investing in companies you’ve never heard of at a vc you can’t pronounce
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Competition is for losers.
I hope there will be hundreds more arfurs sharing useful intel & insights on their various niches for the public’s benefit.
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VC ALERT: CRV and Sequoia Capital have met with Yuandong Tian, the 11 year ex-Meta FAIR director who Created ELF OpenGo, the superhuman open source Go AI that beat pros 20-0.
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MASSIVE ROUND: Ronak Malde has raised 8 figures from Conviction Capital as part of his seed round and is currently being preempted by other tier 1 VCs. Malde led post training at Windsurf before their Google/Deepmind acquisition.
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HAPPENING NOW: Rhea Sanger (Sister of Cursor Co-Founder Aman Sanger) has left Unify and is in discussions with multiple tier 1 VCs to raise for an encrypted messaging startup.
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DEVELOPING: Andrew Dai, the former Google DeepMind researcher who led Gemini data, is taking meetings with General Catalyst to fund his stealth venture, Elorian. Dai is building visual reasoning AI systems that process text, images, and video simultaneously.
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SCOOP: Andreessen Horowitz is is meeting with Jimmy Ba to fund his seed round. The xAI co-founder and U Toronto professor just invented the Adam optimizer, a critcal algorithm for training deep neural nets.
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He first introduced the Adam Optimizer in a 2014 paper titled “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” that he published with Diederik Kingma.
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JUST IN: Former OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek is in talks with Altimeter Capital and New Enterprise Associates to raise seed capital for a new company. He led the teams behind o1, o3 reasoning models and GitHub Copilot
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DEVELOPING: Lightspeed Venture Partners (@lightspeedvp) in conversation with Argmax (@argmax) amid early-stage fundraising. Argmax is an on-device AI platform founded by the ex-Apple inference leaders behind Neural Engine Transformers.
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JUST IN: Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, former Grammarly CEO who spent 14 years at Google leading product and privacy, is seed fundraising his new AI venture. Connected with Sequoia, Greylock, Redpoint and others
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fade capital retweeted
15 Dec 2025
seeking technologists who want to end AI slop.
if you:
- think “i could fix her” about a model frequently
- hate purple gradients
- know what cerulean is
- obsess over evals
- love beautiful data, and retrieving it
- have unreasonably good taste
- want tech to ~ feel ~ right
...this is for you!
usual suspects might be researchers, engineers, designers working on personalization, post-training, creativity, multi-modal or gaming. or maybe you’re cracked and have a creative hobby you take very seriously, that counts ;)
in person, in SF. generous comp. intensity coming from a place of obsession. a tight group of great, high-agency, low ego, outside-the-box thinkers.
if this is you, DM me! if you know a taste-obsessed friend, DM them!
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