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Cofounder @AforeVC - largest fund dedicated to pre-seed; Early PM @Android, Software Eng @UWaterloo, VC-backed founder
San Francisco afore.vc Joined February 2011
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I will go as far as saying that raising more at the inception stage actually *reduces* your odds of success vs. increasing them. My reasoning below👇
Dara Verified account @daraladje Dec 14, 2023
Today, a VC tried to convince me that I needed to raise more money to succeed.

I later sent him the email below.

Seems like there's a narrative that you need a lot of money early on to succeed, but there's ample evidence that you can achieve a lot with very little.
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Honored to be a small part of the journey!
Ronak Malde Verified account @rronak_ Nov 2
Imagine if everyone had the tools to shape intelligence itself. That day is today.

Today we launch the Trajectory platform - the easiest and most intuitive tool to post-train models of your own. The foundation for continual learning.

With just a few agent prompts, you get access to a full creative suite to train, eval, and deploy trillion parameter models.

On top of that, we believe in a future where you don’t just shape your model once, it also keeps learning on its own from the world around it.

We’re releasing two research previews.

1. Continual grading scales your taste, so your model learns what good looks like from far more than you could ever grade by hand.
2. GS1, a new algorithm that lets models learn directly from what they do in production.

We’ve now raised 60M, with a new round led by @Sequoia at a 300M valuation to democratize the most powerful technology of today - training models - so that the lawyers, doctors, and engineers of the world can own their own intelligence.

You know what good looks like, now go build it. Own your own value function with Trajectory.
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Gaurav Jain Verified account @gjain
Two @AforeVC companies. Two viral launches in two weeks. 15M views combined.

This Thursday Subvocal + UniqueHuman founders are sharing how they did it. @PraneetaPujari @AarushYadav47 @Arnkum_Avar

A few seats for founders outside our portfolio. Launching soon? Request an invite: luma.com/fsbndpkv
luma.com How We Launched to 15M Views · Luma Two Afore companies. Two viral launches in two weeks. 15M views combined. This Thursday, Subvocal + UniqueHuman founders are sharing how they did it. See the…