ;).Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's
- Today, we’re excited to release the first step in our mission to build real time multimodal intelligence for every device: Sonic, a blazing fast (🚀 135ms model latency), lifelike generative voice model and API. Read cartesia.ai/blog/sonic and try Sonic play.cartesia.ai
- psa to anyone watching the summer i turned pretty -these are NOT real VCs. we don't read financials
- @mvpatel2000 called this months ago. clairvoyant af.Cursor now supports 1M context-windows, the most expensive models, and unlimited tool calls with API pricing.
- Pleased to share that @HarmonicMath has raised $75M in Series A financing, led by @sequoia and with significant participation from @IndexVentures, along with firms like @GreatPointVC and Jasper Lau's Era Funds, and angels like @nikesharora and @JaredLeto. 1/
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