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Steph Zhang
@steph_zhang
Growth investing @a16z
We @a16z are so excited to partner with @theworldlabs and the incredible team spearheaded by absolute visionaries @drfeifei, @jcjohnss, @chlassner, and @BenMildenhall. Read more from @martin_casado and @sarahdingwang!Language is powerful--but the first way we interact with and learn about the physical world is through spatial intelligence. Building AI capabilities that enable us to perceive, reason and create in a truly 3D world requires a team that is out of this🌎. Enter @theworldlabs.- We get asked by a lot of growth companies (inside and outside our portfolio) how their metrics stack up to what we’ve seen… so our partners put together a benchmarking tool to help founders benchmark some of the most commonly looked at metrics!1/ Today, @a16z Growth launched our Guide to Growth Metrics for B2B companies! @sarahdingwang @aleximm @morrisseyjoe a16z.com/growth/guide-g… Why?
- We’ve been busy building an AI system to generate 3D worlds from a single image. Check out some early results on our site, where you can interact with our scenes directly in the browser! worldlabs.ai/blog 1/n
00:00 - We @a16z are excited to co-lead @DecagonAI’s Series C and @sarahdingwang, @kimberlywtan and I are excited to continue partnering with @thejessezhang, @AshwinSreenivas and the entire Decagon team! The results from brands like Hertz, Oura, Bilt, Classpass, Notion, and a long listWe’re excited to announce that Decagon has raised $131M in series C funding, bringing our valuation to $1.5B—just one year after coming out of stealth! A short thread on what this means and where we’re headed 🧵👇
00:00 - We are thrilled to announce that @a16z Growth invested in @wiz_io-the cloud security platform revolutionizing how companies secure the cloud. Wiz is 1 of the fastest growing companies we’ve ever seen, but here’s why we believe the best is yet to come 👇 a16z.com/announcement/i…
- I wrote a blog post about the new era of computing and data work we’re entering, where @_hex_tech is going, and some new funding from @sequoia: hex.tech/blog/funding-r…
- We are entering the new SaaS era, moving from Software-as-a-Service to Service-as-a-Software. Until now, software access has helped analysts do their job better. In finance, Bloomberg or Capital IQ improves employee productivity. But in the not too distant future, an AI agent
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- Congrats @JenniferHli!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼So well deserved and I’m so grateful to get to work with you every day!So very excited for the promotion of @JenniferHli to GP. She's a primary reason @a16z enterprise investing is what it is, being a key player behind so many deals, our team and our investment philosophy and process. She really is "the best of us". a16z.com/jennifer-li/
- With net new dollars up for grabs for startups cut in half, selling is harder than ever, and buyers are much more focused on product roadmaps (and the incorporation of new technology like gen AI) as well as tangible ROI. More from @DavidGeorge83 @aleximm @justin_kahl below 👇1/ Selling's much harder than it was before. Everyone is scrambling to buy gen AI while it feels like the software market is slowing down. The reality is, NN $ up for grabs has been cut in half. But based on convos w/ 30 F500 CIOs & software sellers, there are still $ to win.
- [NEW LAUNCH] 0/✨Local-only✨ AI Apps starter kit: build AI apps that cost $0 to run and test locally. github.com/ykhli/local-ai… Stack - 🦙 Inference: @Ollama_ai - 💻 VectorDB: @supabase pg-vector - 🧠 LLM orchestration: @langchain - 🖼️ Framework: @nextjs
- SO incredibly cool if you want a place to start when building your own AI app!0/ Today we are launching ✨The Getting Started with AI JS Stack✨ github.com/a16z-infra/ai-… - 🔒@clerk for auth - 💻@pinecone / @supabase pgvector for vector database - 🎨@replicatehq for image model - 🤖@OpenAI for text model - 🌐@flydotio for deployment .... 🧵
- App generators are starting to reshape how internal tools get built. What once required engineering time can now be created by anyone on the team. A PM, an ops lead, or a designer can describe what they need in plain language — and see a working, production grade tool. It’s notInternal software is having a quiet revolution. For decades, the dream was that anyone could build the tools they needed. The reality is clunky no-code, brittle spreadsheets, and endless queues for engineering. That’s changing fast. Here’s why 🧵
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