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VC @VillageGlobal backing remarkable founders early. Fmr @Chegg @Zinch @Monster @MilitaryDotCom.
San Francisco, CA linkedin.com/in/dwane Joined November 2008
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Anne Dwane Verified account @adwane
Fighting token fraud FTW! Way to go @soupsranjan & team @sardine !!
Soups Ranjan Verified account @soupsranjan Oct 23
🚨 Excited to share Sardine's latest product suite on AI Token fraud: sardine.ai/token

AI Token is the new gold bar that fraudsters and nation-states steal and launder to distill their own models. Here's how Sardine helps:

1. Bank-grade "Know Your Business" (KYB) and "Know Your Consumer (KYC), so you are not onboarding shell companies set up to distill frontier models

Sardine offers KYC and KYB globally. The same bank-grade technology that protects financial institutions globally from illicit activities is what you get.

2. Signup fraud: We want you to offer free trials and Token credits without losing all those credits to fraud.

The same fraud prevention technology that helps the top fintechs, top crypto companies, top prediction markets and top social media companies, is what you get to protect your credits.

3. Account takeovers that lead to Token theft: We protect API keys to your models or to your 3rd party frontier labs with the same security posture as we protect crypto assets at top crypto exchanges.

We have a two-tiered approach. Detect if a new IP was used to query an API key. Challenge such requests by having the user do a login (where we run our device fingerprinting). We have the fastest growing fraud device consortium (6B+ devices profiled globally).

Fraud and money laundering rings have a nexus - the same rings that steal crypto, gift cards, cars, fintech wallets are the ones going after AI Tokens.

4. Card fraud: Fraudsters use stolen cards to buy AI Tokens, that they can then quickly resell.

The same technology that protects the top retailers from Card fraud is what you get!

Fraudsters method don't change, only what they steal changes:

2005-10: Smart TVs and physical goods
2010-15: Gift cards
2015-25: Crypto
2025: AI Tokens

AI Token fraud has proliferated across the AI supply chain and impacting AI inference companies, neoclouds, AI gateways. In the last weeks alone, OpenCode, Railway, LiteLLM and many others have been impacted.

We are here to protect you and to help you win back trust from your customers. Reach out. DMs open!
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Anne Dwane Verified account @adwane
Faster inference FTW, courtesy of @general_compute & @cerebras ⚡️⚡️⚡️
General Compute Verified account @general_compute Sep 29
🚨 BREAKING: Super excited to announce we're deploying the world's fastest inference with @Cerebras.

Talk to any developer and they're excited to build with 20x faster AI... the problem is there's almost no compute available.

We're here to solve that.

Using GPUs for prefill - it's now more affordable than ever too.

Thank you to the whole Cerebras team and excited to grow this partnership.

First tokens live Q127 🚀
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Anne Dwane Verified account @adwane
New @villageglobal Podcast: @tankots, cofounder and CEO of @WisprFlow, joined us at our Villagers Retreat to talk about building a $2B voice-to-text AI company.

The episode opens with his younger brother, @jaisal_kothari, sharing stories from Tanay’s early years.

At 12, Tanay built a voice assistant before Siri or Alexa. 15 years later, he’s still chasing the same Jarvis-like idea: technology that works so well we can spend less time staring at screens.

Getting there required a hard change in direction. Tanay and @SahajGarg6 spent 3 years building a silent-speech wearable with a 40-person team. The hardware worked, but users kept choosing the software, so they followed the signal and built Wispr Flow.

We got into:

1/ how Tanay pairs delusion with truth-seeking to decide which part of a huge vision users are ready for

2/ how Wispr turned its Android launch into a MrBeast-style competition with a Porsche 911 prize

3/ why Tanay personally ran the first 500 onboarding calls and still hands Wispr to strangers to watch their reactions

4/ why he thinks an AI advantage may last only 3 months, and how Wispr builds product love, enterprise workflows, and switching costs around it

Thank you, Tanay, for a fascinating conversation.

Full episode below.
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Anne Dwane Verified account @adwane
Here's to winning the new Space Race: a race for resilient infrastructure, industrial capacity, and continuous technology refresh. Go @IanCinnamon & team @Apex_Spacecraft 🛰️🛰️🛰️
Ian Cinnamon Verified account @IanCinnamon Sep 2
Apex is The Spacecraft Platform Company.

For most of space history, progress was measured in firsts. First satellite. First human in space. First Moon landing. The next era will be measured in rate: how fast you can deploy, replenish, and refresh the infrastructure everything else depends on.

That’s the New Space Race.

Winning it takes constellations: many satellites working together as systems. And constellations require two industrial capabilities: launch and spacecraft platforms.

Launch is ready enough. Platforms are not. Apex exists to remove that bottleneck.
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Anne Dwane Verified account @adwane
July: $300M at $10.3B
August: $700M at $21B led by Jane Street
Also August: the first rack ships to the firm that led the round.

44 days from TSMC test chips to running real inference workloads.

A quant firm buying your hardware and then buying your equity is the best benchmark result you can publish!

Congratulations @UbertiGavin @robertwachen & team @Etched 🚀
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Etched Verified account @Etched Aug 18
We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone.

We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.
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