If you had told me when I first started @dubdotco that we would reach $10M in partner payouts in 6 months, I wouldn't have believed you. Immensely grateful to our customers and partners for all the feedback, trust, and support. Next stop: $50M payouts 😎

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I asked a few founders & investors: "What are 1-2 interesting startups for software engineers & researchers to join, beyond the big labs?" 1. MatX - chips for LLM training and inference - Founders: Reiner Pope, Mike Gunter (both ex-Google) 2. Prosper - domestic-work robots for households and businesses - Founder: Shariq Hashme (ex-OpenAI) 3. Manifest - core ml research lab - Founders: Jacob Buckman, Carles Gelada, Sean Zhang 4. Physical Intelligence - foundation models for robots - Founders: Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, Quan Vuong, Adnan Esmail, Lachy Groom 5. Mechanize - rl environments with an initial focus on sw engineering - Founders: Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew J Barnett, Ege Erdil 6. Lindy - AI agents for workflow automation - Founder: Flo Crivello 7. Forge - workflow automation for large enterprises - Founder: Markie Wagner 8. Reflection - agentic models with an initial focus on code - Founders: Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou 9. Fractal Software - venture studio building vertical SaaS companies - Founders: Nate Baker, Mike Furlong 10. Thinking Machines Lab - product-focused AI lab - Founders: Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, John Schulman, Lilian Weng, Andrew Tulloch, Luke Metz 11. Meter - managed internet and secure networking for offices hardware and software - Founders: Anil & Sunil Varanasi (brothers :)) 12. Allen Institute for AI (AI2) - nonprofit AI research - Founder: Paul Allen (1953-2018) 13. Abridge - AI medical scribe - Founders: Shivdev Rao, Sandeep Konam, Zachary Lipton, Florian Metze 14. Higgsfield - video gen models and apps (mobile focused) - Founder: Alex Mashrabov 15. Black Forest Labs - FLUX image models - Founders: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blattmann 16. LMArena - LLM evals for big labs - Founders: Anastasios N Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ion Stoica 17. Marathon Fusion - fuel for future fusion plants (and creating gold?) - Founders: Kyle Schiller, Adam Rutkowski 18. Luma AI - Dream Machine video model - Founders: Amit Jain, Alex Yu 19. Aravolta - software for data center monitoring and control - Founders: Margarita Groisman, Jack Sutton 20. Harmonic - AI math and reasoning lab - Founders: Vlad Tenev (Robinhood co-founder), Tudor Achim 21. Socket - prevent vulnerabilities from dependencies in your code - Founder: Feross Aboukhadijeh 22. Expo - framework and cloud platform for making cross platform apps - Founders: Charlie Cheever, James Ide 23. Koah Labs - native ads network for AI chatbots - Founders: Nic Baird, Herrick Fang, Mike Choi 24. Brisk Teaching - AI tool for teachers feedback, lesson plans and assessments - Founder: Arman Jaffer 25. Anysphere (Cursor) - AI code editor - Founders: Michael Truell, Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark 26. Letta - memory for ai agents - Founders: Charles Packer, Sarah Wooders 27. Baseten - serverless GPU hosting - Founders: Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Philip Howes, Pankaj Gupta 28. Mithril (prev ML Foundry) - GPU compute for training and inference - Founder: Jared Quincy Davis 29. Quill Meetings - AI notetaker for meetings - Founder: Michael Daugherty, add Nick Adams 30. Pluralis Research - multi-participant training of models, for cryptocurrency protocols I think - Founder: Alexander Long 31. Linear - issue and roadmap tracking - Founders: Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo, Tuomas Artman 32. Qualia - real estate closing platform for title escrow and lenders - Founders: Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen, Lucas Hansen 33. CodeRabbit - AI code review for pull requests - Founders: Harjot Singh Gill, Guritfaq Singh 34. Sygaldry Technologies - quantum computing for AI inference and training - Founders: Chad Rigetti, Idalia Friedson 35. HealthMC - AI powered medical coding - Founders: Ian Blumenfeld, Brian Johnson, Judah Rabinowitz 36. Lorikeet AI - AI that does customer support ticket resolution - Founders: Steve Hind, Jamie Hall 37. RL Core - RL for optimizing water and wastewater plants - Founders: Martha White, Adam White, Alden Christianson 38. Protege AI - a marketplace for AI datasets - Founders: Bobby Samuels, Travis May, Engy Ziedan, Richard Ho 39. Periodic Labs - AI driven materials discovery for energy and electronics - Founders: Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Liam Fedus (Ekin is ex GDM and Liam is ex OAI) Thanks to the nominators: @calvinfo, @tamaybes, @Altimor, @lachygroom, @finbarrtimbers, @aranibatta, @MorganSchwanke, @AnjneyMidha, @jacobmbuckman, @ROWGHANI, @NWischoff, @ccheever, @herkhere, Nate Baker, @ianblu1, @dolaoseb, Anon, @FlintCasey, @cjc, @LilyPetherick & @auren

and wrapping up with Paul Johnson, GP @flexcapital sharing his story and how to make the most of moving to the bay area

Founders: there’s a clause in your term sheet that could silently strip you of your voting rights. Even if you own a majority of your company. Even if you’re the one who built it. And most founders have no idea it’s there. Let’s break it down 🧵

Results are in: @MattHartman @daveambrose @cory @joshuabrowder @jefielding @andreasklinger @LererHippeau @asymmetric_vc @Human_Ventures @auren @dunkhippo33 @AmberIllig @roybahat @wesleybarrow @vanlancker @lennysan @dok2001 @Besvinick @dwr @rauchg @OfficialLoganK @hf0 @ChrisTottman1 @m2jr @annimaniac @MrStartup @rabois