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1st lead for technical founders 🚀 run by @DanielDarling @PascalUnger @amiine_afia @SydneyWasi

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focal vc @focal_vc Nov 5

code is cheap. ambition isn't. southbound w27 is open. apply today

Pascal Unger Verified account @PascalUnger Nov 5

Anyone can build now. Few dare to aim big enough.

That's why we're launching Southbound W27 by @thelabmiami & @focal_vc today.

Code is now cheap, abundant, and written by machines. What’s scarce is real ambition, intelligence, compute, and distribution.

It's what Southbound is built for: To help the best technical founders think bigger and move faster from day 1.

We're now opening applications to the second cohort of our winter residency.

If you want to:
- Escape the cold
- Work on an absurdly ambitious problem, surrounded by your best technical peers
- Get weekly mentorship by unicorn founders
- Funding on an uncapped MFN SAFE (vs giving up 7%)
- $1M in perks and compute
- and much more

... then join us in Miami from Jan 11 - Apr 11 2027.

Southbound is:
- Limited to 10 spots (teams or solo founders)
- Fully in person in Miami
- 7 days / week in office.

The cohort is small by design: Instead of being a number in a big batch, you get a hand-picked group of your best peers, weekly dinners with unicorn founders, and real time with focal’s GPs.

Rolling admission until all 10 spots are filled / applications close Dec 11.

Apply asap (link in comments!)

@ayalstern | @DanielDarling | @amiine_afia | @wynwoodceo | @SydneyWasi

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focal vc @focal_vc May 27

Big news today. @coworkerapp just dropped Opus-quality enterprise AI for one-fifth the price. Same frontier models, 82% less cost!

Alex Calder Verified account @ATCalder May 27

Today, we dropped the price of enterprise AI by 80%.

Same frontier AI. Same chat, cowork, and code experience.

Just 5x more tokens for the same spend.

Here’s how and why. 👇 Also, we made a video. Please enjoy.

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focal vc @focal_vc Mar 19

what do founders romanticize about being a founder? 🤯

we asked our @focal_vc x @thelabmiami residency founders to get real about the gap between expectations vs reality!

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focal vc @focal_vc Mar 2

Took our @focal_vc x @thelabmiami residency founders on a tour of NAP of the Americas (Equinix MI1) with Barrett Lyon!

90%+ of internet traffic between North & South America flows through this building. This is where the internet lives 🌐

#focalresidency #focalvc

focal vc @focal_vc Feb 18

New role open at focal!

We back the world's best technical founders first.

Now we’re looking for someone cut from the same cloth as those we back to help us reimagine how a venture firm operates in the age of AI.

more at focal.vc/hiring

Pascal Unger Verified account @PascalUnger Feb 18

We're hiring a founding Head of Technology & Applied AI at @focal_vc !

The leading next-gen venture firm will be AI native from the ground up. Which is why we're going all in.

This is an n-of-1 opportunity for an n-of-1 builder.

A founder-type role for a founder-type person with full ownership, real upside (carry in funds), and leverage from day one.

Help us see sooner, decide faster, and build systems that learn across every founder, deal, and outcome. That's how our 5-person team beats 50-person firms.

It's a hard challenge to get right. But when we get it right, the impact will compound for decades.

If this sounds like you, apply at focal.vc/hiring!

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