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🚀 The @CBinsights Emerging AI 50 in NYC highlights the most promising AI startups representing a new generation of businesses in the city. 🏙️

Congratulations to NY-native NEA portfolio companies: @AnteriorAI, @Bluefish_AI, and Nitra for being recognized! 🎉

Details & full list: cbinsights.com/research/the-e…

🗣️ What if your best engineer became one of your least productive after adopting AI?

At a recent session with @yegordb (@StanfordAILab) and @EnoReyes (@factory), one stat stood out: roughly half of previously top-performing developers fell into the bottom quartile after adopting AI, while half of those at the bottom rose to the top.

NEA's Lila @lilatretikov discusses takeaways:

👉🏽 The skills are shifting. The edge now goes to people who pick the right problems, direct agents, and judge results.
👉🏽 Stop counting code. Measure signal-to-production latency: how long it takes to turn a customer need into working software.
👉🏽 Find your “Google number.” Google tied page-load milliseconds to revenue. Every company needs an engineering metric that moves the business.

The next 10x breakthrough isn’t an engineer who writes 10x more code. It’s an organization that turns 10x more ideas into products customers want.

What’s your Google number?

📰 Full blog here: nea.com/blog/ai-reshap…

Congratulations, @EchodyneCorp--to be acquired by defense tech company, @shieldaitech, for $5.3B! 🚀

NEA first partnered with Echodyne nearly a decade ago at the Series B. We're honored to have been on the journey with them as an early pioneer in MESA solid-state radar technology to becoming the global defense and commercial standard in drone detection radars. This acquisition will help power the next generation of defense tech! 🛡️

📰: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

📢 Tomorrow! @NEA's Hunter Worland will be featured at the @TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on 11/4.

Catch Hunter on the Build Stage discussing 'The Next Startup Advantage: Distribution Beats Technology.'

🎟️ Register here for 50% discount: techcrunch.com/events/techcru…

🤑 The Annual @CBinsights Fintech 100 is out and highlights the most promising fintech startups of 2026 include @NEA portfolio companies: @Spiko_finance, Tokenz, and @DatabentoHQ--congratulations!

Details & full list: cbinsights.com/research/repor…